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Christmas Eve The prayers, considerations and joys of this day
Hoy December 24 we have you on the ninth day of the Novenas. At MARCA Claro we want to accompany you in these days of reflection. They are days of happiness to share with your family and friends and here we bring you the prayers to follow the steps easily.
The Novena de Aguinaldos is a tradition that has been performed for hundreds of years at Christmas time to gather with family and friends in prayer and song. It is a custom that lasts the nine days before Christmas, with a prayer for each day that we show you below for this ninth day:
The night has completely closed in the fields of Bethlehem. Discarded by the men, and coming without shelter, Mara and Jos have left the inhospitable village and have taken refuge in a cave that was at the foot of the hill. The donkey that had served as her humble horse during the journey followed the Queen of the Angels, and in that cave they found a meek ox, probably left there by some of the walkers who had gone to seek lodging in the city.
The Divine Child, unknown to his rational creatures, is going to have to go to the irrational ones to warm the icy atmosphere of that winter night with their warm breath, and show him with this and with their humble attitude the respect and adoration that Bethlehem had denied him. The reddish lantern that Joseph holds in his hand dimly illuminates that poor enclosure, that straw-filled manger that is a prophetic figure of the wonders of the altar, and of the intimate and prodigious Eucharistic union that Jesus is to contract with the men. Mara is in prayer in the middle of the grotto, and thus the hours of that night full of mystery pass silently.
But midnight has arrived, and suddenly we see inside that manger, just before empty, the divine Child awaited, predicted, desired for four thousand years with ineffable longing. His Blessed Mother prostrates at his feet, in the transports of an adoration of which nothing can give an idea. Jos also approaches and pays him the homage with which he inaugurates his mysterious and imponderable office of adoptive father to the Redeemer of men. The multitude of angels that descend from the heavens to contemplate this unparalleled wonder, let their joy explode and vibrate in the air the harmonies of that Gloria in Excelsis, which is the echo of the adoration that takes place around the Most High, made perceptible. for an instant to the ears of the poor Earth. Summoned by them, the shepherds of the region come in droves to adore the newborn and present their humble offerings. The mysterious star of Jacob is already shining in the east, and the splendid caravan of the Magi is already setting out for Bethlehem, who in a few days will come to deposit gold, incense, and myrrh at the feet of the Divine Child. which are symbols of charity, adoration and mortification.
Oh adored Nio! We too, those of us who have made this novena to prepare for your Christmas day, want to offer you our poor adoration. You do not reject it! Come to our souls, come to our hearts full of love! Ignite in them the devotion to your holy childhood, not intermittently and only circumscribed at the time of your Christmas, but always and at all times; devotion that faithfully practiced and zealously propagated, leads us to eternal life, freeing us from sin and sowing all the Christian virtues.
Most blessed God of infinite charity, who so loved men, that 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 medicine; I, on behalf of all mortals, give you infinite thanks for such a sovereign benefit. In return I offer you the poverty, humility and other virtues of your humanized son, pleading with you for his divine merits, for the discomfort in which he was born and for the tender tears that he shed in the manger, that you dispose of our hearts with deep humility, with love on fire, with such contempt for all things earthly, so that the newborn Jesus may have his cradle in them and dwell forever. Amn. (Glory to the Father is prayed three times).
Sovereign Mara, because of your great virtues and especially because of your humility, you deserved that a whole God chose you as his mother, I beg you to prepare and dispose of my soul and that of all those who at this time made this novena, for the birth spiritual of your adored son. Oh sweet mother !, communicate to me something of the deep recollection and divine tenderness with which you awaited him, so that you make us less unworthy to see him, love him and adore him for all eternity. Amn. (The Avemara is prayed three times).
O most holy Joseph, husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus! Infinite thanks I give to God because He chose you for such sovereign mysteries and adorned you with all the gifts provided to such excellent greatness. I beg you, for the love you had for the Divine Child, you embrace me in fervent desire to see him and receive him sacramentally, while in his divine essence I see him and I enjoy him in heaven. Amn. (An Our Father, a Hail and a Gloria are said).
Remember, oh sweet Child Jesus, that you said to the venerable Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament, and in her person to all your devotees, these words so consoling for our poor, burdened and suffering humanity: “Whatever you want to ask, ask for the merits. of my childhood and nothing will be denied you “. Full of confidence in you, oh Jess !, that you are the same truth, we come to expose you all our misery. Help us to lead a holy life, to achieve a blissful eternity. Concede us for the infinite merits of your childhood, the grace of which we need so much. We entrust ourselves to you, O almighty Child, sure that we will not give up our hope frustrated, and that by virtue of your divine promise, you will welcome and send our plea favorably. Amn.
Sweet Jesus of mine, my adored child Come to our souls! Come don’t take so long!
Oh, supreme Wisdom of the sovereign God, that to infantile 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 that Moses speaking, from Israel to the people you gave the commands! Ah, come quickly to rescue us, and may a weak child show his arm strong! Come to our …
Oh, sacred root of Joseph, who on high presents your fragrant tuberose to the orb! Sweet Child who has been called Lily of the valley, Beautiful flower of the field. Come to our …
David’s key that opens the closed doors of the royal palace to the exiled! Scanos. Oh Child with your white hand, from the sad prison that sin carved! Come to our …
Oh, fire of the East, sun of eternal rays, may we see your splendor among the darkness! So precious child, Christian happiness, let the smile of your sweet lips shine. Come to our …
Unblemished mirror, holy of holies, without equal image of the sovereign God! Erase our guilt, save the outcast, and in the form of a child, give the mere shelter! Come to our …
King of the nations, Immanuel enlightened, I long for Israel Shepherd of the flock! Child who you feed with a soft crook and the rude sheep, and the meek lamb! Come to our …
Let the heavens rise and rain from on high benefactor dew as holy irrigation! Come beautiful Nio, come God humanized! Luce, star God! Sprout, flower of the field! Come to our …
Come, Mara already prevents her arms, do her child see, in near times! Come, that already Jos, with sacred desire, is preparing to take your sacred love! Come to our …
Of the weak help, of the suffering protection, consolation of the sad, light of the exiled! Life of my life, my beloved owner, my constant friend, my divine brother! Come to our …
Come before my eyes, of you in love! Kiss your plants now! Kiss your hands now! Prostrated on the ground, I extend my arms to you, and even more than my phrases, my cry tells you! Come to our …
Come our Savior for whom we yearn Come to our souls, Come, do not take so long!
This December 24 will end another cycle of the novenas at a time when the planet is going through a very difficult situation. Colombians from various places on the planet who are scattered around the planet will follow the beautiful tradition and will make their respective considerations as a family.
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