It is a beautiful prayer. I can assure you that it will heighten your anticipation of Christ's holy birth, and help you to focus on the real beauty of Christmas morning during this busy time.
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment
in which the son of God was born
of the most pure Virgin Mary,
at midnight,
in Bethlehem,
in the piercing cold.
In that hour vouchsafe, O my God,
To hear my prayer and grant my desires,
through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ,
and of His blessed Mother.
Amen.
I'll post the novena in my sidebar from now until Christmas day for anyone who would like a reminder.
4 comments:
Thank you very much for posting this prayer. I will say it 15 times from now until Christmas for the intention of the spiritual and physical protection of our son who graduates soon from the Navy SEALs. May God bless you and your family.
St. Andrew's Day is also an early announcement of the Nativity for us, but we are already into Advent by the time it comes around. Interesting.
Holy St. Andrew, pray to God for us.
I'm so glad you posted this! We started saying this as a family when I was a girl. Before that year, something would always go wrong on Christmas (jealousy over toys, or something silly), but the year we did our first St. Andrew novena, we had the most wonderful, peaceful, joyful Christmas. We all knew it was due to that novena, and we've made it part of our advent tradition ever since. I truly hope everyone reading your blog makes it part of their advent, as it is a wonderful prayer. Thank you!
Thank you for the novena. God willing I am going to say it for a very specail intention.
Love Carol
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