I can't remember where I found this on the internet, but I have had it saved in my documents for some time now. Starting tomorrow, January 1st, I am going to pray this novena, as I really feel like I need some help to become rejuvenated in my efforts as a homeschooling mother. Do you want to join me?
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A Novena for Homeschooling Mothers
A Nine Day Novena
With prayers adapted from
“Mother Love, A Manual for Christian Mothers”
by Pius Franciscus OFM, Cap.
Published in 1888 by Fr. Pustet & Co
With prayers adapted from
“Mother Love, A Manual for Christian Mothers”
by Pius Franciscus OFM, Cap.
Published in 1888 by Fr. Pustet & Co
~Day One - My Holy Vocation~
O God, Creator and Ruler of heaven and earth, all creatures owe their existence to Your infinite goodness and fatherly love. You have appointed for each one of us the sphere in which, under Your direction, support and encouragement, we are to press onward to our final goal. I thank You Almighty God, for the vocation to which you have called me.
I thank You for Your all-embracing, all-pervading, all-governing providence, which oversees all of the particular works of this vocation. I submit to Your dispensation. I resign myself to Your guidance. I grasp Your leading hand, and beg for the grace never to follow the way of my own inclinations. Your good pleasure shall form my happiness; Your commands shall be my only line of conduct; Your will shall be my will; and Your service the object of all my aspirations.
Give me, O Lord, peace of heart; trust in Your infinite wisdom; courage to stay the course; an ever cheerful disposition proceeding from faith in Your inconceivable love; and fidelity in my duties, springing from remembrance of Your omnipresence and from my hope of eternal reward. Help me to see that this call upon my life requires the same dedication, commitment and the complete gift of self offered by my sisters who have entered religious life.
For Your own honor, O God, help me to fulfill the duties of my vocation for You alone are good and
holy, and desire not that any soul should be lost, but that, seeking You and finding You, all may be eternally blessed in You. Amen.
O God, Creator and Ruler of heaven and earth, all creatures owe their existence to Your infinite goodness and fatherly love. You have appointed for each one of us the sphere in which, under Your direction, support and encouragement, we are to press onward to our final goal. I thank You Almighty God, for the vocation to which you have called me.
I thank You for Your all-embracing, all-pervading, all-governing providence, which oversees all of the particular works of this vocation. I submit to Your dispensation. I resign myself to Your guidance. I grasp Your leading hand, and beg for the grace never to follow the way of my own inclinations. Your good pleasure shall form my happiness; Your commands shall be my only line of conduct; Your will shall be my will; and Your service the object of all my aspirations.
Give me, O Lord, peace of heart; trust in Your infinite wisdom; courage to stay the course; an ever cheerful disposition proceeding from faith in Your inconceivable love; and fidelity in my duties, springing from remembrance of Your omnipresence and from my hope of eternal reward. Help me to see that this call upon my life requires the same dedication, commitment and the complete gift of self offered by my sisters who have entered religious life.
For Your own honor, O God, help me to fulfill the duties of my vocation for You alone are good and
holy, and desire not that any soul should be lost, but that, seeking You and finding You, all may be eternally blessed in You. Amen.
Receive also Almighty God these specific requests related to my vocation…and transform me by the grace of your Holy Spirit.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be
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