{"id":114523,"date":"2026-11-08T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=114523"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:17:01","slug":"what-is-a-novena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/learn\/what-is-a-novena\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Novena? Nine Days of Prayer and Where They Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>A novena is a Catholic practice of praying for nine days in a row, usually for one particular need or to get ready for a feast, and the word is simply the Latin for nine, novem. The old Catholic Encyclopedia of 1911 calls it &quot;a nine days&#039; private or public devotion in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces.&quot; The first people said to have prayed this way were the apostles, and they had a promise to go on and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Catholics pray for nine days: the upper room, Rome&#039;s nine days of mourning, Leo XIII&#039;s order of 1897, and why a novena is no contract with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-114523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayers"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/kneeling-prayer-correggio-a6753a9d.webp?fit=900%2C672&ssl=1","mfb_acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack-related-posts","jetpack_sharing_enabled","jetpack_featured_media_url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114606,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114523\/revisions\/114606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114523"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=114523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}