Big Prayers, Big Results
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Monday, March 30, 2009 9:00 AM
This year, for the first time ever, my husband and I are saying the Novena for Impossible Requests.
I’d never heard of this novena before, but happened to catch a link Danielle posted on her Twitter page last Wednesday. It was the beginning day of the nine-month novena, which I thought was serendipitous, so I asked my husband if he wanted to pray it with me. He was game. We came up with three “impossible” prayer intentions and we’ve been praying it every night since.
I am a big fan of novenas.
The one dearest to my heart is the St. Andrew Novena, prayed during Advent, which Rebecca posted about last year. That novena has made a big difference in my life.
A few years back, when my husband and I had been trying to conceive for a while with no success, a friend told me about the novena. She knew it as the Christmas Novena, and she had heard that it had never been known to fail.
I figured I had nothing to lose, so I gave it a try that Advent. I was blessed by simply praying it, but six weeks later I was blessed even more! I don’t think it can have been a coincidence that our daughter was conceived just a month after the novena ended. I’ve loved the Christmas Novena ever since.
This past Advent I suggested to some friends of mine that they pray the novena themselves. They’d been trying to conceive for more than three years with no success. They prayed it and I prayed it with them.
On January 14th, they called to tell us that they’re expecting. That is what I call quick work.
I have big hopes for this “Impossible” Novena we’re saying. I’m also going to keep recommending the Christmas Novena to everyone I know.
Have you had any miraculous novena experiences?
Links for this article:
“Impossible” Novena
St. Andrew Novena aka Christmas Novena
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