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Novena: a Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History Novena: A Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History In order to move forward, we must look backwards. [Sankofa] Saturday, October 24 – Sunday, November 1 From the West African proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means 'Go back and get it. ' The symbol of Sankofa is a bird moving forward but with its head turned backwards, in effect going forward yet remaining conscious of the past and the wisdom contained there. Visually and symbolically, “Sankofa” is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth. This ties with our motto: “In order to understand our present and ensure our future, we must know our past.” Saturday, October 24, 2020 – Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Novena: A Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati In order to move forward, we must look backwards. [Sankofa] From the proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means 'Go back and get it. ' The symbol of Sankofa is a bird moving forward but with its head turned backwards, in effect going forward yet remaining conscious of the past and the wisdom contained there. Visually and symbolically, “Sankofa” is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth. This ties with our motto: “In order to understand our present and ensure our future, we must know our past.” Silent Prayer Confiteor I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; Therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. Psalm 122 – Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. Ephesians 4: 7 – 16 This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati Brothers and sisters: Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore, it says: He ascended on high and took prisoners captive; he gave gifts to men. What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth? The one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some as Apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood to the extent of the full stature of Christ, so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming. Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole Body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the Body’s growth and builds itself up in love. Prayer: O my God, I love You above all things with my whole heart and soul, because You are good and worthy of all love. This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati I love my neighbor as myself for love of You. I forgive all who have injured me, and I ask pardon for all whom I have injured. Sunday, October 25, 2020 – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Novena: A Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History In order to move forward, we must look backwards. [Sankofa] From the proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means 'Go back and get it. ' The symbol of Sankofa is a bird moving forward but with its head turned backwards, in effect going This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati forward yet remaining conscious of the past and the wisdom contained there. Visually and symbolically, “Sankofa” is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth. This ties with our motto: “In order to understand our present and ensure our future, we must know our past.” Silent Prayer Confiteor I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; Therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. Psalm 18 – I love you, Lord, my strength. Exodus 22: 20 - 26 Thus says the LORD: "You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans. "If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate." Prayer: O my God, I love You above all things with my whole heart and soul, because You are good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for love of You. I forgive all who have injured me, and I ask pardon for all whom I have injured. Monday, October 26, 2020 – Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Novena: A Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History In order to move forward, we must look backwards. [Sankofa] From the proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means 'Go back and get it. ' The symbol of Sankofa is a bird moving forward but with its head turned backwards, in effect going forward yet remaining conscious of the past and the wisdom contained there. Visually and symbolically, “Sankofa” is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati (symbolizing the future) in its mouth. This ties with our motto: “In order to understand our present and ensure our future, we must know our past.” Silent Prayer Confiteor I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; Therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. Psalm 1 – Behave like God as his very dear children. Ephesians 4: 32 – 5: 8 Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. So do not be associated with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light. Prayer: O my God, I love You above all things with my whole heart and soul, because You are good and worthy of all love. I love my neighbor as myself for love of You. I forgive all who have injured me, and I ask pardon for all whom I have injured. This Novena Prayer Is For Private Use Only – Office of African American Pastoral Ministries – Archdiocese of Cincinnati Tuesday, October 27, 2020 – Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Novena: A Journey Toward Holiness Celebrating Black Catholic History In order to move forward, we must look backwards. [Sankofa] From the proverb comes the word Sankofa, which means 'Go back and get it.
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