Sentences with novena
no·ve·na
N n - Seeking direction, Bernard made a novena in preparation for the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
- Those who cannot take part in the Novena devotions at Knock Shrine because of distance, illness or any other serious problem can share in all its blessings by saying the novena prayer at home during the nine days.
- Inside, the nuns and their guests were making a novena to the Sacred Heart.
- Another Garifuna tradition is a novena, the recitation of the rosary for nine days after a death.
- The novena in Carrickcruppen has been well-attended by many of the Lislea crew and many from further afield.
- A great crowd attended the first of the annual parish novenas of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal services last night.
- A great woman for weekly Mass, she had a special attachment to her favourite novenas and her prayer life was an essential and inherent part of her daily life for many years.
- She was a regular at the Monday night novenas and would go to Melleray as often as she could.
- The rite involves incense, candles, litanies and novenas, and set hymns, often in Latin.
- A lady imbued with a strong sense of Christianity, she was a great woman for her prayers and novenas and her strong Catholic faith served as a guiding light and source of strength down through the years.
- Praying a novena is known to be efficacious in having one's prayers granted.