Advent Novena - "Hail and blessed be the hour..." Starting on St. Andrew's Feast day,
Wednesday November 30, the following beautiful prayer is traditionally recited fifteen times a day until Christmas.
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary,
at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my prayer and
grant my desires, through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother.
Amen.