Christmas Novena The Value of the Family Novena of Aguinaldo Prayer for every day! Most gracious God of infinite charity, who has loved us so much and who gave us in your Son, the best pledge of your love, so that, incarnated and made our brother in the womb of the Virgin, he was born in a manger for our health and remedy; we thank you for such an immense benefit. In return, we offer you, Lord, the sincere effort to make this world, yours and ours, a more just world, more faithful to the great commandment to love one another as brothers. Grant us, Lord, your help to be able to do so. We ask you that this Christmas, a feast of peace and joy, be an encouragement for our community, so that, living as brothers, we seek more and more the paths of truth, justice, love and peace. Amen. (A Lord’s Prayer is prayed.) Prayer for the family (spouses) Lord, make our home a place of your love. May there be no injury because You give us understanding. May there be no bitterness because You bless us. May there be no selfishness because You encourage us. May there be no resentment because You give us forgiveness. May there be no abandonment because You are with us. May we know how to march towards You in our daily lives. May each morning dawn another day of dedication and sacrifice. May each night find us with more love. Make, Lord, with our lives, which You wanted to unite, a page full of You. Make, Lord, of our children what You long for, help us to educate them, guide them along Your path. May we strive to support each other. May we make love a reason to love You more. May when the great day of going to meet You dawn, may You grant us to find ourselves united forever in You. Amen. Prayer to the Virgin Mary Sovereign Mary, we ask you for all the families of our country; make every home in our homeland and in the world a source of understanding, tenderness, and true family life. May these Christmas holidays, which bring us together around the manger where your Son was born, also unite us in love, make us forget offenses and give us the simplicity to recognize the errors we have committed. Mother of God and our Mother, intercede for us. Amen. Prayer to Saint Joseph Most Holy Saint Joseph, husband of Mary and adoptive father of the Lord, you were chosen to act as a father in the home of Nazareth. Help parents; may they always be in their home an image of the Heavenly Father, following your example; may they fully fulfill the great responsibility of educating and training their children, giving them, with continuous effort, the best of themselves. Help children to understand and appreciate the selfless effort of their parents. Saint Joseph, model husband and father, intercede for us. Amen. (A Lord’s Prayer is said) Meditation for the day Let us strive to strengthen our Christian values ​​so that Christmas may be what it should be: a celebration dedicated to deepening the mystery of LOVE and RECONCILIATION; a propitious occasion for the generous and understanding forgiveness that we learn from a compassionate God who always forgives us. With the help of the Holy Spirit we can forgive and be reconciled with God and with our brothers and sisters, and live a new life. This is the Good News that Saint Paul proclaimed in his letters, as recorded in his Epistle to the Romans (5:1-11). To live Christmas is to stop wrongs at the root if someone has offended us, and to ask for forgiveness if we have mistreated others. Thus, from forgiveness comes harmony and we build that peace that the angels announce in Bethlehem: peace on earth to men who love the Lord and love one another. Human beings are faced with a constant dilemma: we can hurt each other with hatred or we can be happy in a love that reconciles. The mission for each one of us is to be agents of reconciliation and not of discord, to be instruments of peace and sowers of brotherhood. Prayer to the Child God Lord, Christmas is the memory of your birth among us, it is the presence of your love in our family and in our society. Christmas is the certainty that the God of heaven and earth is our Father, that you, Divine Child, are our Brother. May this meeting around your manger increase our faith in your goodness, commit us to truly live as brothers, give us courage to end hatred and sow justice and peace. Oh, Divine Child, teach us to understand that where there is love and justice, there you are, and there too is Christmas. Amen. (A Gloria is prayed) Joys Come our Savior for whom we long. Come to our souls! Come, do not delay so long! #virginmary #holyrosaryofthevirginmary #christmas #holyrosary #faith #rosaryoftodayofficialcatholicprayer #shortrosary #rosary #prayervirginmary #novena #christmasnovena #jesus #godlovesyou #god #godisgood #godislove #godisfaithful #godisblessyou