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Prayer to Saint Joseph for all sick husbands to find help.

O glorious St. Joseph,
friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
thou whose power renders impossible things possible,
come to our aid in our present trouble and distress.
Take these important and difficult affairs
which we recommend to your protection,
that they may end happily.

O dear St. Joseph,
all our confidence is in you.
Let it not be said that we have invoked you in vain,
and since you are so powerful with Jesus and Mary,
show that your goodness equals power.

Amen.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.
 
**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

the conversion of my husband, healing and salvation of our marriage, and the strong faith of our son, the conversion of all sinners in our families and of the spouses being prayed for here by CAF members,**

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.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Jesus, I trust in You!
Jesus, I trust in You!
Jesus, I trust in You!
 
BeeSweet,

It’s so good to have you posting the Novena Prayers. Thanks, even though you are doing it for you, you are in turn doing it for all of us.

I pray for you Bee! I know you struggle along with the rest of us except you are a bit like Martha who quietly goes about doing what she needs to do without complaint. I know you are hurting too, so I pray for your comfort and peace.
 
Lamb_Serenade said:
BeeSweet,

It’s so good to have you posting the Novena Prayers. Thanks, even though you are doing it for you, you are in turn doing it for all of us.

I pray for you Bee! I know you struggle along with the rest of us except you are a bit like Martha who quietly goes about doing what she needs to do without complaint. I know you are hurting too, so I pray for your comfort and peace.
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I pray for you all every day! I have the Saint Monica prayer committed to memory, and even when I’m far from a computer I always pray for the conversion of the spouses being prayed for by CAF members, that’s just part of the prayer as I know it. Whenever I pray for suffering marriages, I always remember you folks here. I know you all are praying for my family, it’s the least I can do to pray for you.

I don’t talk about my troubles much because I’m better off not doing so. I’m just fine as long as I don’t talk about it. Complaints do no good for me, the only thing I can do that’s worth anything is pray. Your prayers mean the world to me. We need them so desperately.

I’m so thankful to God that you and your husband are seeing a ray of hope shining right now. I hope the future continues to become brighter and brighter for your family. I’m praying for that for you and for everyone here.
 
If all goes as planned, we will be finishing our master bedroom over the weekend with DH and I staying in the guestroom together. Yep together! I’m going to get the room measured for new carpet since we are going to empty the room of everything to get the job done.

This truly marks a new start for us! I will be moving back into our room ending our more than seven months of separation.

God is good, and I continue to pray for His kindness and intervention in our lives, bringing us closer and healing the wounds in our marriage.

Here is a prayer I wrote for us and am praying regularly in my e-mail prayers to DH.
*** Heavenly Father, I offer you today, in hope, the love I have for my husband Roy. Strengthen our marriage in it’s fragile and weakened state. As a reflection of Your love for us, may we mirror the same love for each other.
***​
***Bring to us hope. Hope for what we can’t see, what we can’t know. Hope for a future not only with each other, but with You as our center.
***​
I bring to You Lord Jesus, these lowly intentions and place them at the foot of Your Cross. Consider them with care and love for me and for my dear husband Roy. AMEN​
 
THAT is a very peaceful, and loving prayer…

Beautiful words and thoughts as well as the hope we all want in our journeys with our husbands. Good luck on the arangements and set up of the renovations, and thoughts of a new start!

Let it be with God, this new start…

Lana
 
I pray often for the people on this thread. I rarely way in, but today I just can’t help. One thing you all really need to understand is that there is great strength and graces in the sacrament of confession. There is no way I could have made it this far without confession. I fasted and prayed before the blessed sacrament and offered up countless sufferings to make it in my marriage. God gives us weapons to use and great results come about when they are used with total trust in Our Father! god Bless and I will continue to pray!
 
dkoinzan said:
I pray often for the people on this thread. I rarely way in, but today I just can’t help. One thing you all really need to understand is that there is great strength and graces in the sacrament of confession. There is no way I could have made it this far without confession. I fasted and prayed before the blessed sacrament and offered up countless sufferings to make it in my marriage. God gives us weapons to use and great results come about when they are used with total trust in Our Father! god Bless and I will continue to pray!
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Excellent point. Since I have been visiting our priest for spiritual direction, I go to confession every time we visit. Over the summer we have only met once, but I know the more frequency I have gone, the better I have felt, and the better I deal with circumstances when they arrive. I have gone to the church on numerous occasions to pray and be near Jesus. I’ve only managed adoration three times? I think? Anyway, our church does adoration weekly. With a 5 YO, it doesn’t always work and her patience is very limited (she is full of energy and rarely sits still for more than 5 minutes at a time…LOL!)

Thanks dkoinzan for reminding us of these important tools/sacraments our church gives to us.
 
I found it hard to do the same…with children that do not want to sit still, you teeter on the edge of showing them by example, and ticking off the others looking for solitude at this time.

In our church, on Saturdays, our priest does adoration and confession combo at 4 pm that runs smack dab into the 5pm mass. That feels wonderful recieving the host durring mass while so freshly cleansed. It is joyous actually.

I get dad to stay at home with the kids durring this time period…as he does not attend church. Lately, each of the children has asked if they too can go. I have done them seperately, making it a peaceful date and learning experience.

Have not been to church since my meltdown about a month before my move (at the two month mark now) For me, when i stay away, i get feeling guilty, and stay away…which i should fight. Then the farther it gets, the farther i do not want to go…but it still calls me differently than prayer and presence of the Lord at home.

Lana
 
dkoinzan said:
I pray often for the people on this thread. I rarely way in, but today I just can’t help. One thing you all really need to understand is that there is great strength and graces in the sacrament of confession. There is no way I could have made it this far without confession. I fasted and prayed before the blessed sacrament and offered up countless sufferings to make it in my marriage. God gives us weapons to use and great results come about when they are used with total trust in Our Father! god Bless and I will continue to pray!
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God bless you for your generosity and courage. I ask God to flood you with grace and blessings for your own marriage and in your prayers for others.
 
Hi Everyone, I’m new here. I have been in a very unhappy marriage for 32 years and nine children…4 married as of 2 weeks ago,and so far ten of the most adorable grandchildren you have ever seen! 😉 My husband suffers from ‘romance addiction’, he is a Christian. Would anyone else on this forum happen to know of this addiction and would care to share some insights into it with me? Thank you so much and may God in His Greatness answer all your prayers concerning your DH’s!
 
Prayer to Saint Joseph for all sick husbands to find help.

O glorious St. Joseph,
friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
thou whose power renders impossible things possible,
come to our aid in our present trouble and distress.
Take these important and difficult affairs
which we recommend to your protection,
that they may end happily.

O dear St. Joseph,
all our confidence is in you.
Let it not be said that we have invoked you in vain,
and since you are so powerful with Jesus and Mary,
show that your goodness equals power.

Amen.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.

St. Joseph, friend of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.
 
**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

the conversion of my husband, healing and salvation of our marriage, and the strong faith of our son, the conversion of all sinners in our families and of the spouses being prayed for here by CAF members,**

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.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Jesus, I trust in You!
Jesus, I trust in You!
Jesus, I trust in You!
 
I posted in this thread a while back, I started hearing more from my husband, we have been separated 4and a half yrs.
I jsut got through the last few days spending with him and the kids and so many miracles happened to make this possible.
so many things . even he and i had dreams preparing us. He even talked about God and asked about things…
we still have a ways to go, but spending this wodnerful time together was truly a miracle and the prayers are helping, I believe so strongly.
I am not able to post a prayer, but I will say thank you to you all for keeping me in prayers and thank you to St Monica, St Joseph and St Therese( I even saw a holy card of St Therese in a store we were in just at the time I needed a little more encouragement!
So many little things came together, coincidences, that he even remarked over and over on our good luck, although he can be a huge skeptic and says he is a “wiccan” I know he is wondering if there truly is a loving God who can accept his opening up to His love.
 
God bless you and all the wives and mothers who post on this thread and in the forums. God bless their husbands and children. Please give blessings and healings to our spouses and ourselves.
St Monica please intercede on our behalf.
 
Any news is good news ladies, good or bad…this means we can lean on each other, and this is good. So many feel, from the posts i have seen here in the past…that there is not much need to post the same over and over again.

I believe it not to be true, and ask the ladies to post the same ol, same ol…it is all we have, and prayer…so pipe in, post same ol, same ol, and know you are loved.

Is there a corolation here with the ladies…the guilt associated with complaining, and the men who tend to mock, and berate this for what ever insecure reason. That we have backed off due to an inner fear of failure, every time we post, that it is not working…again!

And is there the same feeling when we think of our unworthyness of recieving forgiveness from our lord at deeds repeatedly confessed…that we’re never going to get it right. Even though the nagging thought is in our heads that this has got to be true, that we are definitely never going to get this right.

I am faceing this zone…this detachment of hope…yet i smile, can be cheerful, and play along with the kids…if you asked me a deep question right now, i might be unconsoleable with hot tears.

This is what the constant battle does to us, to our marriages, and to us as woman. Yes we are brought up to love unconditionally…that is what a mother does…she loves every little broken part of a child, no matter what. It is right and good to do so.

Then there is this small part of me that wishes, beyond all practicality, this little voice. This little wonded child of our inner broken heart…the one who wants to be picked up after the scraped knee, the bully at work or home, the need to be able to set the table and have someone even notice.

Do we make a difference…we do, but we do not feel this. Our heads say yes, our hearts say…just one more hug please, or that touch on the shoulder to tell us with one glance…it will be ok. Not big demands at all. But we are married to **children **in many ways.

The disapointment is in this…they to want to be children, but are living the dream. Someone to pick up after them, some one to do their laundry, make their meals, have temper tantrums at, sneak out late…and avoid any responsibility, like it was gonna bite them on the butt.

How easy, how free…to think we wanted to parent them, yet they reserve the right to tell us we are doing it wrong, over and over again, untill we feel this must be true. Not in words, but the insecurity it has reinforced is incredible.

So here we are ladies…feelin bad, with the weight of the world on our sholders, and we have allowed this “problem child” to run us. Way to much of Nanny 911 that i watch is not only to pick up pointers for the children, but for the men. Grow up i silently scream…i am sooo tired at times, i want to fall over.

If we can not get back into positive thinking from the glorious male role models we are married to, we HAVE to rely on our laddies leadership of hearing positive feedback from each other.

This is the bond we have…our lives are really sucky in so many ways, but together we can be the glue, we can make a day ok, with a word, a comment, or a simple gesture from one lady (or man) to another.

Post my friends, post every gory boring detail…we are in a drout!

Love, your friend…Lana
 
Hello Ladies,

My name is Carjack and my husband is a serious athiest. I think that my husband would make a wonderful asset to the Christian community if he was not such a secularist:rolleyes: . He recently agreed to NFP here and it was such a relief to me and a miracle:). So any prayers are greatly appreciated. I have no children yet at this time.
 
Hi everyone 👋

Still no job for DH. 😦 I’ve gotten back into praying the Rosary daily (well, during the week at least :o) on my drive to work in the morning, and it’s helping me (and others that I pray it for, I hope!). I get through the day with fewer tears, so that’s a wonderful grace. I pray the chaplet of Divine Mercy on the ride home.

DD has been having night terrors, which are tough to deal with, especially being that I’m not sleeping well as it is with this little guy kicking me! (He’s doing well, 22 weeks old today!)

Praying for all marriages and families here, may St. Monica, Mary, and Our Lord hear our pleas. :crossrc:
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Hello Ladies,

My name is Carjack and my husband is a serious athiest. I think that my husband would make a wonderful asset to the Christian community if he was not such a secularist . He recently agreed to NFP here and it was such a relief to me and a miracle:). So any prayers are greatly appreciated. I have no children yet at this time.
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[SIGN]Welcome![/SIGN]

I’m sorry to hear your husband is an athiest – that must be extremely difficult for you. That’s great that he’s willing to practice NFP though – maybe it’s a first step toward God! 🙂

Congrats on going to RCIA (according to your ticker) – that’s wonderful!!! 😃 Your RCIA journey and marriage are included in my prayers too. :hug1:
 
It has been a few days now since our little 5 days with my husband. I find myself thinking of how he did not really give me many reasons to think he wants to get back together, or even work on his problems.
He has a lifestyle that I cannot live around,
He owns a snake and a dog,
he smokes pot and drinks beer each day.
He talks about other girls as if I am some new buddy that he is bragging to…
I figure seriously if I meet a good man , I will not turn the chance away to have a new partner.
Brian and I were not married in the catholic church.
I know through the 4 and a half years separation I have had phases where I try to forget, but today… just posting my thoughts, no decision is being made,
he chooses to live 10 hours away from us, and lives with a girl…
and she is not the first one.
He spnt 100 on his snake tank.
his teeth are rotting, he wears dirty clothes.
I do love him, but what else can i do but pray.
i even told him if he has a crisis he can come up to my state and get on my insurance and he can be on my plan.
as his wife and with his medical condition, I thought I might as well say it.
It didnt help before really, although he sure looked better 5 yrs ago… He is not healthy.gray washed out skin, pale, lackluster.

He seems to still love me but loves his lifestyle so much more!
loves his freedom, although he lives in poverty and works nights…
has no gas at his house…
I find it extremely sad that he makes those choices.
It is like that life is “cool” for him. especially the snake.
what more can I do but pray.
 
hello,

Lana, you are right, I haven’t posted in a while, because I felt I didn’t have anything “interesting” to report…but I also missed hearing from everyone else too!

I am always praying for all of us here in the Forum, that we might have patience, and trust, and PEACE.

I’m reading a book right now, called the “7 Secrets of the Eucharist” which I am enjoying and reccomend to anyone who wants to discover more about the Eucharist.

DH is currently in the hiring process for a new job. The pay is not enough for me to stay home yet, and it’s seasonal, but I have the hope that this will open other doors for him so that we might at some point end up in a position for me to stay home with my now two year old and the other blessing in the “oven” right now. 🙂

He has been out of work for so long, I am a bit nervous about him handling the responsibility, I ask you to pray for us if you have a spare moment so that he can keep it together.

PeacefulPainter, since you have not made a decision yet in regards to your husband, I think you are right, all you can do right now is pray for peace most of all, and for direction from God. I will pray for you.

I hope you all have a great day/night and will keep you in my prayers!! ❤️ :signofcross: :blessyou:
 
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