{"id":18108,"date":"2016-11-28T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2016-12-10T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T01:18:54","slug":"the-saint-andrew-christmas-novena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=18108","title":{"rendered":"The Saint Andrew Christmas Novena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13438\" src=\"http:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-3-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"M_Christmas Novena St Anthony\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-3-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/photo-3.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Saint Andrew Christmas Novena<br \/>\nis often called simply the &#8220;Christmas Anticipation Prayer,&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">it is prayed 15 times every day from the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle (November 30) until Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It is addressed to God Himself, asking Him to grant our request in honor of the birth of His Son at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The prayer is prayed 15 times each day, all at once; or divide up the recitation as necessary (perhaps five times at each meal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A very good way to help focus the attention of your children on the Advent Season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The Saint Andrew Christmas Novena<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Hail and blessed be the hour and moment<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">in which the Son of God<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">was born of the Most Pure Virgin Mary,<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1164_1208\" tabindex=\"0\">at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In that hour, vouchsafe, O my God!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to hear my prayer and grant my desires,<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and of His Blessed Mother.&#8221;\u00a0<b>Amen.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Andrew Christmas Novena is often called simply the &#8220;Christmas Anticipation Prayer,&#8221; it is prayed 15 times every day from the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle (November 30) until Christmas. It is addressed to God Himself, asking Him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/?p=18108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18112,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions\/18112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luisapiccarreta.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}