Five Powerful Catholic Novena Prayers That Will Change Your Life. Novena prayers specially optimized for Amazon Kindle. Novena comes from the Latin Language and means nine. A Novena is a series of nine prayers and its Scriptural origin is from the nine days or prayer prior to Pentecost. The apostles and disciples after the Ascension of Our Lord gathered in the upper room and prayed together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus (Acts 1:4-5). Jesus asked us to continually ask, seek, and knock for what we need (Lk 11:10), and he gave us examples of the value of persistence in prayer — like the widow who kept pleading with the judge (Lk 18:1-8) and the man who woke his neighbor in the middle of the night to give him bread (Lk 11:5-9). Novenas help us focus on our intentions to God so we can more effectively pray for our needs and give thanksgiving and placing our deep trust in Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Novenas also can help us to focus our intentions so that we can more effectively give thanks for God's response to our needs — whatever they are — placing ever greater trust in the Lord Jesus.
I am still praying these novenas, one after the other.
It is especially heart warming to grow close to the five blessed souls mentioned and ask for their intercession for my intentions.
The most special is the St. Therese the Little Flower Novena. I run a book club at my parish church and Something New with St. Thérèse: Her Eucharistic Miracle was discussed on July 19. I had reached out to the author of the book, Suzie Andres, to attend. She wasn't sure if she could at first, but THE DAY I started this novena, Suzie responded that she could attend. I get goose bumps just thinking about it. Thank you St Therese.
Other Novenas: Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena St. Jude Novena St. Joseph Novena St. Michael the Archangel Novena
I find praying novenas a beautiful addition to my spiritual bouquets when praying for the intentions and needs of others.
Beautiful !!!!! Must read to & pray PRAY IT!!!!!!!!!
This is a must PRAY book! Beautiful written. I must say i thought it was just the same PRAYERS they are but written to where you pray them not just read them i guess Jesus Christ hit me in a profound way . God bless, pray for me.
Every time I go through a depression period I reach for this book. The novenas are short so it makes it easy to fit them in while doing everyday prayers.