The St. Monica Novena, 2026

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We’ll begin the St. Monica Novena on August 18th.

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  1. Omusecha nende family , finances , personal life , si glehood ajd miserable and feeling lost lije life has passed me by

  2. Dear Lord thank you for all the blessings. Please keep my family safe and healthy. Please be with Dana at today’s competition. Please keep her safe and her do her best. I also pray for abundance and opportunities for me and my husband so we can continue to provide for our family. Thank you Lord!

  3. Dearest Jesus, Blessed Mother and St. Monica, please heal and protect our wonderful son and daughter in law as they travel home today. Please help them with their anxiety.

    Please help my wonderful husband with continue to take better care of his diabetes.

    Please heal my physical health ailments, insomnia and anxiety.

    Thank you Jesus, Mary and St. Monica. ✝️🙏🌞❤️

  4. St. Monica prayers for protection against our Neighbours 🙏🏻& May we live in peace as a family 🙏🏻
    Prayers for my son Rowan He finds work soon 🙏🏻
    Prayers for my Aunt Norah 🙏🏻

  5. Lord please 🙏 hear my prayer 🙏 I pray 🙏 really hard that Marie texts me soon and says she’ll call me eventually and I pray 🙏 really hard that we make it to Casa Familia on Tuesday and I pray 🙏 really hard that I lose weight successfully by the end of October and we get another scale. Please answer those prayers. In Jesus name we pray 🙏 Amen

  6. Conversion for nephew, daughter & grandsons. Salvation for all my family. Healing strength that my daughter doesn’t have cancer relapse.
    Safety & protection from all evil for family members.
    Pray for us St. Monica thank you

  7. I would to dedicate this novena and pray for the wellbeing and the future of my children especially Michael who is s struggling at the moment.

  8. St Monica please pray for us. My dad his care and hospice. My husband – his health. My daughters – they would know our Lord deeply and evangelize for Him. My family – protection and peace. My marriage – forgiveness and restoration and reconciliation. My health.

  9. I have been pushing through so much on my own for the past several years. The nonstop challenges with my home, car, immigration, career, and finances have left me completely exhausted and overwhelmed. I feel like I have reached my limit and cannot continue carrying so many burdens at once. Please pray for me—for these burdens to be lifted, for protection from any curses, negative spiritual influences, or harmful intentions/rituals directed toward me, and for any obstacles or delays affecting my life to be removed. Please pray that this difficult period comes to an end and that I may finally experience peace, protection, financial stability, open doors, and ease in my life. Thank you.

  10. Heavenly father l come before you thanking you for the gift of life.
    Your mercies and grace bestowed upon me and my family. its my sincere gratitude for this far you have brought us Lord.
    May your holy will be done upon our lives .ln Jesus name l pray. Amen

  11. Please pray that my children be healed spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Please pray that my son get help he needs for any and all difficulties he has. Please pray that my son and his wife work together to support and provide for the needs of their children and that they be protected from harm. Please pray that my son return to the church and Our Lord and that his wife come to the Lord. Please pray that if my son and his wife have addiction problems that they get the help they need to be responsible and productive parents.

  12. St Monica please pray for us 4(5) regarding the possible family get together this upcoming week& next for concerns I have for us all to get along,safe travels,safe rides to the fair& traveling car& plane,to& from our destinations! Help my
    Kids father stop being rude& stop insulting his son and help my son do great at his new college/studies to become a CHAPLAIN!
    Help my son& his wife find a nice clean hotel to stay at that’s very (all smoke free)!
    Bless us all to get along! Heal us in all needed healings!
    Help me to be ok at this reunion; heal me& my daughter from vertigo etc!
    Heal& help my son; bring him Godly friends,mentors,fatherly figures! Same for my daughter!
    Bless my daughter with a loyal trustworthy new non addicted boyfriend/ mate( me too)!
    Help us 5 in all variables to respect& treat each other respectfully& kk d!
    Conversion for us all especially my mean kids father( alcoholic/ drug addicted narcissist!)!
    Heal my brain so I never have another brain bleed/anurism stroke, same for my kids!
    JESUS I TRUST IN YOU!❤️🙏

  13. Regarding my man friend Reginald Palmer from Jamaica whom I usually tell you people about, please pray that God should take control of his life because I have not seen him for four or five weeks and he has not been phoning me and when I phone him these days he does not answer and it goes on voice mail. 😀 and also we booked appointments to meet each other he did not turn up for any of those appointments although even though I have not been seeing him and he has not been phoning me and he didnot turn up for any of those appointments he still sends pictures and videos of prayer and music to me because my spirit wants him.

  14. Please pray for my daughter Rebecca who will have a baby girl, due in September. She is anxious about the delivery and about being a mother. Please pray for a safe and beautiful delivery of her daughter, for the health of the baby, that the baby brings her immense joy throughout her life (just like my Rebecca has brought me) and for Rebecca’s peace, with the ability to “go with the flow,” to relax, to stop worrying, and enjoy the most wonderful experience of her life! Please pray that Rebecca seeks Jesus for solace, comfort, courage, and peace. AMEN

  15. In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy spirit, I’m praying for my daughter to find the permanent job and my son to complete his degree this year that he is doing online and find job when he completed . And I’m also praying for my catering business to prosper, and also praying for good health and financial breakthrough in the mighty name of our Lord
    Jesus Christ I commit my prayer🙏

  16. Praying that all the Beck, Norrenberns and Hightowers who are fallen away from the faith return to the sacraments and consider the church. Also for healing for my Aunt Monica

  17. St.Monica , prayers for protection against my neighbours 🙏🏻& May with live in peace as a family 🙏🏻
    Prayers for my son Rowan may he find work soon🙏🏻
    Prayers for my dear aunt Norah who has senile dementia !🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  18. St.Monica , prayers for protection against my neighbours 🙏🏻& May with live in peace as a family 🙏🏻
    Prayers for my son Rowan may he find work soon🙏🏻
    Prayers for my dear aunt Norah who has senile dementia !🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  19. St.Monica , prayers for protection against my neighbours 🙏🏻& May with live in peace as a family 🙏🏻
    Prayers for my son Rowan may he find work soon🙏🏻
    Prayers for my dear aunt Norah who has senile dementia !🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  20. Please pray for my sweet daughter who had a stroke in 2017. She’s in memory care and getting assistance from hospice at age 54,
    Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
    We’re raising her 14 yr old daughter, who is doing great, with blessings from God.

  21. Please pray for my son, Cyril, that he be completely healed from his addiction to smoking, alcohol and carefree lifestyle, and that he may recover fully from withdrawal syndrome, and live a meaningful life.

  22. Lord thank you for everything you are doing in my life. I pray Lord for you to please teach me how to be grateful. Please Lord I pray for patience and help me to heal and help others in their healing process esp PB. Help me to give space. Lord, I ask if you can please help PB and I change the nature and direction of our relationship and help us to be build a stable foundation. Lord you know how I feel and where I am at. I pray for restoration and healing in both of us. I pray for niece to find a job that she really love soon. I pray God to please help me focus and pass my exam on my first try. I love you Lord. Amen.

  23. For God’s hand in my relationship with my boyfriend of 11 years. We are in a place that I don’t see a way out of and I feel completely helpless and hopeless. I pray that God has me and our relationship in His hands and He is working things out. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

  24. Lord please 🙏 hear my prayer 🙏 I pray 🙏 really hard that Marie texts me soon and says she’ll call me eventually and I also thank you for having the refrigerator fixed. I also pray 🙏 really hard that transportation comes on Monday for my ultrasound and I pray 🙏 really hard that next year we can either move to Casa Familia or South Miami. Please answer my prayers. In Jesus name we pray 🙏 Amen

  25. My grandson will be starting Catholic school in a week. Pray for him to have success spiritually, academically and socially.

  26. Praying today for my daughter Madeline who is preparing to give birth to her third child. The baby is healthy, at term and coming in for a landing. Praying for a safe landing! Praying for you as well! ~ Maureen

  27. Thank there and Praise thee Dear Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus🙏🏻🩷🙏🏻

    Prayer intentions:
    My brother in law David, may he rest in peace and God’s face shine upon him and for his family’s and friends that mourn for him🙏🏻🩷
    My son Greg and my granddaughters come back to church🙏🏻🩷
    My wife and family🙏🏻🩷
    My grandson alter serving🙏🏻🩷
    For all people I know and don’t know the need help physically. Mentally, and most of all spiritually🙏🩷
    All that have gone before us🙏🙏🩷🩷
    Myself 🙏🩷

    Prayers of Thanksgiving for blessings received🙏🩷 In Jesus name I pray🙏🩷 Praise be to God🙏🩷🙏

  28. Thank there and Praise thee Dear Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus🙏🏻🩷🙏🏻

    Prayer intentions:
    My brother in law David, may he rest in peace and God’s face shine upon him and for his family’s and friends that mourn for him🙏🏻🩷
    My son Greg and my granddaughters come back to church🙏🏻🩷
    My wife and family🙏🏻🩷
    My grandson alter serving🙏🏻🩷
    For all people I know and don’t know the need help physically. Mentally, and most of all spiritually🙏🩷
    All that have gone before us🙏🙏🩷🩷
    Myself 🙏🩷

    Prayers of Thanksgiving for blessings received🙏🩷 In Jesus name I pray🙏🩷 Praise be to God🙏🩷🙏

  29. St. Monica, please ask Sweet Jesus to intercede for my family, friends and I. Please Bless us 🙏 Spiritually, mentally, physically and emotionally.

    Please keep our daughter in law and son safe as they travel home tomorrow. Please help them with their anxiety.

    Please help my wonderful husband continue to take better care of his diabetes.

    Please heal my many physical health ailments, insomnia and anxiety.

    Thank you Jesus, Blessed Mother and St. Monica. ✝️🙏🌞❤️

  30. I pray for all my 11 grandchildren. I especially ask you if it is in your will lord to draw K to devote himself to You dear Lord.
    Keep them all safe and healthy anddraw them all to you, Lord. Teach them to return to you in all things. Bless them, Lord, please.

  31. I pray for peace in our world and for the pope to consecrate Russia to our Holy Mother. My patron Saint is st. Monica. I have 4 adult sons, all married and with children of their own and I thank the Lord for that beautiful blessing. My prayer request is simply that they will know the Lord personally and that they will become on fire practising Catholics and lead their children and their wives to our most holy and true church.

  32. Lord please 🙏 hear my prayer 🙏 please don’t lay Herb have to go to the hospital today or ever I pray 🙏 really hard that he doesn’t die soon and I pray 🙏 really hard that if we have to get another refrigerator we can get it with no problem. Please answer these prayers. In Jesus name we pray 🙏 Amen

  33. beloved, st. monica🌹
    please, intercede for my boys,
    may God may hear our prayers.
    my son’s, jimmy,angel,brian,
    andrew,all orphans & widows.

  34. beloved, st. monica🌹
    please, intercede for my boys,
    may God may hear our prayers.
    my son’s, jimmy,angel,brian,
    andrew,all orphans & widows.

  35. Praying o dear St Monica for a holy spouse like St Joseph for my self and friends, please intercede for us Amen

  36. Dearest St.Monica, Iam pleading to you for the healing of my grandson Alcuin ,of his cancer,Hodgkin Lymphoma.
    Dearest Mother of St. Augustine, please embrace my grandson Alcuin and Alvy ‘a speech to be restored, please prevent him from becoming autistic, please touch his vocal cord for him to speak ,to pray to God and to read the Holy Bible aloud.Amen
    Please, protect him at all times .Amen
    Please, St. Monica, bless, my son and his wife, entire family with
    excellent health.Amen
    Please, bless them abundantly with grace. love and harmonious, peace
    in their family.Amen

  37. Praying for my children and all those who have left the church to return to church and to the devotion to our Blessed mother Mary and her son Jesus.

  38. Lord God, only you know why some people hurt others. You once told me that my prayers matter. I pray for the conversion of Amir Muhammad, Eryn Yolac, Ann Simun, Halaine, Vince, Sara A, Rocky, Ronny, Joanna, Martha G, Alicia, Mona, Lorenzo, Lisa, Billy and Lucio. Bring change to their hearts and open their eyes to fully follow you and serve you through the blood of your Son Jesus.
    Amen.

  39. God please humble my children’s father, so l can be with my children

    God please grant me a federal job.

  40. Intention 1: For the healing and deliverance of the Fernandes family from all generational patterns of mental and emotional disturbance, and for God’s mercy, peace, protection, and restoration upon our family through Jesus Christ.

    Intention 2: For the grace and blessing of marriage to take place despite all the difficulties and obstacles. May the Lord guide our relationship, soften the hearts of our families, remove every hindrance, and grant us wisdom, strength, peace, and a blessed future together according to His will. Amen.

  41. Heavenly Father,
    Today, bring at the feet of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, Silvio.. For the conversion of his soul. I pray that Jesus finds him. while, Jesus is working on converting him, Please Protect my Child Lika, let all plans of destruction that this man has for her fail and be of no effect. Cover Lika, with the blood of Jesus. I place her under the covering of the Cloak of Mary and Joseph. Saint Monica, pray for us. Saint Augustin pray for us. In the mighty name of Jesus. Amen

  42. Prayers for a Daughter with Mental health issues/a single parent; her daughter 15 months old (our first grandchild). Prayer petition for daughter’s healing – an open heart to receive God in her life and some day for the grandchild to become baptised. Also, radiotherapy to be successful for son with cancer whose condition deemed to be manageable but not curable (chemotherapy incompatible with heart condition).

  43. Oh loving st. Monica may I heal emotionally spiritually mentally physically psychologically pray for me to have sound mind well mind

  44. Prayers for a Daughter with Mental health issues/a single parent; her daughter 15 months old (our first grandchild). Prayer petition for daughter’s healing – an open heart to receive God in her life and some day for the grandchild to become baptised. Radiotherapy success for son with cancer whose condition deemed to be manageable but not curable (post cardiac transplantee).

  45. Pray for the safety of my daughter while joining university so that she may alighn with God’s plans in her life and that she may acknowledge God and accept him fully.

  46. For help and healing for my young grandchildren suffering emotional wounds of an abusive father and a broken family. That they know the great care and comfort of the tender love of God that secures and heals and that His protection be upon them and wisdom for my daughter. And for my youngest daughter, that she hear and follow the Truth that dwells within her and that she heed the Holy Spirit’s guidance in seeking a spouse and in her faith walk.

  47. For my son to be completely and forever healed of all his addictions and for EK also. For my son to be many of God, honor integrity. He will be faithful, loving spouse to EK. A vigilant and attentive father. Success in his job. For my grandchildren to be baptized, my children to return to the church. For my marriage and husband to find some joy and happiness in our marriage. For all the intentions of those praying this novena. Thank you

  48. Dear St.Monica please heal us mentally,physically,emotionally,financially:me, my daughter,my son and his wife!
    Please come to our aid!
    Bless & protect my son and his new college studies to become a wonderful loving CHAPLAIN!
    Bless my daughter with a godly non addicted trustworthy husband. Bless me with a kind loyal male companion; we both need god fearing men!
    Bring my son& daughter godly loyal friends, loving mentors! Bless me with a great lab& technician to make me really great fitting and great looking dentures! Bless us 4 with a great family reunion that’s joyfilled,peaceful, sober and safe travels! Help my son& wife find a clean bed bug free hotel that’s smoke free totally! Intercede for us 4 to get along well and no more put downs,belittling etc!
    I ask for conversion for my kids mentally ill father who’s treats our son bad and insults him!
    Help us 4 to move far away from him! He’s unwell& unsafe! Pray my kids father grows a real conscience and grows up into a godly Christian man and return to his Catholic Church and heart change toward us!
    But help us move away from him and never look back!
    JESUS I GIVE YOU SLL MY PRAYERS ON MY HEART, my kids prayers too!
    We have so many prayers on our hearts to YOU JESUS, please help us!!!!!!!❤️

  49. I ask for prayers for my son, daughter, nieces and nephews, sister and former husband and their families who have fallen away from the Church. Also ask for prayers for my children and grandchildren, and all family members and friends who are not living according to their faith. I pray for those who have asked me for prayers and those who have no one to pray for them. Please Lord Jesus, through the intercession of St. Monica and our Blessed Mother, increase the longing in all of our hearts for You and give us the people, the circumstances, or whatever it takes to bring us all back and close to You so none of us will be lost. I also ask prayers for my marriage.

  50. Prayers for my family to come to Our Lord to come to know his Love, Help, Hop, Understanding, Care and Compassion. May they
    return with Love and Thanksgiving, choosing to Attend Mass Regularly. Strength their love and prayers to Our Lord by attending Church and praying with Love and Thanksgiving.

  51. For physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial healing. For doctors that will try holistic medicine and God’s grace. For God’s will to be done.

  52. Pray for avoidance of addiction to several serious sins.
    Pray for positive outcome to recent sales transaction.
    Pray for absolute end to Abortion, euthanasia, & Capital punishment.
    Pray for return of many fallen-away Catholics to the Catholic Church.
    Pray for the intentions of ALL participants of this Novena.

  53. Pray my son as he goes back to school. Pray for a successful year and continued mental and physical healing. Pray for family rifts to be mended

  54. Dear God,
    Thank you for your countless blessings upon my family.
    I’m praying for my daughter and her husband that there may be peace, love and understanding between them. Let them respect each other and trust in you for everything. In Jesus name I pray. Amen🙏

  55. Mighty God, You know my heart. You see my tears, please have mercy on me and tend Your ears to my humble supplication.
    Blessed St. Monica, please come to my aid. Intercede on my behalf and beg our Eternal Father to answer the meditation of my heart and the words of my mouth.
    Lord hear my humble prayers for my son Christopher regarding his job, finances, marriage, directions, protection and guidance. Please give him the wisdom to lead a devout life and bless him in all his endeavors.
    Please hear my cries for my brothers Paa Marfo and Michael who are battling with cancer, my brother Yaw Owusu who is battling heart disease, my family members and friends who are afflicted with various diseases.
    Lord I beg for Your healing mercies for everyone of them.
    Please heal all of them with the Precious Blood of Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ.
    Please Lord, You see how the devil is prowling around me to bring me down and cause me shame. Lord, please bring their evil intentions and plans to naught and let me throd on them. Hurl them back to Your burning inferno and show them You have power over the devil.
    All my hope, faith, belief and trust is in You. I have no other God to call upon but You.
    Please do not allow the devil, my enemy to laugh at me. Mighty God, please do not tarry. Please make haste and come to my aid.
    Lord my heart is so anxious and heavy. My soul is thirsting and panting for You. All day and night I call upon Your name
    Holy mother Mary, blessed St. Joseph, St. Peregrine, St. Michael the archangel, all ye Angels and Saints, please help me. Please pray for me. Please intercede on my behalf to our Mighty God.
    I thank You Jesus for hearing me and answering me a poor sinner.
    Glory and Praises be Thine.. Amen 🙏 and Amen 🙏

  56. Return to faith and a state of grace for my son Robert, my daughter Angelique and all my extended family including my brother, sister and God children.

  57. Please pray for me to pray again. I still love God so much but my daily prayer life has devolved to almost nothing. I am so “busy” keeping up with life but that is no excuse because I find time to do other things. I could find time to pray but something inside me is blocking me. I don’t know what it is. I keep praying for God to help me pray again like I used to. Please pray for me.

    I also need prayers for my son and his wife to return to church. They had their baby baptized but don’t go to Mass.

  58. Please include my son, Alessandro. He has a business that he has worked so hard for but may not be doing as well. He wants to sell it. He also wants to devote more time to his family now that he has an almost one year old baby girl. My prayer is that St. Monica intercede before our Lord, Blessed Mother, St. Joseph and our Father to give my son the best options in accordance to His Divine Will!

  59. Dear Father by the intercession of St Monica,
    I implore you for our daughter, her husband and her two teenage children. In their name, I surrender to You their suffering and the incredible mess their family is going through right now. Many years of dysfunction and hurts are bringing this chaos to a separation after 30 years. Dear God through the intercession of St Monica and the Holy Family be their Guiding Light and give them the necessary Healing in their heart, mind, heart and body. You only can bring in their lives this MIRACLE OF LOVE day in, day out in the WAY YOU KNOW BEST. Thy Will be done…this prayer also for all the families in the same situation. In the Name of your Beloved Son our Savior Unconditional Love. With all my/our Heart and Gratitude. Amen ♥♥♥ May be I already made this demand, I greatly need to make it again. Peace.

  60. Dear Father by the intercession of St Monica,
    I implore you for our daughter, her husband and her two teenage children. In their name, I surrender to You their suffering and the incredible mess their family is going through right now. Many years of dysfunction and hurts are bringing this chaos to a separation after 30 years. Dear God through the intercession of St Monica and the Holy Family be their Guiding Light and give them the necessary Healing in their heart, mind, heart and body. You only can bring in their lives this MIRACLE OF LOVE day in, day out in the WAY YOU KNOW BEST. Thy Will be done…this prayer also for all the families in the same situation. In the Name of your Beloved Son our Savior Unconditional Love. With all my/our Heart and Gratitude. Amen ♥♥♥

  61. I am constantly praying for my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and my brother and sisters to return to the faith.

  62. Dear St. Monica, intercede for my daughter and son-in-law to reconcile and be respectful, forgiving and tender with each other during this difficult time.

  63. For the health of myself and my family and grandson Matthew also my son and grandson who is visiting in Japan will have a safe trip home

  64. For the health of myself and my family and grandson Matthew also my son and grandson who is visiting in Japan will have a safe trip home

  65. For the health of myself and my family and grandson Matthew also my son and grandson who is visiting in Japan will have a safe trip home

  66. Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I ask you all to pray for my sister ARPG and her husband JMG for their recovery in addiction and alcoholism so they may be alive & healthy parents to my innocent niece. Please help my sister to get the reality check she needs. That she will choose her life, walk with God, and blessed responsibility of being a mother over wine and other substances as well as her husband. Thank you. I am praying for all of your requests as well. St. Monica pray for us! St. Augustine pray for us! St. Ambrose Pray for us! God Bless!

  67. Pray for Avery my granddaughter freedom from addiction help her to be a good mother. She realizes she needs to sell her house and move on for more peace and more for her daughter.

  68. For my spouse to be released from the grip of addiction. Healing for my Aunt, a family friend and my father in law from cancer.

  69. Dear St. Monica, please ask Jesus to intercede for our wonderful son with his anxiety and marital struggles. Please help his wife take care of her severe anxiety and become less selfish.

    Please help our friend who is recovering from surgery.

    Please help my sweet brother who is struggling with dementia.

    Please help my wonderful husband continue to take better care of his diabetes.

    Please heal my many physical health ailments, insomnia and anxiety.

    Thank you Jesus, Blessed Mother and St. Monica. ✝️🙏❤️🌞