The Christmas Anticipation Prayer
Also known as the
St. Andrew Christmas Miracle Novena
Source: EWTN.com:
“Beginning on St. Andrew the Apostle’s feast day, November 30, the following beautiful prayer is traditionally recited fifteen (15) times a day until Christmas. This is a very meditative prayer that helps us increase our awareness of the real focus of Christmas and helps us prepare ourselves spiritually for His coming.”
It is piously believed that who-ever recites the short prayer fifteen (15) times a day, from the Feast of St. Andrew on November 30th until Christmas, will obtain what is asked. One can pray them all-together or throughout the day.
This prayer is produced below and your correspondent has taken the liberty of adorning it with pious invocations appropriate to the season and has also located a Latin rendering, which seems to be credible. As is widely appreciated, prayers prayed in the Church’s language are imbued with increased efficacy. He has also suggested the conventional Pater Noster – Ave Maria – Gloria Patri offering, typically recited at the end of novena prayers.
God bless you one and all in these our modern times. St. Andrew, pray for us!
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Christmas Anticipation Prayer
Et Verbum caro factum est et habitávit in nobis.
(And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.)
To be recited fifteen times, daily:
HAIL and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires:
~ Mention your request ~
… through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.
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Pater Noster … Ave Maria … Gloria Patri …
Deus visitávit plebem suam.
(God hath visited His people. [St. Luke 7:16])
Sancte Andrea, ora pro nobis.
LATIN TEXT:
Et Verbum caro factum est et habitávit in nobis.
QUA hora momentúmque grandine benedíctus Dei Fílius natus ex María Vírgine puríssimum média in Bethléem penetrábile frigus. In illa hora, dignáre, Dómine Deus meus, exáudi oratiónem meam, ad oratiónem servi tui et dona :
~ Mentio petitionem tuam ~
Per meríta Salvatóris nostri Jesu Christi et eiús sanctíssimæ Matris promóvit. Amen.
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Pater Noster … Ave Maria … Gloria Patri …
Deus visitávit plebem suam.
Sancte Andrea, ora pro nobis.
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Prayer for Andrew God to reveal himself to me and strength and increase faith and feel God’s presence and protection
The Latin version that you have published here must be Google translated. It is gibberish and would be an embarrassment, if recited within earshot of anyone who knew the least bit of Latin. You should take it down.
You are mistaken.
The Latin rendering comes from the blog la.eferrit.com (linked) where the author, a C.Scott Richert, writes the entire post in Latin “Disce About Christmas Novena Oratio Sancti Andreae,”(Learn About the Christmas Novena Oration of Saint Andrew) and gives detailed analysis of the components of both the origin, content and Latin rendering of the prayer, together with a ‘glossary’ of the key Latin words.
Here is a Google translation of his writing, it is worthy of a read:
“Learn About the Christmas Novena Oration of Saint Andrew
For while the Northman’s nine-day supplications are for nine days of prayer: for who is a word sometimes used, who is a prayer often in a series of days. But it is one of the most beloved of all: the festive Advent piety customs and St. Andrew’s Christmas Novena.
THE WORD Has been cultivated for a long time
The St. Andrew Christmas Novena is often simply called the “Christmas Novena” or the “Christmas Precepts of prayer”, which is prayed 15 times every day from the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (November 30) to Christ.
THE WORD This is the most important sacrifice; from Sunday 1 of Advent that is the Sunday next to the feast of St. Andrew.
While the novena’s supplications are bound up in the feast of St. Andrew: Andrew himself, not to himself, but to God, that at our request he may give the glory of God in the birth of his Son of God at Christmas. You can say 15 at all times of prayer, all together; or to divide the necessary recitation (if any five times).
For the advent that is devotion to the ideals of Genus
He prayed to the fraternity of the Nativity of St. Andrew Novena to focus on his good spirit in your coming. Make this page a prayer for you until everyone returns to remember and for free the Catholic Church of Christ Andrew with the annual newsletter that leaves the novena
The Christmas Novena of St. Andrew
At this hour and moment the blessed Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary, was born of the most pure cold in the middle of Bethlehem.
At that hour, would you please, my Lord, my God? hear my prayer, and grant to the prayer of your servant, through the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ and his most holy Mother. Amen.
Christmas Novena to the January Inquisitions of the Book of Saint Andrew
The beginning of this prayer—”hail and bless the hour and moment”—may at first seem incongruous. But they reflect their belief in the Christian moments in that life of Christ in the womb, and in the conception of the blessed Mary in the Annunciation, the Nativity in Bethlehem, the death of Calvary; That in the resurrection; His ascension into the heavens, are not only special, but in a very important sense, even to the present day he is faithful.
The repetition of the first sentence of this prayer is a place for us mentally and spiritually, not to be firm in his birth, which soon surrounded the image of strength, and surrounded or the scene of the birth they sought to destroy him. Entering the face of his second request, our sentence was born at the feet.
Definitions of what is said in Blessed Andrew’s Christmas Novena
Hail: and exclamation, and reduction, and greeting
Beati: Saint
Most pure: spotless virginity, spotless; and to his perpetual life and to the most blessed Virgin Mary, of the same Immaculate Conception
To be worthy to repay: to give something, especially to someone who is not worthy of what is his
He wants: very much one thing; here the appetite of gluttony is not bodily, but spiritual
Rich in merit: good deeds done right, or what is acceptable in the sight of God.’