Catholic novena
Novena to the Holy Infant of Atocha
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Catholic Doors, Novena to the Holy Infant of Atocha, https://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/novenas/p04101.htm. Complete daily set, including the full family-sanctification prayer, restored from this current web witness. Original wording is retained with layout and section headings normalized. Exact pre-1962 wording has not been established. Calendar verification: Holy Infant of Atocha, exact local proper not verified. Secondary accounts and reports of shrine celebrations associate Plateros with December 25. This review has not retained a primary historical proper or matching official shrine calendar. December 17 was a preparation start and should not be called a feast. No automatic date is restored from secondary reports. The general prayer remains available at any time.
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- The complete repeated daily prayer set from the credited Catholic Doors modern witness, including the full prayer for the sanctification of families. An older edition for this wording has not been verified.
- Often prayed for
- Prayed for help in distress, family sanctification, consolation, grace, and childlike trust in Christ.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- Local observance not verified for this edition
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About This Novena
Beginning on December 17, this novena asks for consolation, grace, and blessing on families.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for families, distress, consolation, grace, and childlike trust.
Usual timing
Any nine consecutive days
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Gracious Infant of Atocha!
Infant of a thousand wonders.
I salute You and glorify You on this day
and offer this Novena in memory of Your tender love
that was always evident to Your sainted mother and father.
Look favourably on this favour and request and
Grant that which I humbly solicit.
Amen.
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PRAYER
Oh Miraculous Infant of Atocha! Cast Your merciful look upon my troubled heart, so inclined to pity. Be softened by my prayer, and grant me these favors which I ardently implore of You:
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Take from me all affliction and despair, all trials and misfortunes with which I am laden. For Your Sacred Infancy's sake, send me now the consolation, aid and grace that I may praise You with the Father and Holy Ghost, forever and ever. Amen. O Divine Child of Atocha, please hear my prayer, and grant my petition.
PRAYER FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF FAMILIES
Holy Infant of Atocha, I beseech You obedient God Child of our Holy Mother Mary and St. Joseph, I venerate Your Holy Family this day and beg You to sanctify all families. I implore You for all married couples so that they may be faithful to one another and live up to their marital commitment. Help them so that they may live the Sacrament of Marriage as prescribed by Holy Mother Church and thereby receive the necessary graces for their daily Christian living. Spare our home from divorce, indecency, adultery, selfishness, and all inordinate attachments. Divine Child, give all married couples a holy disposition in the raising of their children. Help them to be models of their faith so that their children will learn from their good example. I pray that all homes be a place where children are showered with love, understanding and guidance, but most especially, that their homes not be a house, but a place of refuge where they find shelter and refuge in the loving arms of their parents and that their home may foster the practice of the virtues. Glorious Son of Mary Immaculate, while providing for all the basic needs of their families, may all parents never forget that love is of utmost importance and that such as the body needs nourishment to stay healthy and alive the soul and spiritual life need nourishment as well. While taking care of our bodies, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, may we not neglect that Who lives within our souls. Dearest Holy Infant of Atocha, please make our home Your home. Be that invisible yet ever present guest around our table during our meals so that no conversation displeases You. Come and lay Your little head upon our pillows and keep us all safe until the morning comes. Walk with us throughout the day and may Your little feet bless our home and make it holy. May our home be a place of refuge for all who enter. As for my immediate family, I ask that you bestow on them the following graces [mention graces]. I place within Your heart the following needs of my family [here make your personal petition]. I am confident Holy Infant of Atocha, that You hear my plea of supplication and that You will grant my petitions if it is in line with the Lord's desire for our salvation. Impart all blessings and graces on each member of my family. May each member of my household learn to imitate the Holy Family of Nazareth so that they may come to know the wonder of praising You and contemplating You for all eternity. Amen.
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About this devotion
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The complete repeated daily prayer set from the credited Catholic Doors modern witness, including the full prayer for the sanctification of families. An older edition for this wording has not been verified.
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About this novena
Description
Beginning on December 17, this novena asks for consolation, grace, and blessing on families.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
families, distress, consolation, grace, childlike trust
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for families, distress, consolation, grace, and childlike trust.
Usual timing
Any nine consecutive days
Holy Infant of Atocha, devotional figure from Mexico