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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!
 
mnmom:

Ahhh! Some great news! I am SO happy for you. I hope I’ll be able to share some good news of my own soon…😦
 
NOVENA PRAYERS TO SAINT RITA OF CASCIA
Leader: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and our hearts will be renewed.
All: And you will renew the face of the earth.
Leader: O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit, instructed the hearts of the faithful; grant us, by the same Holy Spirit, a love and desire for what is right and just, and the constant enjoyment of His consolation, through Christ our Lord. Amen

LITANY OF SAINT RITA:
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us, Christ hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, ….
God, the Holy Spirit, …
Holy Trinity, One God, …
Immaculate Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
Holy Mary, Mother of pure love, …
Holy Mary, Comforter of the afflicted, …
Holy Mary, Queen of all the saints, …
Holy Mary, Model of life for Saint Rita, …
St. Rita, our advocate and protectress, …
St. Rita, beloved by the Lord, …
St. Rita given special grace from heaven, …
St. Rita, remarkable in childhood, …
St. Rita, model of obedience to God’s Will, …
St. Rita, of untiring patience, …
St. Rita, model of Christian mothers, …
St. Rita, mirror for Christian spouses, …
St. Rita, heroic in sacrifice, …
St. Rita, generous in forgiving, …
St. Rita, martyr in penitence, …
St. Rita, embracing humility and poverty, …
St. Rita, exemplary as a widow, …
St. Rita, prompt to answer the divine call, …
St. Rita, patient in suffering, …
St. Rita, mirror of religious observance, …
St. Rita, mystical rose of every virtue, …
St. Rita, enamored of the Passion of Christ, …
St. Rita, pierced with a thorn, …
St. Rita, in ecstasy before the Blessed Sacrament, …
St. Rita, consumed with Divine Love, …
St. Rita, received into heaven with joy, …
St. Rita, incorrupt in your chaste body, …
St. Rita, advocate of impossible cases, …
St. Rita, persevering in prayer, …
St. Rita, help of those in need, …

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.
Leader: Lord, you have signed your servant, Rita.
All: With the marks of Your love and Passion.

Leader: Let us pray. O God, Who bestowed on St. Rita such grace that she loved her enemies, and bore in her heart and on her forehead the mark of Your love and Passion, grant us, we beseech You, through her merits and intercession, a love for our enemies. Through our contemplation of Your sufferings and Passion, may we merit the reward promised to the meek and the suffering. You live and reign forever. Amen

PRAYER OF PETITION:
All: Glorious St. Rita, patroness of those in need/ your intercession with our Lord is most powerful./ Through the favors obtained by your prayers/ you have been called Advocate of hopeless and even impossible cases./ St. Rita, humble and pure; patient and compassionate lover of Christ Crucified!/ We have confidence that everyone who has recourse to you, will find comfort and relief./ Listen to our petitions and show your power with God in our behalf./ Obtain our petitions for us/ if they are for the greater honor of God, and for our good./ We promise, if our petitions are granted,/ to make known your favor, and to glorify God for His gift./ Relying on your power with the merciful Savior, we ask of you . . .
(here mention your request in silence)
By the singular merits of your childhood, ALL: obtain our request for us
By your perfect union with the Divine Will, …
By your acceptance of troubles in your married life, …
By the anguish felt at the murder of your husband, …
By the surrender of your children, rather than have them offend God, …
By your miraculous entrance into the convent,
By your daily penance and fasting, …
By your courage and joy in bearing the mark of the Crucified Savior, …
By the Divine Love which consumed your life,
By your devotion in receiving the Blessed Sacrament, …
By the happiness you felt in leaving this life for union with Christ, …
By the example you have given to people of every state of life, …
Pray for us, St. Rita, ALL: That we may be worthy of the promises of Christ.
Leader: Let us pray.
All: Heavenly Father! In Your infinite love and mercy/ You heed the prayer of Your beloved servant, Rita./ You graciously grant favors through her intercession,/ which are considered impossible to human skill and effort./ Relying on her compassionate love, we ask You to assist us in our trials and difficulties./ Let unbelievers know/ that you are the helper of the humble,/ the defender of the weak, and the strength of those who trust in You. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

BORN
1386 at Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy

DIED
22 May 1457 at the Augustinian convent at Cascia of tuberculosis

BEATIFIED
1 October 1627 by Pope Urban VIII

CANONIZED
24 May 1900

PATRONAGE
abuse victims
against infertility
against loneliness
against sickness
against sterility
against wounds
bodily ills
Dalayap, Philippines
desperate causes
difficult marriages
forgotten causes
Igbaras, Iloilo, Philippines
impossible causes
lost causes
parenthood
sick people
sterile people
victims of physical spouse abuse
widows
wounded people
 
Please keep me in your prayers ladies. I am arid and dry beyond description. I’m lonely and feeling very unsure of things right now. It has been so “dark” of late and my soul is aching.

I know God is especially near right now as these times are when He is there more so than ever. As I sat in Mass the other day contemplating on my inability to pray anything other than the old stand by prayers, it occurred to me when I feel the most empty, the most dry and completely alone in THIS world, I AM empty, and God has filled me up. I simply need to “learn” to be able to draw on that presence and “feel” God within. But it’s so hard. I just can’t find it. All I can do is cry for what is missing. I now own stock on the Kleenex company for all the tissues I’ve used…LOL (that’s a tiny wry chuckle)
 
Lamb,

This journey can often be lonely, can’t it? I find myself feeling the same way you do, often. I will be praying daily for you and holding your hand, spiritually. Please hang in there. We all love you at CF! God’s Blessings,
 
Little Lamb, let your Mother hold you too…
As she is capable of holding both in her arms!

 
I felt the same thing when i seen it. With all i could scrape together for a year, i framed this beauty with it being my picture from my sons estate. I needed this more than his headstone at this point, for i need presence in my home.

In the end it cost me about 800 for the two foot wide, by three feet tall picture, double matted, and framed. Now to tell you the truth, i did it in stages. I could not find the print here, so ordered it through the states for about 95 bucks. The boarder charged me an extra 85 for delivery from their to my house 30 minutes away…grrrr. Then i had it laminated as a precaution, as it was going to be over my fireplace…another 100. I then told them what i wanted, and refused to look at prices, as they layed out all of the choices for matting and frameing.

The frameing cost me just under 400. I know, that is expen
sive, but i had a vision of what i wanted, and i wanted this to be a forever picture treasure. This stage took me 6 months to pay off.

A year latter i had the picture, and my heart lept…it would not have sufficed being small, i wanted to see/feel her presence. She knew my pain watching her own son die, and live without him, as did I.

I guess some people could walk in, order, and pick up, but the sacrifice i made to have this was important to me. My next purchase will be of Jesus knocking on the door. The two together make for an entire collaberation of my beliefs.

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Bouguereau.html

It is on the second page…i know this gallery does not have all of his paintings, and actually, this picture is hard to find crossing languages, it comes up often as another picture.

I love this one because it is non denominational kind of…what i mean is it is natural, feels more realistic, and therefore makes me more able to look up into this picture, pray to her, and visualize not being alone. She is my mother, my comforter, and knows what i need, as does Jesus, my teacher. Both made possible by GOD only. When i feel their presence, only then is it complete. The trinity of course…as the Holy Spirit is the TOUCH of God…the physical part we crave so deeply.

So, when praying, ask for his help (the HS) to come into your heart…praying will never be the same. It is not a knock me over, but you learn through spiritual listening, that it feels different.

The HS gives me comfort for The Mother, Father and Son.

Lana
 
Lamb_Serenade said:
Please keep me in your prayers ladies. I am arid and dry beyond description. I’m lonely and feeling very unsure of things right now. It has been so “dark” of late and my soul is aching.

I know God is especially near right now as these times are when He is there more so than ever. As I sat in Mass the other day contemplating on my inability to pray anything other than the old stand by prayers, it occurred to me when I feel the most empty, the most dry and completely alone in THIS world, I AM empty, and God has filled me up. I simply need to “learn” to be able to draw on that presence and “feel” God within. But it’s so hard. I just can’t find it. All I can do is cry for what is missing. I now own stock on the Kleenex company for all the tissues I’ve used…LOL (that’s a tiny wry chuckle)
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This last one actually does not mention that the prelude is called The Storm. It represents our turmoil and pain. It is always played just before The Anchor Holds. I love songs that reach out and feel my pain…and yet God is there for me…all tattered and torn. If we were perfectly not in pain, we would not need him.

The trick is being able to see this pain is for good reason. The reason is to NOT go through this alone. We can do it alone, but i can guarantee that Satan will use our lonliness to his gain. Before long we will feel like giving up, as he depleates us of the presence of the Lord making us weak vessels.

The other route is to see the depression and void we feel, and recognise that it is a feeling “without” him. Take back your heart from Old Red Legs, and tell him to quite frankly, “**** off”. Tell him your woulds are only for your Lord Jesus Christ, and rebuke the terd! In Jesus name, take back your heart…for this i will pray.

He can only get to us (S) if we allow it. Funny thing, often we do not see it comming, or we would be wonderously without this torture of his gain in our lives. It is in seeing the symptoms of depression, and futality we need to realize we are feeling so alone, because we made it so.

Jump, run, sprint, do what ever you can back into his arms, and the pain is then tolerable. Remember to ask him for the Grace to Endure. This will specifically remove the physical ACHE, the hurt, right from us, and fillit with the one true gift of life.

This is what i wish for us all, to be good stewards of our hearts, and know, HE is the only true spouse we have.

Lana
 
You can see by my music choices, i am a huge Ray Boltz fan. He has the gawl to sing of pain and resolution…it is a more complete form of praying for me. It gives me a venue to bring my troubles to the foot of the cross. Today i accidentally came across a Ray Bolts Song i never heard before. Or might be that it never spoke to me. I MUST add it…so here it is.

youtube.com/watch?v=BpOhdC131xk&feature=related

Lana
 
Rammy said:
You can see by my music choices, i am a huge Ray Boltz fan. He has the gawl to sing of pain and resolution…it is a more complete form of praying for me. It gives me a venue to bring my troubles to the foot of the cross. Today i accidentally came across a Ray Bolts Song i never heard before. Or might be that it never spoke to me. I MUST add it…so here it is.

youtube.com/watch?v=BpOhdC131xk&feature=related

Lana
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Ray Boltz lives 3 doors down from my dh’s boss. In fact, I will be going there on the 31st for a baby shower (my friend that’s having the baby is friends w/one of Ray Boltz’s daughters).

At my old Baptist church, there was a guy who sang “Watch the Lamb” every year at Easter time. I love that song!
 
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!
 
Pixie_Dust said:
Ray Boltz lives 3 doors down from my dh’s boss. In fact, I will be going there on the 31st for a baby shower (my friend that’s having the baby is friends w/one of Ray Boltz’s daughters).

At my old Baptist church, there was a guy who sang “Watch the Lamb” every year at Easter time. I love that song!
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He WAS and IS the reason why i am able to get so close to God, and grow. You see, i need music to do it, and to be able to relate to the song. There are so very many of his songs that touched both Will and myself. The storm, and the Anchor Holds from his Allegience CD was my first, and still my favorite. When we found out Will was terminal, i did not know how to hold on to what i knew of God.

Ray Bolts was my angel, and leason back into the life of prayer and Gods arms. I really mean it, so very inspirational, and deeply a part of my spiritual life with Will.

Please tell him for me, if you can. Sometimes people are never sure if their music really touches a life, or changes it. In this case, he was the tool that allowed me to gain strength to live with the plan God had for my Son. Now today his music holds my heart…sooo many memories, and i am trying hard to make them a part of the life we lived, instead of representing a part of my life i lost.

I don’t know what else to say, but to pass on my blessings.

Lana
 
Ladies:

Finally, I have some decent news. My dh has been “decent” for the last couple days. I wouldn’t say he’s brimming over with love and compassion, but he’s acting like he’s concerned about our family again. I’m praying that he will continue feeling this way. It must be because of all your prayers! My mom prays the rosary daily for his conversion. That could be helping too. Anyway, just thought I’d share some GOOD news for a change! Thank you, girls! Always praying for you!!
 
mom4truth said:
Ladies:

Finally, I have some decent news. My dh has been “decent” for the last couple days. I wouldn’t say he’s brimming over with love and compassion, but he’s acting like he’s concerned about our family again. I’m praying that he will continue feeling this way. It must be because of all your prayers! My mom prays the rosary daily for his conversion. That could be helping too. Anyway, just thought I’d share some GOOD news for a change! Thank you, girls! Always praying for you!!
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That’s wonderful!!! Thank you God!!

I’ve been away for a few days – my constant morning sickness is awful. :crying: DH has another job interview today – prayers please if you can that he gets it so I can be home with our little ones!
 
Belle,

Praying that your morning sickness eases up. I am also praying that your husband will get a job - SOON! I will ask for St. Joseph’s intercession! God bless you, Belle!
 
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