{"id":9255,"date":"2023-11-01T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:23:11","slug":"history-of-my-signature-novena-bracelets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/history-of-my-signature-novena-bracelets\/","title":{"rendered":"History of my Signature Novena Bracelets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought I would tell you the history of my &#8220;Signature&#8221; nine-bead design for my &#8220;Novena Bracelets.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, it started with a perplexing pregnancy for my daughter. I wrote my book&nbsp;<em><strong>Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine Month Novena for Mothers To Be<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;during my own precarious pregnancy in which I was placed on complete bed rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a huge hemorrhage in my uterus and a serious heart condition. My doctor didn&#8217;t think my baby would make it. I had lost three babies earlier on by miscarriage. It would be a trial of patience and commitment to bed rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it was a scary and difficult time, I feel God truly blessed me with much inspiration because very soon into my pregnancy, while on bedrest, I became deeply inspired to envision a pregnancy as a beautiful <strong>nine month novena of prayer <\/strong>as I awaited the birth of my unborn baby. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I prayed fervently and hoped for the very best. I even got word to my friend Mother Teresa to request her special prayers. She prayed for my baby and me and also sent to me a blessed Miraculous Medal which I wear to this day. She told me to count on our Blessed Mother and pray a simple prayer: &#8220;Mary, Mother of Jesus, be Mother to me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I prayed and waited&#8230;I also wanted to share my new inspiration of seeing a pregnancy as a nine-month novena of prayer and I desired to offer a kind of a prayer journal to other expectant mothers. I wanted to help them reflect upon their holy time of waiting, all the while as they prayed and grew in holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I put pen to paper (literally, since I did not own a typewriter or computer at the time) and I continued to write down all of the inspiration that was stirring in my heart. These scraps of paper would be stored away in a cardboard box for &#8220;later on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on, in God\u2019s Divine plan, I would put it all together in manuscript form and Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta would end up writing the Foreword to my book. She had also encouraged me to continue to write for mothers and expectant mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women all around the world are using&nbsp;my book <em><strong>Prayerfully Expecting<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;to create a living novena of prayer throughout their pregnancies.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PrayerfullyExpecting-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PrayerfullyExpecting-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"History of Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle's Signature Novena Bracelets\" class=\"wp-image-933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PrayerfullyExpecting-web-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PrayerfullyExpecting-web-1-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/press\/catholic_standard.pdf\">Here is an article<\/a>&nbsp;written in 2007 about my book that <strong>you might find interesting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Novena Prayer Bracelets!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cPrayerfully Expecting\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">Novena Bracelets<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the season of Advent 2015, I felt very inspired to create Novena bracelets to celebrate the sanctity of human life, as well as to have a tangible means to pray for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few examples below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2023\" height=\"2213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3954\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9140625;width:822px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964.jpg 2023w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2964-936x1024.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2023px) 100vw, 2023px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bracelet_Gerard_box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bracelet_Gerard_box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3549\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:822px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bracelet_Gerard_box.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bracelet_Gerard_box-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bracelet_Gerard_box-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-1016x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-1016x1024.jpeg 1016w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-298x300.jpeg 298w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-768x774.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-1523x1536.jpeg 1523w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Bracelet_Expecting-2031x2048.jpeg 2031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Sanctity of Human Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">novena prayer bracelets<\/a> serve many purposes. I have made each bracelet with&nbsp;<strong>nine<\/strong>&nbsp;beads to symbolize&nbsp;<strong>nine<\/strong>&nbsp;months of pregnancy. The number&nbsp;<strong>nine<\/strong>&nbsp;is very significant in praying a&nbsp;<strong>novena<\/strong>&nbsp;of prayer. As well, there are&nbsp;<strong>nine<\/strong>&nbsp;choirs of Angels. With regard to the sanctity of human life, the bracelet will be a visual reminder to pray a novena for your own pregnancy, for your daughter, granddaughter, godchild, daughter-in-law, or niece\u2019s pregnancy, to pray to conceive a child, to pray to adopt a child, to pray for your own children and grandchildren, and to pray for every pregnancy to result in a live birth and for the end to abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I pray as I create each novena bracelet. Each bracelet is crafted with an attached crucifix, a Miraculous Medal, and most of them will also contain a pregnancy saint\u2019s medal. It will be shipped to you in an attractive box with prayer cards inside. I encourage you to get your bracelet blessed so that it may serve as a blessed sacramental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will see some of the first \u201cPrayerfully Expecting\u201d Novena bracelets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">at my bracelet shop<\/a>. I have added more over the years. More photos of the Novena bracelets will be regularly added to my \u201cPrayerfully Expecting\u201d shop as I create them. I will also be adding a variety of saint medals to the bracelets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Kinds of Novena Bracelets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After awhile, I began designing and creating an assortment of <strong>Novena Prayer Bracelets<\/strong>, always with <strong>my signature &#8220;nine-bead&#8221; design <\/strong>to represent a Novena of Prayer, and not ten beads as are in a chaplet or decade. Each bracelet comes with a prayer card to use while praying a Novena of Prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have designed some ten-bead Prayer Bracelets when it was most appropriate to use ten beads for the particular devotion. That said, I also have a seven-bead design which is for the &#8220;Seven Sorrows of Mary&#8221; devotion. You can see these designs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">my Bracelet Shop<\/a>. I started another website for my bracelets and creations but I need t have some time to finish it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few examples are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FBE4497F-38D2-412E-81E9-2DDE4F480C8C_1_201_a-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7705\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:822px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9F3D5F6D-9166-4A1F-A41D-751AB193CE8F_1_201_a-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air-856x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air-856x1024.jpeg 856w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air-251x300.jpeg 251w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air-768x919.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air-1284x1536.jpeg 1284w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Birds_of_the_Air.jpeg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/49744A5B-2CC7-4277-8B42-6CECA1FAE7E4_1_201_a-scaled-e1601330786747.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/49744A5B-2CC7-4277-8B42-6CECA1FAE7E4_1_201_a-1024x972.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7833\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0534979423868314;width:822px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information and Many Designs Available<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can go to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">Bracelet Shop on this website<\/a> to learn more and see the various designs. You can also see other designs on other pages. For instance, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/blessed-mothers-five-first-saturday-bracelet\/\">&#8220;Fatima Five First Saturday&#8221; Bracelets<\/a> are here. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/bracelets-inspiring-words\/\">&#8220;Inspiring Word Bracelets&#8221; are here.<\/a> I also do custom design bracelets and you can see information for that on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/prayerfully-expecting\/\">&#8220;Bracelet Shop&#8221; page<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, I will mention that I have designed several Novena Bracelets for EWTN Religious Catalogue. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com\/ItemSearch--search-Novena-Bracelets--srcin-1\">You can see them on their website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would tell you the history of my &#8220;Signature&#8221; nine-bead design for my &#8220;Novena Bracelets.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>First of all, it started with a perplexing pregnancy for my daughter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/history-of-my-signature-novena-bracelets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[729,247,248],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-expectant-mother","tag-prayerfully-expecting","tag-pregnancy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History of my Signature Novena Bracelets - Donna-Marie Cooper O&#039;Boyle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/01\/history-of-my-signature-novena-bracelets\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"History of my Signature Novena Bracelets - Donna-Marie Cooper O&#039;Boyle\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thought I would tell you the history of my &quot;Signature&quot; nine-bead design for my &quot;Novena Bracelets.&quot;  First of all, it started with a perplexing pregnancy for my daughter. 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