{"id":1928,"date":"2006-11-26T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2013-03-17T22:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:37:43","slug":"the-end-of-the-novena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"The end of the Novena"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1930\" alt=\"Novena Conclusion\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Novena-Conclusion-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Novena-Conclusion-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Novena-Conclusion.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Tomorrow, 27 November, is the anniversary of the birth of Ellen White, Adventist prophetess.<\/p>\n<p>This Novena has asked her and all the angels and saints to pray with us for the return of the Adventist faith to the original teachings of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>I should note that requesting the prayers of deceased non-Catholics is not the norm, and that non-Catholics are not canonised as saints in the Catholic Church.\u00a0 If Ellen White is in heaven, we do not know, but we can hope and pray that she is.\u00a0 If she is, she will be praying with us.\u00a0 If not, God hears our prayers &#8211; cf Romans 8:26.<\/p>\n<p>This is therefore a private devotion, not one officially sanctioned by the Church, which I have shared with you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/span> <a title=\"A Novena for Adventists\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1907\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Introduction<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 1 - Saturday 18th November - Anti-Catholic teachings\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1919\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Day 1<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 2 - Sunday 19th November - The Investigative Judgement\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1920\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Day 2<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 3 - Monday 20th November - Persecution\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1921\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Day 3<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 4 - Tuesday 21st November - False Prophecies\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1922\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Day 4<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 5 - Wednesday 22nd November - The Dietary Laws of Moses\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1923\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Day 5<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 6 - Thursday 23rd November - Soul Sleep\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1924\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Day 6<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 7 - Friday 24th November - The Sabbath\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1925\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Day 7<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 8 - Saturday 25th November - The Mass\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1926\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Day 8<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"Day 9 - Sunday 26th November - The Saints of the Church\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1927\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Day 9<\/span><\/a> | <a title=\"The end of the Novena\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">&lt;&lt;&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should note that requesting the prayers of deceased non-Catholics is not the norm, and that non-Catholics are not canonised as saints in the Catholic Church.  If Ellen White is in heaven, we do not know, but we can hope and pray that she is.  If she is, she will be praying with us.  If not, God hears our prayers &#8211; cf Romans 8:26.  This is therefore a private devotion, not one officially sanctioned by the Church, which I have shared with you.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1928\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The end of the Novena http:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-v6","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[144,34,169,11,55,398,157,396,227,16,395,397,745,156,17,155,41],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventism","tag-anti-catholic","tag-diet","tag-divine-liturgy","tag-ellen-white","tag-eucharist","tag-false-prophecies","tag-icons","tag-investigative-judgement","tag-mary","tag-mass","tag-novena","tag-persecution","tag-sabbath","tag-saints","tag-soul-sleep","tag-statues","tag-sunday","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-v6","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Novena-Conclusion.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}