The fullness of God’s design for the Family transforms a husband and wife into a Mother and Father.   While Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are commercial holidays, the Mother’s and Father’s Day Novena celebrated by the Missionaries of the Holy Family is a spiritual way of remembering Mothers and Fathers.   Who can be remembered in the Mother’s and Father’s Day Novena?

• Your Mother (living or deceased)
• Your Father (living or deceased)
• Your Mother and Father as a couple
• Your child who has become a  Mother or Father
• An adoptive couple
• … your inspired intention.

The Missionaries of the Holy Family will celebrate Mass on nine consecutive Sundays beginning the Sunday before Mother’s Day and concluding after Father’s Day.  See the Novena Card you can mail.

The 2010 Mother’s and Father’s Day Novena is:

You are invited to join in the Novena each Sunday by offering your personal Sunday Mass intention for the intention of your Novena, reflecting on the Novena Intention for that Sunday and reciting the Blessing of Parents Prayer .  When you join the Novena, you will receive the beautiful Mother's and Father's Day Novena Card (see below) to send to those you have enrolled or you may keep the card.

Requesting a Novena Intention is easy.

Join By Mail: Please print the Novena Intention Request form.   Then mail the Novena Intention Request form along with your Novena offering (see form for details) to the Missionaries of the Holy Family, 3014 Oregon Ave. Saint Louis, Missouri 63118. 

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Join Online: If you are planning to offer a gift of $10 or more with your Novena Intention you can provide an Online Novena Intention.  Additionally, we can send a Novena Prayer Card to your address or an alternate address that you request.

(The cost of processing gifts through the internet is $1.00 or more so it is responsible stewardship to accept offerings of $9 or less via the postal mail while offerings of $10 can be accepted online.)

Your donation to the Missionaries of the Holy Family benefits the work of the priests and brothers.  The Missionaries of the Holy Family is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and your gift is tax deductible.  Your privacy is important to us so we do not sell, share or trade your personal information.

The Mother's and Father's Day Novena Card (2009)

Did you know that Novena Prayer began with the Apostles after the Ascension of our Lord? When Christ had left this earth, the Apostles felt alone, uncertain and afraid, so they gathered back in the Upper Room and prayed.  They prayed for nine days.  On the ninth day the Holy Spirit came down and anointed each Apostle and this enabled them to proclaim the Good News – we know this as Pentecost.