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| Beata Maria Cristina, ora pro nobis |
O God, You adorned Blessed Maria Cristina with diligent and wise charity, so that by her witness, she would contribute to the building up of Your Kingdom. Grant us also, by her example, to do good, drawing on the true riches of Your Love. Through our Lord Jesus, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever. Amen
This year, after work, the Sanfedisti celebrated the Feast of Blessed Queen Maria Cristina of Savoy with a modest, but joyous, pizza and calzone party. Devoted to the Holy Queen of Naples and her son Servant of God King Francis II of the Two Sicilies, we privately prayed the novena for nine consecutive nights in preparation for her Feast.
Pictured is my makeshift shrine dedicated to our beloved Queen and King. Viva ‘a Reggina!
O God, who has placed a great light in Your saints and a provident support for Your people along the path, listen with goodness to our prayer, and glorify Your servant Maria Cristina di Savoia, in whose life as a wife and queen You have offered us a shining model of wise and courageous charity, and grant us, through her intercession, the grace [mention here the graces you are asking for] which from You, with trust, we invoke. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
