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Novena for Christ the King
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
This week’s novena is a great way to end the liturgical year on a prayerful note, and prepare ourselves to head into the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany season.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/christ-king-novena
Have a great day,
Elena & Laurie
http://prayersforpriests.com
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Novena to St. Charles Borromeo
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
This week’s novena is to St. Charles Borromeo, a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. His feast day is November 4.
https://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/novenas/p03671.htm
Have a great week,
Laurie & Elena
https://prayersforpriests.com
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Novena to Ven. Fulton J. Sheen
Tuesday, October 16, 2019
This week’s novenas is to Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, whose cause for canonization is progressing. October 21 is the 55th anniversary of his appointment as Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, pray for us.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/fulton-sheen-novena
Have a blessed week,
Laurie and Elena
https://prayersforpriests.com/
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Novena to St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
https://prayersforpriests.com/
Tomorrow we start our next novena, this one to St. Teresa of Avila. She is the patron of people in religious orders and people ridiculed for their faith. As we head toward her feast day on October 15, let’s pray this novena for our faithful priests and all who are struggling.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-teresa-avila-novena
Have a blessed week,
Elena and Laurie
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Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Oh, hey! Look at that! My calendar says Wednesday already! We owed you all a novena yesterday. Completely my fault.
This novena is to Mary, Undoer of Knots. The knots in our lives come in many different forms. It could be something as basic as running through life so fast you lose track of what day it is (or so I’ve heard – LOL) Or it could be a family crisis. We also know that the enemy likes to try to tie knots around us the closer we grow to Jesus and the stronger we are in our faith. He especially enjoys trying to tie knots around our priests.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/mary-undoer-knots-novena
Have a great week, everyone. Elena will try to get my head screwed back on straight for next time.
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Novena to St. Robert Bellarmine
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
It’s time for us to start our next novena, but first we have a request. If you would, please send us a quick reply, even something as simple as “got it”. We’re just checking to make sure we have everyone on the mailing list.
And if this has been forwarded to you by someone else, send a quick note and we’ll will add you.
This novena is to St. Robert Bellarmine, a doctor of the Church, whose feast day is September 17.
https://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/novenas/p03873.htm
Have a great week,
Laurie & Elena
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Novena to St. Augustine
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Tomorrow we start our next novena. I know there are many times we’ve each felt that our faith was under attack, whether from others or from within ourselves. This new novena is to one of the strongest defenders of the faith, St. Augustine.
Here’s the link: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-augustine-novena.
Have a blessed week!
Laurie & Elena
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Novena to the Queenship of Mary
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Time for our next novena everybody.
This novena is for the feast of the Queenship of Mary, which we celebrate on August 22.
http://www.liturgies.net/saints/mary/queenship/novena.htm
For more about this feast day, go to: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/queenship-of-mary/
There’s a second reason that we are using this novena. This ministry of Prayers for Priests was started in Elmira, NY. Elmira has long been known as the Queen City, since as far back as when Samuel Clemens was spending their summers here.
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Novena to The Most Precious Blood of Jesus
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
July is the month of The Most Precious Blood of Jesus. Before we move into August, let’s spend some time in devotion, as the Church has since the 1800’s.
Our next novena can be found at:
https://ascensionpress.com/pages/novena-to-the-precious-blood
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Novena to St. Benedict
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
We start our next novena tomorrow. This novena is to St. Benedict, whose feast day is Thursday, July 11.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-benedict-novena
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Novena to St. Thomas the Apostle
Tuesday, June 26, 2019
Our novena prayer beginning tomorrow is to St. Thomas the Apostle, adapted from a traditional prayer. His feast day is July 3.
St. Thomas, when you saw the Risen Lord, you humbly confessed “My Lord and My God” and later sacrificed your life on mission in India for love of him. We ask you to pray for our priests and ourselves that we may be strengthened to dedicate ourselves totally to God’s Kingdom. We pray that through your intercession we may be protected in all trials and temptations to doubt our Lord’s love and plan for us, through Christ our Lord, Amen. +Glory Be, 3x
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Novena for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Just as a heads up, by the end of the month I will be sending these emails from my gmail account, desmarlaurie@gmail.com. Our novena prayer beginning tomorrow is for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, from praymorenovenas.com.
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/novena-to-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus
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Novena to prepare for the Ascension of Jesus
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Happy Tuesday. I hope you all had a safe and happy Memorial day. Our next novena is timed to the Ascension (thanks for the idea and the link, Elena!), which is Thursday this week.
As a reminder, Masses here at The Parish of the Most Holy Name of Jesus are: 8am St. Patrick, 9am St. Mary, 12:05pm Sts. Peter & Paul, 12:10pm St. Charles, and 5:30pm St. Casimir.
Now, our novena prayer this week comes from Aleteia.
https://aleteia.org/2019/05/22/prepare-for-the-ascension-of-jesus-with-this-novena/
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Novena to St. John Vianney
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Good evening, everyone. It’s time to begin our second novena for our priests. Tomorrow we will start a novena to St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests. Once again, I’ll refer you to Pray More Novenas, a great resource for us. Here’s their link to the novena:
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/search?term=john+vianney
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Our First Novena
Monday, April 29, 2019
We will begin our first Novena on Wednesday, May 1st. We’ve decided to do a novena to Saint Bernadette, since the morning after we decided to start this prayer community, Elena took this attached picture before Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes. Notice where the stained-glass window light falls.
Here is a link to a great novena to St. Bernadette:
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/st-bernadette-novena
God bless,
Laurie Desmarais & Elena Cambio
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