Christmas time, according to Christian traditions, is a time of hope, love, friendship, peace and renewal of faith. The story of the birth of the Child Jesus in the New Testament is an ideal story to introduce the little ones to Christianity.
Get to know this beautiful novena with which you can also ask for times of peace, harmony and love for you and your loved ones.
The Christmas novena that you will learn below is prayed from December 16 to 24. It is the Christmas novena of the child Jesus. The order of the Christmas novena is as follows:
- prayer to start
- prayer for the family
- Prayer to the Virgin Mary
- Prayer to Saint Joseph
- Prayer to the Child God.
- prayer of the day
All these prayers must be prayed every day and among them the particular prayer of each day is included. Keep reading and learn how to pray a novena to the baby Jesus in full Christmas.
Then I will share with you first, all the preparatory prayers that you must pray before each specific day and then you will find all the prayers per day of the novena to the Divine Child Jesus.
prayer to start
This is the first prayer you should pray, every day, from the novena to the baby Jesus. At the end, pray an Our Father.
Most Benign God of infinite charity that you have loved us so much and that you 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 might be 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 of loving each other as brothers. Grant us, Lord, your help to be able to do it. We ask that this Christmas, a feast of peace and joy, be a stimulus for our community, so that, living as brothers, we seek more and more the paths of truth, justice, love and peace. Amen.
prayer for the family
The prayer for the family is the second prayer of the ninth of the child God, which you must also pray every day before the corresponding prayer of each day. At the end, pray an Our Father.
Lord, make our home a place of your love. Let there be no injury because you give us understanding. Let there be no bitterness because You bless us. Let there be no selfishness because You encourage us. Let there be no rancor because You give us forgiveness. May there be no abandonment because You are with us. We know march towards you in your daily life. May each morning dawn another day of dedication and sacrifice. Every night finds us with more love. Make Lord with our lives, which you wanted to unite, a page full of you. Do Lord of our children what you long for, help us educate them, guide them along your path. We strive for mutual support. Let’s make love another motive to love you more. That when the great day of going to meet you dawns, grant us to find ourselves united forever in you. Amen.
Prayer to the Virgin
After the prayer to the family, you must pray this prayer to the Virgin Mary, every day too. At the end, pray an Our Father.
Sovereign Mary, we ask you for all the families of our country; make every home in our country and in the world a source of understanding, of tenderness, of true family life. May these Christmas parties, which gather us around the manger where your Son was born, also unite us in love, make us forget offenses and give us simplicity to recognize the mistakes we have made.
Prayer to Saint Joseph
Another very important part of the novena to the child Jesus at Christmas is the prayer to Saint Joseph. Pray it every day in the order indicated. At the end, pray an Our Father.
Most Holy Saint Joseph, husband of Mary and adoptive father of the Lord, you were chosen to act as father in the home of Nazareth. Help parents; may they always be in their home the image of the heavenly father, following your example; that they fully fulfill the great responsibility of educating and training their children, giving them the best of themselves with continuous effort. Help children understand and appreciate the selfless efforts of their parents. Saint Joseph, model of husbands and fathers, intercede for us. Amen.
Preparatory prayer to the Child Jesus
To finish the preparatory part of each day, you must pray this prayer to the Child Jesus, every day and in the indicated order. At the end, pray an Our Father.
Remember, oh most sweet Child Jesus,
that you said to all your devotees,
These consoling words for our poor, burdened and suffering humanity:
“Whatever you want to ask, ask for the merits of my childhood and nothing will be denied you.”
Full of confidence in You, O Jesus, who are the same truth,
We come to expose all our misery to you.
Help us to lead a holy life for a blessed eternity.
Grant us, by the infinite merits of your incarnation and your childhood,
the grace of which we need so much
(Silent requests are made).
We give ourselves to you, oh omnipotent Child,
confident that our hope will not be disappointed
that by virtue of your divine promise,
you will welcome and favorably dispatch our plea.
Amen.
Day 1
The first day of the novena is December 16. Then pray all the preparatory prayers, you must pray the Christmas novena prayer on day 1. At the end, pray an Our Father.
In the beginning of time, the Word rested in the bosom of his Father, in the highest heaven.
The life of the Eternal Word in heaven was a marvelous life and yet, a sublime mystery, he seeks another abode, a created mansion. Not because his infinite happiness lacked anything in his eternal mansion,
but because his infinite mercy yearned for the redemption and salvation of the human race,
that without Him it could not be verified.
Adam’s sin had offended the Divine Majesty
and that infinite offense could not be forgiven except by the merits of God himself.
It was therefore necessary for God to take the form of man on earth,
and by obeying the designs of his Father he atoned for that disobedience.
It was necessary that it take the form, the unconscious weaknesses and ignorances of childhood,
to expiate the weaknesses and ignorance of man; let him grow up
to give you spiritual growth; Let him suffer, to die to his passions and his pride
and for this reason the Eternal Word, who burned with the desire to save man, resolved to become a man as well.
and thus redeem the guilty.
Day 2
The second day of the novena corresponds to December 17. At the end you must pray an Our Father.
That moment was very solemn; it was optional for Mary to refuse. With what adorable delights, with what ineffable complacency would the Holy Trinity wait for Mary to open her lips and pronounce the “fiat” that must have been a melody to her ears and with which her profound humility conformed to the omnipotent divine will. . The Immaculate Virgin has given her consent The Archangel has disappeared. God has clothed himself with a created nature and the eternal will is already fulfilled.
In the regions of the angelic world an immense jubilation exploded. The Word had become flesh and although still invisible to the world, he already lived among the men whom his immense love had come to rescue. He was no longer just the Eternal Word, he was the Child Jesus clothed in human appearance, which already justified the praise that all generations had given him by calling him the most beautiful of the sons of men.
Day 3
The Christmas novena day 3, corresponds to December 17. Pray an Our Father at the end of the prayer.
Admiring in the first place the soul of that Divine Child, let us consider in it the fullness of his sanctifying grace, that of his beatific science, by which from the first moment of his life, he saw the divine Essence more clearly than all the angels and read the past and the future with all its arcana and knowledge. He never knew by voluntary acquisition anything that he did not know by infusion from the first moment of his being; but He himself accepted all the weaknesses of our nature to which he could worthily submit. even when they were not necessary for the great work that he had to accomplish. Let us ask him that his divine faculties supply the weakness of ours and give them new energies; May his memory teach us to remember his benefits, his understanding to think of his, to do nothing but his will, what he wants and in his service.
From the soul of the Child Jesus, let us now move on to his body, which was a world of wonders, a masterpiece from the hand of God. He was not like ours, a hindrance to his soul, he was on the contrary a new element of holiness; he wanted it to be small and weak like all children and subject to all the discomforts of childhood to be more like us and participate in our humiliations. The Holy Spirit formed that little body with such delicacy and such an ability to feel, that he could suffer to excess to accomplish the great work of our Redemption. The beauty of that body of the Divine Child was superior to what has ever been imagined, and the divine blood that began to circulate through his veins from the moment of his incarnation, is the one that washes away all the stains of the guilty world. Let us ask him to wash ours in the sacrament of penance, so that on his happy Christmas day he finds us purified, forgiven and ready to receive him with love and spiritual benefit.
Day 4
The novena of Christmas day 4, corresponds to December 19. At the end of the prayer of the Christmas novena day 1, you must pray an Our Father.
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