Our Annual January Rosary Novena to Start on January 24th



 


This post will be one of our repeating posts......every January we offer up a Rosary novena for our spouses.....and any other intentions.  Everything below the ****** will be the copy from last year's post announcing the novena.  We would love for you to join us....or at least to allow us to pray for your intentions.  Please leave a note in the comments so we can pray for you.

 

I would especially like to offer this winter's novena for little Fulton Poppe who is just beginning his recovery from a burn accident.  You can join his Facebook page for updates.  I hope no one minds that I post his picture here.



 

 

*************************************************************

 

 

I am SO ready for this!!

Who else is in???

On January 24th, we will start the 54-day Rosary Novena to purposely end on the vigil of St. Joseph's feast day. Hopefully the automatic reminders on Happy is the Husband will kick in! Join the list now to get those reminders.

    Please leave your intentions.....listed or private.....or annonymous...through
me........even if you cannot pray the novena.......we can pray for you!

More information about the Rosary Novena:

The "54-day Rosary Novena" is an uninterrupted series of Rosaries in honor of
Our Lady, revealed to the incurably sick Fortuna Agrelli by Our Lady of Pompeii
at Naples in 1884. For thirteen months Fortuna Agrelli had endured dreadful
sufferings and torturous cramps; she had been given up by the most celebrated
physicians. On February 16, 1884, the afflicted girl and her relatives commenced
a novena of Rosaries. The Queen of the Holy Rosary favoured her with an
apparition on March 3rd. Mary, sitting upon a high throne, surrounded by
luminous figures, held the divine Child on her lap, and in her hand a Rosary.
The Virgin Mother and the holy Infant were clad in gold-embroidered garments.
They were accompanied by St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena. The throne was
profusely decorated with flowers; the beauty of Our Lady was marvellous. Blessed
Virgin said: "Child, thou has invoked me by various titles and hast always
obtained favours from me. Now, since thou hast called me by that title so
pleasing to me, 'Queen of the Holy Rosary,' I can no longer refuse the favour
thou dost petition; for this name is most precious and dear to me. Make three
novenas, and thou shalt obtain all."

Once more the Queen of the Holy Rosary appeared to her and said, " Whoever
desires to obtain favours from me should make three novenas of the prayers of
the Rosary, and three novenas in thanksgiving."

The Novena consists of five decades of the Rosary each day for twenty-seven days
in petition; then immediately five decades each day for twenty-seven days in
thanksgiving, whether or not the request has been granted. The meditations vary
from day to day. On the first day meditate on the Joyful Mysteries; on the
second day the Sorrowful Mysteries; on the third day the Glorious Mysteries; on
the fourth day meditate again on the Joyful Mysteries; and so on throughout the
fifty-four days.

This is an old website, add the Luminous if you wish.

If you put "54 day rosary novena" into Google.........you will find some great
info.

For those of you in unhappy marriages, or feeling desperate.......perhaps
for a conversion of a dh....or for a wayward child........this is a VERY efficacious prayer................the graces just abound! Many times in ways you might least expect it. Keep in mind that many people I know sometimes feel like things get worse when they start the Rosary novena....before they get better......we think it must be the Devil wanting to interfere with our prayers!

PLEASE consider joining us if you are feeling low.

We will offer it up for all of those on the happyisthehusband list, those reading this blog and others we know, for our vocations, our husbands and our marriages...............and our offspring!!

I know that many often feel bad if they forget to pray their rosary once starting the novena................here are my thoughts:

Just ask for the graces to remember to pray it every day...................the grace to pick yourself up and just join in when you DO remember. I ask my guardian angel to pray it with me, to remind
me........and, to pray it for me, if I should forget. And, if you do forget, those of us who do remember, have you covered......just jump back in! If I only forget one day, I sometimes try to make it up over the next day or so.

There are graces available to you from every rosary you DO say.....it is so worth it.

     You can use an audio version of the rosary to help keep you focused. I have downloaded these from The Rosary Army to listen to on my iPhone. You can listen on your computer, your iPod or save to a CD. I use it when I work or drive if it looks like I will have trouble finding a time to stop and pray at home.

     Looking forward to praying with you and for you!

Blessings,

Chari & Willa

Novena to St Therese of the Child Jesus

If you wanted to start a novena to the Little Flower, St Therese of Lisieux, it is not too late to begin today.   St Therese's feast day was October 3 in the old calendar.   If you start today, you can finish the novena on that day. 

I was born on her feast day (back in the early 60's), though I did not know it until after I became a Catholic.   But I have often wondered if she was praying for me, in her missionary spirit, while I was on my road to conversion. 

Aidan received his transplant 13 years ago on her new feast day, October 1.  By that time she was a family favorite saint.   Many, many novenas to her had been said for him, by people all over the world, and by enclosed nuns in the Carmelite monastery in San Francisco.    

She is the patron of our diocese, and Kevin and I were married at her local shrine.   Later, my first and my fifth child were baptized there. 

For all these reasons and more, I ask her help often, though not as often as I should when I remember how many favors she has given us. 

I'm invoking her aid particularly this year for some private intentions.    I will add the intentions of those reading this to my own.

I am going to say this one. 

I am reading a book called Maurice and Therese which I heard about from Marie.   I read it for just a few minutes before lunch so it is slow going, but all the better.

I have also been reading these Counsels and Reminiscences.   Again, slowly, in bits and pieces of time. 

Pentecost Novena

Ascension Thursday was yesterday, but it is not too late to start your novena to the Holy Spirit!  This is the oldest novena, stemming from Scripture, when on the day of his Ascension, Jesus told the apostles to wait for the coming of the Holy Ghost:

And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth. [5] For John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many days hence.

There is a printable (PDF) novena to the Holy Ghost here.   This one is to ask for the seven gifts.  We said it as a family a few years back (in 2005) just before four of my children were confirmed.   When I think of the graces that came from that time I would really like to pray it again. 

A shorter one is here.

 

If you want to read a description of the difference between the gifts of knowledge, wisdom and understanding, and see a black and white picture that you could print out for your children, go to the excellent blog of Msr Charles Pope.

If you want to read in depth about the Seven Gifts, here is Reginald Garrigou Lagrange, OP

I found a sweet Mother's Prayer to the Holy Ghost in a public domain book called The Christian Mother