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Home » Beautiful & Prayerful Christmas Traditions: The St Andrew Christmas Novena

Beautiful & Prayerful Christmas Traditions: The St Andrew Christmas Novena

November 24, 2021 by Deirdre Skipper Leave a Comment

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In this post you can get a printable of the beautiful prayer known as the St Andrew Christmas Novena.

purple graphic art with star, manger and st andrew prayer.

What is the St Andrew’s Christmas Novena Prayer?

The St Andrew Christmas Novena is a beautiful and simple prayer that helps you meditate upon the Birth of Our Lord.

It reads:

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born Of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother.

Amen

Who was Saint Andrew?

mosaic of st andrew in green and red with beard and x cross
Britanica.com

St. Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist who became an apostle of Jesus. He followed Jesus and brought his brother Simon to him.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).

John 1:40-41 NIV

He died a martyr and was crucified on a saltire cross (an “X” shape) in Greece in 60 AD. The saltire cross is the national flag of Scotland. St Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, and also of Romania and Greece.

saltire flag, cross of st andrew on rocky outcropping by the ocean

What is a novena prayer?

The word novena comes to us from the Latin word “novem,” meaning nine. A novena is a prayer repeated for nine days or prayed over a period of nine days. This comes from an ancient biblical tradition in the Book of Acts when the apostles and Mary the Mother of God went to the upper room to pray for 9 days between the Ascencion of Our Lord into heaven and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

When Should I pray this prayer?

This prayer is not prayed for 9 days leading up to the feast like a regular novena, but rather for 25 days between St. Andrew’s feast and Christmas.

It is piously believed that whoever recites the St. Andrew Christmas novena prayer FIFTEEN times each day from the feast of St. Andrew (November 30th) until Christmas Eve will obtain the favor requested.

Ascension Press

In order to remember to pray it 15 times per day, my kids and I plan to pray it after grace at breakfast, lunch, and supper. We will do it 5 times at each of the three meals to make 15 times. Since it is so short, it will be easy to pray 5 times in a row.

My kids are accustomed to repeating prayers and hymns for memorization so this won’t be weird for us! But do what works for you if you want to aim for the 15 times a day!

I included a tracker for this novena too so you can easily check off each day as you go either on a separate page or along the bottom.

If you want reminders of when and how to pray this novena delivered straight to your inbox, head over to PrayMoreNovenas.com to sign up for reminders!

St Andrew Novena Prayer Free Printable

In order to help you remember to pray this lovely Christmas prayer for the next 25 days I have designed a free printable prayer and trackers! I decided to make it in violet since that is a liturgical colour for Advent. We like to keep it a little simpler for advent in our home with evergreens before we break out the super Christmas-y decor closer to the season.

You can print this and put it on your fridge or desk so it is easy to remember to pray it every day.

This is a 4 page document:

Page 1 is the prayer alone, then the tracker alone on the second page. Page 3 has the prayer and tracker together and page 4 is a slightly enlarged version that fills the whole page (I thought I would let you decide which you prefer!).

To grab your free printable simply subscribe below!

I hope you enjoy your St. Andrew Novena Prayer and Tracker! Let me know in comments if you have ever prayed this beautiful traditional prayer before. If you are reading this at a different time of year, why not pin this on a board for next Christmas?

pinterest pin with st andrew christmas prayer on purple background

No time right now? Pin it for later!

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