Catholic Prayers And Novenas

St. Monica is the patroness of wives and abuse victims. Her son was St. Augustine. Starts: August 18th Feastday: August 27th Introduction St. Monica was born in AD 332 in North Africa. She married a pagan man named Patricius, who by all accounts had a violent temper. He was unsympathetic to St. Monica’s Catholic faith. St. Monica’s son was St. Augustine, but he rejected Christ and the Church for many years, living a life of sensuality and hedonism. After long years of St. Monica’s prayers, St. Augustine was converted to Christ and became one of the greatest Doctors of the Church. She is the patroness of wives and abuse victims. St. Monica Novena Intro Prayer (to be said each day) Exemplary Mother of the Great Augustine, you perserveringly pursued your wayward son not with wild threats but with prayerful cries to heaven. Intercede for all mothers in our day so that they may learn to draw their children to God. Teach them how to remain close to their children, even t...

Our Lady of Monte Berico ended a plague in Italy in the 1420s. Pray this novena for an end to pandemics. Facts about Our Lady of Monte Berico Novena Feastday: August 22nd Novena Starts: August 13th Patron saint of overcoming plagues and pandemics Birth: 1st century Death: 1st century Our Lady of Monte Berico Novena You can pray the full Our Lady of Monte Berico Novena below. Day 1 Prayer Intro Prayer O Most Holy Virgin, Mother of God and my Mother Mary, I thank you that you have deigned to appear on Monte Berico and I thank you for all the graces you grant here to those who turn to you. Nobody ever prayed to you in vain. I, too, resort to you and beg you for the Passion and Death of Jesus and for your pains: welcome me, o’ merciful Mother, under your mantle, which is a maternal mantle; grant me the particular grace that I ask of You [your petition here] and protect me from all evil and especially from sin which is the greatest evil. Oh make, oh Mary, my Mother, tha...

St Rocco was a fourteenth century Catholic saint and confessor who is invoked against the plague. Pray this coronavirus novena for God to stop it. Facts about St Rocco Novena Against Plagues Feastday: August 16th Novena Starts: August 7th Patron saint of epidemics, plagues, skin diseases, dogs, invalids, falsely accused people, bachelors, Sarmato, Altare e Girifalco, Italy, cholera, knee problems, Istanbul (Constantinople), surgeons, pilgrims, apothecaries, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalookan. Birth: 1348 Death: 1379 St Rocco Novena Against Plagues You can pray the full St Rocco Novena Against Plagues below. Day 1 Prayer Intro Prayer O Great St. Rocco, deliver us, we beseech thee, from contagious diseases. Through thy intercession, preserve our bodies from illness, and our souls from the contagion of sin. Obtain for us salubrious air, but, above all, purity of heart. Assist us to make good use of health, to bear suffering with patience, and, after thy ex...

Mary Undoer of Knots is a title of the Virgin Mary where she unties the knots in our lives. Pray the Unfailing Novena to Mary Undoer of Knots. Facts about Mary Undoer of Knots Novena Feastday: August 15th Novena Starts: August 6th Patron saint of knots, difficult problems Birth: 16 BC Death: Assumed to Heaven Mary Undoer of Knots Mary Undoer of Knots Unfailing Novena Intro Prayer (to be said each day) Holy Mary, full of God’s presence during the day of your life, you accepted with full humility the Father’s will, and the devil was never capable of tying you up with his confusion. Once with your Son you interceded for our difficulties, and full of kindness and patience, you gave us example of how to untie the knots in our life. By remaining forever Our Mother, you put in order and make more clear the ties that link us to the Lord. Holy Mother, Mother of God and our Mother, to you who untie with a motherly heart the knots of our life, I ask for you to undo this knot:...

St. Philomena is the patron saint of infants and youth. Starts: August 2nd Feastday: August 11th St. Philomena Novena History Tradition holds that St. Philomena was a Greek princess who became a virgin martyr at 13 years of age. In 1802 at the Catacombs of Priscilla tiles read “Peace be to you, Philomena.” An Italian nun, Sister Maria Luisa di Gesu, was given a private revelation about St. Philomena, who told her she was the daughter of a Greek king who converted to Christianity. The Emperor Diocletian fell in love with Philomena, but she refused to marry him, and so she was tortured and ultimate beheaded. Devotion for Philomena grew when her bones were exhumed and miracles began to occur. Many saints have had a devotion to St. Philomena, including St. John Vianney. She is the patron saint of infants and youth. Intro Prayer O faithful Virgin and glorious Martyr, St. Philomena, who works so many miracles on behalf of the poor and sorrowing, have pity on me. You ...