Christmas Novena : Official Version with Plenary Indulgence - Powerful Prayers to Prepare for Christmas!

  This is the official Christmas Novena to prepare your heart for Christmas! It can be said anytime before or after Christmas. 

This prayer is day 3, for days 1 and 2 see:

Day 1: https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2022/12/official-novena-for-christmas-day-1.html
Day 2: https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2022/12/prepare-your-heart-for-christmas-with.html

Opening Prayer:

V. O God, come to my assistance.

R. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.Amen. 

Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name;
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Day 3 Prayers

The Expectation of Birth.

O most sweet infant Jesus, who waited for nine months

enclosed in the womb, and inflamed the heart of the

Virgin Mary and St. Joseph with the most powerful love

and expectation, all for the salvation of the world. 

Have mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, 0 Lord. Have mercy on us.

Amen.

FROM THE RACCOLTA OFFICIAL

Day 1: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/official-novena-for-christmas-day-1.html

Day 2: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/novena-for-christmas-day-2-plenary.html

Day 3: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-3-plenary.html

Day 4: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-4-plenary.html

Day 5: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-5-plenary.html

Day 6: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-6-plenary.html

Day 7: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-7-plenary.html

Day 8: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-8-plenary.html

Day 9: http://jceworld.blogspot.ca/2013/12/christmas-novena-day-9-plenary.html 

NOVENA PREPARATORY TO CHRISTMAS In order to the devout preparation of ourselves for the glorious Birthday of our most loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, which the holy Church recalls to our memory every year on the 25th of December, and at the same time to render Him thanks for this great benefit, Pope Pius VII., by a Rescript of the Segretaria of the Memorials, dated August 12th, 1815 (which said Rescript is preserved in the Segretaria of the Vicariate), granted to all faithful Christians who, being contrite in heart, should prepare themselves for that great solemnity by a novena, consisting of pious exercises, prayers, acts of virtue, &c. -
i. An indulgence of 300 days each day of the said novena, and -
ii. A plenary indulgence to be gained on Christmas day, or on some day in its octave, by those who, after Confession and Communion, shall have made the said novena every day, and who shall pray according to the intentions of the Sovereigns Pontiff: and note that the Confession and Communion may be made on  any one of the days of the said novena, provided the novena is correctly kept. This was declared by Pope Pius VIII., of holy memory, by means of the S. Congr. of Indulgences, July 9, 1830. These indulgences were extended by the above-named Pius VII. to one other time in the year, besides the the specified, when any one should make the aforesaid novena in honour of the Child Jesus.