I have seen slight variations in the wording on different sites. The above link is generally in line with all of them.
The idea here is to honor the Blessed Mother during those nine months wherein she carried her Creator within her womb. She is truly the new Ark of the Covenant. I always like that title as I grew up in a city named Newark.
Think it over. You’ll be praying for these three things for a long while – until Christmas Day!
A very wise priest once told me that if you should receive answer to any or all of these prayers, continue praying for the duration of the novena in Thanksgiving and because no prayer in Mary’s hands is ever wasted.
I am so happy this happened during Lent because, rather than fasting I can just literally laugh my ass off.
You tell ‘em, Christophe! You don’t need no stinking bulla!
It’s all good, peeps. Trust us. We know what we’re doing.
These poor Detroiters. Detroiti? Detroitites? Detroitians? Whatever… First they have to suffer through Gary Voris’s meltdown and now this?
Remember this was the first (only?) American city to lose a million people and that happened at the 2000 census. These good folks have put up with enough.
Oh the humanity!
Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth, come visit thy people again and bring the triumph of Thine Immaculate Heart!
Friends, many of you know that I pray an ongoing (every nine days) novena to St. Rita of Cascia. She is the patron of the impossible and she’s sure helped me out many times in my life. I like to honor her in this way.
Many of you have kindly sent me prayer requests to bring to St. Rita as well as my own. My rule is that unless someone specifically tells me the prayer has been answered, it stays on the list.
Every now and then I asked Saint Rita in prayer to show me if any of these intentions have been delivered, but maybe I didn’t know it. So here’s the story. In April of 2022, I met a young man in the parish who told me he was hoping to join a monastery of traditional Benedictines (located in a state with a panhandle and not Texas but adjacent to it). What’s impossible about that? Said lad had some significant student loan debt that needed to go away first.
I added him to the list and told him I would pray for this intention.
Last night, almost three years later and on the feast of St. Benedict, I was at the parish for Adoration and came across a wall of pictures featuring parish vocations.
Look who I saw.
That’s our guy on the left!
The card underneath said he is now known as Brother and that he entered in 2023!
I’m sure those extra two years of prayers were not void but boy am I happy for him!
So send me your prayers and if you’ve already sent them and you’ve received your answer, please let me know.
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