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The archdiocese has long held special masses and novenas — nine days of prayers — on behalf of immigrants.

But she thought of this daily ritual as a kind of novena: a prayer repeated for nine days to appeal a misfortune or request a special favor.

I was raised Catholic, and made to navigate the weirdness of First Holy Communion, novenas and trips to the shrine at Knock.

They also plan on incorporating novenas, which involves nine consecutive nights of prayer and singing villancicos.

Those same officials might be saying quiet novenas that it's not one of the others hovering in the rarefied air of top-10 status after the opening round - the dreaded LIV set.