December 23
EIGHTH DAY
Novena of aguinaldos
Or Christmas
PRAYER TO BEGIN
Every day
By the sign of the holy cross...
Most benign God of infinite charity that you loved men so much, that you gave them in your son the best pledge of your love, so that made a man in the bowels of a Virgin, he was born in a manger for our health and remedy. I, on behalf of all mortals, give you infinite thanks for such sovereign benefit.
In return from Him I offer you the poverty, humility and other virtues of your humanized Son, begging him for his divine merits, for the discomforts with which he was born and for the tender tears he shed in the manger, have our hearts with deep humility, with lit love, with total contempt of everything earthly, so that the newborn Jesus has in them his cradle and lives eternally. Amen.
Glory to the Father (x 3)
It is read about every day.
December 23
EIGHTH DAY
Consideration
José and María arrive in Belén, looking for lodging in the inns; but they do not find it, either because everything is occupied, or because it was disposed because of their poverty. But nothing can disturb the inner peace of those who are fixed on God. If José experienced sadness, when they were rejected from house to house, because he thought of Mary and the Child, he also smiled so calmly when he fixed his gaze on his chaste wife. The unborn child rejoiced in those negatives, which were the prelude to his coming humiliations. Every harsh voice, the noise of every door that closed before them was what he had come to look for. The desire for those humiliations was what had contributed to making him take the human form.
Oh divine Child of Bethlehem! Those days that so many have spent in parties and amusements or resting comfortably in comfortable and rich mansions, have been for your parents a day of fatigue and harassment of all kinds. Alas, the spirit of Bethlehem is that of a world that has forgotten God... How many times has it not been ours too!
Do we not continually close with harsh ignorance the door to the calls of God, who asks us to convert, or to sanctify ourselves or to conform to his will? Do we misuse our sorrows, ignoring his heavenly character with which each one in his own way carries it engraved in life, but we do not know his face? We don't recognize him until he gives us back the sword and walks away after our refusal.
The sun of December 24 sets behind the roofs of Bethlehem and its last rays brown the tops of the steep rocks that surround it. Rude men rudely elbow the Lord in the streets of that oriental village, and close their doors when they see their mother.
The vault of the heavens appears glittering above those hills frequented by shepherds. The stars are appearing one after the other. A few more hours and the Eternal Word will appear.
SENTENCES TO FINISH
Every day
PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH
Oh Most Holy Joseph!, husband of Mary and putative father of Jesus, I give infinite thanks to God because he chose you for such high ministries and adorned you with all the gifts proportionate to such excellent greatness.
I beg you, for the love you had for the Divine Child, embrace me in fervent desires to see him and receive him sacramentally, while in his divine Essence I see him and enjoy him in heaven. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory
PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN
Sovereign Mary, who for your great virtues and especially for your humility, you deserve that every God chose you as his mother, I beg you that You yourself prepare my soul, and that of all those who in this time made this ninth, 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 waited, so that you make us less unworthy of seeing him, loving him and worshiping him for all eternity. Amen.
Hail Mary and Glory (x 3)
YOU ENJOY THE CHILD JESUS
My sweet Jesus
My beloved child
Come to our souls!
Come, don't take so long!
1
Oh wisdom sum!
Of the Sovereign God
That at the level of a
Child, you have
Discounted!
Oh divine infant!
Come to teach us
The prudence he does
True sages!
2
Oh powerful Adonai!
That, to Moses speaking,
From Israel to the people
You gave the mandates!
Ah! Come soon
To rescue us.
And that a weak child
Show strong arm!
3
Oh sacred root!
Of Jesé, that at the top
You present to the orb
Your fragrant nardo!
Sweetest boy!
That you have been called
Lily of the valley
Beautiful flower of the field!
4
David's key!
That opens to the banished
The closed doors
Of the royal palace!
Get us out, O Child,
With your white hand,
From the sad prison
Who worked the sin
5
Oh fire of the East,
Sun of eternal rays,
That among the darkness
Let's see your splendor!
So precious child,
Christian's happiness,
Show off the smile
Of your sweet lips!
6
Spotless mirror!
Holy of the saints,
Unparalleled image
Of the sovereign God!
Erase our faults,
Save the banished
And in the form of a child
Give the miserable shelter!
7
King of the nations
Emmanuel preclaro,
Of Israel longing,
Shepherd of the herd!
Boy, what are you doing?
With soft stick,
And the arisca sheep,
Already the meek lamb!
8
Open the skies!
And it rains from above
Dew benefactor
Like holy irrigation!
Come beautiful boy,
Come humanized God,
It looks beautiful star,
Sprouts flower of the field!
9
Come, María!
Prevent your arms
Do your child see,
In the near time!
Come, that already José,
With sacred longing,
It is about to be done
Of your sacred love!
10
From the weak help
Of the painful amparo,
Comfort of the sad,
Light of the banished!
Life of my life,
My beloved owner,
My constant friend,
My divine brother!
11
See my eyes,
In love with you
Kiss your plants now,
I already kiss your hands!
Prostrate on land
I extend my arms to you,
And even more than my sentences
My crying tells you!
12
Come Salvador, our
For whom we sigh,
Come to our souls,
Come, don't take so long!
PRAYER TO THE CHILD JESUS
Remember, Oh sweetest Child Jesus! That you said to the Venerable Margarita of the Blessed Sacrament, and in her person to all your devotees, these words so comforting for our poor humanity so burdened and painful: "Whatever you want to ask, ask for it for the merits of my childhood and nothing will be denied to you." Full of trust in You, O Jesus, who are the same truth! We come to expose you all our misery. Help us lead a holy life to live a blessed eternity. Grant us, by the infinite merits of your incarnation and your childhood, the grace of which we need so much. We give ourselves to You, O omnipotent Child! Sure that our hope will not be frustrated and that by virtue of your divine promise, you will welcome and send our plea favorably. Amen.
Church of the Savior of Toledo at 20:00:00
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