
Catholic novena
Novena to the Infant Jesus
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Reviewed public-domain English devotional edition (1910)
The Raccolta, Ambrose St. John English translation, 1910 edition (Burns & Oates/Benziger Brothers), no.76, printed 64, 65. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theraccoltaorcol00unknuoft.djvu
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- The complete 1910 Raccolta edition of the novena for the twenty-fifth day of each month. The same complete source form is prayed each day.
- Often prayed for
- Honor to Christ's Nativity, gratitude for the Incarnation, and monthly renewal of love for the Child Jesus.
- Length
- 9 days
- Feast
- Concludes on the 25th of each month
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About This Novena
This monthly novena is a beautiful little act of remembrance. Instead of letting Christmas stay locked in December, it keeps returning to Bethlehem and asking the soul to be renewed by the mystery of the Incarnation.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for Nativity devotion, monthly renewal, gratitude for the Incarnation, and love of the Child Jesus.
Usual timing
The 16th through the 24th of each month
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Today's Nativity offering
First Offering
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to thy honour and glory, and for my own salvation, and for the salvation of all the world, the mystery of the Birth of our Divine SAVIOUR.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Second Offering
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the sufferings of the most holy Virgin and of St Joseph in that long and weary journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem; I offer Thee their pain in finding no place wherein to shelter themselves, when the SAVIOUR of the world was to be born.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Third Offering
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the stable where JESUS was born, the hard straw which served Him for a bed, the cold He suffered, the swaddling clothes which bound Him, the tears He shed, and his tender infant cries.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Fourth Offering
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the pain which the divine Child JESUS felt in his tender infant body when He submitted it to the keen knife of circumcision; I offer Thee that Precious Blood which then first He shed for the salvation of the whole race of man.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Fifth Offering
ETERNAL FATHER, I offer to thy honour and glory, and for my eternal salvation, the humility, mortification, patience, charity and all the virtues of the Child JESUS; I thank Thee, and I love Thee, and I bless Thee without end, for this ineffable mystery of the Incarnation of the divine Word.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
V. The Word was made flesh. R. And dwelt amongst us.
Let us pray.
O GOD, whose only-begotten SON was made manifest to us in the substance of our flesh; grant, we beseech Thee, that our souls may be inwardly renewed through Him, whom our eyes have seen externally like unto ourselves. Who liveth and reigneth with Thee for ever and ever. Amen.
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The complete 1910 Raccolta edition of the novena for the twenty-fifth day of each month. The same complete source form is prayed each day.
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About this novena
Description
This monthly novena is a beautiful little act of remembrance. Instead of letting Christmas stay locked in December, it keeps returning to Bethlehem and asking the soul to be renewed by the mystery of the Incarnation.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
Nativity devotion, monthly renewal, gratitude for the Incarnation, love of the Child Jesus
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for Nativity devotion, monthly renewal, gratitude for the Incarnation, and love of the Child Jesus.
Usual timing
The 16th through the 24th of each month

Original statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague
