I'm Deacon Keith Fournier the
editor-in-chief of Catholic online and
one of the things I love about being a
Catholic Christian is the rich tradition
of Prayer so many different ways to pray
after all prayer is simply growing in an
ongoing conversation with the Lord
living in a communion with Jesus Christ
and in Jesus Christ with the Trinity the
Apostle Paul told the Christians in
Thessalonians that they should pray
without ceasing how do you do that
there's all kinds of ways and one of
those ways in the Catholic tradition is
called the novena and it is a nine-day
protracted period of prayer for a
specific need people gather together and
pray for nine straight days and we have
a tradition that says when Jesus told
the disciples right before he ascended
to go to the upper room and wait and
pray and he would send the Holy Spirit
they did that for nine days so faithful
Catholics pray novenas all the time and
they asked for the intercession of those
who have gone before us marked with the
sign of faith; our elder brothers and
sisters in the Lord who are praying for
us because we're joined in a community
of love we want to be a part of what is
becoming a novena explosion and the
internet is helping to foster a prayer
network of novenas all over the world
we're about to launch one of those
prayer networks stay tuned we'll let you
know and you can be a part of changing
history through prayer through
concentrated prayer by joining the
novena of Catholic online god bless you
you
