How to do a 54 days rosary novena

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Hi! has anyone here ever done a 54 days rosary novena? all i know is that i need to do 3 novenas for petition and then followed by 3 novenas for thanksgiving. I have read somewhere that i have to do it with the usual rosary, is that true? coz i just found 1 webpage saying this
I don’t have the blue booklet that people are talking abt, so i’d be grateful if anyone can give a link that give some more details for the novena!
 
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Yes, you use an ordinary rosary for the 54-day Novena.

Step-by-step instructions , including meditations, are here. I sometimes use this page. It has the original version without Luminous Mysteries, and an updated version with Luminous Mysteries. It is your choice whether to say Luminous Mysteries as part of the Novena or not.

http://prayerflowers.com/54DayNovena.htm

If you would like something less flowery/ more simple, Fr. Heilman also gives instructions here, which I also use sometimes. But note that his instructions omit the actual Act of Spiritual Communion before you tell Our Lady you offer her “this spiritual communion” so you’ll just have to remember to make a spiritual communion in the right spot.

 
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Oh sorry i meant if it has to be done in addition to the usual daily rosary prayed, i.e. 10 decades in total?
Thank you for the link! it’s very comprehensive 🙂
 
The more decades the merrier! If you are only able to pray five decades a day, prayed with a sincere and contrite heart. For Our Lord loves it more when we pray 5 decades sincerely than 20 in vain.

I can’t remember if the quote is from San Padre Pio, but a quote from a saint that I like goes something like this:

“Once you are done with your obligations to the state and your family, pray the rosary always and often.”

Basically you can never pray the rosary enough.
As for the 54day novena, the pdf Fr. Heilman works well. The meditations and additional prayers works well.
 
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all i know is that i need to do 3 novenas for petition and then followed by 3 novenas for thanksgiving.
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Be careful you do not fall into superstition.

Praying anything, from a full Rosary to a simply Our Father, for 54 days is a way to help discipline ourselves to daily prayer. It is not magic.
 
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Be careful you do not fall into superstition.

Praying anything, from a full Rosary to a simply Our Father, for 54 days is a way to help discipline ourselves to daily prayer. It is not magic.
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The 54 Day Rosary Novena is an established devotion that many people pray. Fr. Heilman has promoted large groups praying it. I’ve done it about a half dozen times in the last few years with his group (currently they just finished one, I am trying to finish as I got 9 days from the end and fell off track). Asking Our Lady for a favor and giving thanks for it is part of the traditional novena.

It is not superstition, although I’m guessing from many of your other posts recently that you wouldn’t care for it because it is a devotion based in private revelation.

I find it a very fruitful devotion as it encourages me to pray the Rosary daily. It would only be superstitious if the person was praying it assuming that they had to do it perfectly so their wish would be granted. I am not seeing any of that coming from the person asking - they just want to know how the novena is supposed to work. It’s normal when you first do a new novena you want to “do it right”, or at least that’s how I felt when I started to pray them. You want to make your best gift to Mary.

There is absolutely nothing wrong or superstitious about praying novenas. If one should miss a day or say the “wrong” prayer or whatever, just know that it’s the though that counts. At the same time, some people who are trying to build a prayer life find it very helpful to use these types of structured prayers, the same way someone who has just started working out will follow an exercise program developed by a trainer. After one becomes more used to praying/ more confident in prayer, they will know what works for them and sometimes it’s their own more free-form creation, sometimes it is a return to the tried and true traditional devotion.

Be careful that you do not become overly critical of traditional devotions. That is an unfortunate tendency that the Church had during the 60s and 70s and I am so happy to see Fr. Heilman, Mother Angelica and others have rejected that attitude and are getting us back to praying in the good old ways.
 
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The 54 day rosary novena is very close to my heart and I hope you find it to be a fruitful devotion as well. I use the little blue book you mentioned in your post, but the link tis_bearself gave you has the exact same prayers.

P.S. Welcome to the forum!
 
It is the words about " I need to pray 3 for this and 3 for that" that makes me suspect someone has picked up one of those “guaranteed to work!” pamphlets.

I make and give away dozens of Rosaries/Chaplets every year, I love the rosary.
 
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It is the words about " I need to pray 3 for this and 3 for that" that makes me suspect
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It’s not superstition, thats literally what Our Lady of Pompeii promises us through the revelation of little Fortuna Agrelli. That we make three Novenas in petition and thanksgiving.
 
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It is the words about " I need to pray 3 for this and 3 for that" that makes me suspect someone has picked up one of those “guaranteed to work!” pamphlets.

I make and give away dozens of Rosaries/Chaplets every year, I love the rosary.
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As CarmeliteKnight said, the 54 day Rosary Novena comes from the 19th century apparition of Our Lady of the Rosary aka Our Lady of Pompeii to Fortuna Agrelli. The devotion was promoted by Blessed Bartolo Longo, who is known for being a former Satanic priest who converted, reformed, and dedicated much of his life to promoting Our Lady and the rosary. He built the original Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, which was later expanded upon by Pope Pius XI.

While this apparition has not been officially “Vatican approved” (and occurred before the current “approval processes” were in place), Pope Pius XI authorized the current shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, Pope Paul VI crowned the image of Our Lady and Jesus, and Pope John Paul II visited the shrine twice and beatified Blessed Bartolo Longo. So this devotion is seen as traditionally accepted, and is on quite firm ground.

The image of Our Lady of Pompeii that was crowned (shown at the top of the Miracle Hunter link I posted) is well known and frequently venerated among Italian Catholics, and can be found also in some Italian-American churches. In one of the Italian-American churches I frequent, I believe there is also a depiction of Our Lady of Pompeii appearing to Fortuna Agrelli (who is depicted as a young girl lying sick in bed), hanging in the church.

http://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/pompeii/index.html

Obviously it is not necessary for one to know all this background or believe in the private revelation in order to pray the 54 day Novena, but I myself think it’s rather nice, and I have hope that Blessed Bartolo will be canonized. I myself have not yet been to the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, but it’s on my list of holy places I would like to visit.
 
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I am on my 2nd 54 day rosary novena. I did one almost a year ago and it definitely instilled in me the desire to pray the rosary almost daily. My intention hasn’t been answered yet but I have faith that in God’s time it will be. I find that the rosary now calms my mind and eases any anxiety I have.
 
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