54 Day Rosary Novena

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Has anyone here ever done the 54 Rosary Novena? For those of you not familiar with the novena, you are supposed to day the rosary every day for 27 days asking for your favor. The next 27 days you say a rosary in thanksgiving for your request.

My problem: I’m not the best organized person in the world. I would like to do this novena, but I’m afraid I’m not going be be able to keep track of the days. For those of you who have done this, what was your organizational method?

Thank you.
 
I started praying this Novena in '83 and made it a continuous thing till a few years ago and pray it now only when I feel called…It’s a very powerful Novena…
In the back of the book there is Novena Record to keep track…
I used a pencil to check and would erase it all after the Novena was done …🙂
 
Just stumbled across this thread and thought I’d resurrect it since I happen to be in the middle of a 54 day novena right now.

Anybody else?

Has anyone had any positive experiences (answered prayers)?
 
mommyof4 said:
I would like to do this novena, but I’m afraid I’m not going be be able to keep track of the days. For those of you who have done this, what was your organizational method?.
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I’ve done this novena several times–in the back of the little blue book that gives the prayers for the novena is a chart where you can cross off each day as you say the rosary. Unfortunately, the first time I said the novena for some reason I used a pen to mark off the days, so now I have to mark them on a calendar…😊
 
I just did a nine day Novena to The Little Flower and and forgot to say one of the days, I shudder to think what I’d do in a 54 day Novena.:o
 
Right or wrong, if I accidentally skip a day, I just double up the next day. :cool:
 
I did this for the first time over the summer. Actually one of the things I’m really good with is remembering dates, so I just always remembered which day I was on. But you can always mark it on a calendar, or maybe if you have a special notebook for just spiritual exercises and prayers, you can keep track of the days there.
 
My mobile is my best friend for reminding me to do things.
If you set your calender on your mobile to remind you, thats a helpful way to get through. That way you are presetting the days and can keep count that way. Set the remind as for eg ‘novena, day 1’ etc…
 
mommyof4 said:
Has anyone here ever done the 54 Rosary Novena? For those of you not familiar with the novena, you are supposed to say the rosary every day for 27 days asking for your favor. The next 27 days you say a rosary in thanksgiving for your request.

My problem: I’m not the best organized person in the world. I would like to do this novena, but I’m afraid I’m not going be be able to keep track of the days. For those of you who have done this, what was your organizational method?

Thank you.
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I have done this novena and the results were stunning. The day that I start the novena, I make a note of it in my appointment diary and then I continue saying it each day. Occassionally I have a count to see where I am up to and mark on that day’s page how many days have elasped. It is a sloppy method and I should organise it better than this, but it seems to work.

Here is a webpage that I made regarding this novena:

missionbell.homestead.com/54Dayrosarynovena.html

Visit our family website at:

homestead.com/missionbell/index.html

(Saints, devotional items, prayers, miracles, articles on autism, poems, panic attack management, novena for the healing of autism, educational items and more).
 
I found that by marking each day and date on a sheet of paper and placing it in a place that will remind you daily is of great help. I put the list in front of the coffee pot each night and on my pillow each morning. I did not miss a day.
 
54 days seem a bit long…
How if the petition were granted before/after the 27 days?
Do we still need to pray the petition for 27 days and thanksgiving for another 27 days?

Is it just normal rosary? or are there additional prayer to it?

Sorry for asking so many question, butI never heard of it before. :o

It will be wonderful if someone could actually help me on how to pray it. I’m looking for a suitable novena as I’m planning to change job. please pray for me, if you could. 🙂
 
The 54 days actually goes quite quickly. When you look back after it is completed, you will be amazed at how quickly life passes. If your prayer is answered before you have completed the 54 days, you should finish the entire 54 days.

The 54 day novena is the recitation of the rosary and all of its mysteries, as you would normally do. Some people may meditate on their petition, as well.
 
I write out on the calendar when each of the 6 sub-novenas starts 🙂 You know, it’s 3 novenas of petition and then 3 novenas of thanksgiving. Our calendar is in a place where I see it every day.
 
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I write out on the calendar when each of the 6 sub-novenas starts 🙂 You know, it’s 3 novenas of petition and then 3 novenas of thanksgiving. Our calendar is in a place where I see it every day.
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I think I understand a little bit better now.
So you mean we pray 6 rosaries x 9 times?

So 3 petitions, 3 thanksgiving, 3 petitions, 3 thanksgiving etc?
 
I was just curious. I will finish a 54 day novena today. Since my intentions are answered in God’s own way and time should I not pray it again with the same intentions? I trust that they will be answered. Any thoughts?

God Bless.
 
I’m in the middle of one right now, finishing the first 27 this friday.

It has saved my Life (capital L), and changed me. I’ve had quite the spiritual roller coaster in the last 5 months, and there was this sin that i could just not kick.

Boom, 54 day novena. It’s very hard to complete unless you are uber serious about your petition
 
vince2paul said:
I think I understand a little bit better now.
So you mean we pray 6 rosaries x 9 times?

So 3 petitions, 3 thanksgiving, 3 petitions, 3 thanksgiving etc?
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Not quite, no. You’re praying 3 novenas in a row for your petition, then you pray 3 novenas in a row in thanksgiving.

I learned about this when I saw a little book from ACTA publications called “Rosary Novenas to Our Lady” (ISBN 0-87946-244-2) It’s called “The Little Blue Book”, and contains meditations to read before each decade. This version includes the Mysteries of Light. I also have an older version I bought as a backup, but I prefer the artwork in the newer version!

I got around the “calendar” in the back by making my own little calendar on a Post-It. I write my petition at the top of the calendar, then I mark off each day as I finish the prayers, and I then move the Post-It to the beginning of the next Mystery.

I have found this to be an extremely powerful Novena, in part because you are supposed to select one specific petition. For example, instead of praying for “Peace in the world,” pray “That my child so-and-so become a faithful Catholic.” One effect of this is the knowledge that I’m going to spend the next two months focusing on this intention, it needs to be something very important to me personally. I have had petitions change slightly over the course of the Novena, as my prayers help me view the situation in a different light. And, if I forget to do it one day, I double-up the next day. If I forget two days in a row, then I start the Novena again.

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I always start the 54 day novena on the 1st of the month. Then I always know where I am. Using that method, you will finish the novena prior to the end of the 2nd month. I just pray a rosary those day and start the 54 day novena again when I get to the 1st of the next month. I say it continually and get 6 full novenas in a year. I still have my mother’s frayed, well used little black hard cover book. I recently bought the updated version which includes the Luminous Mysteries.

I would love to find it on a CD and add it to my IPOD, but so far haven’t been able to find anything except print and cassette.

Barbara M:)
 
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