The Novena begins on December 16 and ends on December 24.
The countdown to receive the baby Jesus in the Christmas it is one of the strongest Catholic traditions of the time. Every December 16, believers gather to start the Christmas Evewhich lasts until December 24.
For nine days, Catholics prepare their hearts for the arrival of Jesus Christ, with songs, prayers and sharing prayers as a family or in the community. The fifth day of the Novena is celebrated this year on Tuesday, December 20 and, according to the ACIPrensa portal, it is the date on which “God grants us all the gift of serene dialogue.”
Guayaquil will live a Christmas novena and will have artistic activities
prayer to start
Benign God of infinite charity that you have loved us so much and that you gave us in your Son the best garment of your love, so that, incarnated and made our brother in the bowels of the Virgin, he would 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 to love each other as brothers. Grant us, Lord, your help to be able to do it. We ask that this Christmas, a festival of peace and joy, be an encouragement for our community, so that, living as brothers, we may seek more and more the paths of truth, justice, love and peace. Amen.
Our father
prayer for the family
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 grudges because You give us forgiveness. Let there be no abandonment because you are with us. We know march towards you in your daily life. May every morning dawn another day of dedication and sacrifice. Every night finds us with more love. Make Lord with our lives, that you wanted to unite, a page full of you. Do Lord of our children what you long for, help us educate them, guide them on 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
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 parties, which gather us around the manger where your Son was born, also unite us in love, make us forget the offenses and give us the simplicity to recognize the mistakes we have made.
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 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 a continuous effort. Help children understand and appreciate the selfless efforts of their parents. Saint Joseph, model of husbands and fathers, intercedes for us. Amen.
Our father
meditation of the day
Fifth day dedicated to DIALOGUE.
The entire Bible is a loving and salvific dialogue of God with men. A dialogue that leads to its culmination and fullness when the word of God, who is his Son, becomes flesh, becomes man, as Saint John narrates in the first chapter of his gospel.
From God supported in sincerity, strengthened in respect and enriched by understanding, is the one we need in all our relationships.
A dialogue in which daily “we clothe ourselves in mercy, goodness, humility, meekness and patience”. Colossians 3, 12.
The serene dialogue that springs from sincere love and a peaceful soul is the best bonus we can give ourselves in December. This is how we prevent our homes from being empty places of affection in which we are dispersed as strangers under the same roof.
God grants us all the gift of communicating without offenses, without judgments, without arrogance, with respect and empathy, which generates acceptance and mutual acceptance.
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 certain that the God of heaven and earth is our Father, that you, Divine Child, are our Brother.
May this meeting next to your manger increase our faith in your goodness, commit us to truly live as brothers, give us courage to kill hatred and sow justice and peace. Oh Divine Child, teach us to understand that where there is love and justice, you are there and there is also Christmas. Amen.
Glory to the Father
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