Today we kicked off the 54-Day Rosary Novena for Our Priests in our area. There are parishes from at least 10 dioceses in the U.S. also joining us. Please join us! You can start praying at any point in the novena even if you find this post on the last day. Pray for our priests! The spiritual adoption of priests using Fr. Anthony’s beautiful image of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary, and St. Joseph’s Chaste Heart can start at any point. Priests are always in need of prayers. Contact me for the PDF of the prayer card that can be formatted and sent to a printer. The novena brochure can be accessed here and you are welcome to print however many you need for your parish. I do have some extra already printed prayer cards. Not enough to equip an entire parish, but if you’d like me to send you some, please contact me and I will mail them out to you. I still have some priests from our diocese to adopt as well if you want to adopt a priest from my diocese on top of your own priest. Also, consider seeing if your priest would be willing to the lead the Rosary for members of your community like we did today and pray the Rosary for that day of the novena. Thank you very much for your prayers for our priests! May Our Lord unleash abundant graces upon our priests through the Immaculate Heart of Mary through this novena. God bless.
Over 1200 brochures and prayer cards are going out to 5 parishes in my area this weekend—Corpus Christi!!!—that call for prayer for priests through spiritual adoption. The 54-Day Novena begins next Saturday, June 12. Parishes in 8 dioceses are looking at starting this spiritual adoption and novena campaign. All glory to God! This project belongs to Our Mother. Contact me if you would like the PDFs—including Fr. Anthony’s beautiful prayer card—to get this going in your area. Please pray daily for our priests!Artist: Fr. Anthony Ferguson, Diocese of Richmond, http://www.castingoutfear.org, Twitter @FatherFerg Instagram @frfergart
This year there are exactly 54 days between the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Memorial of St. John Vianney. With everything that has been facing the priesthood and the need for renewal, now is the time to pray a 54-Day Rosary Novena for our priests. My area will be doing a spiritual adoption of each priest in our diocese and the novena. If your parish is interested in using the prayer card my parochial vicar created, please contact me at constance.t.hull81@gmail.com. The spiritual adoption of your parish priest or the priests of the diocese can be done at any point during the novena or at a later time. Fr. Anthony has graciously agreed for his artwork to be used freely wherever it is needed with attribution. All you need to do is format the prayer card document and send the prayer card to your local printer or print it in your parish. I also have a tri-fold brochure in PDF that I can email to folks to print as well that you are welcome to use. All of it is free of charge. We just want people to pray for priests! God bless you. I hope you will join us in this novena. Here is the novena information in a web format:
54-Day Rosary Novena for Our Priests
“The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself; He is a priest for you.”
St. John Vianney
NOVENA SCHEDULE 27 Days of Petition June 12-July 9 27 Days of Thanksgiving July 10-August 4
The 54-Day Rosary Novena is six novenas prayed in a row for the same prayer intentions. The first half of the novena focuses on three novenas in petition to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The second half of the novena is an offering of three novenas in thanksgiving for God hearing our prayers. The novena follows a set schedule of praying the Joyful Mysteries, Sorrowful Mysteries, and Glorious Mysteries. The Luminous Mysteries are not prayed for a 54-day novena, so this novena does not follow the usual days of the Rosary. We will begin with the Joyful Mysteries on June 12th, the next day Sorrowful, next day Glorious, then repeat.
Designed by Fr. Anthony Ferguson www.castingoutfear.org Follow on Twitter @FatherFerg Follow on Instagram @frfergart
Fr. Anthony Ferguson, Parochial Vicar, St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, VA in the Diocese of Richmond custom designed this image for the spiritual adoption of our priests and for our novena. The four crosses in each corner are a reference to the altar where Our Lord is offered by the priest in His Eucharistic Sacrifice. The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is pierced for love of us, pouring out His blood for our salvation into the chalice of the New Covenant. The fire of His love burns and illuminates the entire image and inflames the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Pure Heart of St. Joseph. The Immaculate Heart of Mary points to Her as the Mother and Queen of priests who is pierced in union with Her Son and for her priest-sons. St. Joseph’s Chaste Heart in this Year of St. Joseph represents his spiritual fatherhood in the life of the priest and the priest’s call to defend Holy Mother Church. The Latin on the chalice is taken from Revelation 21:5 “Behold, I make all things new.” The Latin on the bottom is from Psalm 110:4, which is used at ordination Masses: “You are a priest forever.” The sword piercing Our Lady and St. Joseph’s lily are pointing in the same direction as Our Lord’s Most Precious Blood flowing into the chalice. Our salvation is through Him alone.
Novena Intentions
For our bishop, priests, seminarians, and an increase in holy vocations to the priesthood in our diocese.
To be completely Eucharistic. Seeking their identity in Him alone.
To be men of deep prayer and intimate union with the Most Holy Trinity.
To seek the Father for themselves and for others.
To be filled with a zeal for the evangelization of souls.To be alone with Mary, close to her heart, with her in prayer, and to live as her beloved sons.
To celebrate the Mass with great love, devotion, and reverence, and to live the Mass in their daily ministry
To consecrate every moment of the day to Our Lady through the Liturgy of the Hours.
To enter the conversation of the Rosary daily.
To become true spiritual fathers through the intercession of Mary and St. Joseph.
To be men who are crucified with Christ for the salvation of souls.
To walk the Way of the Cross in their daily lives in union with Christ and Our Sorrowful Mother.
To seek the path to holiness no matter the cost.
To be bold and clear preachers of God’s Word and authentic doctrine.
To be men of close fraternal communion with one another.
To build up, defend, and protect families and the Mystical Body of Christ.
Spiritual Communion
*To be said after the completion of the Rosary each day.
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You in my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Amen.
**You do not have to pray two Rosaries per day to complete this novena, although you may. You can unite all of your other daily Rosary intentions to this novena.
Thank you for praying for our priests! Please pray for them daily.
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