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In this little booklet are 30 of the most popular Catholic novena prayers-prayers to be recited nine days in succession in petition for some favor. They include prayers to St. Joseph, St. Raphael, St. Anne, St. Anthony, St. Jude, St. Gerard, St. Rita, St. Therese the Little Flower and the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Our Lord has said, "Ask and it shall be given you," and there is never a petition so great or so small that God cannot or will not grant it to one who fervently asks. These beloved, traditional novena prayers will aid many souls to ask for and receive both spiritual and temporal favors from the hand of the all-bountiful God

St. Anne (Ann, Anna)

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 07/21 Patron Of: Sterility, Against Poverty, Cabinet Makers, Canada, Carpenters, Grandmothers, Horseriders, Housekeepers, Mothers, Women In Labor Mother of Our Lady. Grandmother of Jesus Christ. Wife of Saint Joachim. Probably well off. Tradition says that Anne was quite elderly when Mary was born, and that she was their only child. The belief that Anne remained a virgin in the conception and birth of Mary was condemned by the Vatican in 1677. Believed to have given Mary to the service of the Temple when the girl was three years old. Devotion to her has been popular in the East from the very early days of the Church; widespread devotion in the West began in the 16th century, but many shrines have developed since. All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

St. Anthony of Padua

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 06/13 Patron Of: Poor, Sailors, Boatmen, Amputees, Barren Women, Butchers, Cemetery Workers, Faith In The Blessed Sacrament, Grave Diggers, American Indians, Lost Articles Anthony's wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan. Priest. When the remains of Saint Berard and his companions, the first Franciscan martyrs, were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor, and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to Portiuncula. Lived in a cave at San Paolo leaving only to attend Mass and sweep the nearby monastery. One day when a scheduled speaker failed to appear, the brothers pressed him into speaking. He impressed them so that he was thereafter constantly travelling, evangelizing, preaching, and teaching theology through Italy and France. A gifted speaker, he attracted crowds everywhere he went, speaking in multiple tongues; legend says that even the fish loved to listen. Wonder worker. One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are found everywhere. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

St. Joseph

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 03/19 Tridentine Calendar - 03/19 Patron Of: Belgium, Carpenters, Confectioners, Doubt, Dying, Engineers, Families, Happy Death, Hesitation, Married Couples, Peru, Pioneers, Universal Church, Workers Also known as     Joseph the Betrothed; Joseph the Worker; Foster father of the Lord  Feast Days are both March 19 and May 1 Profile     Descendant of the house of David. Layman. Carpenter. Tradesman. Earthly spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Foster and adoptive father of Jesus Christ. Visionary who was visited by angels. Noted for his willingness to immediately get up and do what God told him. Died     1st century, prior to the Passion of Our Lord, of natural causes Name Meaning     whom the Lord adds (Joseph) All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

St. Rita of Cascia

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 05/22 Patron Of: Against Loneliness, Parenthood, Victims of physical spouse abuse, Wounds, Abuse Victims, Bodily Ills, Desperate Causes, Desperation, Difficult Marriages, Forgotten Causes, Healing Of Wounds, Impossible Situations, Infertility, Loneliness, Lost Causes, Sick, Sickness, Sterility, Tumors, Widows Also known as     Margarita of Cascia; Rita La Abogada de Imposibles Memorial     22 May Profile     Daughter of Antonio and Amata Lotti; known as Peacemakers of Jesus, they had Rita late in life. From her early youth, Rita visited the Augustinian nuns at Cascia, and showed interest in a religious life. However, when she was twelve, her parents betrothed her to Paolo Mancini, an ill-tempered, abusive individual who worked as town watchman, and was dragged into the political disputes of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. Disappointed but obedient, Rita married him when she was 18, and was the mother of twin sons.     She put up with Paolo's abuses for eighteen years before he was ambushed and stabbed to death. Her sons swore vengeance on their father's killers, but through Rita's prayers and interventions, they forgave the offenders.     Upon the deaths of her sons, Rita again felt the call to religious life. However, some of the sisters at the Augustinian monastery were relatives of her husband's assassins, and she was denied entry for fear of causing dissension. Asking for the intervention of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, she managed to bring the warring factions together, not completely, but sufficiently that there was peace, and she was admitted to the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalen at age 36.     Rita lived 40 years in the convent, spending her time in prayer and charity, and working for peace in the region. She was devoted to the Passion, and in response to a prayer to suffer as Christ, she received a chronic head wound that appeared to have been caused by a crown of thorns, and which bled for 15 years.     Confined to her bed the last four years of her life, eating little more than the Eucharist, teaching and directing the younger sisters. Near the end she had a visitor from her home town who asked if she'd like anything; Rita's only request was a rose from her family's estate. The visitor went to the home, but it being January, knew there was no hope of finding a flower; there, sprouted on an otherwise bare bush, was a single rose blossom.     Among the other areas, Rita is well-known as a patron of desperate, seemingly impossible causes and situations. This is because she has been involved in so many stages of life - wife, mother, widow, and nun, she buried her family, helped bring peace to her city, saw her dreams denied and fulfilled - and never lost her faith in God, or her desire to be with Him. Born     1386 at Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy Died     22 May 1457 at the Augustinian convent at Cascia of tuberculosis Beatified     1 October 1627 by Pope Urban VIII Canonized     24 May 1900 Patronage     abuse victims; against loneliness; against sterility; bodily ills; desperate causes; difficult marriages; forgotten causes; impossible causes; infertility; lost causes; parenthood; sick people; sickness; sterility; victims of physical spouse abuse; widows; wounds All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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