🙏 An Easy Way to Grow Closer to Christ this Advent

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Advent will be here before you know it! It’s a little less than two weeks away!

We hope you will join us for our online, self-paced Advent retreat

Advent is similar to Lent, and some even call it, the “Little Lent.”

It’s a season when we should spend more time in prayer, preparing for Jesus Christ’s coming. 

You know we like to help you pray more :)

Learn more and register for the retreat here:

“I loved it. I learned a lot, and I felt closer to the Lord.” That’s what one of our past participants said!

Here’s what you get when you register for the online retreat:

+ We have seven speakers

+ There will be 15 video & audio presentations

+ Each of those presentations will come with a transcript and a study guide

The retreat is self-paced which means that you can participate wherever you are and whenever you have the time. :)

The Pray More Retreat will be just like an in-person retreat that you can experience at home — anywhere, anytime. 

You’ll hear from seven speakers, each of them giving a couple of presentations that will help you be more dedicated to prayer in your everyday life this Advent — and onward into the new Liturgical year :)

You’ll also receive a transcript of their talks along with reflective study guides for each.

You can register for the retreat here:

That’s also where you can see who our speakers are and what their talks are about. 

All of the materials will be released on Monday, November 30th, and we hope they will help you to slow down during this Advent season and truly prepare to celebrate Jesus Christ’s coming at Christmas. 

God bless you!

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  1. Please help me pray for my marriage which has been rocky, but seems to be going better , and for the 2 daughters of my husband from a first very complicated marriage which was anulled , and I have big big problems with his daughters, and with him about his daughters .. they are 25 and 27, their mother has now died , but they were brought up by their father , and their relationship is a bit strange and very hard to cope with..
    I of course am what I am also… but it’s tough.. Only God’s Grace can help me and the sacrament I so value of my marriage.. please please help me with your generous prayers!! Go’s be with all of you and thank e so much if you read this

  2. Dear Jesus and Mary, please protect me today during my parathyroid Surgery. Please Bless the surgeons and entire surgical team to take care of me.

    Please heal me of my heart, kidney and hyperparathyroid diseases, if it be God’s Will.

    Thank you Jesus and Mary.

  3. Friday November 20th, 2020. My Praise Report and Persistent, Persevering Daily Prayer Request to My Almighty Heavenly Father My Lord, SACRED HEART OF JESUS CHRIST THE KING, THE RISEN GOD, HOLY SPIRIT, THE PARACLETE, BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, OUR LADY OF LOURDES, UNDOER OF KNOTS, ST. JOSEPH, ST. PEREGRINE, ST. RITA, ST. JUDE, ST. ANNE, ST. THERESA OF CALCUTTA, ST JOHN PAUL 2ND , ST. MONICA, SACRED HEART OF JESUS, PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS and All Ye Holy Angels, Archangels and Saints. l implore Your Providential intercession with all my prayer requests to the Almighty God. O God I am so Grateful to You that My soul is so satisfied in You.
    Please Lord accept my daily conversation with You. Please God hear my daily cries, have mercy, compassion and pity on me and let my cries and the silent meditation of my heart and the words of my mouth be Acceptable to You O My Lord Jesus. I am knocking please Lord always open me, l am seeking You please Lord let me find You always, I am asking You please Lord answer me always. I place all my Trust in You Jesus. l Know, l Believe and l have Faith in You my Lord Jesus that You do Miracles, the Impossible for me. I know You will take of me and make a way for me. I Thank You Lord. I Praise You my God. I Love You Father, my Sovereign God, my Master. I beg You Lord Jesus. Please look upon my tears, Hear my cries always Master and answer me in my humility. Eternal Father please do not forsake me. Please Lord take care of me and keep me beneath Your wings far away from my enemies who wishes harm on me and my family.
    Dear God Almighty, HOLY SPIRIT, The Paraclete, my Advocate , PRECIOUS, ROSY BLOOD OF JESUS, ST. PEREGRINE, ST. JUDE, ST. ANNE, ST. MONICA, HOLY MOTHER MARY, UNDOER OF KNOTS, please undo the snarls of knots in my life. I Thank You God for healing all my sufferings; my stomach ailments and all my discomforts for Your Glory and my Salvation. Lord Jesus my God. Please do not allow the diseases to return. I beg You. l Thank You My Lord for all Your Healing Miracles and Benefits for me and my family. ALL YE HOLY ANGELS AND SAINTS I implore your aid, intercession, grace, discernment, and providence into my soul and for my intentions listed here in my daily, rambling petitions for myself, son Christopher, mother Margaret, siblings especially Paa, Edwin, Fred, JB, all my relatives, friends, loved ones, the sick and the suffering to whom this Daily Novena is intended for and the whole world. I Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for hearing me and taking care of me in Your mercy and answering me for Your Glory. All Ye Holy Angels and Saints please join me in Thanking and Praising God.
    Blessed Holy Mother Mary with your intercession and that of All Your Holy Angels and Saints The Merciful God answers all my prayer requests. God delivers my soul from death and honors me with all my daily needs. I Thank You Lord. Praise the Lord O My Soul and all that is within me. Praise Your Holy, Glorious Name. I Thank You Lord God Almighty that My Soul is so Satisfied in You. Amen
    HOLY SPIRIT, my Advocate please descend upon me and endow my Heart with the power of God, so Your Spirit will flame the fire in me and The Almighty God will hear my cries and render me His Salvation, Blessings and continuous Healing Miracles. Intercede for me HOLY SPIRIT. I need Your Healing Hands on me right now Jesus. Please Lord Do it for me right now. I Thank You HOLY SPIRIT.
    Dear Lord God Almighty; Holy Mother Mary, OUR LADY OF LOURDES, Blessed ST. JOSEPH, Blessed St Michael the Archangel, ST. PEREGRINE, ST. MONICA, ST. RITA, St. Jude, ST. ANNE, Blessed ST. PADRE PIO, All Ye Holy Angels and Saints. l invoke your names to please Entreat God’s favor on my behalf to forgive my sins, to have mercy and pity on me and to please accept my constant, unceasingly, daily Thanks and Praises. Ye Angels and Saints please Entreat God’s favor to hear my constant, persistent silent cries and continue coming to my aid. I need you desperately God. I Knocked, l asked and sought your HELP Jesus. I have no other God apart from You. I trust and believe in Your WORD that by your Stripes l am healed and You O God HEALED me. YOU CURED ME with the surgery. Almighty Father, You had pity, compassion and mercy on me just like You did for Hezekiah when he cried unto Thee. You have always been Good to me Lord. I Thank You my Lord Jesus for hearing and answering my cries and wiping away my tears in spite of all my sins. I adore Thee my Lord. l love Thee my God. l Praise and Magnify Your Holy Name Lord Jesus my Savior. You are the Best Thing that ever happened to me.
    All I want to say to You God every moment and every second of my life is THANK YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, LORD JESUS CHRIST for bringing me through the surgery and CURING ME. Oh God I am so Grateful to you For giving me another chance in life for Your Glory; For allowing me a place in the land of the living. For healing my mother from all her illnesses and delivering her from death. For giving her eyesight back after her eye surgery. Praise God. Thank You Father. Please Lord Jesus, continue to heal her with your Precious Blood from your wound and water from your side for by your Stripes we are healed. Please God heal the high pressure in mother’s eyes so she will be able to see again. Please God do not fail her. Please God forgive her sins and deliver her soul from the devil’s grip, satan her enemy, the evil spirit and from death of her soul. Please God, in your mercy grant her your Supreme healing miracles, strength and good health for unto You she daily lament. Thank You Lord Jesus for hearing my cries and healing her eyes again. Amen. Alleluia
    Thank You God for heeding my sighs and moaning. For listening to my supplications and driving away all my fears and anxieties. For answering all my Prayers and delivering me from dangerous pitfalls, toils and the snares of the devil, my enemies. For fighting my spiritual and physical battles and allowing me to defeat my enemies and oppressors, for delivering me from death and keeping me in the land of the Living. Create in me a Clean Heart O God and renew a steadfast Spirit within me. Please Lord do not take Your HOLY SPIRIT away from me.
    Glory and Praises be unto Thee Lord God Almighty. How can l thank Thee Lord Jesus. I will call upon Thy Holy Name to Glorify Thee. I will exalt Thy Blessed Holy Name, I will testify to All Nations for what you Lord have done for me. You made me an instrument of Your Devine, Supreme Healing Miracle. I am striving to do your Holy Will for Your glory. I extol You and testify Your wonderful deeds to ALL that I did not die. l shout Your Mighty Name to the world and testify to them how Good You have been to me. I Thank You SACRED HEART OF JESUS. Praise the Lord O my soul. I Thank You Holy Mother Mary, l Thank You Blessed St. Joseph, ST. PEREGRINE, St Anthony, ST. JUDE, ST. ANNE, St Bernadette, St Benedict, St Faustina, St Teresa of Avila, ST. MARIA GORETTI, St. Margaret, St Thomas, St. Francis, ST. PADRE PIO, St Michael the Archangel, St. Gabriel, St Raphael, St. Uriel, St Therese De Lisieux, St. Agatha, St. Lucy, St. Catherine Laboure, ST. MONICA, St. Veronica, St. Gerard, and All Ye Holy Angels, Archangels and Saints for interceding on my behalf to the Almighty God. Please continue to pray and Entreat God’s Favor, strength, God’s corporal and spiritual healing miracles and blessings for me, my son, mother, siblings, family and friends. Dear God, my Devine Supreme Physician please help me to retain my nutrition so l can continue to gain weight. I lost so much weight after the surgery but You God know all that already. I beg You Lord Jesus please help me gain weight . I am pleading with You Jesus. l am praying to You without ceasing like You said to do. I thank You always Lord Jesus for everything. I also thank You for All Your Blessings to me, to my son and my family and for allowing me to receive all benefits to achieve my fulfillments for my crown of Glory. Glory be Thine. Praises be unto Thee. Please God grant me Your protection from the devil and please pour Your amazing Grace and Anointing Oil upon me, upon my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters, family, friends and all my loved ones, all those who have ask for my prayers and all Your people on this earth. I Thank You Lord God Almighty.
    Blessed Angels and Saints please do not leave God’s side until God hears Your prayers on my behalf. Thank you Lord Jesus Christ.
    Please God forgive the sins of my son Christopher and in Your mercy, please God Bless Him. I Thank You God for his life and all Your healing mercies, benefits, fulfillments and Blessings to Him. I Thank You Lord for Guiding, guarding and protecting him all the time in all his doings, goings and comings and bringing him back home always and safely under Your protective watchful eyes and care. Please God, continue to guard and guide him in all his doings, goings and comings and in everything he does. Please Father discern and Bless him with a God fearing spouse of Your choice, a prayerful, pious, virtuous, Christian woman of Your choosing. Merciful God please continue to help, protect, defend, strengthen, guide and guard him in all his ways. HOLY MOTHER, EVER-BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, OUR LADY OF LOURDES, ST. JUDE, ST MONICA, ST ANNE, ST JOACHIM, ST RITA, please Entreat the favor of the Almighty God with all my petitions in my Heart for my son Christopher. I thank You Lord Jesus CHRIST THE KING for Your protection every day of his life. Please God deliver him from the devil, and protect and guide him with his job, finances and in all his endeavors. Please God make him WISE and to grow in Grace, Age and Wisdom. Please Jesus bless him with the Government job he is seeking, for with You God nothing is impossible. Thank You my Jesus. Please St Joseph intercede with all my prayer request for my son Christopher. I Thank You Lord🙏
    Please God lock my son Christopher’s heart to Yours and keep him safe beneath Your loving protective, wings. Please Jesus direct his ways and lead him to the path that You Lord have laid down for him to do Your work for Your Glory and for his Salvation. Jesus please make him obedient to Your Precepts. Please God protect and shield him from his enemies, diseases, sicknesses, accidents, anxieties, bad news, bad decisions, fears, woes, death, spiritual warfares, natural disasters, Coronavirus, influenzas, and calamities. Please God bless him with good health, longevity and Your Amazing Grace. I Thank You Father, l praise You Lord Jesus Christ for his life and all that You have done and still doing for him. I Praise Your Holy Name Jesus.
    Lord Jesus please forgive all our sins, cleanse our hearts and fill us with Your HOLY SPIRIT, Encircle us with Your Holy Ghost Fire, Wash us with Your PRECIOUS, ROSY BLOOD from the crown of our heads to the soles of our feet. Heal us with Your Stripes. Safeguard, strengthen, guide and protect me, my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters, family, friends and all close and dear to my Heart from all evil, satan attack, the devil, our enemies who are prowling around us to ruin our souls. Please God keep us all safe from our enemies, diseases, sicknesses, illnesses, calamities, disasters, Coronaviruses, influenzas, dangerous pitfalls, devil’s traps and snares, accidents, fears, anxieties, bad news, night terrors and bad dreams, woes and death. Deliver us all from our enemies, satan attacks and spiritual battles. Fill us with Your Love, Mercy, forgiveness, good health, strength, Victory, perseverance, wisdom, prudence, knowledge, kindness, charity, purity, humility, humanity, meekness, patience, endurance and compassion for others. Please God bring my estranged, fractured, divided family together, closer to each other and bind us with Forgiveness, Humility, Humanity, Meekness, Love, Peace, Wisdom, Prudence, Knowledge, strength, Kindness, charity, compassion, Understanding, clarity and Unity.
    Let Your Superhuman St. Michael the Archangel and all Your Holy Angels, Archangels and Saints safeguard, protect, shield and defend us all from our enemies the devil, satan the evil spirit. Bless the devil and all his followers dinah, and all our enemies, both visible and invisible. Let our enemies fall into the traps, nets, snares, pits that they have dug for us and let them fall way down to the bottom of that infernal abyss of the fiery, miry pit trap. That same hole they dug up for me and my family whiles we escape unharmed. Please God let our enemies RISE UP NO MORE from their Fall. Please God make my enemies my Footstools. Please Lord return our enemies evil deeds, wicked plots, works and intentions back to them and their offsprings.
    Please God Bless me Edith Thy poor, unworthy, wretched servant, my poor son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters; PM, D, F, M, JB, E,YO, N,E,J, all my loved ones, family and friends with good health, peace and longevity for Your work on this earth. Please God grant us all a piece of Your Kingdom. ST. PEREGRINE please Entreat Your God and my Lord’s favor on my behalf and my brother Paa, his son Marfo, Fred, JB and sons. Whatever is going on with our health and lives, whatever ails and afflict us, please Lord take control. Please ST. PEREGRINE Beg Your God and My God to Forgive us our sins, to help us and heal us of our afflictions; both physically and emotionally. Thank You Lord Jesus for hearing and answering me.
    Lord Almighty, Eternal Father l entrust into Your loving care and hands all Your clergies, Pope; Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict, Monsignors, Archbishops, Cardinals, Bishops, Fathers, Deacons, priests, nuns, friars, the Franciscan, Dominicans, Marian, Claretian brothers and sisters, monks, Seminarians, all Your Holy Catholic and Apostolic churches, EWTN and Staff, Sister Michael, and all the Sisters, all church members, the Laities, all prayer warriors, the sick, my mother Margaret, CO, SA, Gloria, GA, the dying, the forgotten, the marginalized, the destitute, the barren, expectant mothers, unborn babies, children, parents, the old and elderly, the young, the poor, the orphan, the widow and the widower, the vulnerable, the prisoners, the innocent, the persecuted ones for Your sake, atheist, agnostics, all hardened souls, those that blasphemes against You, the lonely, blind, mute, deaf, crippled and the maimed, the homeless, addicted, abused, the refugees and the migrants, unemployed, the weary travelers, those in mourning, especially my cousin Kojo and her family, Liz, Aggie, Eunice, Donna, everybody and everything under Your Sun, all Your earth’s exiles who are calling on You with our Daily Novena needs and worries that we place into Your loving hands and care,
    Please Lord have compassion, pity and mercy on us and please love us, hear our prayers and grant our needs according to Your Will. Please God grant us Your Peace in our Hearts and in our Days. Thank You Lord God Almighty.
    Lord please be in our midst on this earth and where there is sickness, despair, brokenness, emptiness, loneliness, sadness, weakness, sorrow, suffering, war, Disasters of nature and Calamities of CORONAVIRUS & Influenzas , grant us your Peace, protection, grace, deliverance, healing mercies and mercy. Have pity on me Eternal Father Almighty Lord, Jesus Christ my Savior. Sanctify my Soul for in You Lord do l take refuge and wait. In Your Infallible WORD l trust, believe, depend and watch. Your WORD that shall never Pass. Please Lord Order and Direct my Steps,Talk,Thoughts and Being in Your WORD. Please Lord, Fortify and Purify my Charity, Increase my Faith,Trust, Believe and Hope in You Master. Please Father, do not allow my enemies, the devil, satan the evil spirit to defeat, shame, gloat or laugh at me. Please God put satan under my feet and make him my Footstool. Jesus please defend me from the malicious enemy. O Good Jesus please hear me, within Your Sacred Wounds, please hide me. Lord please listen to all the prayers and the needs of all those who are calling upon Your Holy Name with their Daily Novena prayer requests including me Edith Your poor, wretched servant. In Your mercy, please Lord God hear and answer our prayers according to Thy Will. Please do not look upon my sins or the sins of my parents, child, Siblings, family, loved ones, ancestors or forefathers but in Your mercy please Lord forgive us all our faults and hear my cries for I place all my Trust in You Jesus. Please have Pity and Compassion on me. Thank You Jesus for allowing me to gain some weight. Please God continue to bless me with weight gain. I Thank You Jesus.
    Please Lord Bless and guide me at all times and please do not leave my side as l strive to do Your Holy Will. Please God direct my paths to Your Ways so as to Serve You. Please God the World needs You. Your children and I are yearning and pining for You like a dry, patchy land thirsting for Water.
    Lord Almighty God, Eternal Father, in Your mercy please bestow Your perfect peace, joy, light and eternal rest upon all Your faithfully departed souls including my father Joseph-Benjamin, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, especially Nicholas Wolfe; Fr. Joseph’s father, Alex Trebek, Gary Dwyer who joined You in Heaven recently, my friends, all loved ones, CORONAVIRUS victims and all Religious clergies. Please Lord grant them a piece of Your Kingdom with Your Holy Angels and Saints in Heaven. Please God console all the bereaved families left behind.
    Thank You Lord Jesus for listening to me, for being merciful and answering me, a poor sinner. Praises be unto Thee. Thy Will be done. BLESS THE LORD O MY SOUL AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME. PRAISE YOUR HOLY NAME JESUS. Amen
    Thank You Lord Jesus Christ. My Sovereign God. I give You the Glory and Praises. I exalt and magnify Your name forever. I Adore Thee.
    Please God forgive my sins and hear my cries in my Humility. Please Jesus have pity and mercy on me and grant my heart desires according to Your Holy Will. All my Hope, Faith and Trust is placed in You my Sovereign God.
    Thank You again and again Father from the depths of my heart for healing my stomach discomforts and please do not let the symptoms return. I beg You Father. Please God, Guide, guard, defend, direct, protect and deliver me from all evil, bad dreams, night terrors and sicknesses. Please God give us Restful nights. Thank You Lord. You are a Good God that never fails on Your Word and Promises. A God that cannot be deceived nor deceive. I Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for answering all my prayers and rendering me normal results on all my medical tests for Your Glory and my Salvation. Praises be unto Thee Lord Jesus. I Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for rendering me a successful endoscopy procedure with Your Good Report. Glory be Unto Thee. Thank You Ye Holy Angels, Archangels and Saints for protecting me during my procedure and at all times. Thank You Father.
    Bless the Lord O My Soul and all that is within me. Praise Your Holy Name Father. Let the whole world Adore, Exult, Magnify, Praise and Worship Lord God Almighty with me for God’s Never ending Favors, Kindness, His Unfailing, Infinite Love and Devine Mercy endures Forever and Ever. Amen 🙏

  4. Dear Jesus and Mary, please heal and protect my family and I. Please grant my son and I safe flight today. Please protect me on Friday morning, as I undergo parathyroid Surgery.

    Please help the medical professionals who are operating on me to find help for this disease.

    Please heal me of heart, kidney and hyperparathyroid disease, if it be God’s Will.

    Thank you Jesus and Mary.