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Don’t worry about it. Just double up today and ask God, Who is not restricted to time as we are, to place the prayers in the correct slot. As far as I know, we don’t know with certainty that God will do that for us, but we have nothing to lose by asking Him.Wait, that’s the Saint Andrew Novena?
Oops. I thought it started today (someone gave me a holy card with the prayer on it, and I could’ve sworn it started December 1).
Since we stop at midnight on the 24th, we must begin on Nov 30th, to enable us to complete 25 days of praying the novena. The prayer wasn’t started by St Andrew, and we’re praying directly to God, not asking for St Andrew’s intercession, but because it always begins on St Andrew’s Feast Day, Nov 30th, people began to call it the St Andrew Christmas Novena, apparently in order to distinguish it from the shorter 9-Day Christmas Novena that begins on Dec 16th, and lasts a day longer, through Christmas Day.