How to Organise a Novena on Twitter

This is a suggested way to organise a Novena on Twitter.

Decide on the Novena you want to use and either save a link to it or send the prayer or a link to it to me (DM me for an email address) and I will post it here.

Announce the Novena on twitter: what or whom it's for, where the text can be found. Ask those who wish to let you know if they would like a daily reminder.

Send a link to the announcement to the people in the box below on the right, all of whom have asked to be informed whenever a Novena is to be said on Twitter, asking whether they would like a daily reminder.

(What follows is what I do: happy to post alternatives, especially better alternatives.)

Create an Outlook appointment for the nine days with the text of your tweet, which should contain the addressees, the Day the Novena has reached and a link to the text. All you need do then is go through the appointments one by one changing the date.

An example is:

@CCFather @louiseallain @MenAreLikeWine1 @dilysetc @LibbyMag @sitsio @73books Novena Day 4 http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/novena-to-saint-joachim-and-saint-ann.html

If this takes you past 140 characters simply put the text of two tweets in:

@CCFather @louiseallain @MenAreLikeWine1 @dilysetc @LibbyMag @sitsio @73books Novena Day 4 http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/novena-to-saint-joachim-and-saint-ann.html

@AthanasiusII @idlerambler @pattif21 @matermari @BattlementClare @PartTimePilgrim Novena Day 4http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/novena-to-saint-joachim-and-saint-ann.html

This is a very prescriptive way of doing things but it works. Please feel free to send me alternatives and I'll post them here.

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Novena to Saint Joseph

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O glorious descendant of the kings of Judah, inheritor of the virtues of all the patriarchs, just and happy St. Joseph, listen to my prayer. You are my glorious protector and shall ever be, after Jesus and Mary, the object of my most profound veneration and confidence. You are the most hidden Saint, and are particularly the patron of those who serve God with the greatest purity and fervour. In union with all those who have ever been most devoted to you I now dedicate myself to your service, beseeching you, for the sake of Jesus Christ, who vouchsafed to love and obey you as a son, to become a father to me, and to obtain for me the filial respect, confidence and love of a child towards you. 

O powerful advocate of all Christians, whose intercession, as St. Theresa assures us, has never been found to fail, deign to intercede for me now, and to implore for me the particular intention of this Novena. 

(Mention your intentions here)

Say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be. 

Present me, O great Saint, to the adorable Trinity, with Whom you had so glorious and so intimate a correspondence. Obtain that I may never efface by sin the Sacred Image, according to the likeness of which I was created. Beg for me that my divine Redeemer would enkindle in my heart and in all hearts, the fire of His Love, and infuse therein the virtues of His adorable infancy: his purity, simplicity, obedience, and humility. 

Obtain for me likewise a lively devotion to your virgin spouse, and protect me so powerfully in life and death, that I may have the happiness of dying as you did, in the friendship of my Creator, and under the immediate protection of the Mother of God. Amen.
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