novenas

This brings us to the last kind of novenas, those which are indulgenced.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

The so-called "ceremonial" candles are plain white novenas that they sell at the dollar store and are used for both religious and utilitarian purposes.

Did Ariz. shooting suspect have occult shrine or left over Halloween decor? 2011

Looking around our house, I would see all the religious articles, medals, rosary beads, novenas, and prayers, all the symbols of devotion that Iris had faithfully accumulated over the years.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

These little booklets, with their novenas to an infinite number of medically specialized saints — to San Roque for protection against pestilence, for example, or to San Rafael for protection during childbirth — were reprinted by the thousands and provided another form of medical treatment when "earthly" medicine failed. 118 Catholic public ritual also promoted a cult of saints with healing powers.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Looking around our house, I would see all the religious articles, medals, rosary beads, novenas, and prayers, all the symbols of devotion that Iris had faithfully accumulated over the years.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

My parents still went to mass on Sunday and on holy days, but they stopped going to First Fridays, stopped going to Monday novenas, and began leaving the church right after Communion, as soon as their technical obligation was complete.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

By the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, it had disseminated an enormous quantity of prayers, novenas, and religious tracts for the prevention and cure of disease.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

My parents still went to mass on Sunday and on holy days, but they stopped going to First Fridays, stopped going to Monday novenas, and began leaving the church right after Communion, as soon as their technical obligation was complete.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

There was the candor of the confessional, but no novenas.

Rick Horowitz: Reunion Season: Back to Campus, and to New Old Friends 2010

Looking around our house, I would see all the religious articles, medals, rosary beads, novenas, and prayers, all the symbols of devotion that Iris had faithfully accumulated over the years.

Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010