I also have been having suicidal thoughts. I also feel I am slowly departing from the Catholic church. I have been performing sinful acts lately such as masturbation, and I am starting to feel I don’t want anything to with the Catholic church now, probably not a good thing to say during Lent. (I’m in a devout Catholic family. ) I am also very estranged from the world and my family. What I feel I need now is a miracle because I only see sadness in my future.
I would like to share to you the patron saint of mental illnesses, Saint Dymphna.
scborromeo.org/prayers/dymphna.htm
In Nervous or Emotional Distress
I turn to you, dear virgin and martyr, confident of your power with God and of your willingness to take my cause into your hands. I praise and bless the Lord for giving you to us as patron of the nervous and emotionally disturbed. I firmly hope that through your kind intercession He will restore my lost serenity and peace of mind. May He speak to my heart and reassure me: “My peace I give you. Let not your heart be troubled nor let it be afraid.”
Pray for me, dear St. Dymphna, that my nervous and emotional turmoil may cease, and that I may again know serenity and personal peace.
Amen.
In Physical Illness
I appeal to you in my illness, dear St. Dymphna. I would be so grateful for a total and happy recovery, for the blessed gift of health in every fiber of my being.
May the Lord Jesus, who mercifully healed the sick during His earthly days, have pity on me and make me well again. Ask Him to command sickness to depart and grant me a full measure of health, that I may rejoice in giving Him glory and praise.
Amen.
For a Strong Faith
To you, dear St. Dymphna, who have completed your pilgrimage of faith and now dwell with the Lord forever, I appeal for the blessing of a strong and mature faith. May I preserve in my baptismal promises to Christ, no matter what the cost. May I conduct myself now and always as a true believer in the eternal truths God has revealed.
Help me always with your prayers as I walk in faith toward the reward promised to those who, without having seen Christ, yet love Him and believe in Him.
Amen.
