Novena St. Edward

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NOVENA PRAYER OF ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR:

 

HOW TO PRAY THIS NOVENA. 

 

THE PRAYER IS FOR NINE CONSECUTIVE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE FEAST DAY.   THE PRAYER ASKS FOR SPECIAL INTERCESSION FROM OUR PARISH SAINT.   THE GENERAL INTENTION OF THIS DAILY PRAYER IS FOR THE LIFE AND HEALTH OF OUR PARISH.  THE SPECIFIC INTENTION IS FOR WHATEVER PETITION(S) YOU WOULD LIKE TO OFFER.  

 

ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR IS PATRON TO SOME SPECIFIC CAUSES, AND THEY WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE NOVENA.  

EACH DAY, BEGINNING ON OCT. 4TH, PRAY THE OPENING PRAYERS, AS SHOWN BELOW.  THEN, CHOOSE THE FIRST THROUGH NINTH DAY’S PARTICULAR PRAYER AND PRAY THEM.   FINALLY, PRAY THE CLOSING PRAYER. 

YOU MAY PRAY THE NOVENA PRAYER AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY, JUST BE SURE TO DO IT ONCE.  IT IS BEST TO TRY TO PRAY AT THE SAME TIME EACH DAY, SO TO MAKE IT A HABIT FOR THIS TIME.   ON THE TENTH DAY, WHICH WILL BE OCT. 13TH, YOU CAN CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF OUR SAINT FILLED WITH A ROUTINE OF PRAYER AND TRUST TO GOD, AND SOME FAMILIARITY WITH OUR PATRON SAINT.

 

INFO:  EDWARD LIVED IN THE 11TH CENTURY, IN ENGLAND, IN HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND THEN LATER IN HIS REIGN OF ENGLAND, FROM FORTY YEARS OF AGE AND ON.    IN HIS BOYHOOD UNTIL BECOMING RULER OF ENGLAND, HE LIVED IN NORMANDY—FRANCE, IN A PERIOD OF EXILE.   HE HAD LOST HIS FATHER TO DEATH, AND HIS MOTHER HAD REMARRIED, AND TO A CONQUERING FOREIGN KING NAMED CANUTE.   ONLY BY AN UNUSUAL SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES, EDWARD WAS ASKED TO COME BACK TO ENGLAND FOR CO-RULE (AND LATER FOR FULL RULE) OF HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.  HE RULED FROM 40 YEARS OLD (FROM ASCENDANCY IN 1042 A.D. AND CROWNING ON APRIL 3, 1043) UNTIL HIS NATURAL DEATH (ON JAN. 5, 1066).  HIS LEGACY WAS AS A GOOD MAN AND CATHOLIC IN EXEMPLARY EXAMPLE AS ENGLAND’S KING.  AFTERWARDS THIS WAS WELL REMEMBERED THROUGH THE CENTURIES.   HE WON THE ADMIRATION OF FELLOW BELIEVERS FOR HIS APPLICATION OF A LIFE OF FAITH IN SUCH AN EXALTED POSITION.  

 

EDWARD IS NOT REMEMBERED AS ONE WITH THE BEST OR STRONGEST POLITICAL LIFE AMONG THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, AND SOMETIMES HE IS CRITICISED FOR NOT LIVING WITH ENOUGH AMBITION, YET EDWARD WAS CONTENT WITH LEADING BY HIS GOODNESS AND FAIRNESS AND CHARITY TO OTHERS.  HE ALSO POSSESSED A GREAT DEVOTION TO THE EUCHARIST, AND A LOVE OF THE SAINTS, AND A PRACTICE OF HEALING OTHERS.  THIS PRACTICE OF FAITH WILL BE THE SHINING LIGHT OF HIS MEMORY. 

THE CHURCH CANONIZED HIM IN 1161.   FOR A LONG PERIOD, TOO, HE WAS PATRON OF ENGLAND, UNTIL ST. GEORGE WAS NAMED THE NATIONAL PATRON.   

 

N 1972, OUR PARISH WAS BEGUN AND HE WAS NAMED AS OUR SPECIAL PATRON.  A FEW OTHER PARISHES AND SCHOOLS AND A UNIVERSITY ALSO SHARE HIS PATRONAGE IN THE U.S.A., YET WE ARE THE ONLY ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR PARISH IN MARYLAND.   

IN 2010, POPE BENEDICT THE 16TH VISITED GREAT BRITAIN AND PRAYED AT THE TOMB OF ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY, IN LONDON, IN REMINDER AND TRUST OF THE HELP OF GOOD ST. EDWARD TO US TODAY.   IT SHOULD INSPIRE US TO ASK FOR HIS INTERCESSION IN THIS WEEK OF HIS FEAST.    WE PRAY FROM OCTOBER 4TH TO THE 12TH.

 

 

 

 

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