Novena to St. James

OFRECIMIENTO DEL SANTO ROSARIO Novena to Saint James Ya por hoy Virgen Sagrada the Lesser Tu rosario hemos rezado Cuyas flores y fragancias

Causan al infierno enfado Recibe Virgen Sagrada Las frescas y hermosas rosas

Recíbelas olorosas Para que seas coronada. Saint James Los ángeles las engarcen Catholic Church

En una corona de oro 1071 Academy Drive Para que a su decoro Conway, SC 29526 A Ti sean presentadas………. Que tu Hijo las transforme En gracias abundantes Y con ellas colme POR QUE REZAR EL ROSARIO

A sus hijos caminantes. En el Rosario contemplamos a Cristo; Recurrimos a educarnos en la fe y en la esperanza en el mejor lugar para aprender: OFFERING OF THE HOLY ROSARY Desde su misma Madre. El Rosario nos fija en Cristo, en los hechos Sacred Virgin, Mary salvíficos de su vida, pasión, muerte y we have gratefully prayed your rosary resurrección. Es una escuela que nos hace cristianos. whose flowers and fragrances Es una oración para la paz, ya que consiste Cause the devil to anger. en la contemplación de Cristo, Príncipe de la Receive Holy Virgin Paz, el que es nuestra paz.

The fresh and beautiful roses Receive them sweetly scented WHY PRAY THE ROSARY For you to be crowned. May the angels set them In the Rosary we contemplate Christ; In a golden crown We resort to educating ourselves in faith and So that at their decorum hope in the best place to learn: To You it may be presented ………. From his own mother. May your Son transform them The Rosary fixes us in Christ, in the salvific In abundant graces And with them bless acts of his life, passion, death and his pilgrims on this earth. resurrection. Amen. It is a school that makes us Christians.

DAY 1: OFFERING OF THE ROSARY DAY 2: OFFERING THE ROSARY physical, psychological or moral harm to Let’s pray for the men of the community of their loved ones or to other people, because On the First Day of the Novena to Saint St. James. of their own sufferings, so that they receive James, let’s pray for the families of Saint adequate help and manage to break those James. Saint James, Apostle of the Lord, we offer chains that bind them.

you the mysteries of this Second day of the Amen. Saint James Apostle, Beloved patron, relative of Novena dedicated to you, and place in your the Holy Family, receive and accept all our hands the souls of all the men of this DAY 3. OFFERING THE ROSARY thoughts, words, and deeds; We ask you to community, which bears your name, and of Let’s pray for the women of the community intercede for all the families of this community the entire world. We ask you, just servant of of St. James. that gathers under your patronage, and for all God, to be a guide for them in this society, the families of the world. You who are “Column so threatened by immorality, so that they Saint James, just servant of the Lord, we of the Church,” and who found the balance in may be faithful to the truth of Jesus Christ offer you this third day of the novena in your times of great difficulty in a peaceful and our Lord, and that they bear witness to it name and with it the women of this tenacious way, obtain for all families a faith without fear of reprisal. Help them, through community of yours, and the women strengthened in the peace of Jesus Christ, and your intercession, so that God the Father throughout the world. We ask that you grant the grace to work together in the same spirit to may grant them the grace of a pure heart them joy in this time of trial. Intercede for safeguard the institution of the family, as God like that of Saint Joseph, the chaste husband them so that the Holy Spirit rekindles in their has willed it. Make her victorious from all the of our most holy Mother Mary, our spiritual hearts the living flame of love, which are his attacks she is undergoing today. Take it to Father and patron of the universal Church, seven gifts, especially the gift of Wisdom. fruition so that many vocations to consecrated accepting, respecting and loving their Guide them with your wisdom, beloved Saint life, sacramental marriage and the virginal life masculinity so that it may be integrally James, so that they may be an immaculate may flourish from it. We ask you, beloved Saint fruitful, in the society in which we live, in the gift of life, like our Blessed Mother, the James, and also the blessed Saint Joseph, and Church, and in the man created institutions, Virgin Mary. May they reflect the Father's our Blessed Mother Mary, to intercede before within the precepts that our Lord teaches us love as wives, as mothers, as daughters, as God our Lord to grant his grace through these in the Gospel. May they be other Saint sisters, as friends. Grant us, Holy Saint intercessions to all those families who are in Josephs for their families, their wives, their James, that, just as with your martyrdom conflict or who have great internal problems so children, their parents, rheir brothers, their you obtained the victory of faith in Jesus that they can find peace and harmony taking neighbor. You who have earned heaven, Christ, that we also triumph over the culture refuge in prayer and in the Eucharist. Amen. Saint James Martyr, intercede before God of death by propagating life, respecting it our Lord, to help those men who cause from conception to natural death. Intercede, beloved Saint James, for those women who DAY 5: OFFERING THE ROSARY DAY 6: OFFERING THE ROSARY have not known how to give life lovingly, so Let’s pray for the youth of the community of Let’s pray for all the consecrated men and that they receive the grace of the Holy Spirit St. James. women. in their hearts that makes them capable of Apostle Saint James, this fifth day of the appreciating the incalculable value of these Novena, we offer you the young people of Beloved Bishop of Jerusalem, Saint James. gifts that are the way to eternal life. Amen. our community, and of the whole world. We ask, by your example of fidelity and Intercede for them so that God the Father holiness with which you guided the early may grant them your virtue, your discipline DAY 4: OFFERING OF THE ROSARY Church of Christ, to intercede before God in prayer, in fidelity to the Truth. Do not Let’s pray for the children of the community the Father so that He continues granting allow them, wise Saint James, to be carried of St. James priests, deacons, consecrated men, and away by empty philosophies. Grant them to women religious, perseverance in faith, hope Most merciful Jesus, by the intercession of discover in your teachings the harmony of and love; May piety be increased in them your faithful servant, St. James, we bring to faith and good works in the project of their each day in the path of holiness. May their you all the Children of this community that salvation. That through obedience and the witness of a saintly life be a light to our feet. bears his name. They seek to be a part of gift of themselves to family and community, We ask you to intercede for all the priests, your holy church, to be blessed, welcomed they find the true joy of living. May God, deacons and consecrated persons who are in your grace through the sacraments of through your intercession, imprint in their going through a time of trial so that our Baptism, Reconciliation, Holy Eucharist, and heart the chastity and virginity of Saint Father of heaven may strengthen them and Confirmation. We ask that you guide them to Joseph and our Blessed Mother. Show help them to emerge victorious. Thank you, a profound love for the church, a joyful love them, pious James, the delights, and joy that heavenly Father, for the gift of the for prayer, and to live their faith in you, comes from consecrating life to the kingdom priesthood. Thank you for all the priests that leading a reverent life towards God their of God through a vocation to the priesthood, have offered themselves to the service of Father. May they feel your love for them in religious life, the virginal consecrated life, or your Holy Church. Amen. all that they do. We ask of you, our holy married life. We ask you dearly beloved Saint patron Saint James to intercede for all the James, to intercede for those young people children, so that they may experience the who are lost and who are contemplating an same joy you experienced in being loved by easy way out of their problems. May our Jesus. May they experience that same love prayers and your intercessions be a pleasant from their mother and father, siblings, and offering to God the Father so that he may from all members of the community through grant them a ray of light through his Word a testimony of joyful discipleship. Amen. and the witness of this community. Amen. DAY 7: OFFERING OF THE ROSARY DAY 8: OFFERING OF THE ROSARY DAY 9: OFFERING OF THE ROSARY Let’s pray for the spiritual growth of the Let’s pray for the workers. Let’s pray for the Staff at St James and lay community of Saint James. leaders. Merciful Jesus, as our essential workers are Most merciful Father, you always send holy being faithful to their job to meet the basic Most merciful Jesus, we offer you the good servants to your Church. You specially chose needs of all, we ask that you bless them and works of the Staff and lay leaders of St. Saint James to be an example of justice and their families. Give them health as they go James. Please, bless them and watch over holiness. We ask you, through his out to work every day and keep their families them as they help propagate your Kingdom intercession, to help us keep the spirit of safe from contagion. We also ask you, on earth, by serving our catholic family’s your sacrificial love alive, and through that Father, through the intercession of our faith daily through everything they do. Grant same spirit, to grow in our communal love beloved Saint James, for his merits obtained your sanctifying grace on them as they as community. May we value the greatness by his fidelity to justice and truth, to keep all profess your love and sacrifice through their of your love and grow in it through the workers free from all anxiety, frustration, testimony of faith. St. James, we appeal to Sunday or daily Mass, the prayer of the and discouragement; give them strength, your faithfulness to Jesus, your Master, in Liturgy of the Hours, the daily prayer of the confidence, and faith in their daily work. We asking you to intercede for the staff and lay rosary, the weekly Eucharistic adoration, the also recur to you, Saint Joseph the Worker, leaders of the church, so that they may prayer of the crown to the Divine Mercy the to intercede before the Father and obtain for follow your example of fidelity to Jesus first Friday of the month. During these times us the help we need to help those who have Christ. We ask this to the Father, through of the Pandemic, we need your grace to help lost their jobs in this time of crisis. We ask you, most merciful Jesus, and through the those that have left your church to know that this through Christ our Lord. Amen. intercession of our patron Saint James. you have always been with them. Amen. Help them to regain faith in you, the church, the family, and their community. We ask this through your faithful servant Saint James, and through your Son Jesus Christ. Amen.