RayneBeau
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A "Novena" consists of acts of devotion, performed on 9 consecutive days, in order for Roman Catholics to obtain a particular grace of either spiritual or temporal nature. These so-called 'acts of devotion' and may consist of vocal prayers (i.e., 9 Hail Marys) followed by a "Hail, Holy Queen," (or any other prayer), or 9 "Glory be to the Father," or a fixed number of ejaculatory prayers, said while at work, etc.); reception of the holy sacraments; acts of mortification (for example to refrain from unnecessary talk, to abstain from a particular kind of food that we have a craving for, to break off sleep, and to spend this time in a pious manner, by not taking a very comfortable posture while at prayer, etc.)
A Roman Catholic may, by his own free choice, choose the acts of devotion for himself, or better still, the RC can have them determined by his spiritual director. Particular care should be taken to avoid even the least voluntary venial sin and fault.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches and proclaims the story that the first Novena was made by the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, at the command of Jesus Christ Himself. It lasted, the RCC says, from the Ascension of Christ into Heaven, until the descent of the Holy Ghost on the feast of the Pentecost.
Moral corruption has overcome man's thoughts, so that the evil use of man's mind has become exhaustive, continual, and inescapable. In it's pseudo-wisdom, the man-made Roman Catholic Church actually refuses to know God (1 Cor. 1:21) for Satan has blinded the minds of men (2 Cor. 4:4). Roman Catholicism uses it's worldly reason, not to glorify God and advance His kingdom, but to rise up in arrogant opposition to the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:5).
Man unrighteously suppresses the truth in order to embrace the lie. (Romans 1:18,25)
A Roman Catholic may, by his own free choice, choose the acts of devotion for himself, or better still, the RC can have them determined by his spiritual director. Particular care should be taken to avoid even the least voluntary venial sin and fault.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches and proclaims the story that the first Novena was made by the Blessed Virgin and the Apostles, at the command of Jesus Christ Himself. It lasted, the RCC says, from the Ascension of Christ into Heaven, until the descent of the Holy Ghost on the feast of the Pentecost.
Moral corruption has overcome man's thoughts, so that the evil use of man's mind has become exhaustive, continual, and inescapable. In it's pseudo-wisdom, the man-made Roman Catholic Church actually refuses to know God (1 Cor. 1:21) for Satan has blinded the minds of men (2 Cor. 4:4). Roman Catholicism uses it's worldly reason, not to glorify God and advance His kingdom, but to rise up in arrogant opposition to the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:5).
Man unrighteously suppresses the truth in order to embrace the lie. (Romans 1:18,25)
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(NOT to be confused with God's unmerited favor!) 
