It’s up to you, and whatever you choose to do is okay. You can either: 1) skip the day you missed altogether, 2) say two of the daily prayers in one day to catch up, or 3) say the prayer of the day you missed and just be one day behind everybody else. That’s okay, it happens! If you a miss a day, you can do one of a few things… Nonetheless, Jesus reminds us in the Gospel to be persistent in prayer and a novena is a great aid in doing just that! What if I miss a day? Any so-called novena prayer circulating around that contains guaranteed results, and threatening misfortune for those who fail to devote themselves to it is merely a chain-letter these should be ignored. “Thy will be done” is the proper posture of all Christian prayer. This means that whatever good intentions we pray for, we must accept the fact that God knows what’s best for us, whether we understand His divine intention or not. He is not a genie in a bottle, but rather He is a loving Father in heaven. God controls the universe and we certainly do not control God. Novenas should not be seen as magical incantations that guarantee desired results.

If they are, we will tell you in our e-mails. It is not necessary to pray at the same time every day (although you can), or to fast, or to pray the rosary in addition to the novena however, you can still do all of these things in addition to praying, but they are not required. We will also send you an e-mail on the feast day or last day of the novena, as well as share answered prayers with you from other people in the community.Īll you need to do is to say the daily prayers with a sincere heart. If you sign up here, we will send you the announcement for each novena, a reminder, and the daily prayers for the 9 days of the novena. Thus, the novena is an imitation of the Lord’s command to the Apostles when they prayed for 9 days in anticipation of the coming of the Holy Spirit. This pattern of 9 days of prayer is the basis the novenas we pray today. This is when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples as “tongues of fire” (Acts 2:1-4). These nine days of constant prayer by the Apostles at the direction of Jesus led up to Pentecost. Jesus told His disciples to pray together after His ascension into heaven, so they went to an upper room along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, (Acts 1:14) and joined constantly in prayer for nine days. Novenas are an ancient tradition that goes back to the days of the Apostles. The Saint Jude Novena, for example, is prayed to ask Saint Jude to intercede on behalf of a request that seems especially dire. Novenas are often used to ask specific saints to pray for us. A novena is made up of nine days of prayer and meditation usually to ask God for special prayer requests or petitions. Jude Thaddeus, in all the world and for all Eternity.The word novena is taken from “novem,” the Latin word for nine. May the most Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised and glorified now and forever. May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, and loved in all the tabernacles until the end of time.

Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor granted me by God and to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you. and that I may praise God with you and all the saints forever. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly. Intercede with God for me that He bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of difficult cases, of things almost despaired of, Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Traditionally, a novena included praying, fasting, and meditating. A novena is the reciting of powerful prayers and devotions for a special request over nine consecutive days.

Novena for special request