St. Bhakita SCC

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Moderator: Cyprian Onyony

JUMUIA SECRETARY: Suzan Nzii

Email address: secretary@donboscoshrine.org

MEETING (Day and time): First meeting is held on 2nd Saturday of the month 3 – 4 pm, - Second meeting is held on the 4th Friday 6-7 pm

About Jumuyias

St. Bakhita SCC area of coverage: Eagle Plains, Villa Franca, Imara Daima, and other estates on Mombasa Road between Airtel (Parkside Towers) and City cabanas

PRAYER OF JUMUIA

The lord has loved me so much.

WE MUST LOVE EVERYONE We must be compassionate!

ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA

Pray for us St. Josephine Bakhita Loving God rewarder of the humble You blessed St. Josephine Bakhita

With Charity and patience, May her Prayers help us, and her example inspires us to carry our cross and to love you always.

Pour upon us the spirit of wisdom and love with which you filled St. Josephine Bakhita.

By serving you as she did, may we please you by our faith and our actions.

Come to my aid and obtain for me from God.

Through the intercession of Mary Help Of Christians the special grace for Which I now pray, {PAUSE} ……

Mention your intentions……..

Grant this through our Lord Jesus, Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. AMEN.

NOVENA OF OUR PATRON SAINT

St. Josephine Bakhita, you were sold into slavery as a child and endured untold hardship and suffering. Once liberated from your physical enslavement, you found true redemption in your encounter with Christ and his Church. O St. Bakhita, assist all those who are trapped in a state of slavery; Intercede with God on their behalf so that they will be released from their chains of captivity. Those whom man enslaves, let God set free. Provide comfort to survivors of slavery and let them look to you as an example of hope and faith. Help all survivors find healing from their wounds. We ask for your prayers and intercessions for those enslaved among us. Amen

Heavenly Father, you gave us the great example of St. Josephine Bakhita and blessed her with an open heart full of charity. Help me to be forgiving to others as she was. St. Josephine Bakhita, you were a slave and you didn’t have any rights. Intercede for victims of human trafficking and those suffering silently in any kind of slavery. May their captors free them and may this evil be erased from the face of the Earth. Help us to be thankful for our freedom and to know that we are only truly free through our faith in the Lord. St. Josephine Bakhita, please pray for us and ask God to grant these our intentions. (State your intentions here…) Holy St. Josephine Bakhita, you lived an extraordinary life of pain, suffering, and slavery but you did not allow your trials to define your life. You chose to have an open and joyful heart and follow the truth of Jesus Christ. Intercede for us so that Christ may live joyfully in our hearts as he lived in yours. It is through your extraordinary witness that many people have overcome obstacles and have come to the Christian faith. May your intercession continue to transform the faith of people forever. Hail Mary… Amen.

BIOGRAPHY OF OUR PATRON SAINT

Saint Bhakita, was born in Sudan. At age 7 she was kidnapped, enslaved, sold, tortured, and humiliated. She moved to Italy-Venice’s Institute of the Catechumens, run by Canossian Sisters. She joined the Canossian sisters as a nun. St. Bakhita is the patron saint of Sudan, slavery and victims trafficking