GMU Catholic Campus Ministry
has been blessed overwhelmingly with growth in grace and in
numbers.
Please
join us in praying this novena every day from Thursday, September 9
through Friday, September 17, the Feast of St. Robert
Bellarmine.
Let us ask St. John Bosco and
Mary, Help of Christians to help us find the land and
other resources we need to
accommodate our rapidly expanding community.
St. John Bosco was devoted to the young and trusted in God, in the
face of great difficulty,
to provide a home that could accommodate the growth of his
ministry. He had a great
devotion to Mary, Help of Christians and once said, "Trust all
things to Jesus in the
Blessed Sacrament and to Mary, Help of Christians and you will see
what miracles are."
The novena appears below, and can also be found on our web site at
www.gmuccm.org.
Novena to
St. John Bosco and Mary, Help of Christians
Saint John Bosco, in
need of special help, we appeal with confidence to you, for we require not only
spiritual graces, but also temporal ones, particularly the land and material
resources necessary to accommodate our growing community.
Father and Teacher
of Youth, who on earth had such great devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
and to Mary, Help of Christians, obtain for us the grace we now request, and
also joyful acceptance of the will of God.
Mary, Help of
Christians, we love you, and we turn to you with our needs. Grant to us, as you
did to your servant Saint John Bosco, your special protection and
help.
Heavenly Father, you
blessed St. John Bosco with zeal for serving young people, and generously
provided for all of his needs. By the help of his prayers and the intercession
of Mary, Help of Christians, help us to trust in your providential care. We ask
this through Christ our Lord.
Saint Robert
Bellarmine, pray for us!
Blessed John Henry
Newman, pray for us!
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John More, Associate
Campus Minister
GMU Catholic Campus
Ministry
4515 Roberts
Rd., Fairfax, VA 22032
(703) 425-0022
x304
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