TODAY, March 12, 2024, is the official start of the 9-Month Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of the Americas. It’s, I believe, Cardinal Burke’s way of saying, “This is our Nineveh moment, let us repent and pray for mercy.”
The novena will end on December 12, the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with a consecration to Our Lady.
You can sign up for occasional messages and videos from Cardinal Burke, but all you really need is the Novena Prayer and you’re good to go. Say the following each day for the next 9 months (yes, the same time it takes to carry a baby to term!):
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.
If you’d like this as an audio file to listen to every day and/or to pray along with—here you go, I read it for you.
God bless you!
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Thank you for the reminder and the audiophile. I started and prayed along with you. I might as well keep it up! Thank you Shanara, and you have a beautiful voice to pray along with every day. Actually, you sound just like I pictured you would! 🤗❤️
I am uncertain how my email came into your presence, but I will nonetheless inject my two cents as God gives me utterance. Firstly, I am a protestant, one whose belief is base positively and absolutely from the Judeo-Christian Bible, I do not differ to any other ,but that creed. As it is written, Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved, and again, Joh_14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Anything and everything that suggest that we speak to dead saints, like Mary the Mother of Christ is Idolatry and Spiritualism and is on EVERY surface, preparing innocent souls to be cast into eternal hell.