St. Monica pray for us! Praying for our husbands....

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**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!
 
A Prayer For Employment Day Five

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen
 
Day five of our employment prayer request.

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen
 
jules11 said:
I found this…
I have changed it a little to suit.
Who would like to start it with me along with our St. Monica novena?

A Prayer For Employment

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen​

"Bless, 0 Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity. - Pope John Paul II
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Belle10,

Sorry I’m coming into this a little late. I’m saying day 1 today.

Nikki
 
This will be hard to write, as i have never spoken of this before as a request. I ask that you pray for the soul of my ex husband. What i did not know about him before we were married was that he was Gay, ran a private school for boys, and prefered the 14-16 year old children. I was 18, he 32, and i was extreemly gulable. With too many questions asked, i was the cover for lifting the worry off of parents shoulders. I did not believe everyones warnings, he was a teacher, ran a school, how lucky was i?

Needless to say, i was well tollerated on my wedding night. What was not beaten, dragged, and tortured was not a part of my body, but made to be the scars i still carry today. This went on for a few weeks, alone in the woods with a mad man. My first son was concieved there. He is my shining proof, that in the Dark, God did not leave me alone, he sent an angel to me. Good can definitely come of bad situations.

Threatened to go after my little sister six years my jur if i did not stay with him, i did, and tried to raise my son. A second pregnancy occured that i was scared to tell anyone about as i wanted out badly, but the continued beatings, rapes, and mental torture kept going on. I assumed the baby was about 24 weeks when i merely sugested i was fed up and tired. I was running the school on my own, ran the tutorial program untill 9 pm, then cleaned the school at night. I was exhausted. There was no time for me to even make an excuse to run.

Exhausted and tired of thisschedule every day i dared to say so, and was abruptly pushed down the winding staircase. I hit the wall first, and then went down the stairs. I lay there quiet trying so hard to see if the baby was moving, and it did. So i went up to my room and cried myself to sleep…how was i going to get out of this.

I woke 4 days latter to the smell of food. A usual pattern of niceness followed every beating, so i thought supper was being made for me. But the food smell eventually went away. Figuring he wanted me to come down stairs, i went to get up. Mind you, i do not know anything more than an hour has passed. There was soooo much blood in my waterbed. It was everywhere, i grabbed for my stomach and wondered, is it still moving? I waited, poked and tried to get the baby to roll over like i had so many times before. Mind this, my husband did not know i was pregnant.

I was so weak and dizzy from lac of blood i fugured out latter and screamed so pathetically…he came up stairs so angry i was taken back. He yelled at me so quietly through clenched teeth that i wrecked his plans, why didn’t i just die. He said he’d been waiting four days. I screamed 4 days, why didn’t you call an ambulence or my parents? He said he would not have won! And then he said he would never forgive me for wrecking the chance of him ever having a little girl!

He knew…OMG…how? The baby must have passed through me! I must have gone into labour, he said my temperature was a sure sign i might die, as it was high. I screamed so loud, “where is my baby?” and he laughed so full of evil…“what baby?”

A mad man took my baby, and to this day, i never found her. I went into shock i think. I was getting out, and he was not going to stop me. I was going to plan this move. 4 months latter i got out. Got emergency custody, but struggled for many years to get a divorce from him. Seven years, fleeing the provence, and much mental torture done to my son in the mean time.

My sister had since moved away, so i felt safe leaving. Eventually i was not safe half way across Canada from this man, and signed papers to get full custody. I gave up the home, school, cottage, pension plans, 47 thousand he was in arears of child support, and all of this was given up for custody Of my angel Will.

Soon after this he was found to be terminal, and his father called him and told him he did not want to be his father since he was going to die anyway. He was carrying an oxygen tank of 20 lbs…was 38 lbs, wore size 4 clothing, and was 7 1/2 years old with solid tears streaming from his face at the disbelief of his fathers words.

Then when he died, he did not go to the funeral, living 15 minutes from us, cashed in on a life insurance policy he took out on him, and took half his trust fund because my son did not have a last will and testiment. He took 40 thousand from Wills estate, never paid child support, never seen him past age 7 (died at 19) never paid for his oxygen, medical bills or anything.

With Will gone, he has not got a single thing on me anymore. But his soul is deadly in a dark dark place, especially being a pedifile, and never caught. I was never believed, nor was Will.

But yet Will prayed for him daily because he knew he could never give him love, if he was never given it himself, or taught this. He knew he was a product of severe torture himself.

Mothers day came and went, and i know Will held his sister, and prayed for his own father for putting her there!

Lana
 
Lana, I don’t know what to say. I’d like to tell you I’ll pray for your ex, but how? What words? I just wouldn’t know what to say. I will try for your sake though. God bless you for asking.
 
Asking for such a request is hard, but somewhere in that mind and body is a tortured child, twisted and so on…he was forgotten and used. Somewhere there is a child of God, be it lost or not.

Forgiving happens over and over again for me, and is raw, over and over again. It is not a one time thing, but i still try and bring it to the foot of the cross!

If he only knew how wonderfully stable his son grew up, and loved God, lived for him and his family and friends. We often laughed at his old soul of habbits…but dealing with longevity for so long makes you a very wise little person. The world is better because of what he offered as an example, “Carpe Diem”!!

Lana

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JCLA said:
Belle10,

Sorry I’m coming into this a little late. I’m saying day 1 today.

Nikki
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Prayers are never late. Thank you for caring and being willing to do this for us. :hug1: Thank you all.

DH just messaged me: he did not get that job that he went to Chicago to interview for. I “know” there’s a “good reason” why he didn’t get it, but I can’t help but be upset when it would’ve enabled me to be home with our little ones. I just don’t understand. :crying:
Rammy said:
This will be hard to write, as i have never spoken of this before as a request. I ask that you pray for the soul of my ex husband…
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Lana, I’m so sorry. 😦 :hug1: I don’t know what to say, other than I’ll pray for you and for him. I’m sure that our Lord will reward you greatly for your willingness to pray for such a person.
 
Belle hunny, just maybe this novena for him should continue, as there just might be a better one around the corner!

bless your dear heart!

Lana
 
BeeSweet said:
Lana, I don’t know what to say. I’d like to tell you I’ll pray for your ex, but how? What words? I just wouldn’t know what to say. I will try for your sake though. God bless you for asking.
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In the Mitford series, Father Tim (an Episcopalian priest) prays “the prayer that never fails”: Thy Will be done. :gopray2: That’s about all we can pray for someone like that, in my opinion.
 
Pixie_Dust said:
In the Mitford series, Father Tim (an Episcopalian priest) prays “the prayer that never fails”: Thy Will be done. :gopray2: That’s about all we can pray for someone like that, in my opinion.
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oooo! A fellow Mitford fan!..I love, love LOVE that series of books. Have you started reading the new series Pixie??
 
Day 6

A Prayer For Employment

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen
 
Day 6:

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as my DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
:crossrc:
 
Lamb_Serenade said:
oooo! A fellow Mitford fan!..I love, love LOVE that series of books. Have you started reading the new series Pixie??
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Just got to read Home to Holly Springs last week. 😃 I’ll wait for the paperback to buy it so it matches the rest of my Mitford books on the shelf. 😊
 
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!
 
A Prayer For Employment Day Six

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen
 
A Prayer For Employment Day Six

God, our Father, we turn to You seeking Your divine help and guidance as Belle’s DH looks for suitable employment.
He needs Your wisdom to guide his footsteps along the right path, and to lead him to find the proper things to say and do in this quest. Help him to use the gifts and talents You have given him, but he needs the opportunity to do so with gainful employment.
Do not abandon him, dear Father, in this search, but rather grant him this favor we seek so that he may return to You with praise and thanksgiving for Your gracious assistance.
Grant this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen
 
Rammy said:
Can you tell me about this series, its strengths and so on. I have never heard about this before!

Lana
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It’s a fiction series by Jan Karon. The first title is “At Home in Mitford” and chronicles the daily life of Father Tim Kavanaugh, an Episcopalian priest. Very fun books to read and you fall in love with the people of Mitford, even though they aren’t really real people.

I started reading the books as a Baptist and I believe they were one of the tools God used to lead me to the Catholic Church. Had I found a real-life Father Tim I would have become Episcopalian in a heartbeat! (This was before I heard about the whole gay bishop in NH deal and learned how un-orthodox the ECUSA in general has become.) God made me Catholic instead.
 
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