Dear Basilica Family,

I would like to share with you a beautiful prayer initiative for the entire parish. It is a Novena prayed to the blessed Mother.

This brief, daily prayer for nine months from the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25, to the birth of Christ on Christmas Day (representing the time that our Lord was in His Mother's womb), asks for three intentions of our Blessed Mother. One intention will be prayed for parish wid. I ask that you pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. The other two are for your intentions as you pray for all three intentions for nine months.

I encourage you to join me in beseeching our Blessed Mother through this ancient form of prayer, and with the participation of a vast number of parishioners. 

Please join us on March 24 as we begin our daily prayer novena to the Blessed Mother.

Devotedly in the Lord,

The Very Rev. Aquinas M. Nichols
Pastor, Basilica of St. John

Click HERE for the novena