What is a Novena? According to Wikipeda, Novena (from the Latin, nine) is the acient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity consisting of private or public prayers repeated over nine consective days or weeks. Novena prayers are customarily printed in small booklets, and the novena is often dedicated to a specific angel, saint, Marian title or the Blessed Virgin Mary, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity.
Franciscan friaries customarily hold a novena of nine (or thirteen) Tuesdays (or nine consecutive days) in honor of St. Anthony of Pauda before his feast day of June 13.
Our Annual Novena to St. Anthony will begin on Tuesday April 16th
for nine consecutive Tuesdays ending on June 11th.
A novena is intercessory (a way of praying to petition spiritual or personal favor through a saint). All novena nights begin at 7pm here at St. Anthony Church and include novena prayers, homily and Benediction with veneration of the relic of St. Anthony of Padua.
Tell your friends who are not from our parish but who make the novena faithfully year after year.