Novena for the family

Pray that your family be a place of true Christian Love and learn to deal with the difficulties in your family with the same Christian Love.

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Why Join?

Through the intercession of Saint Josemaría may Christian spirit and authentic love reign in the family. May the family be a path to sanctity for parents and children. With God's grace, may each member of the family learn to deal in a Christian way with the difficulties that are part and parcel of life.

The programme

Everyday, for 9 days, receive:

📖 A selection from Saint Josemaría Escrivá's writings on the family

🪔 An intention for your family or an intention for your family in difficulty based on those texts

🙏 A prayer to conclude

  • Day 1: Marriage, a divine vocation
  • Day 2: Marriage, a way to holiness
  • Day 3: Christian love
  • Day 4: The love of each day
  • Day 5: Bright and cheerful homes
  • Day 6: With God's help, overcome the crises and difficulties of married life
  • Day 7: Co-operating with God
  • Day 8: Educating the children
  • Day 9: God in the home

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Saint Josemaría Escrivá

Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975), a Spanish priest, founded Opus Dei in 1928. Even during his lifetime he had a reputation for holiness, which continued to grow around the world after his death. Many people have testified to having obtained spiritual and material favours through his intercession, including medically inexplicable cures. He was declared a saint by saint John Paul II in 2002. The feast day of Saint Josemaría is 26 June.

Opus Dei

Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church. Its mission is to help people to live a fully Christian life through their daily commitments and occupations, spreading the Christian message that all men and women are called to holiness. This means following Jesus, loving him and imitating him in everything throughout the day and in all the circumstances of daily life.

Since holiness is achieved with God's help and our continued commitment, Opus Dei offers support and guidance to all who wish to aim at holiness in their ordinary lives, especially through their everyday work. 

Any work, if carried out in the spirit of Christ, competently and honestly, and with the aim of loving God and serving others, can be sanctified. What matters is the love that is put into work, not its human importance.

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Prayer from the novena

Prayer to Saint Josemaría Escrivá

O God, through the mediation of Mary our Mother, you granted your priest St. Josemaría countless graces, choosing him as a most faithful instrument to found Opus Dei, a way of sanctification in daily work and in the fulfillment of the Christian's ordinary duties. Grant that I too may learn to turn all the circumstances and events of my life into occasions of loving You and serving the Church, the Pope and all souls with joy and simplicity, lighting up the pathways of this earth with faith and love. Deign to grant me, through the intercession of St. Josemaría, the favor of ... (make your request). Amen. Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father.