Novena Day 9 will be tonight after the 6 pm mass. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: Tender God of Mercy, you so loved us that You sent your only Son, Jesus, to be our Redeemer. In Him we have come to know You and love you. As we draw closer to You, we seek to share the good news of your powerful life-giving love. In the Novena for the Holy Souls, we pray for all the faithful departed. Joy does not cause the souls in heaven to forget. On the contrary joy makes them more alive to memory. The soul that has entered into bliss does not for a second forget the generous friends on earth who helped him reach God and glory. Now a saint in heaven, he uses to the full his power of intercession. He prays God to be merciful and generous to the generous. By name he mentions to Christ and to Mary those who mentioned his name when he was helpless to help himself. He speaks to the Trinity about his friends. He becomes in effect a mighty benefactor, persuasively beseeching God to extend mercy and grant favors to those who remembered him in purgatory. He prays with the fervor of new-found joy that their passage through life will be safe, their stay in purgatory brief, their entrance into heaven swift and triumphant. He prays that one day they too might behold the beatific vision and see God, face to face through the endlessness of eternity. It is their unselfish urge to share so great a bliss that we ask them to send us. To help insure for ourselves a shortened purgatory, we pray: Oh God, the creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, grant to the souls of your servants and handmaids departed, the remission of all their sins; that through pious supplications they may obtain the pardon they have always desired. Who lives and reigns with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen. (PAUSE FOR MEDITATION) Our Father, who art in heaven….. Hail Mary, full of Grace…… Glory be …….. Prayers of intercession Prayer to our suffering savior – O most sweet Jesus, through the bloody sweat which you did suffer in the Garden of Gethsemane, have mercy on the Blessed Souls. Have Mercy on them R: Have mercy on their souls. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which You did suffer your most cruel scourging, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls. Oh most sweet Jesus, Through the pains which You did suffer in your most painful crowning with thorns, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls O most sweet Jesus, through the pain which You suffered in carrying the cross to Calvary, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which You did suffer during Your most cruel crucifixion, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls. O most sweet Jesus, through the pains which You did suffer in Your most bitter agony on the cross, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls. O most sweet Jesus, through the immense pain which You did suffer in breathing forth Thy Blessed Soul, have mercy on them. R: Have mercy on their souls. Closing prayer Through the intercession of Mary, Mother of God, I commend their souls to your divine mercy. May they welcome these souls into Your heavenly garden. Tender God of Mercy, may these souls, all who sleep in Christ, and all who seek You with a sincere heart, find in Your presence light, happiness, and peace. Lead them into the fullness of the resurrection and gladden them with the light of your face. Amen. Eternal Rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. My their souls, through the mercy of God, Rest in peace. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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