Novena to the Holy Innocents
Novena, 19 December to 27 December
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A Help to Devotion, 1853Source and notes
Day 1
December 28th.
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O Divine Jesus, Lamb of God, immortal King of glory, for whom innocent infants were the first victims immolated by the cruelty of an ambitious tyrant; be blessed for having collected in the garden of Thy Church these sacred flowers, yet scarcely unclosed, that they might not be corrupted by the pestilential air of the world: grant, I pray, that, as the holy innocents confessed Thee by their deaths, so we may in works confess Thy most holy name; and after having honoured Thee on earth by a Christian and holy life, may become worthy to praise Thee eternally, together with all the choirs of Angels and Saints in Heaven. Three Glorias.