Novena vs Eight-Day Retreat Usage & Stats

The saints, having been human, lived every type of earthly existence and it is in the details of their life stories that we find their patronages. By invoking the saints, we ask for guidance in overcoming our own earthly trials, much like one would ask advice of a family member or friend. Meditating on the lives of these remarkable people inspires us to conquer our own personal obstacles. A novena is a nine day period of prayer. Usually the novena prayer is recited nine times in a row for nine consecutive days, the repetitive nature of the prayer serves to bring on a quiet and meditative state. When ones mind quiets down, it allows the solution to a problem to appear or even help in the acceptance of an unchangeable life challenge. To help you find a saint that can aid you with your specific dilemma, we have divided this app of thirty-six saints into four categories: Health, Occupations, Situations and States of Life. You can find your saint by personally relating to their history, by being drawn to the illustrated depictions in their holy cards, or by searching the Glossary of extensive problems and life situations. Our beautiful vintage holy cards depict the saints with the enigmatic attributes and symbols that are commonly used to represent them. Brief explanations of these symbols are given to help decipher the visual iconography in their images. The prayers in this app are universally known and have been used for centuries as tools in obtaining clarity and peace of mind. All are free to utilize them, regardless of one's faith or religious belief.

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Eight-Day Retreat

The Eight-Day Retreat App is the perfect iOS App! The iOS environment allows you to focus on the spiritual benefits of the material within the Consideration Points for each day and not the technology. Our design will help you perform all tasks while keeping you focused, we use the most stunning graphics for contemplation and reflection, standard iOS controls, with predictable behaviors throughout the App. Eight-Day Retreat from Saint Alphonsus is designed to help you with the business of eternal salvation; eight-days, three daily meditations, and three very important topics for each day. Within each of the Meditations, the author shares with us, ways to ensure that our supreme moment of death is a moment of intense joy and jubilation, not a moment of intense woe and terror. Daily Meditations and Daily Prayers provide additional resources from Preparation for Death, powerful petitions for every day of the week. Rule of Life: discusses the means by which, we can strive to keep ourselves in the grace of God with devout exercises and the principal virtues which a Christian should practice throughout life. You can include as part of the eight-day retreat or refer to as an additional Catholic resource. Topics are similar to an index and provide a convenient method of examining all consideration topics, points, meditations, etc. from specific days. It is organized by the Introduction through the eighth day by meditation and points covered therein.