December 17
SECOND 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 17
SECOND DAY
Consideration
The Eternal Word is about to take its nature created in the holy house of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. When the shadow of the divine secret came to slide over her, Mary was alone focused on prayer. However, he did not arrive unexpectedly: before presenting himself he sent a messenger, who was the Archangel Saint Gabriel, to ask Mary on behalf of God for her consent for the incarnation.
That moment was very solemn: he was potentive in Mary by refusing... with what adorable delights, with what ineffable complacency the Holy Trinity would wait for Mary to open her lips and pronounce the fiat that must have been a soft melody to her ears, and with which her deep humility was conformed to the omnipotent divine will.
The Immaculate Virgin has given her assent. The archangel has disappeared. God has clothed himself in a created nature; eternal will is fulfilled and creation complete. In the regions of the angelic world an immense joy erupted, but the Virgin Mary neither heard him nor had paid attention to him. He had his head tilted and his soul was immersed in a silence that resembled that of God. The Word had become flesh and although still invisible to the world, it already lived among the men that his immense love had come to rescue. He was not only the Eternal Word; he was the Child Jesus, clothed in human appearance, and already justifying the praise that all generations have made of Him in calling Him the most beautiful of the children of men.
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
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.
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