April Novenas and Prayers

 Welcome again Novena pray-ers of the St Faustina Shrine/Society to the month of July as we celebrate the Most Precious Blood of Jesus.
We have a lot to be thankful for and to pray for. 

Let  us Pray this prayer of Reparation to the Precious Blood: 

Eternal  Father, I offer to You all the wounds of Your dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ;  the pains and agony of His Sacred Heart and His Most Precious Blood, which  gushed out from all his wounds, for the reparation of my sins and those of the  whole world. Amen.  

1. Let us begin Med July 3 let us pray a prayer to ST Thomas the Apostle on his Feast Day:

Prayer to St. Thomas the Apostle, for Spending Ourselves in His Service 
           O Glorious St. Thomas, your grief for Jesus was such that it would not let you believe he had risen unless you actually saw him and touched his wounds. But your love for Jesus was equally great and it led you to give up your life for him. Pray for us that we may grieve for our sins which were the cause of Christ's sufferings. Help us to spend ourselves in his service and so earn the title of "blessed" which Jesus applied to those who would believe in him without seeing him. Amen.       

2. July 4 Next Let us Pray a Chaplet of Divine Mercy for the USA and your country if you are outside of the USA. For the World is in much need of God's Mercy.

      God our Father, Giver of life, we entrust the United States of America to Your loving care. You are the rock on which this nation was founded. You alone are the true source of our cherished rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Reclaim this land for Your glory and dwell among Your people.

3. July 6 Saturday let us pray a prayer to St Maria Goretti:

PRAYERS TO ST. MARIA GORETTI: St. Maria Goretti, strengthened by God's grace, you did not hesitate, even at the age of eleven, to sacrifice life itself to defend your virginal purity. Look graciously on the unhappy human race that has strayed far from the path of eternal salvation. Teach us all, and especially our youth, the courage and the promptness that will help us avoid anything that could offend Jesus. Obtain for me a great horror of sin, so that I may live a holy life on earth and win eternal glory in heaven. Amen. 
Heroic and angelic Saint Maria Goretti, we kneel before you to honor your persevering fortitude and to beg your gracious aid. Teach us a deep love for the precepts of our Holy Church; help us to see in them the very voice of our Father in heaven. May we preserve without stain our white baptismal robe of innocence. May we who have lost this innocence kneel humbly in Holy Penance; and with the absolution of the priest may the torrent of Christ's precious Blood flow into our souls and give us new courage to carry the burning light of God's love through the dangerous highways of this life until Christ our King shall call us to the courts of heaven. Amen.

4. Now Starting Sunday July 7 - 15 with the Feast Day of our Lady of Mt Carmel on July 16, let us pray:

Prayer to our lady of Mount Carmel:  O most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. (Mention your intention.) O Star of the Sea, help me and show me in this that thou art my Mother. O holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth, I humbly beseech thee, from the bottom of my heart, to help me in this necessity; there are none that can withstand thy power. O show me in this that thou art my Mother! O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. (Repeat this three times) Sweet Mother, I place this cause in thy hands. (Repeat this three times) Our Father . . . Hail Mary . . . Glory be . . . (Repeat this three times)

5.  Remember Fatma Thursday July 12. Prayers will be sent before then. send email to receive. or go to menu under "Remember Fatima" https://divinemercyshrine.site/rememberfatima

6. Let us begin Wednesday July 17 through July 25 with the Feast Day of St Joachim and ST Anne July 26 Parents of The Blessed Virgin Mary
During this time we will pray a Novena prayer to the Most Blessed Blood of Jesus:  

        O Jesus, by Thy Precious Blood which you shed for our souls, by each drop that you shed for our redemption and by the tears of Thy Immaculate Mother, I beseech Thee and earnestly ask You to listen to my prayer:

(Share your request…)

O Jesus, who during all the days of Thy mortal life, You consoled so many sufferers, You healed so many infirmities, You raised so often a sinking courage; have pity on my soul who cries to Thee from the depths of my anguish.

O Jesus, from the wounds of Thy heart, may a wave of Thy merciful blood flow and grant to me the grace that I so ardently desire.

O Jesus, hasten the moment when You will change my tears to joy and my sighs to thanksgivings.

Holy Mary, I ask you to join with me in seeking help. But, God our Father in heaven, “May your will be done”. Amen.

Say: Our Father… (x3)   … Jesus, Crucified, Have Mercy on Me … Most Holy St’s Anne and Joachim, come close to us and guide our hand and our hearts in the way of virtue. Help us to parent our children and grandchildren with a gentle heart as you did. Show us how to raise our children in faith and bring our families into the Light of Jesus. Remain close to us and help us on our journey to salvation.

7.  July 22 Monday. Prayer to ST Mary Magdalene: 

    Saint Mary Magdalene, woman of many sins, who by conversion became the beloved of Jesus, thank you for your witness that Jesus forgives through the miracle of love. You, who already possess eternal happiness in His glorious presence, please intercede for me, so that someday I may share in the same everlasting joy. Amen.

8.   July 25 Thursday July 25 with the Feast of St James 

        O Glorious Apostle, Saint James, who by reason of your fervent and generous heart was chosen by Jesus to be a witness of His glory on Mount Tabor, and of His agony in Gethsemane; you, whose very name is a symbol of warfare and victory: obtain for us strength and consolation in the unending warfare of this life, that, having constantly and generously followed Jesus, we may be victors in the strife and deserve to receive the victor’s crown in heaven. Amen.…                       

St James the Apostle, Pray for Us.

9.  July 29 Monday Prayer to Sts Martha, Mary and Lazarus
       May the holy reception of the Body and Blood of your Only Begotten Son, O Lord, turn us away from the cares of this fallen world, so that, following the example of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus, we may grow in sincere love for you on earth and rejoice to behold you for eternity in heaven. Through Christ our Lord.
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Thank you for praying. Let us pray for all the requests sent to us and in our Divine Mercy Prayer Journals. For all the sick, dying, and poor sinners. And for all your special intentions.

And let us pray for love of God and Neighbor. Also, for our country, peace and prosperity for all. We pray for you and all your requests, your families living and that those have passed on to our Lord.

We pray for an increase of Trust in our Lord.

And let us give thanks!! God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. We praise and glorify His goodness and mercy.

Jesus, I trust in You. 

Jay Hastings www.divinemercyshrine.site

sfshrine@msn.com   St Faustina Shrine/Society

PS Send prayer requests to: https://divinemercyshrine.site/prayer-requests

 Hello Novena pray-ers of the St Faustina Shrine/Society to the month of May as we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Hello St Faustina Shrine/Society Novena Pray-ers,    I hope everyone had a great and Holy Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday!
Thank you for praying with us to add to our spiritual storehouse for souls and to do as did St Faustina, aid souls through prayer and sacrifice.. Know that you and all your intentions are included in all our prayers.

Let us begin:
1. May 1 Monday: We'll now pray a prayer to ST Joseph the Worker Feast Day  May 1. And pray a chaplet and rosary with the following meditations which we'll be doing in our special Holy Hour on May 1 3-4pm at our Shrine. Send Prayer requests.   

Prayer to St Joseph for workers and those seeking employment……
Silent and well-known carpenter in Nazareth, model of workers, by the work of your hands you gave your contribution to the work of the Creator, you earned your living, and you provided for the needs of the Holy Family.  Intercede for all workers, in the difficulties of their daily lives especially for the unemployed, in their anxieties for tomorrow, so that through the guidance of God, the great Architect and Builder, they all may use their strength and talents to make visible God’s new creation, to offer a concrete service to society, and to earn wages worthy of their efforts. With confidence and trust we make this prayer thru Jesus.  Amen 

Meditate on silence with St. Joseph and Pope Francis

Before each decade of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy 

1. He must speak and I must be silent, and through his silence, Joseph invites us to leave room for the Presence of the Word made flesh, for Jesus.

2. Undervalued silence Very often nowadays we need silence. Silence is important. I am struck by a verse from the Book of Wisdom that was read with Christmas in mind, which says: “While gentle silence enveloped all things, your all-powerful word leaped from heaven.”

3. The Word grows and words diminish

The Gospels do not contain a single word uttered by Joseph of Nazareth: nothing, he never spoke. This does not mean that he was taciturn, no: there is a deeper reason why the Gospels do not say a word. With his silence, Joseph confirms what Saint Augustine writes: “To the extent that the Word – that is, the Word made man – grows in us, words diminish.”To the extent that Jesus, the spiritual life, grows, words diminish. […] John the Baptist himself, who is “the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord’ ” (Mt 3:3) says in relation to the Word, “He must increase, but I must decrease” ( Jn 3:30). This means that he must speak and I must be silent, and through his silence, Joseph invites us to leave room for the Presence of the Word made flesh, for Jesus.

4. A silence of listening

Joseph’s silence is not mutism, he is not taciturn; it is a silence full of listening, an industrious silence, a silence that brings out his great interiority. “The Father spoke a word, and it was his Son,” comments St John of the Cross, the Father said a word and it was his Son – “and it always speaks in eternal silence, and in silence it must be heard by the soul.”

5. A child who learned silence

Jesus was raised in this “school,” in the house of Nazareth, with the daily example of Mary and Joseph. And it is not surprising that he himself sought spaces of silence in his days (cf. Mt 14:23) and invited his disciples to have such an experience by example: “Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while” (Mk 6:31).

Before each decade of the Holy Rosary to the Mother of Mercy

1. Are you afraid of silence?How good it would be if each one of us, following the example of Saint Joseph, were able to recover this contemplative dimension of life, opened wide in silence. But we all know from experience that it is not easy: silence frightens us a little, because it asks us to delve into ourselves and to confront the part of us that is true.

2. And many people are afraid of silence, they have to speak, and speak, and speak, or listen to radio or television…  but they cannot accept silence because they are afraid. The philosopher Pascal observed that “all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

3.Because words can killDear brothers and sisters, let us learn from Saint Joseph how to cultivate spaces for silence in which another Word can emerge, that is, Jesus, the Word: that of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, that Jesus brings.It is not easy to recognize that Voice, which is very often confused along with the thousand voices of worries, temptations, desires, and hopes that dwell within us; but without this training that comes precisely from the practice of silence, our tongue can also ail. Without practicing silence, our tongue can also ail (ail means to trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body). Instead of making the truth shine, it can become a dangerous weapon. Indeed, our words can become flattery, bragging, lies, backbiting and slander. It is an established fact that, as the Book of Sirach reminds us, “many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have fallen because of the tongue”  (28:18), the tongue kills more than the sword. Jesus said clearly: whoever speaks ill of his brother or sister, whoever slanders his neighbour, is a murderer (cf. Mt 5:21-22). Killing with the tongue.We do not believe this, but it is the truth. Let us think a little about the times we have killed with the tongue: we would be ashamed! But it will do us good, a great deal of good.

4. Let us not be afraid!… We must learn from Joseph to cultivate silence: that space of interiority in our days in which we give the Spirit the opportunity to regenerate us, to console us, to correct us. I am not saying to fall into muteness, no. Silence. But very often, each one of us look inside, when we are working on something and when we finish, immediately we look for our telephone to make another call… we are always like this.And this does not help, this makes us slip into superficiality. Profoundness of the heart grows with silence, silence that is not mutism as I said, but which leaves space for wisdom, reflection and the Holy Spirit.We are afraid of moments of silence. Let us not be afraid! It will do us good. And the benefit to our hearts will also heal our tongue, our words, and above all our choices.

5. He did not speak, but he acted In fact, Joseph combined silence with action. He did not speak, but he acted, and thus demonstrated what Jesus once told his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’  shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 7:21). Silence. Fruitful words when we speak … Silence, speaking in the right way, and biting your tongue a little, which can be good at times instead of saying foolish things.

Jesus, The Divine Mercy have Mercy on us. Mother of Mercy pray for us, St Joseph pray for us. St Faustina pray for us. Jesus I trust in You 

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2. Starting May 4 - 12 let us pray a Novena to our Lady of Fatima Feast Day May 13 ( see Remember Fatima next).  Novena Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima Most Holy Virgin, you appeared at Fatima and revealed, to the three little shepherds, the treasures of graces hidden in the reciting of the Rosary.Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, so that by meditating on the mysteries of our redemption, we may gather its fruits and obtain the conversion of sinners, and the conversion of non-believers throughout the world. O Holy Mary, I also ask for the favor that I now so earnestly seek… (Share your request…) O Mary, may that which I ask in this novena, be for the greater glory of God, for your own honor, and for the good of all people. Amen. Say: Our Father… (x3), Hail Mary… (x3) and Glory Be… (x3)    Amen.  

3. Remember Fatima Prayers of reparation. link to prayers: https://divinemercyshrine.site/rememberfatima    for May 13. ***Since it lands on a Saturday, we will be praying in the Shrine before the Blessed Sacrament 3-4pm on Monday May 15.  

4. Next May 21 let us pray the Ascension Novena Prayer  Ascension Novena Prayer              Jesus, I honor You on the feast of Your Ascension into heaven. I rejoice with all my heart at the glory into which You entered to reign as King of heaven and earth. When the struggle of this life is over, give me the grace to share Your joy and triumph in heaven for all eternity.I believe that You entered into Your glorious Kingdom to prepare a place for me, for You promised to come again to take me to Yourself. Grant that I may seek only the joys of Your friendship and love, so that I may deserve to be united with You in heaven. Amen.

5. And let us continue with May 22 a prayer for the intercession of St Rita. Saint of the Impossible causes.

Holy Patroness of those in need, Saint Rita, so humble, pure and patient, whose pleadings with thy Divine Spouse are irresistible, obtain for me from your Crucified Christ my request (mention it here). Be gracious toward me, for the greater glory of God, and I promise to honor thee and to sing thy praises forever.
Oh glorious St. Rita, who didst miraculously participate in the sorrowful Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, obtain for me the grace to suffer with resignation the troubles of this life, and protect me in all my needs. Amen 

6.  And now May 19 - May 27 with "Pentecost" on May 28, let us end the month with a 

Novena to the Holy Spirit: 

O Holy Spirit, beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, console me. Tell me what I should do; give me Your orders. I promise to submit myself to all that You desire of me and to accept all that You permit to happen to me. Let me only know Your Will. (your requests)  +++

Let us pray for each other and for the whole world during these difficult times. Pray in thanksgiving for all the graces and mercy our Lord continues to grant us. Pray for all those in our Divine Mercy Prayer Journals.  Pray for our own special intentions. Send prayer requests. 

Jesus I trust in You. 

Thank You!! 

Jay Hastings901-438-7772 sfshrine@msn.com   www.divinemercyshrine.site

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