Andrew’s Feast Day

Today is the feast of St. Andrew and the day we begin the St. Andrew Christmas Novena.

NOVENA TO SAINT ANDREW

Hail and blessed be the hour and moment 
in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, 
at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. 
In that hour, vouchsafe, O my God! 
to hear my prayer and grant my desires, 
through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, 
and of His Blessed Mother. 

Amen.

(It is piously believed that whoever recites the above prayer fifteen times a day 
from the feast of St. Andrew, on November 30th, until Christmas will obtain what is asked.)

[Imprimatur: +MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, Archbishop of New York, New York, February 6, 1897.]

 

Happy Feast Day Andrew

This picture was taken in the Vatican on his trip to Europe last fall.