27 day novenas?

[pachomius]

Greetings to all!

I seem to remember hearing about a novena variation where the novena is extended to 27 days, but I can’t seem to find much information about this from google.

Does anybody know anything about this tradition? For instance - is it just a matter of saying a novena three times in a row? Or are there novenas that are written specifically with 27 days in mind?

I seem to remember that 9 days are for asking your petition and 9 days are for saying thanks, but then what is the third nine days for?

Thanks in advance!

 

[stbruno]

I found this information 54-Day Rosary Novena
fisheaters.com/novenas.html
*This Novena – actually one cycle of three 9-Day Novenas followed by another cycle of three 9-Day Novenas – (3 Novenas)X(9 days each)=27 days; (27 days)X(2 cycles)=54 days – is said to be especially efficacious. It has its origins in a private relevation granted in 1884 to the family of Fortuna Agrelli, a girl who was so seriously ill that her doctors had given up on her. She and her family began praying the Rosary, and saw a vision of Our Lady, sitting on a throne and holding the Christ Child, with a Rosary in her hands, and accompanied by SS Dominic and Catherine of Siena. Fortuna addressed Our Lady: “Queen of the Holy Rosary, be gracious to me, restore me to health! I have already prayed to Thee in a novena, O Mary, but have not yet experienced Thy aid. I am so anxious to be cured!”

Our Lady is said to have replied: “Child, you have invoked me by various titles and have always obtained favors from me. Now, since you have called Me by that title so pleasing to me, ‘Queen of the Holy Rosary’, I can no longer refuse the favor you petition; for this name is most precious and dear to me. Make three novenas, and you shall obtain all.”

The Queen of the Holy Rosary is said to have appeared again, saying: “Whoever desires to obtain favors from me should make three novenas of the prayers of the Rosary, and three novenas in thanksgiving.”*

Pray the Rosary (5 decades) once a day for 27 days in the spirit of petition, with your intentions in mind.

Then pray the Rosary (5 decades) once a day for 27 days in the spirit of thanksgiving – whether you believe your petitions have been granted or not.

Start the entire cycle with the Joyful Mysteries first, the Sorrowful Mysteries second, and ending with the Glorious Mysteries

 

[Poor_Clare_tobe]

The 27 Day LRosary Novena or more acurately one might say the 54 Day Rosary Novena referenced and explained so well above is what immediately came to my mind

Blessings

 

[pachomius]

Thank you both … I, too, think that must be what I was thinking of … God bless!