The St. Andrew Christmas Novena, Read Aloud

This is the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena, prayed every day from the thirtieth of November, the feast of Saint Andrew, until Christmas Eve.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

It is one short prayer, said fifteen times a day. It carries Saint Andrew’s name only because it begins on his feast, and the prayer itself is addressed to God. The count of fifteen is there to keep the birth of Christ in front of you all through Advent, and if you miss some, you simply carry on the next time. When the prayer asks God to grant your desires, there is a silence: name your request to Him there.

Let us pray.

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 Saviour Jesus Christ,

and of His blessed Mother.

Amen.