St. Monica, Pray for us!

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Belle my dear, i have been thinking of you often, and it led me back here!
AND THEN , i seen your post! God bless your trials, you and everyone else here.
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Aw, you’re sweet! Well, it must have been the Holy Spirit leading you back here. :hug1:

Prayers for all in this thread, whether recent or from a long time ago. :crossrc: :grouphug:

I asked DH if we could pray together once a day (I suggested an Our Father since he is a identifies himself as a Christian and was raised Methodist but doesn’t practice any particular faith). He said yes, but that he hoped I wouldn’t be offended if he didn’t pray aloud. I said that’s fine with me – I can be the one to pray aloud for us! It’s a small step but one that I am so grateful for. I’m praying that he will be open to and supportive of NFP after this baby is born – I’m nervous b/c he doesn’t want more children and I think it’s going to be challenging for us.

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 intentions of all on this thread)

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.
 
Today i am having a hard time even bonding with my husbands, and i know this keeps us apart. It is my late sons birthday (would be 25 today) and i know he did not care for him, but was extremely resentful of his illness and the debts it put us in.

But he was my son…not his…and he was dieing, and never once felt sorry for himself, but trudged on to do with the day what he thought God would want him to do.

And i guiltily wish he was here instead of my husband…who leaves me feel so lonely in life!

Lana
 
Could you please lift up my sister’s husband in prayer? When they first married, faith was just becoming important to him. He has been attending Catholic church with her for years now, and recently is showing signs of either converting or joining another Christian church. He has been attending many other churches, including some non-Catholic churches, seeking answers. Today, I was talking with him on the phone, and God blessed my tongue with His Spirit, so that my BIL heard what he needed to hear (I think) - or at least some of it.

He is especially struggling with the spiritual deadness of the local Catholic parishes. However, he also might be discerning a call from God to help bring life to them, in at least some small ways. I think he’s grasping that the Catholic church is under attack, and that he has a role in that battle.

He is especially interested in support for men. I’m thinking of recommending that he check out the Knights of Columbus. I know I recently learned that several of our own friends are members.

I would love to have another Catholic in the family, and religion has been a real source of friction in their home lately while he discerns so actively. Please pray for him and his wife, who is getting frustrated with his discernment process! Plus, their daughter is my goddaughter, and I would love her to witness her father’s conversion!
 
I pray that my husband’s heart is softened towards our three children.
 
May I add my husband to the list? His name is Adam, and he is considering becoming a Catholic. He believes in God, but was not brought up with any spirituality, so he sees the world through purely secular eyes. I think this could be the biggest hurdle for him - understanding the Catholic way of life, and that the spiritual and the physical are intertwined.

He doesn’t like the Hail Mary because he doesn’t think we are sinners. He thinks God is only to be prayed to in times of extreme need, not for small, day to day stuff like lost carkeys or parking spaces.

From what he is saying, he wants to be Catholic so he’s the same as the rest of his (immediate) family, but I don’t know if he really believes or wants to believe, or is just taking on a name. He is a deep thinker, however. We will be having our Priest over to dinner in a week, to plan Adam’s Catholic formation, so please pray that he will be open to learning and understanding the faith, and that he will believe.

St Monica, pray for my husband.

(another) Monica.
 
:gopray:Hello,

praying for everyone here!

I am quitting work next month to take care of our two little ones even though my husband does not have a permanent job. He is going back to a seasonsal position which doesn’t pay the bills, so we will live off our savings as long as possible. My husband is not Catholic, not even Christian, but he has been asking me to pray. I pray that this change in our family will show him that reliance on God is the only way to go.

Saint Monica, please pray for the conversion of all our loved ones and please pray for the patience to wait for God to do His work in His time.

Amen
 
If St. Monica did it for her husband and son I am going to pray to her for my girlfriend. I need many prayers as I try to help her find her way home. She was raised non denominational and currently does not attend any services and really does not like to attend Catholic Mass with me due to how she was raised.
 
I’ve been away for a while, and received a PM from another member that brought me back here. I was amazed that God has chosen to bring several of us back at the same time. I’m sad to know that we are still struggling with the same problems, but glad to know we have CAF and the St. M’s thread for support and prayers.

Belle, my dear! God loves you so much and another babe on the way. What a blessing you are and I know you have to be a wonderful mommy 🙂

Rammy, I have thought of you often and feel a kinship with you since we seem to mirror many of our spousal problems. I admire your strength and tenacity. We share a deep love for our spouses that even we are unable to explain and that defies logic. I guess someone needs to love and pray them into heaven, right?

Others are still praying and/or struggling. Longing for Light, MonicaRose and others. We have been off and on regulars for a long time. Praying and thinking of you all!

My hubby still drinks, but thankfully we are no where near the deep dark place we were three years ago. I can thank our God for that. I pray a time will come when the booze will no longer hold the allure or illusion of peace it now holds for him.

I now have two beautiful grandkids and I am “nanny” granny to them. I love being able to be their babysitter during the school year while my daughter (a teacher) and son in law work. My youngest daughter, a 2nd grader, is beautiful, and brilliant and I’m very proud of her. She is of the highly emotional variety and it’s not just the girl thing. She feels deeper than any of my other kids did and helping her to learn to understand those feelings and how to deal with and channel them is challenging.

I pray for all of us who are struggling with spouses and family members who are lured away from their faith and families whether by those in their lives or by self indulgent abuse of alcohol or drugs. May we remain strong and every reliant on the love of God and our beautiful Catholic faith.
 
Yes, how a few of us just came back is something strong.
I feel it. We can all keep praying so that we can see miracles!
God willing, of course… this is where God wants us to be now.
I just found out last week that I had some unusual liver enzymes on my cholesterol test.
I read some about liver , fatty liver, etc. I do not drink.
The Dr wondered what it is so is sending me to a Gastro specialist next month.
My recent tests came back normal, for serious things like hepatitis .
Thank the Lord!
Anyway, i had been getting horrible headaches almost daily. and other symptoms that I thought were menopause, I am 50, but not really in menopause, just guessed it was about that time.
Well, taking extra strength tylenol all the time, ibuprofen too. the Dr told me to try to stop those… I read more… the other thing I read was to stop processed foods to I switched to whole wheat and got more pain and headaches, so thought what is going on!
stomach and head, etc.
attacks in the night. so long story short,
I cut wheat out altogether just to experiment and already, no more headaches…
no more cramps and bloating,… no more tiredness and brain fog!
also lost 3 pounds with no effort , and have more energy , making more clear decisions and feel that people are responding to me differently, and I am not as sensitive and drained.
some days i felt so drained that i could never commit to helping at the kids school etc.

i will reveal all this to my dr and see what he says of course, but… so far i feel great.

THe reason i am saying this is because… God obviously has some work to do healing me still… i dream of my husband… and some dreams my husband talks to me.
Scoff at it, I have myself and thrown out all memory of him that I could …
but… once again, love somehow cuts through and I cannot start the divorce.
sorry so long, just that… we are here to pray and i am sorry sometimes i was so hurt and wounded that I defended myself by asking others to stop talking. I have had a lot of trauma and i know many of you have too. I will keep praying for the husbands wives and children on the thread .
this recent healing I have felt depended on the dreaming being possible. too… which I never get to have since my upstairs neighbor awakens me all the time. she left for a few days and I actually got to dream.
take good care of yourselves.,.
love,
peaceful painter
 
Still praying for everyone on this thread …

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 intentions of all on this thread)

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.
 
wow, alot of people have needs on here.
I didn’t know saint monica had a troubled marriage?

I knew her son was interesting , but her husband too?
 
St Monica please pray for Lady Gaga, Stefani Germanotta, her sister Natali and their mom Cynthia, so that her daughters come back to the Mother Church and use their God given talents in a GODLY way. :signofcross: :knight2:
 
I haven’t been on here in AGES, and I was never a regular, BUT I want everyone to know that God hears your prayers!!

**My husband entered the Church at the Easter Vigil Mass this year. (Praise God!!!) He is one of the very last people you would EVER think would join the Catholic Church. God CAN do the impossible! **

PLEASE DON’T GIVE UP!

St. Monica,
Thank you for your intercession on my husbands behalf. I have, like you, experienced the peace and joy of seeing my husband join the Church. Please pray for everyone here.
Amen.

My heart goes out to you all.:grouphug:
 
Thank you so much for posting that!! Today that is just what I needed to hear, because it had been a day where I really was thinking about giving up!!

God Bless you and I’m so happy for you and your husband!!
 
Thank you so much for this uplifting post. I have faith that someday I can come back to this forum and post a similar update!

May God strengthen your marriage now that you both are together in his holy church.

St. Monica, pray for all of us who are still waiting faithfully for the day when our husbands will come to God’s holy church and we can all participate in the one body of Christ.
Amen
 
Hello everyone I was formerly MNMOM but due to losing my job i finally have chance to talk to you all again. Please continue praying that my husband will go to confession and come back to Mass with our family. I’m happy to be back and look forward to everyone’s updates. :gopray2:
 
ProLifeMom said:
I haven’t been on here in AGES, and I was never a regular, BUT I want everyone to know that God hears your prayers!!

**My husband entered the Church at the Easter Vigil Mass this year. (Praise God!!!) He is one of the very last people you would EVER think would join the Catholic Church. God CAN do the impossible! **

PLEASE DON’T GIVE UP!

My heart goes out to you all.:grouphug:
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Thank you so much for this blessed encouragement. So refreshing to hear. What a wonderful Easter gift to you. Praise God!!! ❤️ I’m so happy for you both. :hug3:

My husband continues to attend mass with me most every Sunday, but still seems no closer to conversion. He attends to be with me, I can’t wait until he comes to realize he is also visiting Jesus everytime he comes. 😃

God bless all of you ladies. Pray for us Saint Monica. Pray for our husbands to be brought to the fullness of joy and love and peace in the Holy Catholic Faith. :gopray2:

Edit to add: One thought that is most consoling to me is that I know for definite sure that it IS in God’s will my husband becomes Catholic. He wants it even more than I do. But we all have free will, and my husband has to realize it for himself. Since he does not yet realize it, and is trying very hard to live according to God’s will for him, I know that he will still receive mercy and salvation too. And so even if he never becomes Catholic, that thought still gives me peace. 🙂
 
Don’t know why I checked in on this thread, but plw, I think it might help you to know that it took my dad about 25 years after marrying my Catholic mother to convert. He was a somewhat-observant Jew that started going to mass and praying with us kids when we were little, but he was always blocked somehow from converting. He tried becoming a more observant Jew at one point but then started on the path to conversion about five years ago.

Amazingly, he said that he had believed for a long time but couldn’t bring himself to convert because he thought he wasn’t worthy to join God’s true Church because he wasn’t good enough of a person and had made some mistakes as a father and husband. I mean, that’s true enough that he made some fairly serious errors, but we all do and I was very surprised to hear that rationale. I guess Satan tries everything to keep us away from the truth.

At any rate, this Easter Vigil was his four-year anniversary of joining the church. So he’s got another 21 to go to make up for all that time he missed while my mom and then all the kids were praying for him to finally make the move!
 
My prayers for your father to be so blessed. Just wanted to share my answered prayers. My daughter returned to church after 8 months away. I posted a while back the problem relation with the protestant boyfriend. Than has ended and she is now seeing a catholic young man. The lord is great in good times and bad. Thank you all for your prayers.
 
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