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I used to be a excessive schooler when the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown struck. All of a sudden, there have been no extra days on the park with my homeschool group, no extra choir or guitar classes, no in-person Mass. By that point, everybody on the planet had found Zoom. My household determined to place this up-and-coming know-how to a particular use: we fashioned a Zoom-based prayer group with our homeschool neighborhood and dedicated to praying a little-known gem, the 54-Day Rosary Novena.
We first heard of the novena from a parish priest shortly earlier than lockdown. My household was going via a tough time, and the priest recommended the novena to us.
My household used to wish the Rosary day by day earlier than falling out of the behavior. Somehow, after years of not praying the Rosary frequently, I had began dreading it. Now, in the course of the pandemic, I used to be committing to 54 days of praying the Rosary, plus further meditations and prayers? As a household, we’d tried and failed to complete the novena earlier than. Could we do it this time? I wasn’t certain I wished to.
But I’m so grateful we did.
By the time the pandemic was over, we’d prayed the 54-day novena with our homeschool neighborhood not as soon as, however a number of instances! Praying the novena opened up the area for grace to movement in our lives.
What is the 54-Day Rosary Novena?
Fortuna Agrelli was a younger lady who was mortally ailing in 1884, praying for a miracle.
Georgette Bechara tells the story on ChurchPop: “For 13 months, the younger Fortuna endured immense struggling and ache. Her medical doctors gave up, deeming it a hopeless case. But clinging on to their final ray of hope, the dying lady and her household started a novena of Rosaries, desperately imploring Our Lady’s intersession.”
Then, amazingly, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary appeared to Fortuna, saying, “Whosoever needs to acquire favors from me ought to make three novenas of the prayers of the Rosary in petition and three novenas in thanksgiving.”
Fortuna recovered from her sickness.
Although not in so dramatic a fashion, I’ve personally witnessed miracles that occur after we pray this novena, as Our Lady requested. The 54-Day Rosary Novena is such a wealthy type of prayer as a result of it entails two sorts: 27 days of petition and 27 days of thanksgiving. You are each praying for and trusting that God will reply your prayer(s), even when the reply doesn’t come instantly.
During these 54 days, you can be biking via the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries, with together with particular meditations.
To provide you with a time estimate: as soon as our prayer group obtained into the groove of claiming this particular novena, it took not more than 25 minutes to finish every day.
The Power of Community Prayer
As I discussed, my household had by no means been capable of end the novena earlier than we determined to do it as a homeschool group. What my household had been unable to perform on our personal, we achieved as a neighborhood.
My primary suggestion for finishing the novena is to do it as a bunch. Not solely did we preserve one another accountable, however we grew in our friendships and supported one another in making an attempt instances. Getting on the Zoom assembly to wish at 3:00 p.m. day by day established a peaceable rhythm to our lives.
For me, I skilled a lot therapeutic. Gradually, I grew to like praying the Rosary once more. Our household bonds grew stronger. The routine of prayer allowed our neighborhood to blossom, even over Zoom. Prayers have been answered in extraordinary methods. Even if some prayers appear to be left unanswered for now, peace crammed our hearts.
I problem you to collect your loved ones and buddies round and pray the 54-Day Rosary Novena collectively. Hopefully, like me, you will discover your self rising in your religion and friendships and can achieve a peace amidst your loopy each day routine.
To Access the 54-Day Rosary Novena Prayers
For those that get pleasure from utilizing Hallow, they’ve a model that features a nice intro to the novena together with the prayers (nevertheless, the language of the prayers on this model is tougher, in my view). My household and I loved utilizing this PDF model of the novena.
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