Monthly Novena for the 25th Day A Simple Family Devotion Honoring the Birth of Jesus

 


🕊️ Monthly Novena for the 25th Day

A Simple Family Devotion Honoring the Birth of Jesus
From the Raccolta

💡 What Is This Novena?

This is a short, meaningful prayer devotion that helps us remember the birth of Jesus—not just at Christmas, but every month on the 25th. It’s perfect for families, including those with small children, and can be prayed at home in just a few minutes each day.

It’s a way to keep the light of Christ alive in our homes all year long.

📅 When to Pray

·         Start on the 16th of each month

·         Pray daily through the 24th

·         Celebrate Jesus on the 25th with joy and thanksgiving

You can pray together at the dinner table, before bedtime, or during a quiet moment in the day.

🙏 Why It Matters

·         Keeps Jesus at the center of family life

·         Teaches children the story of Christ’s birth in gentle, daily steps

·         Builds a rhythm of prayer, gratitude, and hope

·         Helps us prepare spiritually for Christmas every month

🛐 Daily Novena Structure (16th–24th)

Each day, pray the five offerings below. After each offering, say the Gloria Patri:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

✨ The Five Offerings

1.       The Birth of Jesus
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to Thy honour and glory, and for my own salvation, and for the salvation of all the world, the mystery of the Birth of our Divine SAVIOUR.
Gloria Patri

2.       Mary and Joseph’s Journey to Bethlehem
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to Thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the sufferings of the most holy Virgin and of St Joseph in that long and weary journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem…
Gloria Patri

3.       The Stable and the Infant Jesus
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to Thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the stable where JESUS was born, the hard straw which served Him for a bed…
Gloria Patri

4.       The Circumcision and First Shedding of Blood
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to Thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the pain which the divine Child JESUS felt…
Gloria Patri

5.       The Virtues of the Child Jesus
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to Thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the humility, mortification, patience, charity, and all the virtues of the Child JESUS…
Gloria Patri

📖 Versicle & Response

V/. The Word was made flesh.
R/. And dwelt among us.

🙏 Closing Prayer

O GOD, whose only-begotten SON was made manifest to us in the substance of our flesh; grant, we beseech Thee, that our souls may be inwardly renewed through Him, whom our eyes have seen externally like unto ourselves. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee for ever and ever. Amen.

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