{"id":3650,"date":"2018-06-27T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/?page_id=3650"},"modified":"2022-02-03T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:49:56","slug":"novena-for-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/culture-of-life\/novena-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Novena for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councils are asked to tie-in with a request by Pope Francis to support in prayer and observe at their local Parishes<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Day<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong><strong> Prayer<\/strong><strong> for the Care of Creation <\/strong>&#8211; also known as <strong>&#8220;<u>Creation<\/u><u> Sunday <\/u>\u2013 <u>First Sunday in September<\/u>&#8220;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Knights Councils can build on this to be as <strong><u>Part One of The 9 Day Novena For Life <\/u><\/strong>with their Families \u00a0and Parishioners gathering together (as their local situations may accommodate) <strong><u>Resuming on the proceeding Friday &#8211;<\/u> <\/strong>and <strong><u>Continuing<\/u><\/strong><strong><u> for each of the remaining Fridays in September.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong> <strong>is &#8220;Respect Life Month&#8221; &#8211; <\/strong>those <u>continuing<\/u> to gather and pray their Novena For Life can <strong><u>Complete the<\/u> <u>Novena&#8217;s 9th Day on the last Friday in October<\/u><\/strong><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>The enclosed can optionally be supplemented with a Hail Mary or a Rosary as time may permit. \u00a0Councils may bridge other holy days with novenas in this fashion as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Novena Prayer For Life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Holy Spirit<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>At the dawn of creation<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>You brought order out of chaos<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Light out of darkness<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Life out of nothingness.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Breathe on us once again<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>And change this culture of death<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Into a Culture of Life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Inspire in your people<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>A spirit of generous welcome<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>For each and every life<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>No matter how unexpected or dependent<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>That life may be.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Holy Spirit<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>You are the Advocate<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>As you fill us with Yourself<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Make us advocates<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>For the unborn and all the vulnerable.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Until we are all united<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>In the endless life and joy<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>One God, forever and ever. Amen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dcn. John A. Charron, Chairman<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>(858) 705-5114<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:deaconjohn@smpoway.org\">deaconjohn@smpoway.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councils are asked to tie-in with a request by Pope Francis to support in prayer and observe at their local Parishes World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation &#8211; also known as &#8220;Creation Sunday \u2013 First Sunday in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/culture-of-life\/novena-for-life\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":274,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3650","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3650\/revisions\/7455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.californiaknights.org\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}