St. Andrew Christmas Novena

 

Please join me in praying the Saint Andrew Novena.

It is piously believed that whoever recites the St. Andrew Christmas novena prayer FIFTEEN times each day from the feast of St. Andrew (November 30th) until Christmas Eve will obtain the favor requested.
(From ASCENSIONPRESS.COM)

St. Andrew Christmas Novena
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born Of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother.

Amen

November 30 is the Feast of Saint Andrew. He is the patron saint of fisherman, singers, Scotland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Patras. Also known as Saint Andrew the Apostle, he was the older brother of Saint Simon Peter, the first Pope of the Catholic Church. In the Gospel of Matthew,  Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee when He  saw Andrew and Simon Peter fishing. It was in that moment that Jesus famously asked them to leave their occupations as fishermen to become disciples and “fishers of men.”
(From catholic.org)