God Loves to Work Through Our Prayers // The St. Joseph Novena

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The next novena we’ll pray together is through the intercession of a powerful patron saint. 

Saint John Paul II called him the Guardian of the Redeemer. He’s also known as the Protector of the Church, the Terror of Demons, Hope of the Sick and Comfort of the Sorrowing. He has many titles and patronages!

It’s St. Joseph :)

We’ll start praying the St. Joseph, Husband of Mary Novena together on Friday, March 10th.

We’re looking forward to praying with you! Because prayer is powerful and it does something — it changes things — even when we don’t feel it or see its effects, and God loves to work through our prayers. Here’s a short reflection from our Lenten Retreat about that:

About St. Joseph:

St. Joseph humbly accepted his role as guardian, husband and father in the Holy Family. That’s why St. Joseph’s intercession has been sought for centuries. St. Joseph was clearly very close to our Lord and his prayers are powerful!

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  1. Please lord I been asking for help for my son and myself my son just got a job which well led him no where. He’s very smart he need a better job to raise a family so when he fine a woman to marry. Hippo look at resume but the did hire him please let him get a job good one.
    I am in social security I barely make eough to pay bills my kids live with me they don’t give me money to help me. I started to sell insurance to make end met so many people say they should have but they don’t buy I have business I have called but something is blocking me and they don’t buy please help me and have people buy let me have people call me like Hugo please let say ok to the insurance he need to finished so we can move forward have Jordan from bio lab please to get the insurance this would help me a lot if I could get 3 clients ever week I could pay my bill and get food I promise to say the rosary as a thank you.

  2. Pray for my father’s health and safety. Pray that my brother finds a girlfriend. Pray for health, safety and job protection.

  3. For my dad to be financially secure
    For my spouse and I to have a healthy relationship for us to be financially secure and to have a healthy baby

  4. Pray for my daughter, for complete healing of body, soul and spirit. For a miraculous healing of her mental health.

  5. Divine healing in my family and praying for my husband Collins who just lost his job last month to get a better payable job.

  6. I applied for three kinds of job ,am looking forward to get any of them have been unemployed since I left university 2019,Please help me pray

  7. Pray for a negative breast exam. My brother finds a girlfriend. My husbands job is stable and my new job is fun.

  8. My husband had thyroid cancer about a year back and had to remove half his thyroid gland. Please pray for his complete healing and that the cancer never comes back. He is an amazing father and a husband. Please pray for God’s mercy and healing on our family.

  9. I pray for financial breakthrough so that I’ll be able to settle my debts. I also pray for protection of my family and for increased faith and peace in rhe world.

  10. Kindly pray for me,I am a single mum of one ,the father had given me hard time in the past but now he is involved a little which am grateful….kindly pray for me that he changes his ways (too much drinking and women)so that we can settle down together and raise our child.
    Also,my child has taken longer to talk,kindly pray for me so she can start taking
    I also request for financial breakthrough and wisdom to manage the money once I get.

  11. For My upcoming surgery to be cancer free & my good health.
    For a successful Divine Mercy To bring about the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart!
    For Love and understanding to be brought back in my friends marriage.
    For Joe who lost his wife of 74 years to help with his grief.
    For my friend SL to find a loving Catholic spouse

  12. Dear Almighty lord Father, I come before you today . I kindly ask you to bless me with a long healthy life, favor,success , prosperity , financial progress and my loved ones and family especially my daughter, husband, mother , sisters and brothers. Lord God Father I pray that I fight all my seen and unseen battles, fight all my enemies and win them , make me the head not the tail. Bless my relationship with my husband so that it full leads to marriage. Amen.

  13. I come in Jesus Name. Amen. Dear St Joseph, my father and patron, please intercede for me and my siblings and our Mother too, that God Almighty will help us overcome the many challenges of joblessness, difficulties at work, delays, rejections, barrenness, no marriages, failures in business and court cases in our businesses. Please pray for us

  14. For my husband who is going through a hard period of emotional, mental and physical distress affecting all the aspects of his and our life. Please God that he heals, place trust in you and that he may receive , feel and live in your love and grace.
    Also for my daughter who is 17 and in the midst of figuring herself out. God please enlighten her to follow your will.

  15. Prayers for my husband and son to be great leaders of their family. For my son to return to the church. For my daughter to find a good catholic man to marry and lead their family into the faith. I pray for us to make the right financial decision when FEMA buys out our home. We ask that we know and feel peace where to live. Prayers for all men to turn to the faith and be great faithful leaders with their families and friends.

  16. St Joseph. Please intercede for me so that i can pay my rent and go back to my house. Open ways for me so that i can be able to pay my bills, my children school fees and be reunited back with my family

  17. Thank you St. Joseph for always interceding for us. Please pray that our children and grandchildren will return to the Church and the sacraments. May we believe able to witness those conversions. Please pray that I may trust in God’s will for me, His guidance, His mercy.

  18. Prayers for our daughter to find a good Catholic man to marry. Also for our son to return to the faith and to us.

  19. I pray that the holy Spirit continue helping me in my bereavement of my husband,praying for comfort & strength and lead me to a future spouse.Restore all i lost Jehovah

  20. Physical healing for ed, Godly spouses for my children, a rewarding job for my children esp. eddie motherhood for my daughter in law, spiratual healing for my mental health, conversion for people we love.

  21. Brother, Buck peaceful death.

    Members of family find peace with each other through situations.

    Daughter, Crystal God will bring her back to the faith before she becomes too Ill. Mama Mary bring them both to our fathers house.

  22. Dear St Joseph, St Anthony, St Ann, St Monica and blessed Mother- I ask for your intercession on behalf of my children. I ask that Alie & Alex and Dot & Nick marriage be Blessed with understanding Love and grace. I ask that you help guide the careers of all my children: Alie’s pilot career, Alex and Nick military career, Dot medical career and Vic gov career. And Bless my family, esp grandchildren with good health.

  23. St Joseph, Terror of Demons, deliver my family and I from any and all sexual depravity, including homosexuality. Please keep us chaste until Holy Matrimony.

    Solace of workers, please deliver me cycles of financial mismanagement to enable me to have regular income and pay all debts and obligations.

    Foster Father of the Infant Jesus, please provide me a home.

  24. for a son who has recently married outside the church, that he will remain open to Jesus and His teaching

    For a son who lives with girlfriend in an unmarried state, that he finds his way to repentance and valuing the sacrament

  25. I pray that my spiritual guide, St. Joseph, take charge of the building of our handicap accessible retirement home. (If it’s not meant to be, do not even allow us to dig on the plot.) Times are so uncertain now and we’ve been on our builder’s list for 1 1/2 years. I ask that St. Joseph personally oversee every step of the building, accessing materials, help guide us in our decisions, and that we don’t lose the funds that God has allowed us to save to build it.

    Blessings on the completion of this home and the sale of our present home with the guidance of the two master carpenters, Jesus and Joseph.♥️

  26. Holy St. Joseph!

    I humbly ask you to bless my husband, Paul, my sons Eric, Kenneth, David, Michael, and Patrick that they will listen to the Will of the Father & follow his grace and inspirations as you did when you were on Earth.

    I also ask you to inspire Anthony and Father Chris in their communication and discernment. Ask the Holy Spirit to be with all the men in my family.

    Thank you, Father Joseph, for all you have done for our family!

  27. I pray to win the lottery jackpot so I can send financial help to my friends and family who are in dire need in medical bills. Also, to the students needing financial aids to finish their degree. To the orphanage to sustain their day-to-day needs. My school in high school for the need to fully paid the land area. To the parish where we are a member to purchase the land to build a bigger church. St. Joseph, intercede for us.

  28. Dear heavenly Father,

    I thank you for my life ,my family, all I have both good and bad in this life.

    I pray against untimely death or sickness in my family. Healing chikoo of back pain,. Healing adoo,ijoo,ugo of HBP

    Financial favour in my family, I shall ne a lender not a borrower.
    I commit my nmc exams

    First class husband n marital settlement this year for myself Chikaodili, phillis, nkechi, Judy.

    Amam and ijeoma admission to uni Canada n Hungary.

    Tochukwu and Adoo business to flourish.

    Mummy to get her USA visa.

    Uchenna to be liberated from his ways n remember n unit with his siblings.

    Safe delivery for eby n other pregnant women.

    Obum to success in his business.

    Tochi n Amam to gain his documents in USA n Spain/Hungary

    Blessing upon Ugo in all his endeavours.

    My driving school in uk to be a success

    Amam and Amennnnnn

    What God cannot do does not exist Amennnnnn! Jesus come through for me and my family
    I cover my family nephews and nieces with blood of Jesus Amennnnnn

  29. Pray for my son Ron for healing of his mental illness, depression, emotional illness and addiction and struggles in life keep a stable ,steady job, be financially independent, have a loving, caring family who believes in God, return of faith and return to church, ask God for forgiveness, help and healing. For Robin and his family to remain healthy and keep their job and relationship for lifetime. For Eli and Ethan to excel both in academics and sports. For Eli to make dean’s list,make the football team and make the nursing program at ESU, for Ethan to overcome his depression and have a positive outlook in life ,to make distinguished honor all his HS time, heal him of his respiratory illness, allergies to the dogs. For all my children to keep their faith all their life, find their purpose in life, make their dreams come true, be healthy, love one another, not give up on each other. For our family to communicate better and be a family again.

  30. Lord Jesus, I am a sinner, please forgive me. Thank you, for all the blessings and for protecting us always. I am praying for Reeve Quiason to take the responsibility to my grandchild being a provider, a co-parenting to my daughter. I am praying that our request to him and to her family not to go beyond our limits. Please touch his heart and to forget about pride. It will be better to sitdown and talk the differences. I am also praying for my daughter KTP to have a future spouse a responsible and a provider. I pray that my promotion to push through this June. These i ask in Jesus’s name our Lord, Amen. St Joseph, please pray for us.

  31. Prayer for those Husbands/fathers that are experiencing anxiety ,insecurities ,coping skills and , struggling in their faith . For their spouses to have love and strength to see it through .please Lord hear our prayer🙏🏼

  32. St Joseph intercede for permanent employment and favour with sales and meet my monthly targets
    St Joseph intercede for us as we move to the new location that God help us to make the right decision and moreso your will be done.
    St Joseph intercede for divine health and longlife for me and my children.
    St Joseph intercede for me not to fall victim of any negative plans and set up from my enemies and protect me always.
    St Joseph intercede for me for a happy and peaceful life

  33. For a new job in a healthy environment for both me and my sister.

    To find a healthy relationship.

    For the healing of an unhealthy relationship.

    For those who need God’s mercy the most

  34. St Joseph intercede for permanent employment and favour with sales and meet my monthly targets
    St Joseph intercede for us as we move to the new location that God help us to make the right decision and moreso your will be done.
    St Joseph intercede for divine health and longlife for me and my children.
    St Joseph intercede for me not to fall victim of any negative plans and set up from my enemies and protect me always.

  35. I was laid off when the Pandemic hit and I am looking for work.
    Saint Joseph assist me please to find a job.
    And for my children and Grandchildren to come back to the Church. In Jesus name. 🙏

  36. Please pray for my son M that God the Father in heaven may grant him another job. Please pray for my son R that he may pass his exam as entry to the college. Please pray for both my sons that God the Father may grant them God loving Christian partners in life. Please pray for my husband that he may actively go back to the church. Also, please pray that God the Father may provide the ways, means, and resources for us to meet our obligations. Thank you so much.

  37. Please pray for my husband who is dealing with health issues, cognitive decline & anxiety. And pray that he will take the steps recommended by his doctors to help himself.
    Thank you

  38. Praying for my son to overcome his fears love and shine in school.
    Praying for my husband to get his dream job and heart desires
    Praying for myself to prosper and blessings to my entire family.
    Praying for family unity and longevity of life
    Praying for my daughters good health and blessings
    St Joseph intercede for us and everyone.Amen

  39. Please pray for me to get a good job and for my scholarship application to be approved please. And to be happily married to a goodman.. In Jesus name I pray 🙏.
    Thank you.

  40. St. Joseph please pray for my youngest Brother who is struggling with debt for years and this affects his health a lot. May God have mercy on him to clear the debt very soon, for I believe everything is possible for God. Pray also for his two sons promotion in their jobs. My two nieces are waiting to find the right spouses for sometime. May they find them soon. My little great niece is not very well. Please pray for her as well. Thank you St. Joseph.

  41. Please pray that it be God’s will for me to start to feel better and that my brother will continue to have good health. Plus my identity problem be solved.

  42. St. Joseph please intercede for those seeking employment. I also ask for promotion for my sister, cousin and myself. Please intercede for all husbands, and I ask your intercession for a kind, caring, Christian husband like you for myself. St. Joseph please intercede for those seeking life partners/spouses and those who are lonely.

  43. Request prayers for my son Pete to open his heart to Jesus & revert to the RC Church & for my son-in-Josh to humble himself.

  44. +++Glory to God+++

    For conversion of my husband, me, our daughter and everyone associated with us and for deep, deep, deep, humility,trust, gratitude, love to let God love us and to love and serve GOD, HIS angels and saints and each other. Saint Joseph assist. Amen.

  45. Dear St.Joseph please bless my son& his wife’s upcoming family reunion in March/April;love, joy,safe travels,blessed family& friends reunion& all us for good health protection from all Covid& protection from all evil. Bless him& his teams on their upcoming 6 month deployment& all families of our US Military! Financial breakthrough for me(& my daughter)& my son too for finances to buy our own nice homes near each other in very safe neighborhoods close enough to ocean! Godly loving friends for my 2 adult kids(& me)& godly mates/marriages for my 2 kids& myself! Help me finally get the snug great fitting dentures that look great& I will love to wear soon! I need a warm weather ocean vacation soon paid for and a nice loyal friend to go with! Help my skin nodule not be cancer! Please hear& answer everyone’s prayer on this novena! I give You all my
    Prayers& intentions on my heart! THANKYOU St.Joseph!

  46. Saint Joseph I pray for you to intercede for me as I discern marriage. I pray for a holy spouse, who is a leader, a good father, a lover, a protector and puts his family first. I pray that during this season of waiting we are both working on ourselves to become better individuals so that when our timelines align we grow to love each other wholeheartedly and spread the love. Glory be to God. Amen

  47. That my fathers estate will be settled quickly so that my family will have closure. That Bonnie will do the right thing. For improved health and for job

  48. Dear St Joesph,
    Please pray for all fathers and all husbands that they can love, care for their wives, their children and their marriages.

  49. I pray for my daughter, Samantha to discern marriage, in the truth and light of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, that her marriage may be consecrated in the Catholic Church, Amen 🙏

  50. Pl pray for me. I have bladder cancer w anxiety. Lord please give me the path to trust, acceptance and peace.

  51. St Joseph, intercede for me, prayers for my husband, special spiritual healing, for peace ,love,joy,hope in our marriage and our lives, special prayer for his relationship with our children. Jesus I Trust In You . Open the eyes of his heart.

    Special prayer for my daughter Germaine whose becoming a Catholic . I’m praying for new beginning in every part of her life especially divorce to be finalized and her son to live with her again.

    Pray for our business, financial breakthrough, permanent job for Keri, Brad to pass his exams for better job opportunities. Amen

  52. Pray for the reduced cost for the renewal of our family lease where house is built. We pray for our finances to pay for the lease and completion of it. We pray for all the people planning and plotting to undermine our right to have the lease renewed. We call upon the Holy Spirit to bring all of it to nought, to erase their memories of the plot. We pray for protection of all the families on the street whose properties are in danger. Pray for the success in exams for grand daughter, we pray for healthy baby of sound mind and body for daughter and a safe delivery for her. Pray for our health especially my mother, the elderly at 89. All this we bring to thee, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

  53. Have a toe that is really infected so I have to have it cut off at the top ,pleae pray for me thanks

  54. Praying for God’s healing for my daughter Ursula from stomach and neval pain. Also I pray for God’s favor and success in my application to Concordia University of Edmonton.

  55. Good St Joseph,
    Please take care of my family especially that I have a better understanding of my adult daughter.
    Also that I may as independent and healthy in my old age for as long as possible DV.
    That JS may do well in his new job and that he will use his many talents to the best of his ability.
    Also good St Joseph be with the souls who pass away this night.
    Amen.

  56. Please pray for me promoted at work or a better job. Please pray that i have my own home and the money to buy it and above all have the health to do evetything and enjoy it.

  57. I pray for all young couples who are cohabitating to come to know the sacredness of the love of a True Union in Matrimony blessed in God’s Love in His Holy Church.

  58. Lord protect my family
    Help Chr and Max on their plans to Aus.
    Open up ways.
    Protect and guide me as I implement the changes at St B
    Lord open ways for a financial breakthrough. Lord I pray for an income generating activity. God help me to settl the issue of CQ
    Lord I depend on you. Amen

  59. Dear St. Joseph, please pray to Jesus to heal my son, Martin, from alcohol addiction and any and all other addictions he may be struggeling with. Pray also that he returns to Jesus and his Catholic faith.

  60. For all those who are suffering from painful illness and there is no relief from their suffering. Please St Joseph, Pray for them. Amen

  61. I pray for a St. Joseph in their lives and an increased presence and
    knowledge of our Catholic faith in their families. St. Joseph, Terror of Demons, Protector and Provider, Husband of Blessed Mary, pray for us.

  62. I ask for healing in my mind and body as well as my husband. That we may grow closer to God and for continued safety and fulfillment in our jobs.

    Thank you

  63. Please pray for strengthening my sons marriage and for finding a good Catholic spouse for my other 31 yr old son.

  64. Please pray for healing for those who are sick.
    Please pray for my family, extended family, and our world that we make good choices and practice our Christian faith.
    Please pray that those who have lost their faith find it again.
    Please pray for healing for Gilbert Valdez as he struggles with cancer.
    Thank you.🙏

  65. Praying for my daughter to find a good job so she can’t take care of herself and her precious daughter. Carmen and Vivien 🙏
    Praying for a dear friend Sam. That God will heal him and make him good again🙏

  66. I pray for healthy, stress free pregnancies for my niece and daughter RYS also for healthy, blessed babies.
    For my children to know ,love and serve God and attend church regularly .
    I pray for wisdom to handle my present predicament at work.
    I also pray for restoration of my finances.

  67. Please pray for Michael Joseph. That the Lord blesses him as he goes on retreat. That he is healed emotionally and of any vices. Lord, please bless him with solid Catholic Friends.

    Thank you for praying for this intention.

  68. Please pray for Mark S that he gets his computer program completed and it is successful.

    For good health for him.

    Thank you for praying for this intention.

  69. Pray for me to be confident in everything I do especially when speaking in public. This one of the biggest challenge am facing currently

  70. For my husband Joseph, that God will fill him with grace upon grace. As he goes on in his daily work, he shall be rewarded bountifully.
    For my 3 boys, that they will grow up to be good and exceptional husbands
    That my girls will find good husband’s.
    Success and in boys exams, focus in their studies.
    All round rest. Amen

  71. Dear Lord, thank you for all the blessings you continue to shower us. I pray for my family’s health and safety. Also, i pray for better career opportunities for my husband and I so that we can provide better and spend more tine with our daughters. Thank you Lord!

  72. I am praying for a prayerful, God fearing and caring spouse

    I am also praying for a scholarship to be able to pursue my master’s degree.

  73. For my daughter and son in law who are tying to have a baby . St. Joseph please intercede for them . They will be wonderful devoted parents .
    Thank you for blessing them . Amen

  74. That the Blessed Mother go to her Son, our Lord, and ask on my behalf for everything that she knows each member of my family needs at this time. She knows better than I what we need, how to ask and what the Lord has planned for each of us and all our struggles.

    That Angelia please be diagnosed and treated correctly so that her mental health is being managed appropriately. That she’s freed from an abusive marriage and that she return to the church.

    That Mya please see the Lord’s will for her and that she follow His path. That she transition into to FUS well and make friends and find her place there. That her depression and anxiety are controlled.

    That Dennis please show the girls the love and support they needs from him.

    That Tiana please turn away from the sin of being gay/bisexual and that she return to the Lord and the church.

    That my marriage somehow be healed and happiness be found, if it’s God’s Will. That the Lord is the sole foundation. That Dennis come to the Catholic faith. That’s his pride and stubbornness is broken.

    And that I have the Lord’s strength, Grace and peace to get through every day.

  75. Dear St Joseph, YOU know all my fears & worries, help me to restore this house, sell for large enough to re-purchase my home at 942 Hickory Creek at a fair amount, share closing costs, for Dave & I to live happily there forever til u take us home, show Dave how to be loving, respectful & kind to me, hopefully bringing our children home as a family, remove my lonliness, knee pain to be able to walk normally once again. Hold my Bullett & Tasha, Love FOREVER, Diane