Traditionally a novena is nine days. So Our Lady’s words to young Fortuna is to make three novenas of petition and three novenas of thanksgiving. The novena consists of five decades of the Rosary every day (joyful, sorrowful or glorious mysteries), following the order on a calendar for twenty-seven days of petition; then continue to pray the rosary in thanksgiving for another 27 days, regardless of whether the request has already been granted or not. Thus, six novenas of the Rosary came to be known as the Novena of the Rosary of 54 days.
To do this novena well we must pray the Rosary for 54 consecutive days, without missing a day, and we should pray the mystery indicated for that day in a proper sequence.
Thus, we always begin the first day with the joyful mysteries (no matter which day of the week the novena begins), the second day with the sorrowful mysteries and the third day with the glorious mysteries. On the fourth day, we begin again with the joyful mysteries, continuing the sequence until the end of the 54 days of the novena.
For some time now, people have been wondering about the Luminous Mysteries. This novena was given by Our Lady as mentioned above in the year 1884 and includes only the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious.
In order to assist you, you will find a grid in the attached PDF with more detailed information in order to make a kind of calendar.
I thank-you in advance for taking on this arduous novena. Let’s storm heaven for our needs and thank the Lord for hearing our prayers !