Question about Novenas

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In mass on Sunday, there was a slip of paper that had a novena to a St on it (I can’t remember which…). Below the prayer it said to make 12 copies (or something) and leave them around for others to find, and in 4 days your needs will be met. Isn’t that superstition?
 
Yes, the idea of leaving copies in churches, email strings, chain letters, newspaper classified announcements helping with a prayer is all nonsense. However, saying the novena yourself or directly asking someone to pray it also, is absolutely not supersition. Please don’t confuse the novena or other prayer form with the crazy “advertising” plans people sometimes think up! 😛

Asking for prayer for your intentions or asking others to join you in an intention is a wonderful thing though. The prayer boards here on CAF are a great example. People are simply asking for the prayer and we who pray will receive whatever blessings or graces God wills for us, there are no special promises that if we get X number of other people to pray we’ll get an answer (win the lottery, etc etc)

God bless, I’ll be praying for you.
 
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