Minnesota Knights of Columbus Advent Novena: Prepare Him Room

Join us for this Advent Novena starting Sunday, November 29thg, 2020 and continuing to December 24th

Each daily prayer includes two elements: a decade of the Holy Rosary, meditating on one joyful mystery each day, and concluding with the St. Andrew Christmas Novena prayer.

You may pray this Novena at a time of your choosing or pray it with us on the zoom meeting convened for this purpose every evening at 7:30 PM.

Here is the nightly zoom link:

https://zoom.us/j/91685133507?pwd=Q2RtaWFsajN2ZFIydFBFRCtMcWpPUT09

Participants are encouraged to pray the full St. Andrew Christmas Novena all through Advent. Our observance will only include 9 days of prayer.

Advent Novena

+ Pray the Apostles Creed
Announce the Joyful Mystery of the Day (see below)
Pray the Our Father
Pray 10 Hail Mary’s
Pray the Glory Be
Hail Holy Queen
Final Prayer
Advent Prayer

Mysteries by Day:

Day 1 – November 29: The Annunciation
Day 2 – November 30: The Visitation
Day 3 – December 1: The Nativity of Our Lord
Day 4 – December 2: The Presentation at the Temple
Day 5 – December 3: Finding the child Jesus in the Temple
Day 6 – December 4: The Annunciation
Day 7 – December 5: The Visitation
Day 8 – December 6: The Nativity of Our Lord
Day 9 – December 7: The Presentation at the Temple
Day 10 – December 8 to Day 26 – December 24) continue the sequence

(In the following prayers, the leader will say the parts in standard type, responses are in Italic type)

Apostles’ Creed: I believe in God, the Father almighty creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God, the Father almighty. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Our Father:
Our Father, who art in heaven hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary: Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners, Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory Be: 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 Hail, Holy Queen: Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! Our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus; O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

Pray for us O Holy Mother of God,

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Final Prayer: Let Us Pray:

O God, whose only begotten Son by His Life, Death, and Resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, Grant we beseech Thee that while meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may both imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ our Lord Amen.

St. Andrew Christmas Novena Prayer: Hail, and blessed be the hour and moment at which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary at a stable at midnight in Bethlehem in the piercing cold. At that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, to hear my prayers and grant my desires. (Mention your intentions here) Through Jesus Christ and His most Blessed Mother. Amen.