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Day 5 - Novena to the Saints in Heaven for the saints on earth

Day 5 Novena Reflection

The Holy Spirit intends to make us all Saints.

We are meant to progress in the Christian life. To grow in faith. To continue to be converted.
We are called to a new way of life, a lifestyle, of ongoing conversion.

That does not happen by our own strength of will. To the contrary, it happens as we empty ourselves of ourselves, in order to be filled with His Divine Life. The Apostle Paul understood his own inadequacies.

Novena to the Saints in Heaven

He called himself the chief among sinners (1 Tim. 1:15)

"The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners."

He called himself the foremost because he believed that he was. He did not have a bad self-image. He understood the path to holiness and knew the gift of grace.

He also opens for us a key to unlocking the mystery in his letter to the Galatians. He writes:

Novena to the Saints in Heaven

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)

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We follow the same Risen Jesus and are invited to embrace the same way of life. I conclude with an excerpt from an explanation of Christian holiness in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

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"All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity.
"All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

In order to reach this perfection, the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ's gift, so that doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus, the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.

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Novena Prayer to the Saints in Heaven for the saints on earth

Beloved Father, through the life, death and resurrection of your only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, we have become your adopted sons and daughters.

Through Baptism we are now members of His Body, the Church, which is Your family.

Our Savior Jesus taught us that whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother. We thank you that promise includes each one of us.

As members of the family of Jesus we are now reunited to you, in Him. Through Baptism we have become adopted sons and daughters in your Beloved Son.

Novena to the Saints in Heaven

We now turn to you in prayer, through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit as OUR FATHER, ABBA.

We pray that, by the power of your Holy Spirit, you would raise up in our midst holy men, women and children, in every Nation, culture and walk of life.

Men, women and children who are so conformed to your Son Jesus that they make Him known by their words, deeds and life of love and sacrificial service.

Men, women and children who are saints for this urgent hour.
Men, Women and children who manifest the power of heaven on earth. Who continue the ministry of Jesus, your Son and our Savior, through signs of the kingdom to come.

Novena to the Saints in Heaven

May these holy men and women multiply - providing leaders and servants for a New Missionary Age of the Church.

We ask you, humbly, to help.

And, we pray for ourselves and our families, that we could grow closer and closer to you, every day, that we would be transformed by your grace and our free cooperation with your grace - Empowered by your Holy Spirit to become new creations in Jesus Christ.

Amen