1. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my own
salvation, and for the salvation of all the world, the mystery of the
birth of our divine Saviour.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
2. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the sufferings of the most holy Virgin and of St. Joseph in
that long and weary journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem; I offer Thee their
anxiety of heart when they found no place wherein to shelter themselves,
when the Saviour of the world was to be born.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
3. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the stable where Jesus was born, the hard straw which served
Him for a bed, the cold He suffered, the swaddling‐clothes which bound
Him, the tears He shed, and His tender infant cries.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
4. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the pain which the holy Child Jesus felt in His tender infant
body when He submitted it to the keen knife of circumcision; I offer Thee
that precious blood which then first He shed for the salvation of the
whole race of man.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
5. Eternal Father, I offer to Thy honor and glory, and for my eternal
salvation, the humility, mortification, patience, charity, all the virtues
of the Child Jesus; and I thank Thee, and I love Thee, and I bless Thee
without end, for this ineffable mystery of the incarnation of the divine
Word.
Glory be to the Father, etc.
_V._ The Word was made flesh.
_R._ And dwelt among us.
_Let Us Pray._
O God, Whose only‐begotten Son was made manifest to us in the substance of
our flesh; grant, we beseech Thee, that through Him our souls may be
inwardly renewed, Whom our eyes have seen externally like unto ourselves;
Who livest and reignest with Thee forever and ever. Amen.
An indulgence of one year, to be gained each day of this novena,
which may be made either in public or private, nine days previous
to the twenty‐fifth day of any month; provided that the faithful
assist at it with a contrite heart (Pius IX.).