<h2>Why pray this novena</h2><p>St Josemaría Escrivá and Opus Dei are known for their reflections on work and their desire to be Holy through their work. Who better then to lead you in prayer for or to better work?</p><h2>The programme</h2><p>For nine days pray! 🙏</p><p>Day 1: Work as a path to holiness</p><p>Day 2: Work done for love of God</p><p>Day 3: Working with order and constancy</p><p>Day 4: Well-finished work</p><p>Day 5: All honest work is dignified</p><p>Day 6: Work done in company with God, and with rectitude of intention. </p><p>Day 7: Maturing in virtue through work </p><p>Day 8: Maturing in virtue through work </p><p>Day 9: Apostolate through work</p><p class="hoz_important"><strong>Join this novena now!</strong></p><h2>Saint Josemaría Escrivá</h2><p>Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975), a Spanish priest, founded Opus Dei in 1928. Even during his lifetime he had a reputation for holiness, which continued to grow around the world after his death. Many people have testified to having obtained spiritual and material favours through his intercession, including medically inexplicable cures. He was declared a saint by saint John Paul II in 2002. The feast day of Saint Josemaría is 26 June.</p><h2>Opus Dei</h2><p>Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church. Its mission is to help people to live a fully Christian life through their daily commitments and occupations, spreading the Christian message that all men and women are called to holiness. This means following Jesus, loving him and imitating him in everything throughout the day and in all the circumstances of daily life.</p><p>Since holiness is achieved with God&#039;s help and our continued commitment, Opus Dei offers support and guidance to all who wish to aim at holiness in their ordinary lives, especially through their everyday work. </p><p>Any work, if carried out in the spirit of Christ, competently and honestly, and with the aim of loving God and serving others, can be sanctified. What matters is the love that is put into work, not its human importance.</p><p><a href="https://opusdei.org/en-uk/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to discover Opus Dei.</p>

Novena for work with St Josemaría Escriva

O God, through the mediation of the Most Blessed
Virgin Mary, you granted countless graces to your
priest Saint Josemaría, choosing him as a most faithful
instrument to found Opus Dei, a way to holiness
through daily work and the ordinary duties of a
Christian. Grant that I also may learn to turn all the
circumstances and events of my life into opportunities
to love you and serve the Church, the Pope and all
souls, with joy and simplicity, lighting up the paths of
the earth with faith and love. Through the intercession
of Saint Josemaría, please grant me the favor I request
... (here make your petition). Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father...

<p>From 23 September, day after day, enter into the spirituality of Padre Pio by meditating on his writings!</p><p>Saint Padre Pio inspired many people during his lifetime and has inspired even more since his death.</p><p>He has inspired them to entrust their lives to the Lord...</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Join, be inspired and offer your life to Christ who is King!</strong></p><p class="hoz_quote">&#34;Padre Pio&#039;s first concern was that people should return to God, that they might experience his mercy and, interiorly renewed that they rediscover the beauty and joy of being Christians, of living in communion with Jesus, of belonging to the Church and practising the Gospel&#34;</p><p><em>Benedict XVI</em></p><p class="hoz_important" style="text-align:center;"><strong>This, with St Padre Pio&#039;s, Mary and Jesus&#039; help, is our purpose!</strong></p><p><br /></p><p>Padre Pio (1887-1968), a Capuchin priest and saint of mercy and humility, is probably one of the most extraordinary saints in the history of the Church.</p><p>He is the only priest to have received and worn the stigmata of Our Lord for more than 50 years, he spent his priestly life between the confessional and the altar, and through the intercession of Jesus and Mary, many graces of conversion, physical, moral and spiritual healings of all kinds, and spiritual cures for a multitude of people.</p><p>Now that he is in Heaven he continues to intercede and to be a spiritual guide for the men and women of our time.</p><h2>Depose your prayers</h2><p>Depose you prayers here and at the end of the three months and three days, all the prayer intentions received will be placed near Padre Pio&#039;s tomb in San Giovanni Rotondo.</p><h2>The Programme</h2><p>Every day from the 23 September, feast day of Saint Pade Pio, to Christmas, receive:</p><ul><li>A quote from the Saint. 📖</li><li>An accompanying meditation and encouragement to prayer. 🪔</li><li>Conclude every day with a beautiful prayer written by St John Paul 2. 🙏</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Become more imbued with his spirituality as an aid to our sanctification.</strong></p><h2>Padre Pio</h2><p>Born in 1887, Padre Pio joined the Capuchins in 1903 and was ordained a priest in 1910. A few months later, he received the so-called invisible and non-permanent stigmata, in 1918, he received the visible and permanent stigmata, which he kept until his death in 1968.</p><p>He confessed 12 to 15 hours a day, and celebrated Mass while living the Passion.</p><p>He suffered violent attacks from the devil, and was at times slandered and persecuted by his hierarchy, but he always remained faithful to the Church and a witness to the truth.</p><p>An immense devotee of the Virgin Mary, Padre Pio prayed the rosary, which he called &#34;his weapon&#34;, from morning to night, and recommended to his spiritual sons that they too pray it without ever growing weary.</p><p>His spiritual testament is for many: <strong>&#34;Love Our Lady and make her loved. Always recite the Rosary&#34;.</strong></p><p>He created the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza hospital to relieve the suffering, as well as the Padre Pio Prayer Groups, now spread throughout the world. He guided many spiritual sons and daughters.</p><p>Padre Pio was beatified by John Paul II in 1999 and canonised in 2002. His incorrupt body can be venerated at San Giovanni Rotondo.</p><h2>Some more</h2><p>Submited by Gino Testa, leader of the Padre Pio Prayer Groups in Paris and member of the General Council of the Padre Pio Prayer Groups of San Giovanni Rotondo from 2016 to 2022.</p><p><a href="http://gruppidipreghiera.operapadrepio.it/en/home-en/" target="_blank">Link to discover</a> more about Saint Padre Pio.</p>

 3 Months & 3 days with St Padre Pio to guide you to Christmas

Padre Pio, teach us, we pray, humility of heart, so that we may be
counted among the little ones of the Gospel to whom the Father promised to
reveal the mysteries of His Kingdom.
Help us to pray without ceasing, certain that God knows what we need
even before we ask Him.
Obtain for us the eyes of faith that will help us recognize in the poor and
suffering, the very face of Jesus.
Sustain us in the hour of trouble and trial and, if we fall, let us
experience the joy of the sacrament of forgiveness.
Grant us your tender devotion to Mary, mother of Jesus and our
Mother.
Accompany us on our earthly pilgrimage toward the blessed Homeland,
where we too, hope to arrive to contemplate forever the Glory of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.    Amen

<p>From October 5th, the Feast day of Saint Faustina to January 5th, pray with Saint Faustina!</p><p class="hoz_important" style="text-align:center;">Receive God&#039;s love!</p><h2>The Programme</h2><p>Everyday for 3 months, receive:</p><ul><li>A quote from Saint Faustina 📖</li><li>A meditation to accompany your prayer 🪔</li><li>A concluding prayer for you to depose your intentions 🙏</li></ul><h2>St Faustina and the Divine Mercy</h2><p>Sr Maria Faustina Kowalska was a nun in Poland during the 1930s.  Saint John Paul II canonised Sr. Faustina in 2000 making her the &#34;first saint of the new millennium.&#34; She came from a poor family received only three years of simple education.  For this reason she was given the humblest tasks in the convent.  Despite this Jesus chose her to give extraordinary revelations, which she compiled into a diary.  The best-selling d<em>iary of Saint Faustina</em>, reveals God&#039;s loving message of Divine Mercy for our times.</p><p><br />The message contained in the diary is not new teaching of the Church, but a reminder of the message to trust in Jesus&#039; endless mercy, and to live life mercifully toward others. Speaking of the importance of the message contained in her <em>Diary</em>, the Pope John Paul II called her &#34;the great apostle of Divine Mercy in our time.&#34;</p><h2>Father Sean Gough</h2><p>Is a priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, United Kingdom. </p><p>He has been ordained for three years and is assistant priest in the parish of St John the Evangelist, Banbury. </p><p>He has a passion for evangelisation and loves to spread devotion to the Divine Mercy. </p><p>To follow him on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/frseandgough?lang&#61;en" target="_blank">click here.</a></p>

Pray with Saint Faustina - For 3 Months with Fr Sean Gough

And you, Faustina,
A gift of God to our time, a gift from the land of Poland to the whole Church, obtain for us an awareness of the depth of Divine Mercy; 
Help us to have a living experience of it and to bear witness to it among our brothers and sisters.
May your message of light and hope spread throughout the world, spurring sinners to conversion, calming rivalries and hatred, and opening individuals and nations to the practice of brotherhood.
Today, fixing our gaze with you on the Face of the Risen Christ, let us make our own your prayer of trusting abandonement and say with firm hope:
”Jesus, I trust in You!”.

Amen

<h2>A Walk of Faith for Valentine&#039;s Day!</h2><p>Now is the time to experience the spirit of Valentine&#039;s Day, by confidently entrusting our desires to live a Christian marriage to St. Valentine, a great martyr and the patron saint of lovers.</p><p>Be assured that we share your hopes and keep your intentions in our hearts every day!</p><h2>The Grace of Love: a Gift from God</h2><ul><li>Pray for yourself: pray that you meet someone in accordance with the Lord &#039;s heart.</li><li>Pray for yourself: entrust God with your desire to live a fruitful Christian marriage.</li><li>Pray for a single person you know who suffers from loneliness.</li><li>Pray for all those who desire to get married.</li><li>Pray that marriages be based on the « Rock of Faith » .</li><li>Pray for young people who are not looking to commit to the Sacrament of Marriage </li><li>Pray that the world regains a deep sense of commitment to sacraments.</li></ul><p>… other ideas? Share them with us!</p><p><strong>St. Valentine will certainly be happy to hear them and present them to the Lord!</strong></p><h2>Commitment</h2><p>Commit yourself to offer your thanks to St. Valentine: if you feel that he answered your prayers, celebrate his Feast Day in a spirit of gratitude for his intercession on your behalf!</p><h2>Click Join to receive the prayers</h2><p><a href="https://hozana.org/en/intentions">Click here to leave your prayer intention.</a></p>

Meet Your Soulmate with the Novena to St. Valentine

Loving Father,
You know that the deepest desire of my heart is
to meet someone that I can share my life with.
I trust in Your loving plan for me and ask that I may soon meet
the person that you have prepared for me.
Through the power of Your Holy Spirit,
open my heart and mind so that I recognize my soulmate.
Remove any obstacles that are in the way of this happy encounter,
So that I might find a new sense of wholeness, joy and peace.
Give me the grace too, to know and accept, if you have another plan for my life.
I surrender my past, present and future into the tender heart of Your Son, Jesus,
full of confidence that You will hear and answer my prayer.
AMEN.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in You.
St Valentine, pray for me.