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Novena Prayers

FATHER, all-powerful and ever-living God,
During the Holy Season of Lent
You call us to a closer union with Yourself.
Help me to prepare to celebrate
The Paschal Mystery
With mind and heart renewed.
Give me a spirit of loving reverence
For You, our Father,
And of willing service to my neighbor.
As I recall the great events
That gave us new life in Christ,
Bring the image of Your Son
To perfection within my soul.

This great season of grace is Your gift
To Your family to renew us in spirit.
Give me strength to purify my heart,
To control my desires,
And so to serve You in freedom,
Teach me how to live
In this passing world with my heart set
On the world that will never end.

I ask for the grace
To master my sinfulness
And conquer my pride.
I want to show to those in need
Your goodness to me by being kind to all.

Through my observance of Lent,
Help me to correct my faults
And raise my mind to You,
And thus grow in holiness
That I may deserve
The reward of everlasting life.

In Your mercy grant me this special favor:

The days of the life-giving Death
And glorious Resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Your Son, are approaching.
This is the hour
When He triumphed over Satan’s pride,
The time when we celebrate
The great event of our Redemption.
The Suffering and Death of Your Son
Brought life to the whole world,
Moving our hearts to praise Your glory.

The power of the Cross reveals
Your judgment on this world
And the kingship of Christ crucified.
Father, through His love for us
And through His Sufferings, Death and Resurrection,
May I gain eternal life with You in heaven.

Prayer for Spiritual Renewal

GOD, heavenly Father,
Look upon me and hear my prayer
During this holy Season of Lent.
By the good works You inspire,
Help me to discipline my body
And to be renewed in spirit.

Without You I can do nothing.
By Your Spirit help me to know what is right
And to be eager in doing Your will.
Teach me to find new life through penance.
Keep me from sin, and help me live
By Your commandment of love.
God of love, bring me back to You.
Send Your Spirit to make me strong
In faith and active in good works.
May my acts of penance
Bring me Your forgiveness,
Open my heart to Your love,
And prepare me for the coming feast
Of the Resurrection of Jesus.

Lord, during this Lenten Season
Nourish me with Your Word of life
And make me one
With You in love and prayer.

Fill my heart with Your love
And keep me faithful to the Gospel of Christ.
Give me the grace to rise above my human weakness.
Give me new life by Your Sacraments, especially the Mass.

Father, our source of life,
I reach out with joy to grasp Your hand;
Let me walk more readily in Your ways.
Guide me in Your gentle mercy,
For left to myself I cannot do Your Will.

Father of love, source of all blessings,
Help me to pass from my old life of sin
To the new life of grace.
Prepare me for the glory of Your Kingdom. I ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
Who lives and reigns with You
And the Holy Spirit, one God, forever. Amen.

Prayer

ALMIGHTY and Everlasting God,
You have given the human race
Jesus Christ our Savior as a model of humility.
He fulfilled Your Will by becoming Man
And giving His life on the Cross.
Help us to bear witness to You
By following His example of suffering
And make us worthy to share in His Resurrection.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son. Amen.

Our Father...

MARY, Mother of Jesus, you were Jesus’ gift for us from the Cross. He gave you to us as our mother. Intercede for all our needs.

Hail Mary...

Glory be...

JESUS CRUCIFIED

MEDITATION

THE greatest of God’s works is the taking on of human flesh by His Son, Jesus Christ, and this is called the Incarnation.

The Son came on earth to bring the world His own Divine Life and to save it from sin and in this way to make the world new again from within. Jesus offered His life as the highest gift to His Father by dying on the Cross for us. In this way He redeemed the world. The Passion and Death of our Lord teaches us the great evil of sin. It was sin which caused Him to suffer so much and to die. But he took away our sins and made us free to serve God and to reach heaven.

Jesus Christ is our Savior because through Him all creatures will be saved from the slavery of sin. There is no salvation in anyone but Jesus Christ, nor has there ever been.

Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer because as God made Man He preached the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and gave Himself up to death out of love for His Father and for us.

God sent His Son to free men from the power of Satan and made peace between God and men. To do this Jesus had to become man, to preach His truth about the Kingdom of His Father. He continued preaching even though some of the religious leaders of His nation were trying to harm Him. They finally arranged to have Him put to death by the Romans because He claimed to be the Son of God. He is truly our Savior.

Jesus is also our Redeemer because He paid our debt for sin and bought heaven back for us. He offered His life for the love of us and for the glory of His Father. He did His Father’s Will to honor Him and to make people happy forever in God’s kingdom. The Father now gives His own Divine Life of grace to people who turn to Him in Faith.

We show our love for Jesus when we remember how much He suffered for us. We can do this during hue Holy Season of Lent, each Friday of the week, but above all at Holy Mass, because the Eucharistic celebration is carried out in obedience to His words at the Last Supper: “Do this in memory of Me.”

THE WORD OF GOD

"No one can have greater Jove than to lay down his life for his friends." —Jn 15:13

"God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for all of us. How then can He fail also to give us everything else along with Him?" —Rom 8:32

(The Seven Last Words)

"Father, forgive them,
For they do not know what they are doing" (Lk 23:34).

"Amen, I say to you,
Today you will be with Me in paradise" (Lk 23:43)

"Woman, behold your Son" (Jn 19:26).

"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Mt 27:46).

"I thirst" (Jn 19:28).

"It is finished" (Jn 19:30).

"Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit" (Lk 23:46).

NOVENA PRAYERS

JESUS Christ,
Son of God made Man,
Crowned with thorns, bearing a scepter of a reed,
Wearing a royal cloak purpled with Your Precious Blood,
I venerate You as the Man of Sorrows
And acknowledge You as my Lord and King!

Jesus crucified,
I firmly renounce the devil
And detest all sin that has torn me
From Your loving friendship.
I pledge my loyalty to You, my Savior,
And beg You to make me Your own in sincerest love.
I promise to be faithful in serving You,
And to strive to become more pleasing to You
By avoiding every sin and its occasions,
By carrying out my duties perfectly as a good Catholic,
And by practicing virtue.

Jesus crucified,
Accept the homage I wish to render You
During this novena,
As a token of my sincerest appreciation
For the sorrows and sufferings
You have willingly borne
To atone for my many sins
And to prove how much You love me.

I adore You as my very God,
Who willed to become Man
In order to save me from eternal death.

I thank You as my best Friend,
Who laid down Your life
As proof of the greatest love possible.

I ask pardon for having
So little thought of You, Jesus crucified,
And for having caused Your sorrows
And sufferings by the many sins I have committed.

I pray to You, dearest Jesus,
For all the graces I need to know You,
To love You and serve You faithfully until death,
And to save my soul.
Give a tender and fervent devotion
To Your Sacred Passion
By which I was redeemed,
Venerating You especially in Holy Mass.
Teach me how to unite the sorrows
And sufferings of my life with Your own.

Finally, through all Your sorrows and pains,
Through your Sacred Heart glowing with love for me,
Broken because of my want of love for You,
Through the sorrows of Mary,
Your Sorrowful Mother,
I ask for this special favor:

(Mention your request).

With childlike trust I abandon myself to Your holy Will concerning my request.

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