Courtesy of Catholic University in Washington, this novena is being prayed by CUA students once a day for nine consecutive days.
Catholic U. also developed a Web site,
cuacares.cua.edu, dedicated to responding to people in need.
Novena Prayer for the People of Haiti
All powerful and all-loving God of mercy, Look kindly on the people of Haiti in their suffering. Ease their burdens and make their faith strong so that they may always have confidence and trust in your care. Help them face the difficulties of this tragedy of nature with courage. Bring their dead into your eternal rest and comfort those who mourn them. Bring their wounded and all those who suffer into your healing presence and strengthen those who serve them. And, finally, O God, bring us all an abiding sense of your care and compassion that we may respond with generous hearts, open hands and a renewed sense of solidarity with all your children, especially those in greatest need. You are our all-merciful God, forever and ever. Amen.
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I was received back as a Catholic after Mass this afternoon at the cathedral church here in Rouyn-Noranda, QC. (Dominion of Canada). I had renounced the Roman Catholic Church and returned to the Protestant Episcopal Church over 40 years ago; during that period I had become a Lutheran, in one of the Independent Confessional Lutheran fellowships. Today I was received back into communion with the Catholic Church after making my confession.
As penance, the priest told me to pray for Haiti, in the wake of this dreadful disaster. I said an impromptu prayer after Mass, then, on returning home, after supper I searched for a Catholic written prayer to use. I came across this one, which I am going to pray (as I reworded it a bit in Tudor "prayer language" English style) for nine days as a novma prayer, in the spirit of my penance, in thanks for being restored as a practising Catholic, and for the suffering people of Haiti.
Gerald Parker (Rouyn-Noranda, QC., Dominion of Canada)
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