In celebration of the of our founder, Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan, on Saturday, May 15th, 2021, in Rome, , we invite you to pray this nine-day Novena of Tuesdays. Pray and reflect as noted on reverse side.

Conclude reflections with this prayer after May 15th. Prayer through the intercession of Blessed Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan

O God of goodness and kindness, we thank You for inspiring Blessed Francis Mary of the Cross The day after Jordan with a profound love and knowledge of our Novena You, the one true God and Jesus Christ, whom concludes, You have sent to be our Divine Savior. July 21, 2021, is the anniversary We implore the fire of Your Spirit to enflame of Fr. Jordan’s all the baptized to be apostles in mission ordination, for the salvation of all people everywhere. and will be his annual feast day We invoke the intercession of Blessed Francis in the Catholic Jordan, for our own personal intention of… liturgical [add your intention here] calendar. May he accompany us at significant and challenging moments in our lives.

And if it be Your will, may he be recognized as a persevering and faithful whose apostolic life manifested Your strength shining through his human weakness.

We pray with trust in Your Divine Providence. Amen. Tuesday Novena ~ In Celebration of the Beatification of Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan Conclude each day’s reflection with the prayer on reverse side May 25, 2021 of character; despite disagreeable July 6, 2021 Striving for Holiness temperaments; despite want of tact; For Faith and Confidence in God Fr. Francis was serious about striving despite moral failings.” He spoke about Fr. Jordan believed with unshakable for holiness. He was filled with an meekness and humility, friendliness, faith in divine providence and in intense desire to become holy, and he and gratitude. the wise and loving hand of God. encouraged his sons and daughters to Verse: O God, our loving Father, He humbly accepted whatever the strive earnestly for holiness. you have revealed the mystery of providence of God sent him. Childlike Verse: God, our Father, we praise you everlasting life in your son Jesus. faith in the heavenly Father was like for the goodness and kindness we see Response: Grant that through the sunshine diffused over the life of Father in your son Jesus apostolic ministry of Salvatorians all Francis. Response: Help us to follow our Savior may come to know you, the one true Verse: God, our Father, we have and witness to him more effectively God, and Jesus Christ whom you have the example of your servant Father in the world of today. sent. Francis Jordan, and his unshakable June 1, 2021 June 22, 2021 trust in your divine providence, For the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Calling Upon the Intercession of Response: Help us to see your Fr. Francis had a deep devotion to the Fr. Jordan was a true son of hand even in the most difficult Holy Spirit. In fervent prayer he begged Mary, under a long list of , the most circumstances of our lives. for himself and for his followers the important of which was Mother; Queen July 13, 2021 gifts of the Holy Spirit. of Heaven, Queen of the Apostles, For a Greater Spirit of Prayer Verse: Jesus Christ, Savior of Immaculate Conception, Sorrowful Fr. Jordan’s interior life and apostolic the World, you never cease to call Mother, and Mother of the Savior. He zeal were built upon prayer. These were men and women to be apostles in the entrusted the Society to her protection, foundation pillars of the Societies he world so that all may find salvation in along with that of St. Joseph, St. Michael, founded. He repeatedly encouraged his you. and all the holy apostles. followers to become persons of fervent Response: We pray that the Verse: Divine Savior, you give us the prayer. He literally stormed heaven and may recognize through beatification example of Mary united in prayer with wrestled with God. the charism of our founder, Father the apostles. Verse: Divine Savior, you called Father Jordan Response: Grant that we may be a Francis Jordan through your Spirit June 8, 2021 living community of prayer full of to follow you in being an apostolic For Faithfulness in the Little Things trust and ever open to the working of model of missionary and a person of The Gospel Counsel~ Poverty he your Holy Spirit. prayer, loved and urged upon his confreres June 29, 2021 Response: Grant that we too can be as their mother; celibate chastity was For a Spirit of Penance & Devotion to prayerful missionaries in our own assumed; the school of obedience was the Cross immediate world. an education in surrender to the will of Fr. Jordan was conscious of his and July 20, 2021 God. the world’s weakness. Penance was For a Zeal for Souls Verse: O Lord, you have raised up in necessary. He accepted fatiguing labors, Fr. Jordan was inflamed with zeal for Father Francis Jordan a zealous and hardships, sufferings and the Cross. souls, was conscious of all those who faithful servant to proclaim your Taking the Francis Mary of the had not heard of Jesus as their Savior Gospel of love. Cross was not for him a mere ritual. and would remain restless until they Response: Grant us a spirit of selfless He took his name from St. Francis, the heard about Him. dedication in service of others. bearer of the stigmata, from the Cross, Verse: Lord Jesus Christ, you desire June 15, 2021 and from Mary. that all come to know and follow you For Unity, Love & Peace in Verse: Divine Savior, you have chosen in the spirit of your Gospel Community to walk the path of the cross for the Response: Help us to realize with Through concord, small undertakings salvation of the whole world, Father Francis Jordan that in our thrive; through discord, the greatest Response: Give us the grace to follow poverty and human weakness, we go-to pieces. Therefore, have charity you on the way of the cross. belong to you despite human frailty; despite faults www.SALVATORIANS.com