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The next novena is The Novena for
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)!
It also marks our six year wedding anniversary :) 
The first time we prayed this novena together as a community was six years ago, leading up to our wedding day!
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 Marriagesand for Families!
This novena begins on August 30th — just a few days after the feast of St. Monica.
You can sign up to pray this novena with us HERE, and you can post your prayer intentions below.
Thank you for praying with us! We’re praying for you.
in thanksgiving for prayers answered.. God is good!!
Petition.. all family know the will of God and keep going to Sacrements.
And for special healing for Joanna through her pregnancy and for Jay to recover from his injuries… ty
Please pray for our son Iose Jr Too and his wife Deeann that their marriage may be peace,love and especially the Holy Spirit in their hearts and home. They are stationed in Texas also pray for me and my husband for good health. Thank you and happy anniversary with many more to come with our Lord’s blessings
Please help me pray that God may grant that only wish I’m asking for right, that is my loved one Keith, comeback to me. Please open his heart mind and soul to love, care, respect and trust me. Please remove any thing that will hinder this from happening.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Please bless over my cousin Jared and Hailey Foley. Please send their guardian angels to them and help them leave their worries and anxieties at your feet. Please bless over Stephanie Foley and Chris Foley as they go through a terrible divorce. Please send them BOTH the holy spirit of letting go and forgivness. In jesus name I pray. Amen
I pray for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I pray for the family members who have left the Catholic Faith that they return to the church with a strong conviction. I pray for family members who have not been baptized in the Catholic Church that they become strong faith Catholics and give faithful examples to their children. I pray that members of my family who are parents become the parents that God wants and expects them to be. To lead their children into strong conviction of faith, hope and love
Lord Jesus you know me better than I know myself, you know that my greatest desire is to get married have my own husband and children and build my own home. Your first miracle was at the marriage in Cana in Galilee please Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus my Lord and through the intercecession o the blessed Virgin Mary grantmy request this Third quarter to the praise and glory of your name Amen
I pray for me and my husband to be fully committed to our marriage, that we my learn and know how to say sorry, forgive me, thank you, and that we may be good parents to our children. Amen
I pray for my daughter and her husband’s marriage, for them to forgive one another and become a truly happy and blessed couple.
I pray for my family to be together again.
I also ask that God answer the prayers of everyone who pray this novena.
Amen
Please pray for peace in my family. Pray for the healing of my 6yrd old daughter that was treated for kidney cancer. She finished her treatment but plz pray that cancer won’t come back. Pray for the healing of my dad . And for my uncle , his wife took their daughter and left him. I hope through prayers they will be reunited.
Amen 🙏
Pray for the spiritual, temporal, emotional & healing needs of my children, grandchildren, husband, myself & all family, relatives & friends. For the salvation of the souls of my children, grandchildren, husband, myself, all family, relatives & friends, esp. Patti. For peace in the world, our hearts, homes & families. In thanksgiving for graces received.
Mary Mother intercede for all our prayers and me in this novena on the following prayers to GOD through your son JESUS CHRIST Amen
I pray for a life partner..the one created for him by you and children for my son Leonard who is getting on in age but who is anxiously waiting for this prayer to be answered.
I pray for my daughter Mary and her family. That she and her husban becone financially sound so they can move forward in life.
I pray for my daughter Catherine and husband that whatever is lacking in their family be provided. May she find the job she is looking for,may her health be restored, may they have financial breakthrough so their debts can be paid off.
I pray for my daughter Anne and husband that they find the jobs of their dreams so that they will be financially stable enough to have another child
I pray for my health to be restored and the works of my hands be blessed so i can pay off my debts, render assistance and have enough to live by.
I pray for my husbands health
I pray for my grandchildren especially those starting in the catholic schools that the love of the faith be kindled in tgeir hearts.
I pray for all those within the novena that the prayers of the faithful are answered.
Mary Mother intercede for me
Amen
please pray my family finds housing and also for all my children. Thank you
I ask prayers for my son that he continues his healing from his addiction. For the mother of his children that she seeks the help she needs. For the safety and well being of the children.
Dear Holy Mother,
Please, along with St. Monica, St. Francis and St. Joseph you spouse, please surround my marriage with your love and protection. Please Holy Mother, with your Gerke guidance lead my husband back to Jesus, that he heals from addiction and rejects his affair. Please Holy Mother bring our marriage to healing and wholeness. And please grant me your peace and comfort during this separation. Amen 🙏🏾 ❤️
I pray for my parent’s to live long and full lives full of love and companionship and prosperity with each other.
Please pray for a special intention. Pray for the conversion of Jack P. from atheism to Catholicism, and for the conversion of his family. Pray for the conversion of my older sister and her husband, who is not yet fully received into the Catholic Church.
That my bf and I are reconcilled……in a more loving, passionate commitment full of love and communication. I want to get married and have a full commitment with him
For God to please bless my husband with a source of income so we can settle our debts.
For God to bless my business.
For my brother marriage and my husband’s friend marriage. Thank you Jesus. Amen
Pray for my granddaughter to come back to the church and have a good mind to separate the good from the bad.
PLease pray for my brother Jason and sister in law Emily- please pray for healing and restoration in their marriage and for their four young children.
I asked for pray to my sisters marriage
And for me that I’ll meet a man that have good faith for we’ll get marry
For people that have a hard time in your marriage
Amen!!!
Amen. May your prayers will be answered as I’m going through the same situation.
Dear Blessed Mother, please ask Jesus to heal my family and I.
Please heal us Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally. Please heal us of TMJ pain, diabetes, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, heart disease, allergies and asthma.
Thank you.
Dearest Mary, please pray for DF and JOF. Cover their marriage covenant with the blood of Jesus. Please have D stop living an immoral life with JE, and end the relationship. Restore and renew the marriage covenant between DF and JOF.
Help save our home and bring our entire family closer.
Pray for my parents marriage that has veen on the rocks for soo long.
For my friend S’s marriage to stregthen and for her husband to stick to his sobriety.
For my cousin and his wife as they seek a divorce, for God’s will and healing to be done in their lives.
Please pray…
…for the health and well-being of these cancer patients: Bill B, Fred, Sue, Carrie, Barbara, Bonnie, Bill P, Bill R, Brian, Daisy, Sandy, and Rose;
…for the health and well-being of: Mark, Cheryl & family, Tim, Donna, Tony, Rose, Agnes, Anna Mae, Brendan & family, Rich & family, Allen, Christina, Claire, Giovanna, Peter, Connie, Maggie, Christine, Barbara, Gail S & family, Dan, Andy, Gail T, Mark, Rita & family, and Madeline & family;
…for those mourning the loss of their loved ones and coping without them: Victoria, Claire, Anna Mae, Kathy, Terri, Marianne, Christine, Lorraine, Rita, and Madeline;
…for the unemployed, the underemployed, and those struggling financially—including Agnes, Anna Mae, Ryan, Chris, Rich & family, Paul, Christine, DJ, Gail, and Rita;
…for the homeless, hungry, lonely, poor, and needy;
…for victims of abuse, accidents, addictions, injustice, natural disasters, persecution, terrorism, and tragedy;
…for the respect and protection of all human life from conception until natural death by all people;
…for the Church and all its members that we can successfully bring all into, or back to, the Church, and not lose any members;
…for all our priests, seminarians, and religious, including Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI;
…for the happy repose of the souls in purgatory especially Lucretia, Tom, Steve, Thom, and Dave;
…for the conversion and transformation of all sinners, especially and including myself;
…for all intentions listed at this site for this novena.
Thank you. God bless you and your intentions!
Good health for my family and myself and peace for me in my living dilemma so I make the right decisions for me, my kids and Jamie. For my daughter, Abby so she gets accepted into medical school, hopefully at Iowa.
My youngest daughter has had three miscarriages but is now pregnant with her fourth child, she has made it to twelve weeks and I pray that she will carry this baby to full term, and know the true joy of being a mother.
For my husband to find balance in his job, courage and maturity. That he figures out what he wants to do. That I can respectfully support him. For our baby to be born that it being joy and enrich our lives. For my son to have success at preschool and potty training. That I can bring blessed mothers loving support, kindness, compassion, patience, and faithfulness to my family and fulfil my role as wife and mother. Amen.
I pray for a financial breakthrough in my life and that God to bless me with a serious person that the relationship will lead to marriage.
Please pray for my daughter.
She is going through a very difficult period in her life and is currently torn about what the best thing to do. She has unfortunately has been placed in a very difficult situation. I pray the Lord keeps her safe from physical and emotional harm. I hope to be able to spend time with her.
I pray that any hurt and bitterness felt by her father be washed away so that the children’s needs can be placed first.
I pray for my friend’s dad who has metastatic cancer.
I thank God for his blessings and May his will be done.
For Anna and Joshua, and restoration of their marrI Age.
Please pray for mother Barbara that she will continue to feel well and that she will beat this cancer. Please watch over her with every treatment and continue to shrink and kill her cancer cells so that she can see my baby girls grow! In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Pray for my father in law who is in hospital with cancer. And for myself with a bulging disc and back pain- also in hospital. For all the family members to trust in God even more as many challenges face us.
For the inter session of our lady who understands each of these situation. For greater depth in our faith even as the challenges purify us.
Please pray my sister and her family will reunite…..
Lord, bless my marriage with increased love and happiness. Bless us Lord with the fruit of the womb. Amen
I as the intercession of our Lady for my family and friends to respond to Her call and return to the Faith.
Please join me in prayer for reconciliation and love in my family and that resentment should be replaced by love and care for one another. I also pray for fruit of the womb for my daughter, conversion for my husband and that my son returns to God and settles down so he can hold down a job and get married.
I ask for the intercession of the blessed virgin Mary so that God may answer my prayers. I know that God is merciful.
I am so desperate! I have been praying and praying and praying for weeks that my husband gets the job he inter for over a week ago! I’ve been praying that some mo way that is owed to us comes! I’ve been praying that something I’ve started can build up big and help our finances! Our family is falling apart and we need some consistent financial help! We have been so financially stressed and burdened for years but it’s gotten worse the last few months and we are at a crisis point. This is affecting my marriage, my children and our family as a whole! I am begging and pleading for prayers! Thank you and God Bless you all!
That God bless me with healing and marriage.
Pray for all good Christian marriages- that God will Bless, strengthen & protect their Marriages and send good and faithful suitors for their children – So that they too will have a Happy Marriage- God is so Good & Faithful! Please Help your Church through this current crisis- Jesus, we trust in you!♥️GS
Dear Lord,
Please answer our prayers to receive the grant to remove
Brightwood Dam.
Thank you
For my dear friend and her husband who just suffered a miscarriage.
Pray for baby Luke that Jesus comfort him in heaven. Also for his parents and grandparents who miss him so much.
Pray for Martha and family as she lost her son recently and that Jerry be with our Lord Jesus.
Asking for prayers for my marriage.
Please pray for my daughter and her three young children . Her husband left her and the kids and they are suffering from broken hearts and great emotional turmoil. Our daughter is also experiencing intense nerve pain from a fall she had on the edge of a pool rescuing her child from drowning. I’m sure all the stress is adding to her pain and low self-esteem. Please pray she is healed and gets back on her feet again with a job she enjoys and pays the bills. Thank you for the prayers. Also, pray for my Mom who is losing her eyesight. God is always merciful!
Praying for all of our families, and for strong holy marriages.
Please pray for Jack and I as we daily work together to clearly hear God’s voice to help us with our son Jack. Please also pray for our son Joe and fiance Abby to open their hearts to God’s call to sacramental marriage and in their task as new and young parents.
Conversions for my family, the knot with my daughter untied, no more verbal abuse, all the sick, my marriage! Also for my Sister!
The God will bless my family with heartfelt reconciliation and peace.
I finally got a job and I pray that I will do well at it Ihabe a lot to learn help me to absorb it all and apply it to help people
I pray for good health for myself and my family.. l pray for healing for my brother with cancer.. God has been very faithful to him..l pray for continued healing. I pray for a good job for my daughter and my other children.. I pray for continued progress with my business.. l thank Almighty God for answering my prayers.. l pray for continued favors, so l can help my younger ones.. l thank God for everything..He continued to answer my prayers.. l pray for my husband to change his ways and support me.. I pray for long life for my mother.. l will give all the glory to God.
My Lord
I thank you sincerely for all the great and wonderful things you have done for me. I thank you for the Gift of Life, for shelter, for clothing, for the food and my good health, for my family and for my friends. My lord I know that many people out there do not have what I have. I thank You.
My lord as we start the Novena of Marriage and Family, I humbly come before you, a sinner and your child.
I pray that you bless me with a wonderful God fearing woman that will be my helper, my best friend, my wife for the rest of my life. I humbly ask you my lord that through this novena if it so be your will, grant me the strength, courage and means of raising my future family. Let them look at me through you as their pillar and strength.
I do not command you Lord, but I come to you humbled, grateful and thankful with hope and so much faith.
I pray and ask all this in the holy name mighty name of your dear beloved son and our savior Jesus Christ
Amen
Prayers for: James Catherine Rita Steve Jill
Karen Sarah Blaine Trenton Aurora Eric Alicia Brooklynn Gretchen Isaac Brett Catherine James Tyler Doug Joyce Jay Jean Hunter Robert Debbie Mary Jamie Nick Wyatt Reagan Payton Bud Cinda Zach Cody Sara Sam terry Jan Lois Dan and families
For our government religious and civil
All the poor souls in purgatory
Prayer and healing for reconciliation with family members that have left me feeling helpless.
Please pray that love and forgiveness will be restored and our relationships will be blessed and favored.
May God grant all petitions here today.
God bless everyone.
My husband I have been going thru disillusionment. Please pray for the sanctity of our sacrament. That we may be able to heal the wounds and hurts we caused one another and that God will be present first and foremost in our marriage. That God will also heal the hurts we bring to our children when we are unloving and disrespectful to one another and the damage it can cause to our children.
That I may not sort to the extreme to take my relatives to man’s court
For my children who have strayed from their Catholic faith. May they return to the open arms and mercy of our loving Father.
Pray for my marriage, it’s on the brink of divorce.
God bless
Quick sale of my home
Please pray that all my children and grandchildren’s marriages will be holy.
I pray that i will be delivered out from debts n also find my life partner soon.
Amen
Pray for my family that is going through a very hard time that dad cheated on us and there is no way of reconciliation because he has moved on
Pray for my grandson to get married in the Catholic Church.
Peace in my sons heart. For Peter to control his temper! Come Holy Spirit! Amen 🙏🏻
I pray for blessings upon my family and I that we will prosper in our daily lives no matter what might develop throughout the day. Bless me in my work life and assist me in getting through each day. Thanks for all blessings received this day.
Please pray that my family members return to God and that my children’s relationships with others is respectful and meaningful.
Please pray for my two daughter’s marriages, 5hat they may come to Christ, back to the Sacraments and follow the Lord and our Lady, that they might be married in the Church and that Dennis will become Catholic, as will Marty. Also, Angelia and Jackson’s marriage may be blessed in the Catholic Church and that they both may live to love Christ and serve Him together. Bless my marriage that Marty and I may continue to serve the Lord and will be open to what He wants for us as individuals and as a couple, re: work, ministry, where to live, etc.
Lord,
Thank you for the sacrament of marriage. I married my junior high school boyfriend and had a long and beautiful marriage. My husband of 35 years was called by the Lord last November and I miss him everyday. But, God gives me his unconditional love and mercy to go on.
Today I pray for all the marriages in the world. That GOD may Bless them and they may invite others to live the Sacrament of marriage.
I pray for my sons marriage and pray for my daughter that she may someday find someone to share her life with.
i pray specially for Annie and her husband. They are a true example of what a marriage should be like.
Thank you for being a Blessing in my life.
God Bless,
Gracie
I pray that my boyfriend and I be married if it is the Lord’s will.
Please pray for good health, that my kidneys are healthy, and that my bones stay strong, and good blood pressure.
May God bless all of you!!
I pray for my daughter and her late boyfriend to get together again and make a lasting relationship. They are one of the best matches I have seen for either of them and they both have jobs that pull them in different directions. I still believe by the almighty God’s hand this relationship can work. Thank you for all the prayers.
Please Mary intercead for my son who’s rebellious towards everyone help him. Make him more loving. And for my wife to stop drinking. In the name of Jesus Christ I trust in you.
I am asking for prayers as my marriage is not doing good. My husband is an alcoholic and very controlling. He makes me feel like everything is my fault or I have made statements. He has down our oldest child and told me that he can’t stand him.. Our daughter which is incarcerated at this time. We have 2 middle kids which are from his previous marriage has done wrong and in his eyes they are perfect. We have been married for 27 years and been together for 30 w. I pray daily with my rosary and my novena for us to have peace and make our marriage and love stronger until eternity
Wanda, please be assured that I will hold you up to the Lord in prayer. I, too, am married to a controlling alcoholic, so I can understand. I truly believe that our Lord does not want any of his children to suffer. God’s blessings….
I m praying for the restoration of my marriage. Mary mother of God, intercede for us to have a family like yours. I m praying for my children to forgive their father. Amen.
Pray for our marriage my husband and I are having problem in our relationship. I wanna save our marriage.
For my spouse to find work that will fulfill him and help eliminate our debt. For Pat and Sylvia as they work through some trying times in their marriage.
Dear Lord, I pray this novena for healing of my marriage & for healing in my grown kids. I pray for conversion of my husband & kids- that they would learn to seek God, fear Him & honor Him in order to walk His path for them. I pray for my husband to stop our pending divorce. I pray for healing of his hardened heart & that the strongholds of fear, unforgiveness, pride, & all generational curses be demolished in him so that we can grow as a Holy Family in seeking the Lord’s path for us. I pray for a miracle. I also pray for a job that would move me closer to family & better career opportunities. In Jesus name I humbly pray this novena for these intentions & for all marriages & families who need healing.
Pray for my family we are under so much stress. My oldest son is a drug addict. My husband has become a bitter cranky man who is difficult to live with. I pray for peace in my family. Amen
For healing for my family -of their spiritual, physical, mental, emotional & financial wounds.
Please pray that my son and his wife will conceive soon.
For my Children to be happy & healthy. Finish School. Anxiety and self doubt be gone.
please pray for couples to get the Sacrament of Matrimony if it is God’s Will to unite them. Especially, Wesley and Irving, Maria Margarita and Miguel. As well as for, Araceli so she can know what is the Will of God in her life. Also, for the family Zavala and Ramos Alvarado. God bless you!!!
For my family and the Vog family for peace in their lives
Please pray for my brother who is facing a challenging time that the issues at hand will be resolved quickly and positively. Please pray for my oldest who is suffering with mental health issues that the depression and anxiety leaves and she will have joy. Pray for my second daughter that she finds a direction in life that will glorify God. Pray for my third daughter that she find friends and joy in her new school. Pray for my son that he continues in his path. Pray for my mom and dad that they find peace. Pray I find the path That God has in store and that I find employment soon. Pray we remain strong in our faith during this time. Thank you for the prayers. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
I am praying for reconciliation with my husband in the hopes he loves me enough to come home, save our marriage and stop the divorce process.
Please pray that I may find my future Husband. As I’m growing older I worry I may never find him and I am so tired of being alone. Please pray that our lord bring the right man into my life to stay and Finally begin my future and the family I have longed for for so many years.
I pray for my son michael & patner ale, calab & sanien that their relationships be strengthened by you and be sealed with the blood of jesus.
Amen…
Employment …healing…
My intentions: 1) A job that I am good at and enjoy. 2) Full return to the faith for all my children and relations. 3) Family healing. 4) Healing in the Church.
Pray for my reconciliation with my husband…
I am not Catholic, but I want to participate nonetheless. I ask you to pray for H & E who are going through a very rough spot in their marriage, as well as for my marriage (G and U) – we are on the way of mending, but still have a ways to go.
Thank you, and God bless!
For the young fathers of our extended family, that they will have faith, courage, perseverance and commitment to be the spiritual leaders of their families, as God has called them to be.
Praying for Jessica & Robert, and LeeAnn & Chris.
Please pray for my children Christine and Michael, and their spouses to return to the church return to their faith. For a safe 3 year stay for our son and family in japan. For my husband’s spiritual and physical health. For my husband to make the right decision about our son and family. For the healing from cancer for our friend Steve Meissner.
And for the Lord’s Will in All things!
I Love you my dearest Mother, please pray for us!
Please pray that the mass seen on CT scan my brother had is benign; that I can pay off my debt quickly. Also for all marriages that they be strengthened in love and respect.
Please pray that they sell my work practice to a new surgeon, so we keep our jobs not go into financial problems, pray my son succeeds at school, without problems. Please pray my family comes closer, please pray for president trump so he continues to make us safe and make this a Christian nation protect him and all Americans from hate and evil. I need my job please pray that he sells his practice
I pray for full recovery and health restoration of my friend. Uzochukwu. That he may regain his full body function again. Amen!
Please pray for my daughter and her Fiancé who will be married this September 8th.
Thank you.
Oh my dearest Lord, please look with pity on me and my family; blessed me with the fruit of the womb.. blessed me with supernatural conception this September. Babies makes a home more happier, babies brings peace and laughter around. Lord, please do it for i and my husband, Amen. Mary my dearest Mother please pray for me. Amen