The Christmas Novena, 2022

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We’ll begin our next novena in just a few days now — which is, of course, The Christmas Novena!

This was the very first novena we ever prayed through Pray More Novenas — and that was twelve years ago! We thank God for you and for this community of prayer, and we pray for you every day. You are never forgotten. Thank you for praying with us.

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  1. Prayer intentions
    1.For the safe delivery of our baby in good health for my wife and the baby.
    2.For Excellence in all my academics for the year 2023.
    3.For Journey mercies and Divine security of all my family members.
    4.For Financial Breakthroughs
    5.For success in my B1 Language exams.

  2. Pray for me to get a job so that I can take care of my children since I am the winner
    Pray for my children more specially Collins and Elvis to be responsible children,to stay focus.om their studies and everything is hey do

    Pray for me to get financial breakthrough, and for my small business to grow

  3. Praying for my friends N & V, who desire to have children that God may hear their prayers and answer them, also to all women who have the same desire.
    Thanking God for my daughter and praying that God may protect her against evil, pedophiles, and all bad things, that she may grow in good health, that she may know God, love him, serve him, and live in the fear of God.
    Thanking God for my family and asking him to grant my dad good health, together with my family, my husband and I too.

  4. Praying for my friends N & V, who desire to have children that God may hear their prayers and answer them, also to all women who have the same desire.
    Praying for my daughter that God may protect her against evil, pedophiles, and all bad things, that she may grow in good health, that she may know God, love him, serve him, and live in the fear of God.
    Praying for my father that God may give him good health, together with my family, my husband and I too.

  5. Prayers to eradicate occultic influences in my family and conversions of my family who are away from the faith. Plus miracles all around. Thank you

  6. Dear Jesus, I ask you healing for my son-in-law. He is is going through a severe depression. He gets panic and anxiety attacks. Please help him Dear Heavenly Father. I thank you with all of my heart.

  7. I ask for prayers for my Father undergoing radiation therapy for cancer. My Mom – RIP. Neighbors Bev and Aiko – RIP and comfort their families. For adult children to return to full participation in their Catholic faith and for their spouses to support them. Soften the heart of daughter in law. For Son and daughter in law to get marriage blessed, for them to be able to have a baby. For my husband and myself as we get over Covid. Guide, guard, strengthen, heal, protect my family in every possible way. Thanksgiving for many blessings.

  8. First is thanks giving for financial overflow this year i managed to push our house to a great level i have faith more over flow will follow us in 2023. A lot has happened this year good wonderful things. Lord you blessed me with wonderful son as the additional to my life he brings a lot of happiness you know it thank you. Good health, protection Lord if i try to name i might forget which will make me feel bad forgetting.

    Looking forward for a great Christmas, continue blessing mweni and her family as she helps us. and to feel comfortable in our home, Internship for Profs, Knowledge filled for Young Prof M, relationship breakthrough. A good kind, loving person, financially stable who will help me in my bills, has time for me, and before Lord you bless me with this man where i am weak repair me Abba.

    Looking forward for a great 2023 more breakthroughs, more love, more happiness good health etc.

    Remember everyone who is going thru hard time in place of work, marriages, relationships at home etc. I ask the holy spirit to intercede in anything i might have forgotten.

  9. I pray that my x daughter-in-law starts communicating with my son directly instead of going through the lawyers who are so expensive. That they learn how to get along for the children. In Jesus name we pray. Amen

  10. All sinners in the world & all souls in purgatory, my uncle Randy Loomis recently passed away my friend Monica zarco anniversary passed away

  11. Please pray for my son M that God the Father in heaven may grant him another job. Please pray also 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.

  12. Please pray for the conversion and reconciliation of my children and grandchildren with my children and grandchildren and please wipe away the bad thoughts that my children have of my mother and set my mother free of this accusation. Please help Randie to get a good job and house and heal her so she’ll be able to come to my house for Christmas Eve

  13. My family and I will live life fully the way Christ intended, especially during this holiday season. And that my son will grow in his Catholic faith.

  14. Please pray for my husband, children, and grandchildren to accept Jesus into their hearts through the Catholic Church.

    Help my family and me with our health issues.

    Guide me to teach and have the right words to show the goodness of following Jesus in my children’s lives.

    Guide my husband and I in our next phase, especially where to live.

  15. I pray for all you are contemplating suicide, and those who have survived someone who has committed suicide. May God touch their hearts with love and hope.
    I also pray with all of you that abortion may be stopped, and that the innocent may live.

  16. 1. See and accept God’s Will when it comes to family.
    2. Debt repayment by 21st June 2023
    3. International job by 21st June 2023
    4. Property not to get damaged

  17. O Lord, infant Jesus, fill us with Joy! The birth of any child is a cause for great joy and so much more is the birth of You, our Savior. We pray in union with Mary, Your mother, for a greater joy this Christmas.

    We also pray for these intentions… (A Holy and Loyal spouse for our Son and our Daughter)Dear Lord, this would be a most wonderful Christmas Gift for them and for us. Together, bring them to conversion, as well as their children.

    May Your Holy Will be done in our life and with these intentions.

    We pray that the work of salvation that Your first coming began will reach fulfillment in each of us. Amen

  18. Pray for my granddaughter as she is feeling pressured & torn.
    Pray i may be more patient with her and not be aggravated by those family members who are pressuring us.
    She needs to be happy, calm, & settled.

  19. Dedicate my family and friends into your hands Lord
    My God is your witch craft
    Please save me and my family
    The land in Entebbe

  20. For our family to get fair representation regarding my fathers estate.
    For closure and a quick resolution to settling fathers estate.
    Healing, forgiveness and physical health.

  21. Please pray for the health of my grandchildren, and children. Please pray for a cure for cancer in all people . Please pray that everyone accepts Jesus as their Saviour and turn their lives over for him
    Amen

  22. For Zack and Zoe. That they continue to be loving held by Our heavenly father and feel His and my love. For my son to continue to be strong in dealing with both an addiction and health issue. For a senior that she can solve and maintain her current safe living situation. And that I might meet someone to share and spend time with to help with my loneliness and feelings of being lost. Thankyou most Loving Father in heaven.

  23. May my younger sister Catherine Fam not to have miscarriage again in her life,but if it is your will let your will be done, but if it is evil may that cause be destroyed in the name of our saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth

  24. Our son Chad is going thru the breakup of his girlfriend and he after a 3 year relationship. It is doubly hard as he was divorced after 9 years. He is grieving deeply, as are we, during this Christmas season. Pray God’s holy will, healing in his heart and for him to hear God’s vocational call on his life.

  25. Praying for my younger sister Catherine Fam not to have miscarriage with pregnancy again and also the coming of our saviour Jesus Christ as Christmas I and my family to experience a miraculous blessings from God, all weapons of hardship, unemployment, sickness, hatred and evil in my family be broken in name of our saviour Jesus Christ

  26. Please pray for my husband who is experiencing some medical issues. That we can resolve them and he will be restored to full health. In Jesus name amen 🙏

  27. My daughter, Lara, keeps working to have a peaceful marriage but her husband, Scott, can’t manage his emotions and anytime anything goes wrong he takes it out on her. Recently his brother and his father passed away within 6 weeks of each other. Now he is always angry at my daughter no matter what she does to help him. His use of alcohol doesn’t help either. Please pray for them.

  28. We are awaiting discharge of a foster baby from the hospital. If we are the baby’s family God has intended, pray we hear soon. If not, pray the baby winds up with the best foster family to love and care.

  29. Pray for my husband’s healing partially from the vfc effects from cancer treatment, the other from his PTSD and alcoholism resulting in him starving himself because of no appetite or food taste bad. He wont even drink protien drinks now. It’s a battle everyday to get him to eat. Medicines to stimulate appetite haven’t worked. I need a Christmas miracle to heal him and me, a dreadful sinner,. May Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, have mercy on us, sinners. Amen

  30. Please pray for my family. We need much healing and peace. I hope and pray One day I will be reconciled with my Son. I love and miss him terribly. It’s been 8 years since I’ve seen him.

  31. Dear Lord praying for health as nd strength especially this bladder issue o have. Praying for healing. Ali asking for inter cession with my daughter to be bold Be able to speak also asking the she has done well this semester. Praying for peace in the world. Thank you Lord! Anen!

  32. 1. For restoration of all that we lost this year
    2. To buy ournown car by January
    3. For my promotion to happen 1st quarter of 2023
    4. To have courage, skills, and confidence to drive and park on my own, to have my own car
    5. For daddy to have his regular salary by next year

  33. That we will be safe to and from our destinations each day n night thru out the year and new year.
    And for financial help for my family n my brother family. That we may have the assistance we need for the holidays.
    Amen.

  34. Praise and glory to you our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that married couples trying to have children will be blessed and bring new life into this world in love and trust in God. I especially ask for prayers for my son and daughter in law. May it be according to your will Lord Jesus. Amen.

  35. Healthy baby for my daughter Ashley. Healthy in mind and body. No deformities or diseases. Health for my daughter throughout and at delivery. Whether by natural pregnancy or by fostering or adoption. Thank you my Lord!

  36. A recently married elderly couple having a hard time adjusting. Please pray for them, they love each other dearly. Thank you.

  37. Dear Lord,
    I pray for the healing of my daughter. May she healed and live a long healthy and happy life.
    Thank you for all blessings.
    Amen

  38. Please take all infections absences cancer and pain away from Ken heal him of all his sickness and give him strength and energy
    Amen

  39. Dear JESUS please hear& answer everyone’s prayers; spoken& unspoken on this novena platform!A special
    Prayer for all mothers,moms to be& all children! Bless my 2 adult kids with godly mates& healthy natural children according to Gods perfect plan/will! Help me& my 2 kids have blessed safe holidays together; safe travels, love,joy,peace,harmony,sobriety and all who we are with this holiday& safe travels& good health! Help love replace bitterness in our hearts! Show us the way, lead us to church! Help us use our God given gifts& talents for Gods glory here on earth! Help me go sing for You Jesus over holiday! Give me strength& courage! I give You all my prayers,intentions! JESUS I TRUST IN YOU! Please soften all our cold hearts in my family& these families:(K,A,O,M,R,W families)! Protect us all from harm,danger,sickness& from all evil! XO🙏

  40. That the Lord grant me the ability to find the job I have been praying for. I also pray for my family, that they move closer to the Holy Spirit and bless their children with Baptisms. I pray for financial abundance so that I may be able to assist my church and family and friends.

  41. For MDP may she receive the blessing of the loving relationship she desires. May the like turn into love. Please remove all obstacles, pride, feelings of being unsure, interfence, and negative individuals who stand in the way

  42. 1. I pray for a house for my children
    2. I pray that my financial status change, so I maybe able to pay for my daughter’s University Fees for 2022 & her Registration for 2023.
    3. I pray for a car so I maybe able to drive to work & church especially on rai y days.
    4. I pray for unity amongst my family.
    5. I pray for a fulltime job for my older brother Linda Mahlangu, so he can be able to mai tai her children.

  43. Please pray for my grandson Tobenna to be healed. He is almost five years old but can only sit for a few minutes. They say that his brain is not fully formed and in addition he has hydrocephalus.

  44. Please pray for the intentions of my heart and mind.
    Please join me in praying for all the people to whom I have promised to pray and for those who have asked for my prayers.
    Amen

  45. Please support me in prayer for Joachim Bonseu, my husband, that the good Lord will save him from premature death and restore him to good health in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

  46. Pray for Gavin’s miracle of healing so that he does not have to undergo the most risky and serious surgery on Jan 4, 2023.
    Pray for Devin’s continued healing from the dreadful alcoholism he is fighting.
    Pray for Michele, Aiden, and Bill for their needs

  47. Please pray for my young daughters Halyey and Avery. 11 and 13 years old. Our family had to relocate for a new job across the country and they are struggling to find new godly friendships . I pray my 11 year old will contine to find friendships with the nice boy from her class who is also alone. Please send the right friendships in thier lives and remove any bad influences from entering thier lives. Amen

  48. We pray for our friends and relatives who are expectant, all the mothers awaiting delivery allover the world, to have safe delivery without comlications.
    We pray for the innocet souls of the aborted children to rest in eternal peace.
    Amen🙏

  49. I also pray for and end to abortion, for Father Pavone, and for my son Joseph who is suffering from mental illness and anxiety. Amen

  50. I want to spend Christmas and New Years with my future husband. I want to fall in love forever. I want to receive financial blessings of abundance. I want to be a blessing to others Amen

  51. Praying for health, healing, strength and faith for my husband Fred, Isabella, Barbara and Tom, Liz and Jim and Brian. For a healthy baby and good health for Lauren. For good health and relief from anxiety for Jaime and Megan. And strength for me. We pray this Christmas Novena for strong faith and God’s help.

  52. HEALING OF MY SONS CONCUSSION AND PTSDS ALSO FOR HOLY PRIESTS AND AN END TO ABORTION PEACE IN THE WORLD AND CONVERSION OF MY FAMILY AND TO KNOW AND DO GODS WILL

  53. Financial breakthrough
    Divine favor
    Good health
    Sanity of mind
    My children to Excel in their studies
    School fees for my children
    Student enrollment at my place of work
    Full term pregnancy and safe delivery

  54. Praying that Amanda finds out she is pregnant by Christmas Day.
    Praying for everyone in the Castaneda family to find time to grieve despite the business of the holiday and to heal from the sudden loss of Jr.

  55. For a return to the Culture Of Life. That all women who are pregnant may have the love and support to bring the precious life within them into this world. That those who may not be able to support a new addition to their family may choose Adoption over abortion. Finally, peace and healing for my mother and myself. Our cat passed away Tuesday at the age of 14 1/2. Those praying this Novena who have pets will understand where the rest may not. A pet is probably the closest you’ll get to the unconditional love that God has for us. As you prepare for the coming of Jesus as an infant may you experience the TRUE meaning of Christmas.

  56. That fallen away family members will return to the church and bring there children.
    That a family member who told a horrible lie that destroyed our family will someday tell the truth. For the health of our elderly parents. For my health. That all of us regardless of physical ailments will be strong in spirt and know Jesse is with us always. Amen

  57. Please pray for my wife, Sheli, to recover fully from her injuries, a broken wrist, a broken ankle, abroken bone in her back and a traumatic brain injury. Thank you for your prayers!

  58. Praying for my high school senior, Jackson.
    Praying These last months of high school be his best. MAy he excel in school, baseball and leadership.
    May his relationship with Christ come deeper.
    Guide his path with college decisions. May the Lord guide him to the right school

  59. Please pray for peace,love and unity between my husband and his siblings more especially his brothers.They have been fighting each other since 2019.

  60. Please pray for my wife who is recovering from injuries, a broken ankle, a broken wrist, a broken bone in her back and a traumatic brain injury. Thank you for your prayers!

  61. Please pray for peace,love and unity between my husband and his siblings more especially his brothers.They have been fighting each other since 2019.

  62. God’s graces for autistic son’s living situation and caretakers (need more caretakers and increase in salary), behaviors and focus.

    God’s graces for me as I struggle to get help for him and do all the things I need to do; for my anxiety over all this (I am all alone)

  63. Please pray that my spouse and I will begin to put our marriage first. Please pray that my spouse and I can conceive a child of our own.

    Amen

  64. Dear Lord,
    Please touch the bank to release that money for my husband before Christmas.
    Please give us money for our relocation.
    Please heal my children and May they not fall sick again.
    Please grant us our visas and May we not get any delay in the CAS and visa.
    Please favor me this week as this will be the last week I will work with AEDC.

  65. Pray for salvation and health for entire family. Emmy, Paige and Noah to stay healthy. The end of COVID and all variants and none of us to get it. For Emmy to be healed of her peanut allergy. Robert to be healed of his cancer. For Daniel and Lillian to be able to handle the loss of their only 17 year old daughter Victoria and not be mad at God. The end of abortion, the poor souls in purgatory and the continued health for Cardinal Burke.

  66. I pray that my boyfriend may find grace and peace and promotion and favour.That our union will be full of love, happiness and blessings and fruit of the womb.
    May the open heavens pour unto us.

  67. For Scott C, who was taken to hospital with a rupture near his kidneys.
    For Bob W, for successful recovery from eye surgery, and several other medical isssues.
    In Thanksgiving for Bob G’s successful hip surgery.
    Thanks & God Bless!

  68. Please pray for my grandson to be baptised soon .
    For peace and unity in my home.
    For my children to return to the church.
    For good health for me and my family members.
    For reparation of the sin of abortion.
    For reparation of gay marriages.
    For peace in the world especially in Ukraine and Russia.
    Thank you Jesus, Mama Mary and St.Joseph.

  69. Through mother Mary and Jesus his son our God, I surrender all pregnant mothers to have safe delivery.
    Financial break through to take care for my family.
    Help me to achieve my set target at work.
    Praying the soul of my brother to rest in peace.

  70. I pray 🙏 to be over COVID and my family is all healthy so we can celebrate Christmas eve together with all our slovak traditions.