Companion 2012
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Italy, feast day April 28th
“Love is the most beautiful sentiment the Lord has put into the soul of men and women”
Pray for the woman who wants to abort and the couples who wants to have a baby.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Italy, feast day July 4th
“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.”
Pray for the young apostles and apostles
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Italy, feast day July 4th
“The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.”
Pray for the youth who want to commit suicide
Saint Catherine of Sienna
Italy, feast day April 29th
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire. Let the truth be your delight…proclaim it…but with a certain congeniality”
Pray for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the Church
Blessed Cardinal Newman
England, feast day October 9th
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
Pray for the unity between the Churches
Blessed Cardinal Newman
England, feast day October 9th
“To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.”
Pray for the renewal of prayer with the heart
Blessed Mother Teresa
Feast day September 5th
“Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray.”
Pray for the broken families
Blessed Mother Teresa
Feast day September 5th
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Pray for charity and love in your parish
Blessed Pope John Paul II
Feast day Oct. 22
“Do not be afraid”
Pray for the missionaries throughout the world
Saint Maria Goretti
Feast day July 6th
“Blessed are the pure of heart, they shall see God”
Pray for the purity of the youth
Saint Jeanne Jugan
Feast day August 30th
In our troubles, we must always say, “Blessed be God, thank you my God, or glory to God!”
Pray for those who don’t accept their sickness
Saint Jeanne Jugan
Feast day July 6th
“It is so beautiful to be poor, to have nothing, to depend on God for everything”
Pray for the poor and to receive the grace of spiritual poorness
Blessed Chiara Luce Badano
Italy Feast day October 7th
I have nothing left, but I still have my heart, and with that I can always love.
Pray for the youth who are drug addict
Blessed Chiara Luce Badano
Italy Feast day October 7th
“If this is what you want, so do I.
Pray for those who are dying with cancer.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Italy Feast day October 4th
“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned”.
Pray for reconciliation in the families.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Italy Feast day October 4th
“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words”.
Pray for the priest
Blessed Edith Stein
Italy Feast day August 9th
“My longing for truth was a single prayer”.
Pray for those who didn’t experienced the love of God
Saint Philip Neri
Italy Feast day May 26th
“Give me ten truly detached men, and I will convert the world with them”.
Pray for a new Pentecost in the world
Saint Philip Neri
Italy Feast day May 26th
‘Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary, because there is no better means of obtaining God’s graces than through His most holy mother.’
Pray for a real devotion to Mary in your diocese
Saint Padre Pio
Italy Feast day September 23th
“Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.”
Pray for an increasing of contemplative prayer in your parish
Saint Angela Merici, mystic, religious founder
January 27th
“Mothers of children, even if they have a thousand, carry each and every one fixed in their hearts, and because of the strength of their love they do not forget any of them. In fact, it seems that the more children they have the more their love and care for each one is increased.”
Pray for mothers.
Saint Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
July 26th
“In the moment when the light of the angel had enveloped Anna in grace, I saw a radiance under her heart and recognized in her the chosen Mother, the illuminated vessel of the grace that was at hand. What I saw in her I can only describe by saying that I recognized in her the cradle and tabernacle of the holy child she was to conceive and preserve; a mother blessed indeed. I saw that by God’s grace Anna was able to bear fruit.”
Pray for the holiness of all mothers.
Saint Anthony of Egypt, 4th century desert monk
January 17th
“Now therefore, beloved, let this word be manifest among you, that the bounty of the Father spared not his Only-‐ begotten for our sakes, but delivered him up for the salvation of us all.”
Pray for the purification of the world from evil.
Saint Anthony of Padua
June 13th
“We spread the love of God by loving as he loves.”
Pray for non-believers.
Archangel Gabriel
September 29th
“The one who looked like a man touched me again and strengthened me, saying, ‘Fear not, beloved, you are safe; take courage and be strong.’ When he spoke to me, I grew strong and said, ‘Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me.'” (Daniel’s vision of the Archangel Gabriel) Daniel 10:18-‐19 Pray that Divine love will conquer the world.
Saint Michael the Archangel
September 29th
“Satan is strong and that is why I am seeking your prayers for those who are under his influence, so that they may be saved.” (Mary in Medjugorje)
Pray that those who are under the influence of Satan may be saved
Archangel Raphael
September 29th
“I was sent to put you to the test. At the same time, however, God commissioned me to heal you and your daughter-‐in-‐ law Sarah. I am Raphael, one of the seven angels who enter and serve before the Glory of the Lord…No need to fear; you are safe. Thank God now and forever. As for me, when I came to you it was not out of any favor on my part, but because it was God’s will. So continue to thank him every day; praise him with song.” (Tobit 12:14-‐18)
Pray for the healing of families
St Augustine of Hippo, bishop, Doctor of the Church
August 28th
You have forgiven me my past sins and drawn a veil over them, and in this way You have given me happiness in yourself, changing my life by faith and Your sacrament. When others read of those past sins of mine their hearts are stirred so that they no longer lie listless. Instead their hearts are roused by the love of Your mercy and the joy of Your grace.
Pray for the conversion of sinners
Newborn Baby Jesus
“Today when Jesus is born and by His birth brings immeasurable joy, love and peace, I call you, in a special way to say your ‘yes’ to Jesus. Open your hearts so that Jesus enters into them, comes to dwell in them and starts to work through you. Only in this way will you be able to comprehend the true beauty of God’s love, joy and peace.” (Message thru Jacov 2000)
Let the baby Jesus be your guide.
St. Benedict, abbot and patriarch of western monks
July 11th
“See how the Lord in His love shows us the way of life. Clothed then with faith and the performance of good works, let us set out on this way, with the Gospel for our guide, that we may deserve to see him who has called us to his kingdom (1 Thes 2:23)” from the Rule of Saint Benedict
Pray for the coming of the Kingdom of God.
St Benedict Joseph Labre, pilgrim recluse
April 16th
“These things offend God and they are not good for you either. Try to work if you can. If you can’t work, be good to the people who care for you.”
Pray for the homeless
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
April 16th
“My weapons are prayer and sacrifice, to my dying breath. At death the weapon of sacrifice will fall away, but that of prayer will follow me to heaven.”
Offer sacrifices to Mary for her intentions
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, abbot, Doctor of the Church
(celebrated on 20 August)
“When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Pray for those who are called and have not yet said “yes.”
Saint Catherine of Genoa, mystic, wife, hospital director
(celebrated September 15th)
“Dear children, I ask you to pray every day for the souls in Purgatory. In this way you too will acquire intercessors who will be able to help you in life” (message of Mary in Medjugorje)
Pray for the souls in purgatory.
Saint Catherine Labouré
(celebrated November 28th)
“My child, the Cross will be despised, thrown on the ground, and the Lord’s side will be opened again” (Mary to St. Catherine)
Pray for the enemies of the Church
Saint Catherine of Siena (Virgin and Doctor of the Church)
(celebrated April 29th)
“Eternal Trinity, Godhead, mystery deep as the sea, you could give me no greater gift than the gift of yourself.”
Pray for holy women in all states of life.
Saint Charbel, hermit in Lebanon
(celebrated on 24 December)
” Through Mary we are born, not to this world, but to God.”
Pray for the Lebanon.
Blessed Charles de Foucault (France)
“My Father, I abandon myself to you. Do with me what you will.”
Pray for peace in the Holy land.
Child Jesus, King of Love
December 25th
“Whoever receives one such child in my Name, receives me.” (Matthew 18:5) Our Lady in Medjugorje has told us to let the Little Child, Jesus, lead us in our lives and he will show us the way to holiness.
Pray for the reign of the Child Jesus in all hearts.
St Clare of Assisi
(celebrated August 11th)
“Look daily into that spotless mirror, dear queen and spouse of Christ, and see your face in it. See
how you are to adorn yourself, within and without, in all the blossoms of virtue, as befits a chaste daughter and spouse of that greatest of kings. In that mirror poverty, humility, and love beyond all telling shine radiantly.”
Pray for consecrated virgins to grow ardently in love for Jesus
Saint Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney, Cure of Ars
(celebrated on 4 August)
“My children, we cannot comprehend the power of a soul over the Good Lord: it can obtain whatever it wants.”
Pray for priests.
Saint Dominic
(celebrated on 8 August)
“My God, what will become of sinners? My God, have mercy on sinners!”
Intercede for hardened hearts.
Saint Dominic Savio
(celebrated on 9 March)
“Pray without ceasing and ask the Holy Spirit to inspire you always. In all that you ask, in all that you do, seek only the will of God.”
(Mary in Medjugorje -‐ 13 October 1984)
Pray for the young.
Edith Stein, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
(celebrated August 9th)
“I joyfully accept the death God has appointed for me, in perfect submission to his most holy will. May the Lord accept my life and death for the honor and glory of his name, for the needs of his holy Church…for the Jewish people, that the Lord may be received by his own and his kingdom come in glory…”
Pray for philosophers and theologians.
Saint Elizabeth (mother of John the Baptist)
(celebrated November 5th)
“When your greeting sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy!”
Pray for all mothers, that they will welcome new life, and receive the Holy Spirit as Elizabeth did.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
(celebrated January 4th)
“”I offer myself to your Father by you, to yourself by your Father and you to the Holy Spirit who is the mutual love of both.”
Pray for an increase in women religious.
Georgette Faniel, mystic from Quebec
July 2nd
“The Eternal Father’s love for us exceeds the love He has for His Son, because We need purification while His Son gave His life to purify us. In the inmost part of His heart as a Father, He loves us more in spite of our weaknesses and our sins.”
Pray for the Church’s formal recognition of Medjugorje
Saint Maria Faustina
(celebrated October 5th)
“I know God is in my heart. With Him I go to work, with Him I go to recreation, with Him I suffer, with Him I rejoice; I live in Him and He in me. I am never alone, because He is my constant companion. He is present to me at every moment. Our intimacy is very close, through a union of blood and flesh.”
Pray for deeper intimacy with God.
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
(celebrated December 22nd)
“We can do nothing of ourselves, for we are poor and miserable, but if we have faith and trust in him who comforts us, then we can do all things.”
Pray for an increase in women religious.
Saint Francis de Sales
(celebrated January 24th)
“In all your affairs rely wholly on Divine Providence, through which alone you must look for success. Labor quietly on your part to co-‐operate with its designs. Amidst those ordinary affairs and occupations that require most so earnest an attention, you should look more on God than on them.
Pray for writers, journalists and editors of all kinds
Saint Francis of Assisi
(celebrated October 4th)
“All Highest, Glorious God, cast Your light into the darkness of my heart. Grant me right faith, firm hope, perfect charity, and profound humility; with wisdom and perception, O Lord, that I may do what it truly Your holy will.”
Pray for the gift of faith.
Saint Francis Xavier
(celebrated on 3 December)
” We must be wary of our own strength and trust God immensely. Let us never show discouragement and never doubt victory!”
Pray for missionaries.
Blessed Francisco of Fatima
“I’m thinking of God who is so sad because of so many sins! It hurts me so much that He’s sad. I offer Him all the sacrifices I can. If only I could console Him.”
Pray for children.
Saint Helen, empress, mother
(August 18th)
“O innocent Jesus, your Cross is my Cross”
Pray for children who are mistreated.
The Holy Family of Nazareth
“Don’t be afraid to take Mary, your wife, home, for that which is conceived in her comes from the Holy Spirit.”
Pray for blessed, holy, and happy families.
The Holy Guardian Angels
(celebrated on 2 October)
“Whoever prays does not fear the future and whoever fasts does not fear evil.” (Mary in Medjugorje -‐ 25 Jan. 2001)
Help someone to meet and get to know their guardian angel.
The Holy Innocents
(celebrated December 28th)
Theirs was a wordless profession of faith in Jesus. They died because they bore the likeness of the Christ Child, and are crowned with life eternal.
Pray for an end to abortion
Holy Souls in Purgatory
(celebrated November 2nd)
“For if he had not expected the fallen to rise again it would gave been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead, whereas if he had in view the splendid recompense reserved for those who make a pious end, the thought was holy and devout. This was why he had this atonement sacrifice offered for the dead, so that they might be released from their sin.” 2 Maccabees 12:44-‐45
Pray for the Souls in Purgatory and allow them to help you pray for a deeper communion between the saints in heaven, in purgatory and on earth.
Blessed Jacinta of Fatima
(celebrated July 26th)
“Tell everyone that God gives us grace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She is the one we should ask.”
Pray for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
St Jerome
(celebrated September 30th)
“Read the divine scriptures constantly; never, indeed, let the sacred volume be out of your hand. Learn what you have to teach. Hold fast the faithful word you have been taught so that you may be able by sound doctrine to give instruction and confute those who contradict it.”
Pray for a deep love of God‚s Word and pray for bible scholars
Saints Joachim and Ann
(celebrated July 26th)
“It is important that the ‘communion of persons’ in the family should become a preparation for the ‘communion of saints.’ This is why the Church both believes and proclaims the love which ‘endures all things’ (1Cor13:7); Everyone is called to love, including spouses and families. In the Church everyone is called equally to perfect holiness.” -JPII, Letter to Families
Pray for healing within families.
Saint Joan of Arc
(celebrated on May 30)
” You know that I love you, that I burn with love for you. That is why, dear children, decide to love God; burn with love!”
(Mary in Medjugorje -‐ 25 June 1988)
Pray for France and for the conversion of freemasons.
Saint Jeanne of Chantal
(celebrated on 12 December)
“May this Sweet Savior live and reign in our hearts for ever amid the desolation and darkness. He is our light, he leads us; let us fear nothing, he will never let us down.”
Pray for mothers.
Blessed Pope John XXIII
Feast day October 11th
‘May this sacrifice of praise, which I offer to Your divine majesty for the success of the 2nd Ecumenical Vatican Council, be acceptable to You, Lord God, and grant that what we, together with our Pope John, implore of You we may effectively obtain. Amen.’
Pray that the true spirit of Vatican II continues to bear fruit in the Church.
Saint John the Baptist
(celebrated June 24th and August 29th)
“He must increase and I must decrease” (John 3:30)
Pray for the prophets of our day
Saint John Bosco
(celebrated on 31 January)
“From now on, I no longer want to place any limit on my trust in God.” (after an apparition of Saint Dominic Savio)
Pray for teachers.
Saint John of the Cross
(celebrated December 14th)
“Would that men might come at last to see that is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that
the soul finds there its consolation and desire.”
Pray for those who suffer, that they unite with Jesus and find joy.
Saint John the Evangelist
(celebrated December 27th)
“O open heart of Jesus, devoured with such a pure love, into your wound I place my wounds and my lack of love” (Ephraim)
Pray for those wounded by life that they might be healed.
Saint Joseph, foster father of Jesus
March 19th and May 1st
“The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph and said: Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; she will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.”
Pray for the gift of blessed fatherhood for the world’s families.
Saint Juan Diego
December 9th
“I am only a poor man. I am not worthy of being there where you send me. Pardon me, my Queen, I do not want to make your noble heart sad, I do not want to fall into your displeasure.” After much persuasion he agreed to go to the Bishop. He left her, calling her “my Dear One, my Lady..”
Pray for unity among the nations
Saint Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort
(celebrated on 28 April)
“The more the Holy Spirit finds Mary in a soul, the more active and powerful He becomes to bring forth Jesus Christ in that soul, and that soul in Jesus Christ.”
Pray for Our Lady’s intentions.
St Luke the Evangelist
(celebrated October 18th)
‘After carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, I have decided to write an ordered account for you, so that you may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received.’ Luke 1:3-‐4
Pray for those who are questioning their faith in the Church.
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
(celebrated on 16 October)
“Make your home in the adorable Heart of Jesus Christ, take your little worries and disappointments, and all will find peace there. You will find the remedy for your ills, the strength for your weaknesses and shelter in all your needs.”
Pray for those crushed by trials
Saint Martin de Porres
(celebrated November 3rd)
“He excused the faults of others and pardoned even the most bitter injuries done to him. He sought to bring sinners back to a good life, was most kind to the sick, provided the poor with food, clothing, and medicine, and did all he could for those who were regarded in his day almost as slaves” Bl John XXIII
Pray for greater humility, charity and generosity in God’s service
Saint Mary of Magdala
(celebrated July 22nd)
“And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment” (Luke 7:37ff.)
Pray that those lost in sin will come to know the great love of Jesus.
St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr
(celebrated July 6th)
“Rejoice in the measure that you share Christ’s sufferings. When His glory is revealed, you will rejoice exultantly. Happy are you when you are insulted for the sake of Christ, for then God’s Spirit in its glory has come to rest on you.”
Pray for purity of heart
Saint Martha of Bethany
(celebrated July 29th)
“Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You brother will rise.’ Martha said to him, ‘I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
Pray for the despairing.
Marthe Robin, France
(celebrated on 6 February)
” Jesus, I give you thanks, because you take us as we are and you offer us to the Father as You are.”
Pray for priestly vocations.
Saint Matthew, apostle
(celebrated September 21st)
“The Pharisees and the scribes of their party said to Jesus’ disciples, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and non-‐observers of the law?’ Jesus said to them, ‘The healthy do not need a doctor; sick people do. I have not come to invite the self-‐righteous to a change of heart, but sinners.” Pray for those who do not know the love of Jesus.
Saint Maximilian Kolbe (Poland)
(celebrated August 14th)
“What is essential is not to accomplish a great deal according to our own lights, but to be in the hands of the Immaculate Virgin.”
Pray that Mary Immaculate may reign in our hearts.
St. Monica (mother of St. Augustine)
(celebrated August 27th)
“If I am your child, O my God, it is because you gave me such a mother!” St. Augustine. Monica did not give up but prayed for Augustine for many years. Her prayers won for the church one of its greatest Doctors.
Pray for Holy Mothers.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(beatified on October 19, 2003)
“The more we are united with God, the more eager we will be to love and serve the poor with our whole heart.”
Pray to serve the poor with joy.
Saint Dismas, the good thief
“Lord, Remember me when you come into Your Kingdom”
Pray for the conversion of criminals
Saint Nicodemus
(celebrated August 3rd)
“I have come for the sake of the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Pray for the enlightenment of Israel.
Our Lady of Fatima
(celebrated May 13th)
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those in most need of thy mercy.”
Pray for greater devotion to the Rosary among Christians.
Our Lady of Lourdes
(celebrated February 11th)
“It is only though prayer that you will become my apostles of peace in this restless world.” (Our Lady in Medjugorje, Nov 25, 1999)
Pray for the apostles of Our Lady
Our Lady of Guadalupe
(celebrated December 12th)
“Am I not here who am your Mother? Is there anything else that you need?”
Pray for greater dependence on the maternal love of Mary
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
(celebrated July 16th)
“Those who wish to live truly devoted to Our Lady of Mount Carmel must follow Mary into the depths of the interior life…Mary’s soul is a real ‘garden’ of virtues, an oasis of silence and peace, where justice and equity reign; an oasis of security completely enveloped in the shadow of God, and filled with God. Every interior soul, even if living amid the tumult of the world, must strive to reach this peace, this interior silence, which alone makes continual contact with God possible.”
Pray for peace and interior silence in the hearts of bishops and priests.
Our Lady, Queen of Peace
June 25th
“I need you. You are important to me.” (message from Medjugorje)
Pray for the plan of Our Lady in Medjugorje
Saint Patrick of Ireland
(celebrated March 17th)
“If I am worthy, I am ready also to give up my life, without hesitation and most willingly, for his name. I want to spend myself in that country (Ireland), even in death, if the Lord should grant me this favor.” Patrick’s Confessions
Pray for the laity to respond to the call to be missionaries and evangelists today.
Saint Peter the Apostle
(celebrated on 29 June)
“Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.”
Pray for the Pope and his intentions for the world.
Saint Peter Chanel
(celebrated on 28 April)
“To love Mary and make her loved.”
Pray for missionary vocations.
St Peter Julian Eymard
(celebrated August 3rd)
“To abide in His love is to make the Eucharist the center of our desires. To abide in His love is to delight in surprising Him with some gift, or some little sacrifice. To abide in His love is to live by the Eucharist; to guide ourselves in our actions by His thought, and to make it a point always to prefer the good service of the Eucharist to everything else.”
Pray that souls make Jesus in the Eucharist their first joy in life
St Philip Neri
(celebrated May 26th)
“Let joy in the Lord be continuous until joy in the world is extinguished. The former is always growing, the latter ever decreasing and finally dying. Rejoice in the Lord then, and not in the world. Rejoice, for wherever you are and as long as you are on earth, the Lord is near, do not be anxious.” Pray for those who have yet to find true joy in Jesus
Saint Rose of Lima
(celebrated August 23rd)
“Listen, all you people! At Christ’s bidding and in his very words, I warn you: We cannot win grace if we do not suffer affliction; toil upon toil must be ours if we are to attain an intimate share in the divine nature, the glory of God‚s children, and perfect happiness. If only men knew how beautiful, noble, and priceless a thing God‚s grace is!”
Pray that souls find the true beauty of the Cross
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
(celebrated on 2 January)
“Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will find salvation.”
Pray for the unity of the Church.
Fr. Slavko Barbaric
(he died on November 24th)
“O Holy Spirit, through Mary I choose you today the Master of my whole being. With trust and hope in Your endless love, which manifested itself so marvelously in Mary I decide for your gifts. I renounce every evil spirit and his action, and accept You, Spirit of light, love, peace and order. I devote to You all my abilities and want to act in Your light. I surrender to You all rights over my life. Watch over me and lead me to the Father! I pray to You with Mary through Jesus Christ. Amen” (from “Pray with the Heart” by Fr. Slavko)
Pray for the Holy Spirit!
Saint Stephen, first martyr,
Celebrated on December 26th
“And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen…disputed with him. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke…And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.”
Pray for the gift of profound holiness.
Saint Teresa of Avila
(celebrated October 15th)
“Since the spiritual world is based entirely on humility, the closer one gets to God, the more this virtue should grow.”
Pray for consecrated souls, they are the soul of the Church.
Saint Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church
(celebrated on 1 October)
“I understand so well that it is only love that can make us pleasing to the Good Lord, and my ambition is for this love alone.”
Pray for an outpouring of love in families.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Dominican, Doctor of the Church
(celebrated January 28th)
“Eternal life consists in the complete satisfaction of desire, for there the blessed will be given more than they wanted or hoped for. The reason is that in this life no one can fulfill his longing, nor can any creature satisfy man’s desire. Only God satisfies, he infinitely exceeds all other pleasures. That is why the Lord says: Enter into the joy of your Lord.”
Pray for the conversion of lukewarm souls.
Saint Thomas the Apostle
(celebrated on 3 July)
“Jesus said to him, “Put your hands in my side and do not doubt, but believe.” Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God.” (Jn 20: 27-‐28)
Pray for unbelievers.
Saint Thomas More
(celebrated June 22nd)
‘I never stop trusting in His mercy. His grace has thus far strengthened me to renounce everything-possessions, income, life itself-rather than take an oath against my conscience. God will either sway the king to do no more to me, or He will give me strength to bear courageously and willingly whatever further evils are in store for me.’
Pray that lawyers and judges will decide for Gospel values, making it their sole aim to bring about a culture of life.
St Timothy, Disciple of St Paul
(celebrated January 26th)
‘We decided to send our brother Timothy, who is God’s helper in spreading the Good News of Christ, to keep you firm and strong in the faith, and prevent any of you from being unsettled by the present troubles.’ 1 Thess 3:2-‐3
Pray that Christians proclaim the Gospel with great zeal.
Saint Veronica (who wiped the face of Jesus on the way of the cross)
(celebrated February 4th)
“It is your Face, Lord, that I seek!”
Comfort Jesus through adoration
Saint Vincent de Paul.
(celebrated September 27th)
“You have as much need to be compassionate as the poor person has need of your compassion.”
Pray for compassion.
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
(celebrated November 9th)
“If you feel ice fall on your heart, go warm up near He who is the Source of Love and Who makes emptiness only in order to fill up all that is empty”.
Pray for vocations to the contemplative life
Blessed Mariam of Bethlehem
(August 26th)
“Little Lambs, do not be afraid of God! Call on God alone and entrust yourself to Him and do not be afraid. Jesus is madly in love with Man”
Pray for the liberation of those who are under the power of darkness
Saint Cecilia
(November 22th)
And then she said to her husband, “I have an angel that loves me who watches over my body whether I sleep or am wake and if he finds that you touch my body by foul and polluted love, he will kill you, but if you love me in Holy love and cleanness, he will love you as he loves me and will give you his grace.”
Pray for married couples to have Holy and Pure love.
St. Mary, Mother of God
(January 1st)
“Do everything he tells you.”
Pray for those rebelling against the Church
Anne Catherine Emmerick (1774-1824)
(Celebrated Feb. 9th)
“I have always considered service to neighbors as the highest virtue”.
Pray for those who share the Passion of Christ in our time
Blessed Luigi and Maria Quattrocchi
(Celebrated November 25th)
Maria was advised to abort her unborn child to save her own life. The couple graciously relied on their trust in divine providence and were blessed with a healthy baby girl “Enrichetta”. They also raised their family to be just as virtuous; three of their four children joined religious orders.
Pray for strong, virtuous, holy families
St. Leopold Mandic 1866-1942
(Celebrated October 16th)
Cappuchin Priest in Yugoslavia: “I expect everything from the charity of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Divine Heart”
Pray for souls to make a Holy Confession
Saint Elizabeth of the Holy Trinity
(Celebrated November 9th)
“It’s not looking at our own miseries that we should be cleansed but by looking upon Him who is all purity and all Sanctity”
Strive to offer a loving, dwelling place in your heart for the Holy Trinity
Mary, Queen of Peace
(Celebrated June 25th)
“Love one another, my children, you are brothers and sisters, do not fight!”(Message of Dec. 25th 1981)
Bring to Mary every single conflict you come across
St. Lawrence
(Celebrated August 10th)
After three days, Lawrence gathered all of the lepers, cripples, orphans, widows, the poor and the lame and presented them to the prefect as the “true treasures of the Church.”
Carry the poor in your heart and encourage them.
Saint Martha of Bethany
“I know He will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her: “I am the resurrection and the life: whoever believes in me, though he should die, will come to life;..Do you believe this?” “Yes Lord”, she replied, “I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God; he who is to come into the world.”
Pray for the homeless, poor, HIV sufferers among us
Marcel Van
(Celebrated July 10, Martyr, Vietnam)
“Today, I am a corpse who can still breathe. . . .I am the victim of Love. Love is my joy, an indestructible joy.” (Written on a note smuggled out of the prison before his death).
Pray for children who are victims of hatred
Marthe Robin ,
(France 1901-‐1981; Celebrated Feb. 6th)
“I would like to be everywhere at once to tell the world again and again how good God is, how much he loves men and women, and shows himself compassionate and tender for all. To what extent he is Father, and Father full of goodness and mercy. That nothing is easier than to delight and satisfy him. That nothing is more pleasant than to love him, and that nothing is easier either, because even our smallest actions done through love are enough to charm his heart.”
Pray for the coming of the New Pentecost of Love
Fr. Alexander Men
(Communist Russia; celebrated September 9th
How are you to know if you are living according to the will of God? Here is a sign: if you are distressed over anything it means that you have not fully surrendered to God’s will, although it may seem to you that you live according to His will.
Pray for the conversion of Russia
St. Marguerite Mary Alacoque
Feast day october 16th
„A just soul has so much power over my heart that it can obtain forgiveness for thousands of criminals.” (Jesus to St. Marguerite Mary Alacoque)
Spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Yvonne-Aime de Malestroit
(Celebrated February 3)
“O’ Jesus, I trust in your merciful bounty”.
Pray for strong, bold missionaries in our world
Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin
Feast day on july 12th
St. Therese and Louis Martin could do no more than gaze at each other. With difficulty he pointed his index finger upward and was heard to whisper, “Until Heaven!” (Blessed Louis Martin on his deathbed to Little Flower) Our Mother said to me, ‘Don’t be afraid; wait and see, your soul will expand.’ (Blessed Zelie Martin to Leonie who was nearly impossible to handle)
Pray that Holiness may be born in families
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
(Celebrated April 28)
“Love is the most beautiful sentiment the Lord has put into the soul of men and women”.
Pray for pregnant mothers to choose life
Blessed Pope John Paul II
(Feast day October 22)
“Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
Pray for the conviction of faith in the Church
Blessed Pope John Paul II
(Feast day October 22)
“True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.”
Pray for and increase of living examples of Christ
Blessed Pope John Paul II
(Feast day October 22)
“The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us — each one singly and altogether — to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.”
Pray for those who do not yet know the love of God
Blessed Pope John Paul II
(Feast day October 22)
“Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power … Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of states, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development.”
Pray for the conversion of all leaders
Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen
Suffering love alone can bring us to our senses and the real meaning of life.
Pray for those who suffer
Servant of God- Fulton J. Sheen
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.
Pray for those who do not know the love of God