So I just went with the flow and kept doing it. Then it can be fulfilled.” I felt like this explanation was a little far-fetched, but I figured this was the rule of Catholicism and I didn’t want to break it and then be condemned by God. For one thing, it was exhausting and I was really sleepy, and for another, I felt confused: Why couldn’t we just pray directly to God, but instead prayed to the Virgin Mary? But my parents told me, “The Lord Jesus is the Holy Son and Mary is the Holy Mother, so whenever we want to ask for something from the Lord Jesus, we have to ask Mary first and she’ll ask on our behalf. I actually didn’t want to participate at all. and carry a statue of Mary from house to house, and at each one, we had to kneel down and pray for an hour, repeating those prayers nonstop. There was also a Rosary Procession that required us to get up at 3 a.m.
Didn’t they say that we just had to do these prayers nine days in a row with an intention in mind, and it would come true? Why weren’t any of my hopes being realized? And since they weren’t, why was I still doing that prayer? I started to feel reluctant to complete those prayers, but everyone else in the church was still doing them, so I had no choice but to follow along. But over time, I found that most of the things I was hoping for didn’t happen, and I started to feel puzzled. It was really hard to complete a novena, too, and I always felt really pious when I did. When we finished the prayer, we’d recite the Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, the Gloria Patri, and then we’d finish up with silent contemplation and a final prayer. Before praying, we would focus our thoughts on what we were hoping for, and then find the right prayer to recite. We had a prayer guidebook that had different prayers for different intentions. The purpose is to be graced with God’s help. These prayers were really long-doing the whole thing wasn’t easy.Ī novena is another one of the Catholic prayers, and it’s done over the course of nine days with a single intention in mind. We’d announce the mystery of the Rosary at the first decade, then we’d recite it for the second, third and fourth decades, and the mystery of the Rosary at the fifth decade. First we’d hang a beaded cross pendant off a finger while making the sign of the cross and recite the Apostles’ Creed we’d recite the Lord’s Prayer once, Hail Mary ten times, and the Gloria Patri once.
The Rosary was the most foundational one for us as Catholics, and we’d recite it every evening. The prayers were the ones that left the deepest impression on me. I was born into a Catholic family, and from the time I was a little girl I observed all sorts of religious rituals along with my parents.
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