North Carolina, Raleigh – The 2022 Christmas Novenas begin on Friday, December 16, and end on Saturday, December 24. The Christmas Novena is part of Catholic and Christian traditions; they are prayers that are prayed during the Christmas season to commemorate the birth of the baby Jesus.
To begin the Christmas Novena 2022, the church recommends the following order.
- First, the prayer is said for every day and the Our Father, Hail Mary or Glory Be is prayed.
- Prayer of the day to which the Novena corresponds. Here you can find the pdf.
- Prayer to the Blessed Virgin.
- Prayer to Saint Joseph
- Joys and Christmas Carols
- Prayer to the Child Jesus
Start your day right with Morning Prayer
Prayers for the Christmas Novena 2022
These are four prayers, considerations and joys of the Novenas. At the end you can find novenas for children:
Prayer for every day
Most Benign God of infinite charity, who loved men so much, that you gave them in your son the best pledge of your love, so that, made man in the womb of a Virgin, he would be born in a manger for our health and remedy; I, on behalf of all mortals, give you infinite thanks for such a sovereign benefit.
In return for him I offer you the poverty, humility and other virtues of your humanized son, begging you for his divine merits, for the discomforts in which he was born and for the tender tears he shed in the manger, that you dispose our hearts with deep humility, with burning love, with such contempt for everything earthly, so that the newborn Jesus may have his cradle in them and dwell eternally. Amen.
After this prayer you should pray three times: Glory to the Father, to the son and to the Holy Spirit.
Considerations of the day for the Christmas Novena 2022
After the daily prayer, the Christmas novena continues praying the prayer of the corresponding day.
For example, December 16 is the first day, which corresponds to the first reading.
This is based on the story behind what happened on the first day of the nine before the birth of the baby Jesus.
At the end of that first reading, you should always pray the prayer to the Virgin Mary and the prayer to Saint Joseph, the prayer to the Child Jesus and to finish the joys.
These prayers must be performed every day, followed by the reading of the corresponding day.
Traditionally, Colombians have the mother of the home pray the prayer to the Virgin and the man of the house pray that of Saint Joseph, in honor of his qualities.
Prayer to the Virgin Mary
Sovereign Mary, for your great virtues and especially for your humility, you deserved that a true God chose you as his mother, I beg you that you yourself prepare and prepare my soul and that of all those who at this time make this novena, for the birth. spiritual of your beloved son. Oh sweetest mother! Communicate to me something of the deep recollection and divine tenderness with which you awaited him, so that you may make us less unworthy of seeing him, loving him and adoring him for all eternity. Amen.
At the end of the prayer, the Hail Mary should be prayed three times.
Prayer to Saint Joseph
Oh most holy Joseph, husband of Mary and adoptive father of Jesus! I give infinite thanks to God because he chose you for such sovereign mysteries and adorned you with all the gifts provided for such excellent greatness. I beg you, for the love you had for the Divine Child, embrace me in fervent desire to see him and receive him sacramentally, while in his divine essence I see him and enjoy him in heaven. Amen.
At the end of the prayer you should pray an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be.
After these two sentences, s and pray the prayer to the Child Jesus, which is (for many believers) the most significant, since in this section the most important grace is requested, which they want to fulfill for next year.
Generally this ration is recited by the youngest member of the household or some minor, in homage to the purity and innocence of children.
To end the Christmas novena, we pray:
Prayer to the baby Jesus
Remember, oh sweetest Child Jesus!, that you said to the venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, and in her person to all your devotees, these very consoling words for our poor, burdened and suffering humanity:
“Whatever you want to ask, ask for the merits of my childhood and nothing will be denied you.”
Full of trust in you, oh Jesus, who are the same truth, we come to expose all our misery to you.
Help us to lead a holy life, to achieve a blessed eternity.
Grant us, through the infinite merits of your childhood, the grace of which we need so much.
We give ourselves to you, oh omnipotent Child!, certain that our hope will not be frustrated, and that, by virtue of your divine promise, you will receive and favorably dispatch our supplication. Amen.
Order in which they are prayed the Novenas of Aguinaldos or Christmas Novena 2022.
Joys of the novenas
For the Christmas novena, each time a phrase of the prayer is finished, everyone repeats “Come to our…”
My sweet Jesus, my adored child, come to our souls! Come, don't take so long!
Oh, supreme Wisdom of the sovereign God, who stoops to the sacred reach of children! Oh, Divine Child, come to teach us the prudence that makes us truly wise! Come to our…
Oh, powerful Adonai, Moses speaking, from Israel to the people you gave the commands! Ah, come quickly to rescue us, and let a weak child show his arm strong!
Oh, sacred root of Joseph who on high presents your fragrant nard to the world! Sweetest Child who has been called Lily of the valley, Beautiful flower of the field.
Key of David that opens the closed doors of the royal palace to the exiled! Get us out. Oh Child with your white hand, from the sad prison that sin carved!
Oh, light of the East, sun of eternal rays, may we see your splendor among the darkness! Such a precious child, the joy of a Christian, let the smile of your sweet lips shine.
Spotless mirror, holy of holies, unequaled image of the sovereign God! He erases our faults, saves the exiled and in the form of a child, gives protection to the miserable! .
¡ King of the nations, Emmanuel illustrious, Israel's longing Shepherd of the flock! Child who feeds with a gentle staff, now the surly sheep, now the meek lamb!
Let the heavens open and rain from above, beneficent dew like holy irrigation! Come beautiful Child, come human God! Shine, Star God! Sprout, flower of the field!
Come, Mary now protects her arms, so that her child can see, in time close! Come, now Joseph, with sacred longing, is preparing to obtain your sacred love!
Of the weak help, of the suffering, protection of the sad, light of the exiled! Life of my life, my adored owner, my constant friend, my divine brother!
Come before my eyes, in love with you! Kiss your plants now! Kiss your hands now! Prostrate on the ground, I extend my arms to you, and even more than my phrases, my tears speak to you!
Come our Savior for whom we sigh Come to our souls, Come, do not take so long!
Christmas Novenas for Children
Here we leave you one Christmas Novena for Girls and Boys.
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