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God has not forgotten you. He hears your prayers. Please continue to have hope that He has a loving plan for you. And please continue to remember to persist in your prayers, as St. Monica did for 15 years.
We hope that God will continue to bless you and be with you in your every need.
My son has had terrible stomach pain and haS been given several misdiagnoses. He went to a new doctor who ran a test and we are hopeful they know what’s causing his pain. Please ask that it not be cancer and his gallbladder can be saved and his liver and pancreas are ok. Please ask for m ercy so my son can be healed and regain his faith instead of being angry with God and forgive those who hurt him. We thank Him for answering my prayers. Amen
May God’s healing Grace be upon your son. Amen.
Thanking God because i know and believe my miracle is on the way because i know my prayers have been answered.
My brother who has been angry for too long and never calls me lately has called me. His wife went in for a kidney and had some serious problems with this. This is such a hard way to get him to call me. Could my sister in law be prayed for.
I got the call for the job I wanted. Im very thankful.
I am still struggling with Jon drinking please pray for him
Thanks so much for include me in these pawerfull novenas… today after few weeks of praying the novena, Laura took the first step for her addictions treatment .. Thanks God from all the family we praise you as St Monica said with God nothing is impossible. Please pray with us for Laura ..St Monica please continue to strengthen her .. Show her how to walked to the light of our Lord she in his care…Jesus we trust in you….please take care of your daughter .. Strength our faith Love and courage…St Monica pray for all of us that faithful praying the novena….amen…
My daughter Jessica got her 2nd job
The Lord heard my cry for my brother Mike. Even though he is in prison I asked St Monica for help sending him to a place where he will be safe and cared for. She did just that, he is in a dormitory setting in prison for prisoners who are I’ll or dying. I ask that we keep them all in our prayers and they will all have conversion to our Lord. Thank you for caring about Mike and his safety Lord and St. Monica.
Son’s job
I have been praying for a good job for years. Recently m, and out of the blue, I got transferred to a new department that has more humane hours and less political scrutiny.
My son’s scan is better today. Thank you God, Thank you St Monica for your interccession.
Please pray that my daughter stop taking prescription drugs and that we get along
Also for my grandchildren s Salvation and protection and a home and vehicle for me for I am homeless.I ask this in Jesus precious name Amen.
I had prayed for better health and a good first week at work. I’ve struggled with insomnia and fatigue for weeks. During this novena, my dr prescribed a new med that finally helped me. My job and health are a blessing.
I have been praying for Reconciliation with my Sister. She reached out to me this morning and asked for forgiveness and wants to have lunch! Thank you St. Monica for interceding for us!
Did get back to work from injury thank God and saint jude st vianney saint monica saint Maria blessed virgin morher mary amen
Did get back to work from injury thank God and saint jude st vianney saint monica saint Maria blessed virgin morher mary amen
Dear St.Monica, please hear my prayers for my daughter. I am pray that she can find the all energy she needs to be able to do her job. With Ms so you are so tired she needs a good doctor whor will see you on a regular BASES.. Please I pray that she will do well in life.
St. Monica I thank you so much for your prayers
Hi St. Monica, thanks for answering my prayers for my mom’s conversion. She is already looking at testimonials on ppls conversions to Jesus and how their lives have been transformed Into peace joy & happiness. She is also reading books on God’s teaching. I love you St. Monica. Thanks again!
For my son conversion
For son have a safe & successful game tonight
Thank you St Monica. Amen
Our inspection report has been accepted just today. We are moving forward with progress in the purchase of a new home. Thanks and praise be to God! Thank you St. Monica for your prayers and intercession!
During this novena, I prayed for God’s mercy and healing. I spent 2015 undergoing treatment for stage 3c breast cancer and was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder at the end of 2015. I had my 3rd three month checkup last week and my PET scan was completely clean….the auto-immune disease didn’t even show up! My oncologist told me that my prognosis in January, 2015 was poor but because I responded so well to treatment and based on how well I’m doing now, my prognosis is excellent. That is God’s work!
One of the prayer requests I made regarded my faith. It was weakening/faltering. (I prayed on this during another novena.) This time I was given the inspiration to speak with a holy & enthusiastic priest. Thanks to his advice, I’m praying the Rosary daily, & added the Divine Mercy chaplet. I can already tell a difference.
Thank God for my younger sister who has given up the habit of smoking and drugs. St Monica did it for us! May her decision and healing be permanent in her life through Christ our Lives red, Amen!!!
Oh wow St Monica is the best I said this Novena for my son who was looking for a job. The Novena began on monday that same day he went for any intetview and on the 9day a call came telling him her got the job. This saint is just great. Praise be to God. Thank you St. Monica. Novenas are so fantastic.
St Monica I thank you for getting a chance for further study here in Germany I prayed for it but God answered me thank you so much my lord
My son was offered a new job and has accepted it. Praise to God for answered prayers!
Pray my son and fiancé will find a way to talk about God’s blessings and invite Gid to bless their upcoming marriage by getting married in the church.
On the 8th day of the St. Monica novena I was informed of my success in the 1st round of interview. I pray that through the intercession of St. Monica I will get the job with One Acre Fund.
Please continue to join me in praying.
Praise be to Jesus!!
I praise God that in this first week of our visit with my sister and brother-in-law who reside in an assisted living care home, that my sister Joan has participative in several activities with us. That in our second week with her we will have her continue to participate in activities and bring her joy and peace. Thank you st. Monica for interceding on behalf of my sister Joan.
Saying these Novena’s plus the Novena to St. Jude has saved my marriage. It was in ruins a week ago and has been rocky for a very long time. It is not over and the Lord is giving me insight and willpower to do my part in making this marriage forever.
It was seriously in bad shape.
Thank you for sending these Novena’s, and Thank You St. Jude for answering my prayers.
Thank God for all of the blessings he gave me. St. Monica please pray that I can be happy again, not depressed or lonely since the loss of my dear husband. please pray that he is with Our Dear Lord in heaven & that my family & loved ones will join him when we are called. St. Monica please pray for healing for my son who has cancer & that he can be happy again. He felt betrayed by his wife who was hiding having an affair with a woman. She wanted a divorce after 24 years of marriage. This has been devastating to their daughters & all of us who care about them. Please pray for any of my children & loved ones who have fallen away from the church. Please pray that they come back with love for God & that they are rewarded with heaven. Amen
Thank you St. Monica for interceding to God on behalf of my son Julian. He was suffering from shingles in his left eye. He went to his doctors appointment and texted this to me:
Had my follow up eye appointment this morning and the doctor said the infection and inflammation is completely gone. No new lesions on my blood vessels in my eye and the KP cells that were on my cornea are gone.
I can stop the steroids in 9 days. I can stop the two different eye drops I’m taking in 16 days. I must continue the antiviral for at least 2 more months to make sure the shingles is back to being dormant.
Considering the trauma and scar tissue it will take several months for the haze and debris in my eye to clear so I still have partial vision. The doctor expects most of my vision to return. Thank God. Love you
I would like to give God the Glory for healing my son Julian. With God all things are possible!!!!!
Thank you to all of my Novena Family for praying for the healing of my son Julian left eye !!!!
I will continue to pray for you too that God will answer your prayers!
God bless you all!
Sincerely,
A happy mother!!!!
I would like to say Happy 14th Birthday to my Grandson Julian III in Heaven. He was my son’s 1st born child. He passed away 14 years ago today.
We love you!
Dear Lords Monica help me praying for everyone’s myself too sometimes I’m alone because the guy I like didn’t call me again today give me one year. I pray days and nights no answer I don’t know why? My sister always tells me you don’t know how to praying because everything I ask God the open for me. Why’s? me my Lods please help me, open the doors I need him back someone telling me he’s fine someone else. Amen thank you…..
Dear St. Monica,
I praise and thank you for answering my prayers. I am so grateful for my blessings. I pray for my child now to find the right spouse – just like John-Paul and Annie found each other. I pray that my child finds a Catholic with good values and morals and who is ambitious in life. I pray for all those making this novena in Jesus name. Amen.
I prayed that my school application would be successful and last Wednesday I received the good news. Praise Be to God
My cousin’s surgery was successful and the tumor did not spread into her lymph nodes. Praise be to God!
Our friend’s legal issues were resolved today. We continue to pray for this family and many other problems they are experiencing.
My Uncle Steve suffered an aeortic embolysm and was in a coma for almost two weeks. I, and many others, prayed to our Lord for healing and save our Uncle. A couple of days ago he opened his eyes, has some movement and his organs are beginning to work alone again. Praise be to St. Monica and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you Lord.
I pray for my mother car to be fix and my mother car was fix now she can drive again god is good
I pray to St. Monica daily for my grown children. Not only that they get back to going to Mass but open up communication and get out of the rut they seem to be in. This week, beginning Tuesday, I have been in frequent conversation (listening more than talking for a change) and it has all been so positive. Because I never question my faith and I pray daily and sometimes never expecting to see the change or results but trusting in His will…..I am so delighted to see the change in my daughter. Thank you for these novenas and St. Monica and Holy Mary for your intercession. God is good …..all the time.
In the Novena to Saint Anne, I prayed to get a job that I had been going for its series of interviews previously, God granted my request 3weeks ago. I offer a praise of thanksgiving and pray now through the intercession of Saint Monica and our numerous Saints, that my other intentions and those of all whom pray this novena, by God’s will, be granted, amen
I prayed that my nephew would have a successful job interview. On day one of this novena to St Monica he was called for an interview. On day eight of the novena he was called with great news that he was successful. He starts his new job on 5th September, 2016.
Thanks to St Monica and to all those who prayed from my intentions.
One of my prayer intentions was for my daughter to find a job. This week, she was offered a job and has two other inteviews to go to. Thank you St. Monica. My other intentions were not answered but I know that it will be in God’s timing. Thank you again St Monica. I am praying that God will answer others.
Our daughter Stefanie K.and her husband lost a baby last year, and there was a body length tumor attached to the baby. The baby had been deceased for over three weeks within our daughter’s body when she and her husband found out. Stefanie had a seizure after this and is expecting again, but having constant sinus infections and pain down one side of her body, no matter how active she is. Please pray for Stefanie’s complete healing and the health of this child to come–we appreciate it so much….God Bless you.
my mother in law Julia Sibenik passed to the Lord between 5 P.M. and 8 P. M. yesterday ( Thursday August 25, 2016) She went very quickly and at the end was suffering less. This is a blessing. Thank all of you for your prayers.
Dear Saint Monica please intercede on our behalf that God will answer all our prayers soon. Let us have the unwavering faith to continue to stand firm in His word specially when I haven’t hear, seen, or felt anything in a while. In Jesus name. Amen!
I prayed this novena to bring both of my sons closer to Jesus. On Sunday my one son and his girlfriend randomly registered for the retreat. His girlfriend was not able to go so I figured he would cancel too but praise God he is still going! I pray that this retreat will give him the conversion he needs.
I’m still praying my younger son is also able to grow strong in the relationship with Christ.
Please St. Monica, St. Blaise, St. Michael, and all other Saints, Angels and Dearly Departed. Please pray to God for me so that Chloe, the dog I rescued and fostered the last 2 weeks, finds a great home, that the pound does not put her down today and that she may be happy and make others happy, just like she did for me. Mary Mother please take my prayer to your son. Jesus please hear my prayer. Thank you Father. Amen.
Over the course of the past 3 novenas that I have prayed with you (St Anne, St John Vianny, and St Monica) there has been a dramatic improvement in my marital situation and a sense of hope for our financial situation. I am personally far more joyful and at peace. Regarding the other people that I have been praying for, it may be some time before we see an answer, but we trust that God is working in their lives as well. Many thanks for this ministry.
Chad
Dear Saint Monica, thank you for hearing my prayers to cure my son M’s addiction to alcohol. He turned around so miraculously. Please be with him to be strong to quit smoking also. Praise God! Thank you St. Monica.
Thankful mother Hilda
Dear Annie, thanks for that really thoughtful and wise piece, Unanswered Prayers. It is very encouraging. My novena prayers have more or less been unanswered, as far as I can tell so far, but that doesn’t surprise me because the nature of my requests are such that seeing changes/answers may take more time than 9 days. But I see the novena as a powerful jumpstart to my prayers for those intentions, so I’ll continue and keep asking for St. Monica’s intercession (and our Mother Mary’s, too). Thank you for the chance to participate in this novena with you and others. Please let me know when the next St. Monica novena will be.
Thank you!
With grateful regards & peace,
Jeanmarie
Prayinng all of your rayers are answered. I am praying for the conversion of my children, grandchildren,
Baptism for those not baptised in my family, and all the unbaptized. Though as yet these prayers are yet to be answered, I am confident and trust in Jesus that they will be answered according to the Divine Will. Thank you for all your prayers. God bless each and everyone of you.
elayne
Thank you lord for granting my sister in law a safe delivery and I pray that my other intention will be granted through Christ our Lord Amen
fred and his family are coming back to the church . thanks be to St monica And Jesus
Thank you St. Monica. One week ago today, my sister-in-law was told by her doctor that he was pretty sure she has cancer. They did a biopsy that day. She went back to the doctor this morning for the results and was told it is not cancer. Praise God.
Thank you lord and St Monica my son is blessed by your prayers he got a good score in the exam.I had some problem I my family through your prayers I feel I got some relief but still .Need a complete relief continuing my prayers.Thank you lord.
Our son has been unemployed for many years and now has been motivated and has accepted a job offer! Praise God!
Thank you St Monica for praying with me in intersession for my mom, Catheterism done today, contrary to Dr expectation, no surgery needed.
PRAISE BE TO GOD!
I have been praying for the conversion of my son for ten years. Last Sunday, in the middle of this novena to St. Monica, my son went to Mass. Thank you Lord and thank you St. Monica for your intervention. I will pray for his continued conversation to our Lord Jesus Christ. St. Monica pray for us.
Please soften my sons heartcand help him see the pain and suffering he is causing me by abandoning me and keeping my unborn grandaughter from me. If jis new wife is tje influence that jolds him in this heartless place intercede and destroy the evil that dwells in them return my son to his love for meand his love for his unborn daughter bless us both by returning my son to me. Thank you St. Monica and Lord Jesus Christ
Amen
Thank you our dear Jesus and St. Monica.
My estranged sister had reached out to me.
I continue to pray for my children and dear Priest friend.
Thank you St. Monica for interceding with our Lord for my daughter. Who worked arduously for a client in the death of her son. Thank you God for instilling your thoughts, words and confidence in my daughter, to obtain a just settlement for this sad mother.
I asked for financial help for a medical procedure coming up. I found out that it will only cost us about 1/2 of what we were initially told and that we can make payments! Praise God! Thank you Saint Monica!
St Monica,
Please soften my wife’s heart. Please stop this divorce. It would be a miracle but with god anything is possible. Please show me a sign to continue to pray for this marriage.
Amen.
St Monica,
Please soften my wife’s heart. Please stop this divorce. It would be a miracle but with god anything is possible. Please show me a sign to continue to pray for this marriage.
Amen.
God blessed me with a job! Thank you!
St. Monica, please intercede for me for my son Sean. Of my 5 children he is the only one that seems to have lost his faith. He went to a “Catholic” college and afterwards stopped practicing. Please ask for graces for him that someone will come into his life that can influence him to open his heart to God’s grace.
Thank you St Monica through prayers, we had wonderful time on holiday with my husband peaceful and prayerful. He was so loving and caring, I hope and pray it stays like that in Jesus name.
For Parker to turn back to God and mend his relationship with God and our family and to follow God’s path.
I have been praying for my son to find a job and he had an interview yesterday. I praise and thank God for that opportunity. He should hear on Tuesday if he got the position or not. I am continuing to pray to St Monica. God bless
Yesterday I requested prayers for my son who was very ill. By the time we were able to get to him yesterday, he was feeling somewhat better. We are so relieved and pray for a return to good health. Thank you for your intercession and especially thank God for His healing power.
We were in desperate need of an influx of income. I was not praying specifically for financial help but I received it in a very unexpected way. I am very thankful for the Lord’s continued blessings that He gives me.
For my son to return to the church. Fill his heart Lord with your mercy and love, enlighten him with your wisdom. And that he soon find employment. For healing and special intention for my daughter. For true conversion of my family. That Marie, William, and Nica will soon be adopted by Lourdes and William and become part of our family.
Thank you Lord and St. Monica for your intercession. I was offered a teaching position even after school has already started.
I have been praying for my daughter who is 27 to stop cohabiting with her boyfriend, to return to the Catholic faith and to move half way across the country to live near us.
On day 6 of the novena to St. Monica she called me and thinks the relationship is ending.
I’m praying this is true!!
Thank you St. Monica for your prayers for her! ❤️
I have been praying that Joe will beat his cancer and yesterday at the dr we got word that his numbers are going in the right direction. He will still need more therapy but I am praying and hopeful that it is going to be alright. I also prayed for my son to gain maturity and direction in his life, this week he started a new position in his job with more responsibility, I pray that he is also at the start of a new direction and God will look over him and lead the way. I am still praying for Sarah and her relationship but maybe it’s not meant to be and if it isn’t I pray that she moves on and finds the love she deserves. I also pray for Dolores that she survives her heart surgery. Amen
Continued prayers for my family members as we go through this custody hearing….it has affected all of us. The child is so small , praying NONE of this will affect him and he will remember nothing. That being said I’m thankful that I have my family,health, a place to live and God wakes me every morning….glory to God!
I lifted up my son who graduated with a Petroleum Engineering Degree a year ago last May from a very good University. However, because of oil prices he has not been able to find work that utilized his degree. A few months ago he started working as an unpaid intern to get some experience in the field. On Wed. he was notified by the company that they will be able to begin paying him starting Monday a very good hourly rate. Thank you for your help in our persistent prayer St. Monica that he find a paying job in his chosen field and Thank you Lord for answering our prayers!
Thank you Jesus for the job you sent my brother and the job and place to live for my uncle. Thank you St Monica for your intercession
I have been praying for our oldest son and family to return to the Catholic Church and know & love our Lord personally (they joined a Presbyterian Church but only attend 2 times per year and don’t pray in their home). A week ago when the grandchildren visited us, they begged to go to Mass with us and participated eagerly. Praise to our Lord for this great start. May St. Monica continue to intercede so the whole family will turn to our Lord at mass regularly.
Thank you for the blessing of “Life” and the fact that I am healthy to be able to work and make an honest living. My prayers are answered in my heart but some are not and thats okay because only God knows why and I trust and believe in him. Only he knows what is in my heart and the worries I have. Thank you with a sincere heart.
Thank you for the strength I need moving forward day by day with my personal challenges. My family is counting on me!
Thank God for all your blessings. St Monica please pray for my sons Ac and Am to be liberated from all addictions. Pray for their healing, salvation and conversion
Pray for my grandsons Matt and Josh that they learn to get along and stop all that bickering. Pray that Matthew stops bed wetting.
Pray for big M that he is liberated as well from all addictions. I pray all this in Jesus name. Amen
Slowly slowly through all the prayers and novenas I can see changes in all those I have been praying for including myself. Praise God! “He writes straight with crooked lines!” ????
My Father in heaven please end our separation and talk of divorce so we can be reunited together again. Please Father soften my wife’s heart and guide us to communicate again with each other. Lord guide us both to forgive and forget this unpleasantness that has darkened our lives. Please return us to the kindness happiness, the caring, sharing and the love we had. I ask this through Christ Our Lord Amen
This novena one of the many that answered my prayers.
After I prayed to St Monica for my in laws to get along better my Mother-in-law talked to her son and said that she and his Dad had had a good day together and that he had been so nice to her. This was a big change in his attitude toward her. Thank you St. Monica!!! I pray that the peace will continue.
Thank you my God…Thank you Almighty Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through the intercession of The Blessed Mother Mary and Saint Monica!!! My husband attended a daily Mass with me this morning. (He stopped coming to Sunday Mass 4 years ago). I put in an intention for the anniversary of his mother’s death and invited him to come. To my pleasant surprise, he accepted and came in a very loving way which fills me with hope for his conversion. He did not receive communion and we spoke of the Real Presence. Before leaving for work, he even thanked me for putting in the intention for his mom. My heart is singing “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound….”
Thank you for your prayers.
Yours in Christ,
MaryQ
“To ♥Jesus, through Mary♥”
I have had answered prayers by praying the Saint Anne novena and the Saint Monica novena. Im so glad i found this website.
Melissa Fruit
My son Jack is adapting to college life after a fearful beginning.
I asked St.Monica for greater faith and strength in my walk with the Lord. I have felt closer to the Lord and have felt a renewed strength to do my daily tasks. Thank you St. Monica.
This novena answered my prayers. I’m now an employees of the NYC DOE. Thanks
I just want to thank John Paul and Annie for sending these novenas, I did experience a huge miracle, about a year ago my husband and I were on the verge of divorce, and somehow through all these prayers, we are re -united, praying more, going to counseling and I have now found a job in his state and we are moving together to be a family once more with our son. I still pinch myself, but i firmly believe we are a testimony, a miracle from all your prayers and i have been given a renewed faith in our Mother Mary and lord and savior. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I will continue to pray for us all.
Please help me pray for my son in petitiong his wife and son quickly and smoothly and that he would already stop smoking cigarettes especially marijuana for good. And that, I will be given a job, Live-In schedule by my supervisors rightaway so I could pay all my payments and credit cards quickly. And for the good health of mind ,body and spirit of all the members of my family and me. Thank you very much and God bless.
I have been praying my sister would get a good full time job w/benefits. Yesterday she interviewed at a good company filled with quality Christian people. She was offered the job on the spot with a good salary and full benefits. I really feel this is an answer to prayer and am so humbled by this.
I pray to Santa Monica every time I can, specially during her novena. This time around it coincided with a rough patch in my marriage that I believe the Blessed Mother smoothed over with her infinite mercy and compassion. Gracias Virgencita! Thank you Santa Monica!
Saint Monica is amazing! But this message is to honor Saint Ann in a BIG WAY! I prayed the Saint Ann Novena specifically to bring a wonderful loving Nanny into our home to care for our children while I work. We were on a timeline and really hoping and trusting that Saint Ann would provide and guide someone truly special into our lives. On the second day of praying the novena, I got word from our then current Nanny that she had someone in mind for us that met just the day before. After meeting with this special person, we just really knew that Saint Ann was with us and organized the entire situation. It’s been three weeks now that our new Nanny has been with us. She has been such a blessing to our family and helping us in ways I could have never of imagined. Saint Ann truly is the grandmother of all grandmothers, and only wants all the love and care for our children. THANK YOU SAINT ANN!!!! And thank you Jesus and Mary for blessing our prayers through her powerful intercession! AMEN!
Although I haven’t received what I have been praying for yet, I have noticed glimmers of hope for my request. I thank St. Monica for praying for me & mine and for giving me hope that one day my prayers will be answered.
I want to share an answered prayer with St. Monica’s intercession. Our family has been praying for our daughter, Sarah, for 5 years, she has been on a path going away from God and our family….. she and her boyfriend have decided to begin RCIA!!! They will start in September, God in His goodness has perfect timing in ALL things, He is constantly showing us that we can TRUST in HIM!!! I am understanding 5 years waiting and praying now as a very short time as compared to an eternity!!
God is Good… All the Time!!
For J, so he can have a healthy mind; for him to stay away from any type of drugs; for him to rejoice in the gifts you have given him; for him to have wisdom, discipline, perseverance, joy. Dear St Monica, please pray with me to help my son.