Saint Andrew’s Novena to Contemplate Christmas Eve
(The St. Andrew’s Novena begins every year on November 30 and ends on Christmas Eve, December 24. It is prayed 15 times daily for 25 days. Below is a contemplative approach to this prayer. Pray for the gift of desire to change, and change will come!)
Anticipation: Preparing for the moment…
Grace desired: An intimate knowledge of the Lord, Who has become man for me, that I may love Him more and follow Him more closely.
As the world goes on unnoticing their Creator in their midst, God the Father continues to sustain them in every moment while God the Son permits Himself to exist in the most vulnerable state: that as infant in the womb. God the Spirit is His breath moving through all of creation, and His Love sparking desire in their soul for Him.
St. Andrew’s Novena Prayer to Contemplate Christmas Eve:
Hail and Blessed be the hour and the moment
The hour that all of creation awaited its redeemer. Even for those people who did not know of the Hebrew God, their souls knew its Creator. Allow yourself to await Him too.
in which the Son of God was born of the Pure Virgin Mary,
Love itself deemed to take on our lowly human habit in order to redeem the world, to redeem you. Ask the Holy Spirit for the Gift of Understanding, to understand profoundly what this means to you.
at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold.
Compose yourself in that place and that moment. Into the cold, the barren, the forlorn, God comes. Feel the penetrating warmth of His Love.
In that hour vouchsafe, O Lord God to hear my prayers
Ask Him to bring you into that Trinitarian communion of Love, in that very hour that all of creation awaited Him, and that moment He illuminated the world.
and grant my desires (intentions)
We are capable of sinning against God but, as creatures, we are not capable of repairing the damage to our relationship with the Creator. Only He can reinstate the harmony of the cosmos. Allow Him to redeem your sins.
through our Savior Jesus Christ and his Blessed Mother. Amen.
Just be still with Him. And Her.
(Image and prayer taken from Something is different…Advent Meditations on the Gospel of Luke . Copyright 2024. Permission for use required)
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