St. Teresa of Calcutta's "Flying Novena" Chaplet
Saint Teresa of Calcutta / St. Mother Teresa: (1910-1997)Feast Day: September 5Canonized: September 4, 2016 by Pope FrancisAwarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to bring help to suffering humanity.
Usually a novena is 9 days of prayer, but sometimes emergency intercession is needed, so St. Mother Teresa would pray what would become known as a Flying Novena or a Flying Emergency novena to Our Lady for intercession.The flying novena consists of 9 Memorare prayers in petition, and then concludes with 1 Memorare prayer in thanksgiving.
According to Msgr. Leo Maasburd, a friend and spiritual advisor of St. Mother Teresa,"Mother Teresa used this prayer constantly: for petitions for the cure of a sick child, before important decisions or when passports went missing, to request heavenly aid when the fuel supply was running short on a night-time mission and the destination was still far away in the darkness."
Usually a novena is 9 days of prayer, but sometimes emergency intercession is needed, so St. Mother Teresa would pray what would become known as a Flying Novena or a Flying Emergency novena to Our Lady for intercession.The flying novena consists of 9 Memorare prayers in petition, and then concludes with 1 Memorare prayer in thanksgiving.
According to Msgr. Leo Maasburd, a friend and spiritual advisor of St. Mother Teresa,"Mother Teresa used this prayer constantly: for petitions for the cure of a sick child, before important decisions or when passports went missing, to request heavenly aid when the fuel supply was running short on a night-time mission and the destination was still far away in the darkness."