One of Our Favorite Novenas: for Marriage & Family!

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We don’t usually send out two emails on the same day, but we wanted to let you know about the next novena — it’s one of our favorites (you can scroll down to read why), and we’ll start praying it just a few days after we finish the current Novena to St. Monica.

The next novena is The Novena for Marriage and Family! We start praying on Sunday, August 30th.

St. John Paul II said, “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live,” so it’s really important that we pray for marriages and families to be strengthened and sanctified.

We will pray for those who are already married, for those who want to be married, for families going through difficult times, and for those in financial distress.

There’s something extra special about this novena… It leads up to the Feast of Mary’s Birthday (the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)!

The first time we prayed this novena together as a community was eight years ago, leading up to our wedding day! It has been such a gift to pray with you :)

And it is so important that we have strong marriages and strong families. So, we are really looking forward to praying this novena once again, for Marriages and for Families!

This novena begins on August 30th!

You can sign up to join us in praying HERE. And you can share your prayer intentions in the comments below.

Thank you for praying with us! We’re praying for you.

God bless you!

John-Paul & Annie – PrayMoreNovenas.com

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  1. Thank you Lord for the new day. Mama Mary please pray for Mezie & wife, Tony & wife, Emeka & wife & all married couples for the fruit of the womb.
    I pray for forgiveness for many times we have brought the dignity of life down and low through fornication, abortion, sex abuse or other form of human abuses.
    I pray for families with challenge children, for Bato, Wallace, Joel, Ebuka, Maxwell for healing, liberation and return to their homes.
    For stable, normal mensturation flow/ cycle for my daughers.
    For the right spouses for Onyeka, chinwe, Chinenye, Tonna, Awele, nephewss and nieces.
    Lord continue to uphold my family, help us to uphold the dignity of human life. May love and unity continue to bind us. Amen.
    Thank you Lord for everything and for answers to our prayers. Amen

  2. I thank God for all what he has provided to me and my family, his protection, the gift of life, and every help He has send our way.

    I pray for deliverance of myself and every member of our immediate and extended family

    I pray for the blessing of all my employees, my businesses, my tenants, my customers and all my clients. I pray that all their good intentions may succeed

    I pray for all those who have asked for our prayers, the healing of our friends, the improvement of financial situation of those in need

    I pray for my children, for protection and that they may be obidient

  3. I pray for peace in my family, for love to truly take hold, that each of us will open ourselves up fully to the Lord, to let Him heal us and make us whole again, so that we may love and serve each other as He intended.

  4. I am going to start the second phase of my life.i am really scared of my marriage life.i am having lots of confusion both in my mind and heart.But i have full faith on blessed Mary that she will lead in me in the right path.i had a dream that before marriage I will get a job and I should stand on my own leg.i should feel that I am an independent girl.trying very hard to discover my own talent since I lack courage on me.still I have a hope that you will lead and guide me for my betterment. In the name of mother mary i leave all my anxiety,fear and anger through your prayer

  5. Please pray for my husband Paul, who is very weak has lot of lust and is drawn to women, he just goes where they are, esp. those who will flirt with him.
    that we all come close to the Lord
    that my brothers pray the Holy Rosary.
    Please pray that my brother Wilfred Brian Lobo comes backs to the Holy Catholic Church.
    that Christopher Lobo is healed of his depression and OCD, get out of his prevarication and procrastination.
    That Ivan, Christopher, Brian Tom, Ayres Aurelia, jill, Mark and Paul find good healthy God fearing Catholic life partners.
    that we get good firm buyers for our properties
    that we get all our monies back that others have taken.
    ghat all those who want babies conceive.
    Thank You Lord

  6. God pls, heal all failing marriages.
    God pls ,make my marriage to experience heaven on earth as he is opening doors for me to enter into my matrimonial home sooner
    God pls provide us with all we need to have our traditional and white wedding done within 6_7 months coming thru Christ our LORD..amen..

  7. Dear Jesus,Blessed Mother,St Joseph,St.Micheal,St.George&all the angels&saints tgankYou(s) for answering a prayer of mine today that I was so worried about! Please help me with my loneliness,my co dependency on my daughter who’s moved away&now I have sad heart over both my kids moving out of state! I have no grandchildren so I pray my kids do have natural healthy kids AND I pray I will live near them so I can be close to them.Pray for me to receive a financial miracle to buy/own a 1 or(prefer 2) bdrm townhouse near my son in his state &my heart’s desire- area there in a very safe neighborhood soon before cold winter arrives(C/NC)& bless me with a kind loyal Catholic godly loving loyal male companion,maybe even a husband! Bless my kids/meet their needs! Help (R) treat me better,his kids too especially his son.hear&answer all my prayers,spoken &unspoken&intentions. Help me stop grinding my jaw,skeletel! Heal us where we need healing,protect us from covid 19& protect us from all evil:(K,A,J&J,R,R,M,M & all our animals! A special prayer for my son in Military-meet his needs,protectuon,godly friends&team! Help my daughter learn the lessons Jesus wants her to learn there and help her turn away from sinful life there&return home here &become a godly chaste holy woman of God! Help me not wait around for her in codependency,rather bring me a new godly girlfriend&godly boyfriend here soon! Help her dad &I get along&treat each other better! BlessJ&J marriage,business,careers! XO

  8. Please let Jamie be ok! Please keep my daughters marriages sound and please let this relationship with PM last and my they find their happiness in each other.

    Please keep my family safe from harm and healthy

    Amen

  9. I am praying for financial breakthrough in my life.
    Blessing to my children
    Cancelling the spirit of rejection in my life.

  10. Dearest Mary. Please special prayers for Jeff. He struggles so. Please help him regain his faith. I humble ask your help in healing him. Please keep this family together. My granddaughter needs both parents. Amen

  11. Prayer intention: my health condition is very poor. Especially my mental and emotional health. I’m suffering with arthritis and in pain. Can’t get proper sleep. Please pray for me

  12. Lord, I pray for my parents’ relationship to strengthen and to be continually reconciled and renewed. Help them overcome any struggle that they continually battle out. Please bless my family with good relationship and good health. Please keep my family safe and happy. Let there be peace in every member and let love reign on us.

  13. For this novena, I pray for the reconciliation of relationships, O Lord. I come to you so desperate and need of help. I pray for the reconciliation of my relationship with my partner. That You may touch his heart and help him see the light back to our relationship and that he will be willing to work on our relationship. This is beyond any human power, Lord. It is only You that can reconcile us. Please hear my request. Please hear me.

  14. Good day, thank you for praying for and with in these intentions:

    For my parents, and sister and me, may our hearts be converted in truth and love. May healing embrace us.
    For my Uncle Nick Pedrasa and his family. May they be healed and transfromed.
    For my Aunt Alma and her family. May their family be closer to the Lord and may one of their children have a religious vocation.
    For all the families here in the Philippines and the whole world.
    For my own healing from SSA and my chastity and courage to pursue the vocation God called me.

    Thank you and God bless everyone.

  15. For John to know God’s Will for his life. For Dave to come back to the church and for healing of memories for Justin & Chad.

  16. Lord God, here I am before you still asking for an employment solution. Bail me out of this state of unemployment, oh Lord.
    Lord please bless my children; grant them wisdom, may they be disciplined, may they be loved, and above all, may they grow to love you more by the day.
    I pray, oh Lord, for my husband; bless all his endeavours, light his path with your goodness so that whatever he does, he does right in your guidance.
    Amen.

  17. I Just want to thank God for answered prayers.
    When we did St. Monica’s novena, the second day of the novena, God granted my request and melt the stubborn heart of stone in my husband and united my home in peace. May God’s name forever be praised, adored, magnified and glorified forever, Amen…
    Dearest St. Monica, thank you for your intercession, I am forever Grateful to God for hearing your plead on my behalf, we Give God all the Glory. Thank you.
    Praying for all those praying this novena for answered prayers and their wishes granted through Christ our Lord, Amen… Jesus I Trust in You.

  18. I pray for my son and his wife who is struggling with their marriage, I pray they can rebuild their marriage into strong, healthy and holier marriage that has a strong loving relationship with each other and with God. I pray for my son and husband to quit drinking alcohol and focus on their health and family. In Jesus Christ I pray whom I love, need and worship. Amen

  19. For peace , protection and happiness in my family and for God and Mother Mary to take away anybody or friend that has negative influence on my family, my children’s life, my husband’s life and my life away from us. Amen.

  20. Today Lord I come to you, thanking for the gift of marriage. Being married for five years and all has not been bliz. Today I ask that you strengthen my marriage,forgive us our tresspasses.i ask that evil there is any evil force working on my husband,me to melt away in Jesus name,may you wash any evil force driving my husband to be unfaithful,me not to pray in this marriage in the blood of Jesus Christ Which was shed on cross of calvary.wash us clean oh Lord from our problems. in Jesus’name I pray Lord hear us.

  21. Praying for my friend Tere and her family. She has a special needs child, TJ.

    I pray for Michelle and Luna. Michelle is a single mom

  22. My most humble and sincere prayers for my daughter, Katherine, and her husband Jeff. Please soften Jeff’s heart and please restore love and happiness to him for his family. Please protect Natalie, their sweet 7 year old daughter. I accept God’s will but ask for healing. I know in God’s hands and humble ask His help. Amen

  23. I pray that love will flow again in my marriage,that you protect us from the temptation of the devil,that any weapon fashioned against my marriage shall not prosper,that l will grow to love and respect my husband and that he will stop his bad ways and turn back to me,appreciate me more,that we shall stop fighting and each of us realise we need to find forgivness and love each other more,we pray for our children to grow up to love and serve the Lord,to protected from harm,to be good parents and raise them well ,amen

  24. Dear God, I have prayed for years that you will heal me of mouth odour. On this novena I remind you of your promise please heal me and others experiencing mouth odour through Christ our Lord. Amen.
    I am also praying that my fish business will be a success.

  25. Am greatful to the lord for the gift of life,health and family and above all for the blessings of marraige we celebrated 5 years last month on the 8th of August the lord has been faithful,its not been a straight road but with all we thank the lord,just like any other couple we have challenges, this novena has come at a very good timing l was even going to miss it 3 days l have missed we have been fighting alot,about this and the other ,we don’t communicate well l feel am not beinh listened to ,understood,trusting is an issue cause of some situations that have happened before,late nights ,l cry to the lord to make it all go away,to make it new ,to help my husband to get closer to the lord like never before,to love me more and to help us through our financial challenges,job situations and to bring peace in our home and not fights .Amen

  26. My dearest mom, Pray for me to be more organized to manage my life as a woman, christian and mom of three.Some times i am overloaded, discouraged,disorganized and nervous.
    Pray for a holier and stronger marriage, may my Husband and I know how to raise our children with an example of how Jesus was raised

    Amen

  27. Thanking God for each and every member of my family who are related to me by birth and marriage. Praying that my daughter NC may stop taking unprescribed medicines. Praying that my niece G may be blessed with fruit of the womb. Praying that all my children, my brothers and my nieces may find God fearing spouses with whom they can settle down in marriage. Praying that we who surround my grandchild may be good role models to him and that he may learn to be respectful and obedient. Our mother, you are the queen of the family. Please intercede for my family and all other families whose prayers are in this Novena. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

  28. Asking God for good spouses for my sisters.
    For the fruit of the womb for my aunt and cousin.
    For safe delivery for my cousin.
    God to direct and guide my husband in everything especially with his career choice.
    For success in my exams and my job posting
    For healing for the whole world
    I commit my home and marriage to God to bless and his presence.
    I bless all my children and commit their lives and future to God.
    For God to help my brother, for his health and academics.
    For good health and long life
    I thank God for his many blessings

  29. For fruit of the womb for my wife and I. And that we may be committed to our Holy Matrimony through the powerful intercessory of our BVM

  30. That I may have the strength & the will to focus on my prayer life & not be easily distracted from worldly allurements. Amen

  31. Dear Lord, please grant our daughter, Felicity success in being hired at her position of choice. If you will it, Lord clear a path for her to be chosen. If this is not the job you desire for her, please present another opportunity for her to earn a living. In Jesus, Holy and Precious Blood I ask thee.
    Amen.

  32. 1. Thanking God for peace in the family of Late Sir CEN, including his children.
    2. Thanking God for receiving the soul of Sir CEN in his bosom and guiding us as we prepare for his burial, for wisdom, comfort and direction to mummy and all his children. That the burial will proceed well, and for help from above.
    3. Increased holiness in our lives, love, unity and fear of God, for God to fortify us in all endeavors.
    4. Healing for all members of the family that are sick: A, M, C, C, D. Healing of organs, skin, blood, womb, eyes and ears, legs etc.
    5. Fruitfulness for all members of the family, husband, wives, male and female children.
    6. Save entire members of the family and make us hungry for the things of God, after God’s heart, to love God truly and neighbor as Jesus asked us to do.

  33. Pls pray for my marriage. It’s busy falling apart cause of his family. We don’t share a room for 6 yrs now. He spend his money helping his family and never give extra in the house. He never talks to me but spend hours on his fone with friends and family. I’m tired. And finds fault with me all the time. And even abuse me. I wish I had a job. So that I could walk away from all this unhappiness. Amen. Sorry for this. And pls pray for his mother and the rest of his family that are the cause of it. Thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽😇😇🤗

  34. Through the intercession of Mother Mary I pray for the marriage of niece S &AS and her husband for them to commit to the holy matrimony and love to reign in their relationship.
    I also pray for the marriage of my sister J&RZ to have a total transformation. In the Name of the Father,Son and the Holy Spirit. AMEN

  35. Dear Mother Mary,
    Bring peace into my family of long time disfunctional family members.
    That Adrian will meet a woman of god and he has peace in body mind and spirit from traumatic past.
    Julian that he has peace and clarity in his mind from emotionally abusive wife. Protect him and his 2 daughters from the fires of hell. God come into his marriage and solve the evil that soround his family
    Amen

  36. I pray for my Dad, who has refused to consent to my marriage proposal from my fiancé and his family for almost two years now. That our Mother Mary would intercede for us, and the Holy Spirit would fill his heart with love and peace, that he would joyfully bless me and give me away, to have a successful marriage and family life.

  37. As we pray for marriages and families, please pray that a missing family member will be safely returned home. Our family appreciates the strength of our faithful prayer community. Blessings to each of you.

  38. Through the intercession of Mother Mary for a successful marriage of my daughter Consolate due in 10th October May they be blessed with children and nurture love filled with the love for Mother Mary and the Lord God the Father and the son and the Holy Spirit. Amen

  39. For the marriage of Karen & Christian, that God be the center of their life, through the hardships of life especially with Holly a special need child, please I guide them always. For my single nieces & nephews that they God may find a partner for LIFE & GOD be the center of the relationship.
    Thank. you Mother Mary for the blessings and graces. Bring us closer to you son. I LOVE you and am sorry for my sins. AMEN

  40. Please pray for my marriage of 8 turbulent years (in December) and for our sweet innocent children to be covered, protected, washed and healed by the precious blood of Jesus. Mother Mary, I place our three children into your loving hands, offering them up to you, into your care and protection as we strive to overcome all the trials of our marriage.

    I pray for our family to be a praying-together, holy and God fearing family who triumphs over the storms and comes out victorious. I pray for my tears to stop and for happiness, joy, peace, patience, gentleness kindness, generosity and self control to return to our marriage. I pray for my husband and I to be a powerful united force when we come together in prayer and for our personal, couple and family prayers to be established and maintained.

    All this, in Jesus’ Name I pray, through the intercession of Blessed Mother Mary. Amen.

  41. For me to know if it’s the right time for hubby and I to have another child.
    For my marriage to be full of love,joy,happiness,forgiveness,good health and wealth.
    For our house project to be successful.
    For our first born to be a God fearing child and to be favored and blessed.
    For our union to be successfully formalized

  42. For my marriage…give me courage to have a difficult conversation with my beloved spouse.

    For J & J that they are able to maneuver through this difficult time of the dissolution of their very trouble marriage

  43. Dear Holy Mother,
    Please pray for my daughters to have smooth pregnancies and deliveries of healthy and normal babies, to have good families and to be financially stable. Please pray for my nephews to heal completely physically and mentally, to keep their jobs, to find good wives and to have children of their own. Please pray for my sister and my mom to be healthy. Please pray for my husband and me to be healthy, to be blessed with healthy grandchildren from our both daughters, to keep our jobs and to be financially stable. Please pray for N to heal from his addictions and for G to heal from her cancer. Please also pray for the intentions of all praying this novena. Amen.

  44. Today I pray for all members of my family. For my children those who feel that they have been ignored even though they have worked hard. In a special way for my daughter Cassie. Lord help her. You know her pain and her struggles. Open her eyes to see you, her heart to love you and her mind to know you. My God send help. Show her the way. Help my family to be family once more. Amen

  45. Mother Mary please pray for us that my fiance secures our wedding date by the end of this Novena. Fight all obstacles that try to stop it again. Pray for our marriage and that our 6 children become a close family and we find the home that has been in my vision, A home that is miraculously affordable, comfortably large, and will be the safe haven for our brady bunch to come together. It will be a blessed home. It will be god given.It will be one that we will always be able to take care of and pay for on time. These are my prayers by the end of this Novena.

  46. I’m praying for my grandson to have a successful and happy school year.
    Just an FYI I’m getting a lot of push back since two novenas ago. The minute I start it’s as if everything goes wrong. I’m not kidding people are actually getting hurt. But I want to say that I know God makes good from evil and my faith rests in Him. Though I see this I keep praying- don’t lose faith. God’s ways are not ours and he makes good out of evil for those who love Him. Let us storm heaven with our faith!!!🙏🏻😍

  47. I am so thankful for this ovena. I pray for my sons to return to school next week and foe peace and lov in my family.

  48. First I thank God giving everything for my life and my family. I want a happy marriage with a right partner. Pray for guide my steps and lead me to the person who will both understand and love me as I am .

  49. For president Trump and family for V President Pence and family. For our family healing of body mind soul and finances….we pray. Thanks.

  50. Mother Mary, please pray for all who ate praying the Novena and for their needs, Amen
    Please pray for the world to be cured of the pandemic
    Pray for all to be stronger in faith and more connected to God and one another especially among families
    Pray for Our Holy Father’s intentions and for all Priests and religious
    Pray for all souls in Purgatory that they will be with God, Amen
    Pray for more conversion of sinners and salvation of souls and for all who have gone far away from the Lord and whose faith has grown cold , let them come back stronger, Amen
    I pray too for my family, my sisters’ and Sue’s family to be closer to God day by day and never be separated from Him, Amen
    God bless my children with good spouses and children too
    God bless all of us with great health and safety and our jobs to be secure
    Thank you Mother for all these years of your prayers and love for us, Amen

  51. That our new addition to the family will be healthy and that God gives us the strength to handle whatever challenges we are given to raise our children in one home with two loving parents.

  52. Mamma Mary please help all our children in our families who have strayed away from God to be reconciled with God and come back to Jesus, and the Sacraments.

    Show all our children the way to Jesus and be focused on Him rather than the things of this world.

    Protect all our children and grandchildren from the current pandemic especially as they go back to school.

    Help us in the quick sale of our ancestral house.

  53. I pray for my children, Sean Christopher, Cory Alan Patrick and Brendan Patrick Patrick to grow spiritually and hunger and thirst for the Sacraments of the Holy Catholic Church.

  54. Mother Mary bless the marriage (mixed marriage) of our son and daughterinlaw. Please help them to be of one mind and heart and work with love and forgiveness to heal, restore and renew their marital relationship. Pray they put aside their ego, pride and hatred and be humble to make their marriage work.

    Please help them secure good jobs so that they can maintain their family and not think individually but as a couple.

    Please also help our daughter and soninlaw(mixed marriage) to live happy married life.

  55. I’m praying that my two adult children get along with one another. Restore their health & depression.Praying that they may find their way back to the Church! Thank you for the numerous blessings you give us♥️

  56. Lord and Heaven please help my family to be healthy always. Please help my husband to have full time work from now forward, bring back my mom’s memory, and bring our daughter back to us. Thank you for all the blessings in our life!

  57. Asking for prayers for Dennis & I as we begin our married life together. Praying for strength and unity.
    Praying that Dennis’ children can be reconciled and have peace and happiness for their father.

  58. Praying for a breakthrough in my home in finance may our lady my mother always be amongst my Children n gran kids in.Potections and providing our needs…praying for my aunt.who is very sick may gods protection be upon her… My family peace and understanding Pray to god that he takes away my despression and my fears in these time Amen….

  59. World peace and faith. End abortion. Souls in Purgatory most in need of my prayers. End coronavirus. Increase my faith and bring all my children back to the Church and to the Sacraments. Restore my health and remove all my pains. Forgiveness of sins.Grace of a Holy and Happy death. Amen

  60. Praying for my to find God fearing partners they can live with peacefully, progress and develop together while at the same time pray together in peace with love.

    Praying for stable marriages for myself and my sisters.

  61. allie, my daughter, that she may find her way back to the church! and turn to God for everything and find internal peace

    for me and my husband that we will achieve financial relief after the sale of one of our stores

  62. Our cousin has grabbed our grandmother’s land who is dead, a land where i and my siblings were raised for 33 yrs. Pray for our family for the court to rule on the truth. This is a big division and fight in the family. PRAY WITH ME I BEG PRAY WITH ME

  63. Pray for the repose of the soul of a good friend & fellow educator Chuck S. & his wife & daughters left behind to mourn him.
    Also prayers for my family during this tough time.

  64. Please pray for grandson that he is ok. Pray for 2 friends who have cancer . For migraine headaches for my children and myself. For eye issues for daughter , son in law, and myself. For son and daughter in law to conceive. For daughter to baptize son and believe in God. For all who suffer in any way because of COVID, hurricanes and wildfires. For our country. Pray for all intentions of those praying this Novena. Blessed Mother Mary bring this intentions to your Son. Amen.

  65. Dear Jesus, I pray that you protect my family during these trying times. Keep everyone healthy and safe. We lift all our burdens and struggles to you and ask for your divine strength to help us follow your will. In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

  66. Petitions to Blessed Mother Mary to give me guidance & clarity of the mind on how to handle mu current trials. To provide for me the right people & network to win my case. For the immediate reversal of my case, my immediate return to work in my favor; vindication & justice given to me by the grace of God. To give me strength, perseverance, patience, resilience & courage to face all my tribulations & that they will be over soon by God’s mercy & providence. In Jesus name I ask with humility hear & answer me. I also pray for the greatest health of all my family & our temporal needs provided in this time of difficulty & pandemic. Amen.

  67. That my sister’s marriage will be strengthened, for her and her husband’s conversion, and that her husband is more appreciative and considerate of all the work she does at home.

  68. Please pray for my son Peter that he may find a true love rooted in God immediately. May he have a great marriage starting now and May his hurts be healed.

  69. I lift up my prayers to add to my petitions for my friend Betty for her prayers , and pain in her heart for the cause she is praying for her daughter. Thank you Lord Jesus thank you Mother Mary. Amen.

  70. Please pray for me and my family to let go of our addiction so Jesus May enter and fill us with the grace and hope He so desires for us to achieve and trust in Him Amen

  71. I pray for my sin and his wife to reconcile and find true forgiveness in their hearts. The children need them to come to peace so they may feel the peace

  72. Please pray for the ability to let go of past pains and sufferings and forgive those who have hurt and continue to ridicule and hurt us. To move forward and accept our difficulties and unite them with Jesus’ suffering on the cross and know that you will these trials to strengthen us.

  73. Please pray for my son and his wife that they pray, treat each other with respect, talk to each other respectfully and civilly, and put the needs of their children first. Please pray for m husband and I that we may communicate and worship together.

  74. Thanksgiving for healing and restoration of love and peace in my home.

    I pray for peace in all troubled marriages, especially for Emy and wife.

  75. Dear Blessed Mother, I beg you to heal and protect my family and I. Please help us 🙏 Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.

    Please help me with my kidney disease and hyperparathyroid. Please heal Mark and Golgi of their cancer.

    Please bring peace to our Nation.

    Thank you Jesus and Mary.

  76. For Ricardo, Moni & my familiy’s conversion. May our Lord Jesus & his holy Mother Mary give Moni a holy, happy marriage & family. Amen.

  77. I’m asking for God’s guidance and peace. I’m a single mother of 2 girls. My parents are 81 and 82 years old. At this moment we are evacuees due to hurricane Laura. Both houses suffered damage. It will be a long road ahead of us before everything gies back to ” normal”. Thanks for your prayers. We will need them.