Offer Novenas...
(c)Mary TV 2014
J.M.J
February 18, 2014
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! I thank you for your prayers and for the love you show toward me. I invite you to decide to pray for my intentions. Dear children, offer novenas, making sacrifices wherein you feel the most bound. I want your life to be bound to me. I am your Mother, little children, and I do not want satan to deceive you for He wants to lead you the wrong way, but he cannot if you do not permit him. Therefore, little children, renew prayer in your hearts, and then you will understand my call and my live desire to help you. Thank you for having responded to my call." (July 25, 1993)
Our
Lady likes novenas! She has suggested novenas several times in her
messages. Novenas are a way to focus our prayer and do something over
and beyond our ordinary prayer regimen as a form of sacrifice. They help
to increase our faith and our fervor. And they often connect us in a
special way with the saint they address.
One
of the most powerful saints is St. Joseph! He is the common man's best
friend! And he is a true father figure for us. So when I received this
novena prayer in an email, I immediately felt called to pass it on to
all of us. It is a 30 day novena prayer to St. Joseph, which started
yesterday...but we can still start up! It will end on March 19,
the Feast of St. Joseph! I feel that many of us have real pressing
problems for which we need heavenly help. Now is a great time to ask for
the help of St. Joseph.
In
the message above Our Lady suggests that we do novenas and make
sacrifices for the things in which we feel most bound. She wants us to
be free. She wants our hearts to be unfettered by un-forgiveness,
anxiety, fear or sin. She doesn't want worry about our families and
friends, our future or our past to weigh us down and keep us locked up
and unable to love. So in this novena to St. Joseph, let's find the
things that are binding us up and shackling us and offer them to St.
Joseph. Let's ask him to intercede with his beautiful spouse, Mary, for
our liberation from all evil. And let's pray for our loved ones in the
same way!
Here is the 30 day prayer:
Thirty Days' Prayer to Saint Joseph
(For any special intentions)
Feast Day, Wednesday, March 19
Ever
blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and loving father, and helpful friend
of all in sorrow! You are the good father and protector of orphans, the
defender of the defenseless, the patron of those in need and
sorrow. Look kindly on my request. My sins have drawn down on me the
just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded with unhappiness. To
you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth, do I go for help and
protection.
Listen,
then, I beg you, with fatherly concern, to my earnest prayers, and
obtain for me the favors I ask. (mention your petitions)
I
ask it by the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God, which moved Him
to take our nature and to be born into this world of sorrow.
I
ask it by the weariness and suffering you endured when you found no
shelter at the inn of Bethlehem for the Holy Virgin, nor a house where
the Son of God could be born. Then, being everywhere refused, you had to
allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to the world's Redeemer in a
cave.
I ask it by the loveliness and power of that sacred Name, Jesus, which you did confer on the adorable Infant.
I
ask it by that painful torture you felt at the prophecy of holy Simeon,
which declared the Child Jesus and His holy Mother future victims of
our sins and of their great love for us.
I
ask it through your sorrow and pain of soul when the angel declared to
you that the life of the Child Jesus was sought by His enemies. From
their evil plan you had to flee with Him and His Blessed Mother to
Egypt. I ask it by all the suffering, weariness, and labors of that long
and dangerous journey.
I
ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His Immaculate
Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to
your own country. I ask it by your peaceful life in Nazareth where you
met with so many joys and sorrows.
I
ask it by your great distress when the adorable Child was lost to you
and His Mother for three days. I ask it by your joy at finding Him in
the Temple, and by the comfort you found at Nazareth, while living in
the company of the Child Jesus. I ask it by the wonderful submission He
showed in His obedience to you.
I
ask it by the perfect love and conformity you showed in accepting the
Divine order to depart from this life, and from the company of Jesus and
Mary. I ask it by the joy which filled your soul, when the Redeemer of
the world, triumphant over death and hell, entered into the possession
of His kingdom and led you into it with special honors.
I ask it through Mary's glorious Assumption, and through that endless happiness you have with her in the presence of God.
O
good father! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows, and joys, to
hear me and obtain for me what I ask. (mention your petitions)
Obtain
for all those who have asked my prayers everything that is useful to
them in the plan of God. Finally, my dear patron and father, be with me
and all who are dear to me in our last moments, that we may eternally
sing the praises of
A blameless life, O Saint Joseph, may we lead, by thy kind patronage from danger freed, Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2014
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