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First Communion Novena: Day 1

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events, Spiritual Growth 7 Comments

Cate and I began a nine-day novena this morning in preparation for her First Holy Communion on May 4th. If you would like a copy of this novena, let me know via email. It is very beautiful! I will also publish the daily prayers each morning.

Opening Prayer Before Each Day:

Very soon I will receive Jesus
for the first time in Holy Communion!
I can hardly wait!
I must get myself ready.
I must make my heart ready for Jesus
to come to me in this special way.
I will make my heart a beautiful garden.
I will fill it with flowers to please Him.
When He comes into my heart He will be very happy.
He will see how much I love Him!
I will work very hard to make many flowers for Jesus.

Dear Mother Mary and good Saint Joseph,
please help me get ready to receive
Jesus in Holy Communion!

Holy Guardian Angel, help me to do my best each day!

Day 1 Prayer:

The flowers I will make today for the garden of my heart are roses.

I will make them by being kind to others.

Dear Jesus,

When You were a child like me,
You were always kind to everyone.
I want to be kind to others just like You.
Today I will try very hard to be kind to everyone,
at home, at school, and at play.
I will try to be just like You, Jesus.
Each time I do something kind for someone,
it will be a beautiful rose for the garden of my heart.

I hope you will like my roses Jesus.
Sometimes they are very hard to make.

Dear Mother Mary and Saint Joseph,
please help me to be kind to others today.

Draw a picture of yourself making roses in your heart for Jesus.

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Another project that Cate and I will start this weekend is a First Holy Communion notebook. I got the idea for it at 4Real Learning. Here’s the link. We are late in getting started but that is the story of my life these days. Better late than never.

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Finally, I must apologize to those of you who have been waiting (perhaps) for the next installment of my conversion story. I don’t wish to make excuses…and so I won’t. I will only say that this chapter–“Hitting Bottom”–has been the hardest to write of all. Thank you for your patience.

Have a beautiful weekend, everyone.

With love in Christ,

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  2. Christine says

    We use this Welcome Jesus Novena written by Fr. Dennerie and Sr. Mary Magdela too. Four of my children have benefitted from it so far.

    May God bless your First Communicant!

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  5. Nora says

    My daughter makes her first holy communion in three weeks in surrey, England. Can you please email me the link for all nine days of the Novena.

    It’s a good reminder that it’s not all about the dress and cake!

    Many thanks

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  7. BeRnice says

    Good evening, thank you for your beautiful first communion novena! I did day one with my daughter tonight. We both loved it! Would you be so kind as to send a copy of the remainder of the novena? Thank you so much! God bless you and your family.

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