Traditional Catholic Novena

54 Day Rosary Novena

Prayed for a special intention through a long Rosary offering of petition and thanksgiving under Our Lady’s care.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally invoked as patron of special intentions, the Rosary, petition, thanksgiving, perseverance in prayer.

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Our Lady of the Rosary by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Our Lady of the Rosary, Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Pray This Novena

Start with day 1

Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.

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Private intention

This stays only on this device and appears at the intention moment in the prayer.

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Day 1: Petition - Joyful Mysteries

Pray the five Joyful Mysteries: the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Presentation, and the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple.

Pause here for your petition.

Ask especially for humility, charity toward neighbor, detachment from the world, purity, and true wisdom.

After the five decades, make the Spiritual Communion and the concluding prayers given in the novena guide.

Daily Rosary Structure

Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.

This date-start entry follows the traditional 54-Day Rosary Novena.

Pray five decades of the Rosary each day from March 20 through May 12.

Days 1 through 27 are prayed in petition.

Days 28 through 54 are prayed in thanksgiving.

The mystery order is Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, then repeated through the full fifty-four days.

Pause here for your intention.

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