Word: novenae
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...Acres of old maids" (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena-the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena seems to be dying. Next month the magazine Novena Notes, published by the Servile Fathers to promote novenas to Our Sorrowful Mother, will suspend publication because there is no real demand for it. "The novena is no longer very popular," say the editors. "In fact, attendance has fallen to a perilous low mark...
...merely suggesting. Tithing, he said, was "God's plan" for fund raising, and he instructed parishioners to give 5% of their incomes before taxes to the church and 5% to charity. The plan, which was "not optional," would not only eliminate bazaars, etc., but also the novena and Mass donations common in Roman Catholic churches. Any family placed in actual need by the 10% donation, wrote Father Weigand. should come to him for help...
...where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...
...small cults and sects on the other pay more attention to healing, says Zelley, than the so-called "major denominations"-Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc. "[Suppose] a Methodist woman is taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light...
Through her years of darkness, Mrs. Cerra had never lost faith or hope. She prayed continually, made novena after novena. Now, though doctors have hinted that she may not keep her sight, she refuses to worry. She is having too good a time studying faces, fashions and colors. "During the dark days," she says, "I couldn't imagine what lavender looked like. Now I can see it, but, you know, I've got so I don't like...