Third day – Strenna Novena – Christmas: complete with prayers, joys, considerations and more

The Christmas novenas are a tradition in many families. They consist of a series of prayers and songs that are done for nine days, starting on December 16 and ending on the 24th.

Every day is dedicated to meditate on the birth of Jesus, the hope and love it brings. This practice encourages family unity and spiritual reflection, allowing people to prepare in a special way for the celebration of the birth of the Savior.

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The novenas, in addition to having a religious meaning, are also a time to share with loved ones, enjoy songs, food and anecdotes. In this case, December 18 corresponds to the third day of the ninthand below, we will give you the step by step so that you can carry it out at home.

Third day of the Novena of Strenna – Christmas

In the name of father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

• Prayer for every day

“Most Benign God of infinite charity, who loved men so muchthat you gave them in your son the pledge of your love, so that, made man in the womb of a Virgin, he would be born in a manger for our health and remedy; I, on behalf of all mortals, give you infinite thanks for such a sovereign benefit. In return from him I offer the poverty, humility and other virtues of your humanized sonbegging you for his divine merits, for the discomforts in which he was born and for the tender tears he shed in the manger, to prepare our hearts with profound humility, with burning love, with such contempt for everything earthly, so that the newborn Jesus may have in them his cradle and dwells eternally. Amen. (Glory to the Father is prayed three times).”

• Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

“Sovereign Mary, for your great virtues and especially for your humility, you deserved that a true God chose you as his mother, I beg you that you yourself prepare and dispose my soul and that of all those who at this time would make this novena, for the spiritual birth of your beloved son. Oh sweetest mother! Communicate to me something of the deep recollection and divine tenderness with which you awaited him.so that you make us less unworthy of seeing him, loving him and adoring him for all eternity. Amen. (The Hail Mary is prayed three times).”

“Oh Blessed Joseph, husband of Mary and adoptive father of Jesus! I give infinite thanks to God because he chose you for such sovereign mysteries and adorned you with all the gifts provided for such excellent greatness. I beg you, for the love you had for the Divine Child, embrace me in fervent desire to see Him. and receive him sacramentally, while in his divine essence I see him and enjoy him in heaven. Amen”. (An Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be are prayed).”

• Prayer to the Child Jesus

“Remember, oh sweetest Child Jesus!, that you said to the venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacramentand in his person to all your devotees, these very consoling words for our poor overwhelmed and suffering humanity: “Everything you want to ask, ask for the merits of my childhood and nothing will be denied you.” Full of confidence in you, oh Jesus, who are the same truth, we come to expose all our misery to you. Help us to lead a holy life, to achieve a blessed eternity. Grant us, through the infinite merits of your childhood, the grace of which we need so much. We give ourselves to you, oh omnipotent Child!, certain that our hope will not be frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, you will welcome and You will favorably dispatch our request. Amen”.

• Joys of the Novena of Strenna – Christmas
• Oh, supreme wisdom of the sovereign God, that to childish reach you lower yourself sacred! Oh, Divine Child, come to teach us the prudence that makes true wise men! Come to our…
• Oh, powerful Adonai, Moses speaking, from Israel to the people you gave the commands! Ah, come quickly to rescue us, and let a weak child show his arm strong! Come to our…
• Oh, sacred root of Joseph who on high presents your fragrant spikenard to the world! Sweetest Child who has been called Lily of the valley, Beautiful flower of the field. Come to our…
• Key of David that opens the closed doors of the royal palace to the exiled! Take us out, oh Child, with your white hand, from the sad prison that sin has carved! Come to our…
• Oh, light of the East, sun of eternal rays, may we see your splendor among the darkness! Such a precious child, the joy of a Christian, let the smile of your sweet lips shine. Come to our…
• Spotless mirror, holy of holies, unequaled image of the sovereign God! Erase our faults, save the exiled and in the form of a child, give the miserable protection! Come to our…
• King of the nations, Emmanuel illustrious, Israel’s longing Shepherd of the flock! Child who feeds with a gentle staff, now the surly sheep, now the meek lamb! Come to our…
• Let the heavens open and rain from above, beneficent dew like holy irrigation! Come beautiful Child, come human God! Shine, Star God! Sprout, flower of the field! Come to our…
• Come, Mary now protects her arms, so that her child may see her in near times! Come, now Joseph, with sacred longing, is preparing to obtain your sacred love! Come to our…
• Of the weak help, of the suffering, protection of the sad, light of the exiled! Life of my life, my adored owner, my constant friend, my divine brother! Come to our…
• Come before my eyes, in love with you! Kiss your plants now! Kiss your hands now! Prostrate on the ground, I extend my arms to you, and even more than my phrases, my tears speak to you! Come to our…
• Come our Savior for whom we sigh Come to our souls, come do not take so long!

Consideration for the third day of the Novena – December 18

This is how the Child had begun his incarnated life. Let us consider the glorious soul and the holy body he had taken, worshiping them deeply. Admiring in the first of all the soul of that Divine Childlet us consider in it the fullness of his sanctifying grace; that of his beatific science, by which from the first moment of his life he saw the divine essence more clearly than all the angels and read the past, the future, with all his arcane knowledge.

He never knew by voluntary acquisition anything that he did not know by infusion from the first moment of his being; but he adopted all the diseases of our nature to which he could worthily submiteven when they were not necessary for the great work that had to be accomplished.

Let us ask that his divine faculties make up for the weakness of ours and give them new energy; May his memory teach us to remember his benefits, his understanding to think of him, his willingness to do nothing but what he wants and in his service.

From the soul of the Child Jesus let us now move on to his body. That it was a world of wonders, a masterpiece from the hand of God. It was not, like ours, a hindrance to the soul: it was, on the contrary, a new element of holiness. He wanted that was small and weak like all children, and subject to all the discomforts of childhood, to become more like us and participate in our humiliations.

The Holy Spirit formed that divine little body with such delicacy and such capacity to feel that it could suffer to the point of excess to accomplish the great work of our redemption. The beauty of that body of the Divine Child was superior to anything ever imagined; The divine blood that began to circulate through his veins from the moment of incarnation is what washes away all the stains of the guilty world. Let us ask him to wash ours in the sacrament of penance, so that His Christmas day finds us purified, forgiven and ready to receive him with love and spiritual benefit.