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Novena in Preparation for the Feast of the Annunciation – (Beginning March 16)

Novena in Preparation for the Feast of the Annunciation
✞ Veni Sancte Spiritus
🕊 Veni Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. 🕊 Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.
[℣.] Emitte Spiritum tuum, et creabuntur. [℣.] Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created.
[℟.] Et renovabis faciem terrae. [℟.] And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Oremus
 Let us pray
Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de ejus semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
[℟.] Amen.

O God, Who hast instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant that by the same Spirit we may be always truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation, through Christ our Lord.
[℟.] Amen.

The Feast of the Annunciation: March 25

DAY 1: I venerate and I admire thee, most holy Virgin Mary, as the humblest of all the creatures of GOD in the very day of thy Annunciation, when GOD himself exalted thee to the most sublime dignity of His own Mother. O mighty Virgin, enable me, wretched sinner that I am, to know the depths of my own nothingness, and at once with all my heart to humble myself before all men.
Ave Maria.

DAY 2: Mary, most holy Virgin, when thou wast saluted by Gabriel the archangel, and the message from GOD was conveyed to thee, and thou wast exalted by GOD above all the choirs of the angels, then thou didst confess thyself the handmaid of the LORD. O, obtain for me true humility and angelic purity, enabling me so to live on earth that I may ever be worthy of the blessing of GOD
Ave Maria.

DAY 3: O Virgin ever blest, I rejoice with thee because by thy sole fiat, uttered by thee so lowlily, thou didst draw down from the bosom of the Eternal FATHER the Divine Word into thine own pure bosom. Draw, then, ever my heart to GOD; and with GOD draw grace into my heart, that I may ever bless thy Fiat (Be it done), and cry with devotion, “O mighty Fiat! O efficacious Fiat! O Fiat be venerated above all Fiats.” (St. Thom. de Villan.)
Ave Maria.

DAY 4: O Virgin Mary, on the day of thy Annunciation thou wast found by Gabriel the archangel on the watch, quick to do God’s will, and correspond with the desires of the Most holy Trinity for the redemption of man, waiting thy assent in order to redeem the world. Enable me in every good and bad fortune to turn to GOD with resignation and say, Be it unto me according to Thy word.
Ave Maria.

DAY 5: Most holy Mary, I well understand that thy obedience made the union between thy GOD and thee more intimate than shall ever again be possible for any other creature. I am confounded to see how sin hath separated me from GOD. Help me, then, kind Mother, truly to do penance for my sins, that thy own loving Jesus may yet once more live in me and I in Him.
Ave Maria.

DAY 6: Most holy Mary, thou wast troubled by reason of thy modesty when Gabriel the archangel stood be fore thee in thy house; but I, when I come before thee, am troubled because of my great pride; wherefore do thou, in thy incomparable humility, “which brought forth GOD for men, reopened Paradise, and let the captive souls go free from hell beneath,” draw me, I pray thee, out of the deep pit of my sins, and enable me to save my soul.
Ave Maria.

DAY 7: Most holy Virgin, though I have an unhallowed tongue, 1 have the boldness to salute thee all hours of the day: “Hail, hail, Mary, full of grace.” I pray thee, from my heart, to replenish my soul with a little of that grace wherewith the HOLY GHOST, when he overshadowed thee, filled thee to the full.
Ave Maria.

DAY 8: Most holy Mary, I know by faith that the great GOD who has been ever with thee from thy Conception, is, by his Incarnation in thy purest womb, made still more closely one with thee; make it thy care, I pray thee, that I may ever be one heart and soul with that same dear LORD JESUS by means of His sanctifying grace.
Ave Maria.

DAY 9: Most holy Mary, pour out upon my heart and soul the heavenly blessing, as thou thyself wast ever blest of GOD among all women; for I have this sure hope, that if, my dear Mother, thou shalt bless me while I live, then when I die I shall be blest of GOD in the everlasting glory of heaven.
Ave Maria.

Then the Litanies.

Then the Angelus

To all faithful Christians who, in private or public, in church or in their own houses, shall keep any of the following Novenas, in preparation for the principal feasts of most holy Mary, Pope Pius VII., at the prayer of several holy persons, granted, by Rescripts issued through his Eminence the Cardinal-Vicar, Aug. 4 and Nov. 24, 1808, and Jan. 11, 1800 (all of which are kept in the Segretaria of the Vicariate) –
i. An indulgence of 300 days, daily.
ii. A plenary indulgence to all who shall assist at these Novenas every day, and who shall afterwards, either on the Feast-day itself, to which each Novena respectively has reference, or on some one day in its Octave, after Confession and Communion, pray to our Lord and to the Blessed Virgin according to the pious intention of the Sovereign Pontiff.

Source: THE RACCOLTA (Or Collection of Indulgenced Prayers & Good Works)

Sacramentals
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