The month of November is dedicated to the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
Our Step-by-Step Rosary community partner, PrayRosary.info offers our Step-by-Step Rosary structure in English as our website focuses on offering the Rosary in several local languages.
We, the Step-by-Step Rosary soldiers of Christ in the service of our Lady, continue praying the nine-months novena created and requested by His Eminence, Cardinal Leo Burke who calls all the faithful to join him in praying a nine-months novena seeking Mary’s intercession.
It began on March 12, 2024, and it is culminating on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12.
If the family prays together, it remains together!
The traditional 40-days St. Martin Fast commence on Nov. 12 and we believe it is a wonderful way to make a sacrifice and offer our fasting leading up to Dec. 20, which is followed by four days of abstinence up to Christmas Eve.
We commenced this fasting period in 2019, as a counter-attack to the Amazon synod and it is still a learning curve of how to improve our way of fasting. Our aim is to push ourself to improve over the years. It is better to reduce each failure to be able to continue.
Here is our suggestion of how to structure your fasting period. This is only our suggestion of how we do it.
The 20-days Advent Fast starts after the first Advent Sunday.
The St. Andrew Fast commence on Dec. 1.
Both of the above fasts are sort of half-way of the St. Martin Fast, which gives us an opportunity to "kick-start" before the St. Andrew Fast and make the Advent/St Andrew fast a bit more strickt than the first 20 days of the St. Martin Fast.
The Ember days in December is on Dec. 18, 20 and 21 - which is wonderful because we then can extend the abstinence from the Ember days to lead us on to abstinence up to Christmas Eve, which is supposed to bea day of (full) fast and abstinence.
Let us all pray that every Catholic in our own country, return to Our Lady!
“For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.
This is a statement that I would gladly sign with my blood.”
Twenty-fifth Rose,St. Louis de Montfort
PRAYER
of the nine-month novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe
March 12 - Dec 12, 2024
O Virgin Mother of God, we fly to your protection and beg your intercession against the darkness and sin which ever more envelop the world and menace the Church. Your Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ, gave you to us as our mother as He died on the Cross for our salvation.
So too, in 1531, when darkness and sin beset us, He sent you, as Our Lady of Guadalupe, on Tepeyac to lead us to Him Who alone is our light and our salvation.
Through your apparitions on Tepeyac and your abiding presence with us on the miraculous mantle of your messenger, Saint Juan Diego, millions of souls converted to faith in your Divine Son. Through this novena and our consecration to you, we humbly implore your intercession for our daily conversion of life to Him and the conversion of millions more who do not yet believe in Him. In our homes and in our nation, lead us to Him Who alone wins the victory over sin and darkness in us and in the world.
Unite our hearts to your Immaculate Heart so that they may find their true and lasting home in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ever guide us along the pilgrimage of life to our eternal home with Him. So may our hearts, one with yours, always trust in God's promise of salvation, in His never-failing mercy toward all who turn to Him with a humble and contrite heart. Through this novena and our consecration to you, O Virgin of Guadalupe, lead all souls in America and throughout the world to your Divine Son in Whose name we pray.
Amen.
March, 2024
+ Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
Here follows our Step-by-Step community novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The above link takes you to the novena, and here below follows the base prayers of the novena.
+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Introduction Prayer
Remember, O most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, that in your heavenly apparitions on the mount of Tepeyac, you promised to show your compassion and pity towards all who, loving and trusting you, seek your help and call upon you in their necessities and afflictions. You promised to hear our supplications, to dry our tears, and to give us consolation and relief.
Memorare
Never has it been known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly to you, O Mary, ever-Virgin Mother of the true God! Though grieving under the weight of our sins, we come to prostrate ourselves before you. We fully trust that, standing beneath your shadow and protection, nothing will trouble or afflict us, nor do we need to fear illness or misfortune, or any other sorrow.
Prayer
O Virgin of Guadalupe, you want to remain with us through your admirable Image, you who are our Mother, our health, and our life. Placing ourselves beneath your maternal gaze, and having recourse to you in all our necessities, we need do nothing more.
O Holy Mother of God, despise not our petitions, but in your mercy hear and answer us. Amen.
Daily Prayer
Dearest Lady of Guadalupe,
fruitful Mother of holiness,
teach me your ways of gentleness and strength.
Hear my humble prayer offered with heartfelt confidence to beg this favor _______
(mention your intention here)
Concluding Prayers:
Our father x 1
Hail Mary x 1
Glory x 1
+ In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
PRAYER ACCORDING TO THE POPES INTENTION
The Raccolta, ed. 1910, #23.
There are people who, today, have difficulties of praying for the Popes intentions - but - few knows of what the intentions are:
"The Pope’s intention always includes the following objects:
i. The progress of the Faith and triumph of the Church.
ii. Peace and union among Christian Princes and Rulers.
iii. The conversion of sinners.
iv. The uprooting of heresy.
These intentions may be fittingly recalled and prayed for after Communion, or at the visit;
but a general intention of praying according to the mind of the Pope is sufficient ; and any prayers may be used which are not already of obligation, e.g., the Little Hours of a priests Office.
(July 12, 1847; May 29, 1841.)"
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