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Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brazil A booklet of the novena to Sweetest Name of Mary, in Bikol and printed in Binondo, Manila dated 1867. A novena (from Latin: novem, "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. [1]
The novena will normally include a visit to a Jesuit church or chapel. The novena ends on 12 March which is the date of the canonisation of St Francis Xavier and St Ignatius. [6] The novena can also be held from 25 November to 3 December (St Francis Xavier’s feast day). [7] However, it can be carried out at any time of the year.
In the United States, the first novena prayers were compiled by Reverend Joseph Chapoton, the Vice-provincial of Portland, Oregon. [4] After his death in 1925, the laity added more prayers and hymns into the booklet. [5] This perhaps was the main reason why for many years, there was no set of novena prayers designated for Perpetual Help.
"This novena is always a time of great solidarity and really ignites the community spirit in the people of Dundalk and the surrounding counties, towns and villages." [5] The Novena consists of 10 sessions a day, with the first session starting at 7am, running all day until the last session at 10pm, when the mass is conducted by candlelight.
Since 1888, a weekly Perpetual Novena in honor of St. Joseph has been prayed every Wednesday at the Shrine as well as an annual Solemn Novena leading to the Solemnity of St. Joseph (March 19) from March 10-19.
The Novena of Grace is a popular devotion to Francis Xavier, typically prayed either on the nine days before 3 December or on 4 March through 12 March (the anniversary of Pope Gregory XV's canonisation of Xavier in 1622).
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It is a part of a novena for prayer beginning on July 7, [2] [3] July 8, [4] and in time of need. [5] On June 28th 1852, it was given a hundred days indulgence by Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster, [4] in favour of Carmelites and any other Christian believer, which recite three daily prayers during nine consecutive days or Saturdays.