Prayer for fallen away Catholic family Members

  • Thread starter Thread starter maggieodae
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
I would like to include two of my 4 sisters who left the Church almost 15 yrs. now. I pray that St. Monica will pray for their return Home.

I also would like to pray for my MIL who left the Church many many years ago and hates it now and my two BIL and FIL also.

Thanks for this thread. I will pray for all who requested prayers also for their separated family members.
 
Dearest Saint Monica,
Please help all of us on this thread to keep up our patience and strength. It can be discouraging at times when we don’t see any results from our prayers.
I went to “Sunday” mass this evening and the gospel sounded so negative.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”
The word “hate” is so harsh.
We all love our family members who have left the church. We can not let our sorrow lead us to sins of despair. The gospel today is reminding us to trust in Jesus, continue our prayers and not worry about tomorrow.
St Monica, please help my friends on this thread and me to trust that our prayers will be heard. Do not let us despair!
 
PRAYER TO ST. MONICA

Dear St. Monica,
troubled wife and mother,
many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime.
Yet, you never despaired or lost faith.
With confidence, persistence, and profound faith,
you prayed daily for the conversion
of your beloved husband, Patricius,
and your beloved son, Augustine;
your prayers were answered.
Grant me that same fortitude, patience,
and trust in the Lord.
Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,
that God may favorably hear my plea for
All of Gary’s family
and grant me the grace to accept His Will in all things,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.

Amen.
 
244Rocket said:
Let us all support one another in prayer for those who have family members who have wandered from the faith.

Amen to that!

:blessyou:
Click to expand...
nana3 said:
I would like to include two of my 4 sisters who left the Church almost 15 yrs. now. I pray that St. Monica will pray for their return Home.

I also would like to pray for my MIL who left the Church many many years ago and hates it now and my two BIL and FIL also.

Thanks for this thread. I will pray for all who requested prayers also for their separated family members.
Click to expand...
onetruechurch said:
Dearest Saint Monica,
Please help all of us on this thread to keep up our patience and strength. It can be discouraging at times when we don’t see any results from our prayers.
I went to “Sunday” mass this evening and the gospel sounded so negative.
“If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”
The word “hate” is so harsh.
We all love our family members who have left the church. We can not let our sorrow lead us to sins of despair. The gospel today is reminding us to trust in Jesus, continue our prayers and not worry about tomorrow.
St Monica, please help my friends on this thread and me to trust that our prayers will be heard. Do not let us despair!
Click to expand...
:gopray:

:amen:
 
My younger brother Jonathan, who left the faith just as my father completed RCIA.
 
:crossrc: :harp:

I pray through Saint Monica for families and fallen members.
Bring our prayers to Jesus.
Amen
 
Our Lady of Guadalupe,

Please pray for each and every soul that has left the bosom of the Mother Church and strayed into paganism. Continue to bring within their lives messages from your son, Jesus. We ask our Lord’s Divine Mercy to be shown to each of these souls in their wanderings and will rejoice to see them open their hearts once again in knowledge instead of being foolish. We know that all the angels of heaven rejoice with one rejoined or converted soul. I pray to guardian angels to stand firm and faithful b/c each sould needs you to watch over them.

Amen.
 
:signofcross:

Our Lady of Guadalupe
Code: 
   I  pray that we will some day smell the beautiful roses as a sign that our loved ones are coming home.  You brought many of the Mexican Aztecs to your son after giving roses as a sign.  Some of us may go to our graves without ever seeing our loved ones return to your son.  I would be so much more at peace if I could smell  one of your roses before I died.
St Monica,
Please tell Jesus we are still being patient and hopeful that our loved ones will return to Him.
 
onetruechurch said:
:signofcross:

Our Lady of Guadalupe
Code: 
   I  pray that we will some day smell the beautiful roses as a sign that our loved ones are coming home.  You brought many of the Mexican Aztecs to your son after giving roses as a sign.  Some of us may go to our graves without ever seeing our loved ones return to your son.  I would be so much more at peace if I could smell  one of your roses before I died.
St Monica,
Code: 
 Please tell Jesus we are still being patient and hopeful that our loved ones will return to Him.
Click to expand...
:signofcross:
 
St. Monica
St. Monica was married by arrangement to a pagan official in North Africa, who was much older than she, and although generous, was also violent tempered. His mother Lived with them and was equally difficult, which proved a constant challenge to St. Monica. She had three children; Augustine, Navigius, and Perpetua. Through her patience and prayers, she was able to convert her husband and his mother to the Catholic faith in 370· He died a year later. Perpetua and Navigius entered the religious Life. St. Augustine was much more difficult, as she had to pray for him for 17 years, begging the prayers of priests who, for a while, tried to avoid her because of her persistence at this seemingly hopeless endeavor. One priest did console her by saying, “it is not possible that the son of so many tears should perish.” This thought, coupled with a vision that she had received strengthened her. St. Augustine was baptized by St. Ambrose in 387. St. Monica died later that same year, on the way back to Africa from Rome in the Italian town of Ostia.

St. Monica, intercede for us.
 
O glorious mother St. Monica, who can conceive the consolation that abounded in your heart, so long the home of brooding sorrow, when you saw your child Augustine rising in the light of grace and giving himself generously to God; when you folded your converted son in your arms, and tears of very joy streamed forth to tell the glowing jubilee of your heart.

Oh, how in that moment God in his mercy recompensed your years of sorrow and anxiety, your long and weary days of racking suspense. It was impossible that a child of tears like yours should perish; and when your son Augustine heard the call of God, he obeyed it, and his life and his deeds flung a luster all their own on you, St. Monica.

O fortunate mother, twice mother of your child, deign to listen to our prayers and present our petitions to God; look lovingly, and with all a mother’s interest on us assembled here, under your protection, to honor you. We love you; let us become, as St. Augustine of old, the objects of your maternal love. Pray that we, too, like St. Augustine, may have strength to cling to God, and triumph over sin and temptation. By your prayers break the fetters of sin that hold in cruel bondage the souls of your sinful children in this world.

O mother, pray that the miracle of grace in the heart of Augustine may again and again be repeated in these days of universal sin, and that the erring children of Jesus may be led back to the fold; that, united here on earth, we may securely go through the dangers of life and be united with you, our mother, in heaven for ever. Amen

Followed by:
Our Father. . . Hail Mary . . . Glory Be . . . Saint Monica, pray for us.
 
Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be Thy Name. May Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will ever be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary full of Grace, The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to The Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. Amen.

St. Monica pray for us.

Thank you very much indeed, Maggie ODea for the beautiful prayer to St. Monica.
May God bless you and yours, and ours…Barb
 
Dear St. Monica,
troubled wife and mother,
many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime.
Yet, you never despaired or lost faith.
With confidence, persistence, and profound faith,
you prayed daily for the conversion
of your beloved husband, Patricius,
and your beloved son, Augustine;
your prayers were answered.
Grant me that same fortitude, patience,
and trust in the Lord.
Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,
that God may favorably hear my plea for

(Mention your intention here.)

and grant me the grace to accept His Will in all things,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.

Amen.
 
O God, Who observed the devout tears and pleading of St. Monica and granted to her prayers the conversion of her husband and the penitential return of her son, Augustine, grant us the grace to implore Thee also with earnest zeal, so that we may obtain, as she did, the salvation of our own soul and the souls of those belonging to us. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
 
maggieodae said:
Dear St. Monica,
troubled wife and mother,
many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime.
Yet, you never despaired or lost faith.
With confidence, persistence, and profound faith,
you prayed daily for the conversion
of your beloved husband, Patricius,
and your beloved son, Augustine;
your prayers were answered.
Grant me that same fortitude, patience,
and trust in the Lord.
Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,
that God may favorably hear my plea for

(Mention your intention here.)

and grant me the grace to accept His Will in all things,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, forever and ever.

Amen.
Click to expand...
 
BarbaraTherese said:
Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be Thy Name. May Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will ever be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary full of Grace, The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to The Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. Amen.

St. Monica pray for us.
Click to expand...
Amen.
 
Prayer Of St. Monica

To you I fly for aid and for instructions, St. Monica, wondrous exemplar of unswerving prayer for children. Into your loving arms I place my children, and other fallen away family members, that through your powerful intercession they may obtain the graces for genuine conversion to Christ Our Lord. To you I also humbly appeal, matron of matrons, to ask our Lord to grant me the same spirit of ceaseless prayer He granted to you. All this I ask through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top