Day 1 – The St. Monica Novena

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  1. Dear St Monica please hear my prayers, for my 4 children- Arthur, Daniel, Stephen, and Madeline, especially Stephen that he give up the alcohol and drugs. Pray to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that He send the Holy Spirit to enter their hearts and minds so that my children will return to the faith. Please St. Monica pray for them to be guided back to the Lord. In Jesus’ Glorious name, Amen!

  2. hi st monice help me pray for my patner to regain his senses and love me and my children and to stop drinking alcohol and lust for women,i am praying so that we regain back our love ,laugh together share ideas and love our children together.may the almighty father in heaven intervene and help my husband.God hear my prayers

  3. I pray for my husband who moved from our home to think about our marriage and now he wants a separation. May the Holy spirit guide him and bring him back to the church and to his family. I also pray for my brothers that they may be freed from the bondage of alcoholism, joblessness, delayed marriages and poverty.

  4. Dear St.Monica the way you prayed for your son Augustine to come out lust sin may you also whisper my prayers to the Lord to grant me a God fearing life partner, financial breakthrough and to get a job

  5. Dear st. Monica, my nephew/ godchild has been staying with me 3 weeks now after going for alcohol detox. He was good the first 2 weeks, now he has been sneaking in vodka and getting falling down drunk. He promised today it would be the last time, now I heard he just fell off the bed and is plastered. I thought he could stay here until he gets accepted in a rehab facility but I’m taking him back to his apartment tomorrow where I know he’ll really relapse but I can’t help me anymore. He actually went to confession and communion yesterday so I thought he would be stronger but he’s been sneaking in vodka now the last 3 days. I don’t feel he is ready for rehab because he isn’t fully pursuing an inpatient facility. I just pray he has the strength to do so. I’m promising to stop enabling him and told him today if this continues I will no longer help him like I have. I love him dearly but I can no longer watch him destroy himself. I pray he is guided by God to have the faith and courage to beat this horrible addiction.

  6. That my son Pooky will be free from all drugs and alcohol and return to God, Church and family and that my pathology report, will be benign.

  7. Placing my children in Gods hands…. Andre, Francesca, Bradley, Suzanne, Emma, Tim, Damien, Amanda, Jared, Joselyn.

  8. Thank you St Monica for hearing our prayers as together as couple, we pray each an everyday for our four children- Christopher, Matthew, Theresa, and Timothy. Please guide them back to the Lord.

  9. For me to meet the bone of my bone by the end of this month .
    For success in my upcoming exams & for me to stop feeling unloved & unwanted.

  10. I pray for my husband who has gone on a trip to discern about our marriage. May the Holy Spirit inspire him and soften his heart to return to church and his family. Also pray for our children for faith and believe in God again.

  11. I pray for this upcoming school year and that I may face each obstacle and respond to it with God’s will. I pray also for discernment for my vocation. (whether is be singlehood or married life)

  12. My nephew who is on drugs and alcohol iam asking for a renewal in his life and my daughter to return to her faith.I am also thanking God for giving my daughter a wonderful job.

  13. My mothers Novena today is my first day be with me I filling two application for a job please open the door for me please make them call. Thank you for

  14. Pray St Monica for my partner Eric conversion and change of heart.i beg you.praying for my situation with him at the moment. Pray St Monica for oisin that he will get offered a course placement on Mondaythat will suit I beg you.praying for world peace peace in our hearts mind and country I live in ireland. Praying for all those praying this novena.in jesus we trust.

  15. Dear St. Monica,
    Please pray for my son, Michael, who like your son, return to God and the Catholic Church. Pray he seeks God’s will in his life. Please pray his faith in our Lord be restored.

  16. Need of prayer for my husband TG he left the church many years ago and I have prayed for his return to come back home(church). I know that he needs to . He has gone through a lot because of his bladder cancer and also our financial status. I still going to church but along for him at my side. I pray for him to comeback home (church) . I am hoping that praying together that I will get my answer full filled. Please also pray for my financial needs. Intercede for me St. Monica.
    Amen

  17. Please provide devine protection and protection for Rylee and Rob. Pray that Rob will win in court for full custody to keep her in loving arms and safe. Thank you all for prayers. Thank you God for everything. Give our family peace and blessings and rest. We lift up our worries and fears to you.

  18. St Monica in the name of the father son and holy spirit, please keep me in your prayers that Myself and John will reconcile and reunite back in love , please have John called and talked with Precious amen

  19. For my son and the son’s of my 2 friends, all who were adopted from orphanages and suffer from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum and Attachment issues. They are so easily lured into the evils of the world, especially pot and sex. Please pray that God would bring people into their lives who would bring them back to Jesus, the only one who can heal their very deep wounds of abandonment, trauma and neglect in their early months and years of life. Give their mother’s hope as these young men are very hard on their loving mothers. Pray for a healing that only God can give as the damage done to them in their early lives deeply affects their ability to trust both their mother’s and God. Please St. Monica, pray for our sons that they may return to God and give us, their mothers the strength, wisdom and perseverance to make the right choices with regard to their health and safety no matter how painful it is for us.
    St. Monica, we beg you for your prayers.
    Amen

  20. For my husband’s brother and his fiancé to return to the church. They are getting married outside of the church in less than a month.

  21. I place the saving of my marriage in your hands Lord. Please bring about reconciliation. I ask your intercession St. Monica for this intention.
    Amen

  22. We pray for the conversation and return of our children to the Church through our example and the proclamation of the truth by those that the Lord will send their way.

    We pray especially for our son Augustine and his purity, maturity, and security, and that he may be focused on his studies and overcome all distractions sent his way by the grace of God. May he accept and act on the gifts of the Spirit to overcome the trials that you send to strengthen him. And may he discovered, know, and act on the vocation you have called him.

  23. St. Monica, please hear my concerns regarding my dear sister and her relationship with her family. For many years I stood by and watched some strange events in her marriage. Not realizing how much my sister was in an emotional abused relationship.. Her children especially her daughters treat my sister pretty much the same manner as their father. Her son has relationship problems & seems unable to find a girlfriend. It mostly emotional abuse, and now my sister makes excuses about her abuser. It’s seems that after 33 years of marriage and her husband gives my sister the silent treatment which has become the norm. I’m witnessing this abuse while visiting. Today is the 5th day I’m also being emotionally abused while visiting my sister with the silent treatment. I pray especially for my sister to seek help for this problem. I love both my sister & her husband very much. On a good day her husband is extremely kind and caring. On a bad day, he acts very antisocial. I pray now for a miracle for both MA & JJ. I leave this relationship in God’s hands through the intercessions of you , St. Monica who has preserved for many years. Amen

  24. Please free G and M from alcoholism, please change my younger brother’s attitude, selfishness and arrogance and grant him a new heart in Jesus Christ and please bring him back to receiving Holy Communion and to be obedient.
    Please grant D and I a fresh and new love for each other and a new beginning, you have seen my struggles, please change his hard heart, selfishness, drinking and grant him a new heart in Jesus Christ. Please bring him back to church, show me how I can love him…please help me.

  25. I place my financial needs into your hands Lord. Please St Monica intercede for my son so he would finish medical school.

  26. For the return of faith to my son and daughter and their spouses to raise their children, my grand children with faith as they were and to know the love of God’s grace. Please return my children to me and allow me to love my grand children as I loved my children. Please grant me the grace to accept my exclusion from their lives now. It is only my love for you that I am able to surrender my broken heart to your divine plan and accept this sorrow now in hopes my children shall return to me and your church as I have to you and my Catholic faith. Amen

  27. I pray for my family that they all come back to the Lord. I pray also for my son that he gets a new kidney, from me…

  28. For my husband’s conversion, for my oldest son to return to the Church, for my other 2 sons’ biopsies to have normal results, and for a new job and home where we can continue to grow in faith.

  29. St. Monica,

    I pray for my husband’s conversion may he seek the goodness of God. May his mind and heart be enlightened with your touch and intercession.

    Amen