Sometimes We Need a Reminder!
Have you ever started praying a novena only to forget to pray it after a few days?
This used to happen to me all the time!
I started this website to help me and you to remember to pray all 9 days of the novena prayers. I do this by sending you email reminders with the novena prayers right in the body of the email.
Now, if you’re like me, you check your email every day. So, when you’re checking your email, you will be reminded to get praying!
It turns out that I’m not the only one who needs reminding… So far, several thousand people have joined in praying novenas with the help of these little reminders!
You can get your own reminder and pray together with thousands of others by signing up here:
About Me
That's Me!
Hi there, my name is John-Paul Deddens. I’m just a regular Catholic guy.
I work full-time in the pro-life movement as the director of a non-profit that I started. So, by day I save lives, by night I remind you to pray!
I started this site because I wanted to pray more novenas, but I would constantly forget to do it on the right days.
It got to the point where I would not pray novenas because I didn’t think it was worth starting and not finishing. I realized that this was a problem when recently…
A while back, my girlfriend asked me to pray the Immaculate Conception Novena with her. I declined because I knew I would forget to pray everyday.
As I thought about my response, I realized that it really wasn’t good enough and I set out to create something to help me to remember to pray.
And PrayMoreNovenas.com was born!
A lot of prayers have been answered and God has blessed this community. I hope you will join us!
What People are Saying…
“This is really great, John-Paul! Thank you so much for doing this :)”
– Grace K.“Thank you so much for providing this invaluable service! I LOVE it that the prayers come right to my inbox – NO excuses, and NO more forgetting! God bless you!”
– I.S.“Just a word of thanks and gratitude to you for helping me and LOTS of people pray. I really appreciate all the time, effort, and work that is involved in such a work of God. God bless you, thank you!”
– Connie M.“THANK YOU so much for sending us this novena each day.”
– Liz“I wanted to tell you that I have felt a wonderful sense of unity by being a part of this prayerful endeavor… Thank you!”
– Patty
Join us in prayer here:
Find us on Google at Pray More Novenas+.
I so appreciate this website and all your emails. God bless all your efforts. Pls. don’t get tired and don’t give up. The *enemy* will always be after you for doing all this, but God’s graces are more powerful. I will also say a prayer for your strength. Seek your strength in prayer, in the sacraments. God bless you.
Hi!! Just wanted you to know that “Maurice and Therese” is the best St. Therese book I’ve read. The book is actually a collection of letters between St. Therese and a struggling young priest friend. The language can be a little Victorian, but the content is amazing. “I believe in Love” which is a retreat based on the teachings of St. Therese is also well worth reading.
This website is awesome. Way to take intiative! I definitely loved getting a reminder every day for the St Terese Novena!
This is such a cool idea. I had a related idea, to allow people to have Novenas entered in their Calendars on their computers, so I have an online diary people can subscribe to for that. It os still a work in progress. People can subscribe at webcal://www.google.com/calendar/ical/1oidl2ih3ro1grdoeagp87sbbk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics.
I have also done a point back to you with that diary because I think yours is actually a much more valuable tool!
God bless.
Dear JohnPaul,
How ironic you bear the name of one of our most popular and blessed Popes….soon to be canonized ! This is such a unique idea and, frankly, I was getting dizzy driving from parish to parish, leaving my nine copies once a week!
Thank you, John Paul for your service to The Lord and fellow Catholics!
Marshau
I believe praying this Novena for a month, helped me get an affordable house near my moms. Hope this helps someone else. Theres no harm in praying. Thanks!!
*Novena For All Things*
Necessary to Salvation
O My God, I believe in Thee; do
Thou Strengthen my faith. All my
hopes are in Thee; do Thous secure
them. I love Thee; teach me to love
Thee daily more and more. I am sorry
that I have offended Thee; do Thou
increase my sorrow.
I adore Thee as my first beginning; I
aspire after Thee as my last end. I give
Thee thanks as my constant benefactor;
I call upon Thee as my sovereign protector.
Vouchsafe, O my God! to conduct me by
Thy wisdom, to restrain me by the Thy justice,
to comfort me by Thy mercy, to defend me
by Thy power.
To Thee I desire to consecrate all my thoughts,
words, actions, and sufferings; that henceforward
I may think of Thee; speak of Thee, refer all my actions to
Thy greater glory and suffer willingly whatever
Thou shall appoint.
Lord, I desire that in all things Thy will may be done
because it is Thy will, and in the manner that Thou willest.
I bed of Thee to enlighten my understanding, to inflame my will,
to purify my body and to sanctify my soul.
Give me strength, O my God! to expiate my offenses, to
overcome my temptations, to subdue my passions and to
acquire the virtues proper for my state of life.
Fill my heart with tender affection for Thy goodness, hatred
of my faults, love of my neighbor and contempt of the world.
May Thy grace help me to be submissive to my superiors,
condescending to my inferiors, faithful to my friends and charitable
to my enemies.
Assist me to overcome sensuality by mortification, avarice by
almsdeeds, anger by meekness and tepidity by devotion.
O my God! make me prudent in my undertakings, courageous
in dangers, patient in affliction and humble in prosperity.
Grant that I may be ever attentive at my prayers, temperate
at my meals, deligent n my employments and constant in
my resolutions.
Assist me, that I may continually labor to overcome
nature, to correspond with They grace, to keep Thy
commandments and to work out my salvation.
Make me realize, O my God! the nothingness of
this world, the greatness of heaven, the shortness
of time and the length of eternity.
Grant that I may prepare for death; that I may
fear Thy judgements, and in the end obtain
heaven; though Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
AMEN
I would like to have a novena published
HOLY SPIRIT 3-Day Prayer -
PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT:
Holy Spirit, You who make me see everything and showed me the way to reach
my ideals, You who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me, and You who are in all instances of my life with me. I
want to thank You for everything and confirm once more that I never want
to be separated from You no matter who great the material desire may be. I
want to be with You and my loved ones in Your perpetual glory. Amen.
Mention your request. While making the request, promise to either publish
this prayer or to circulate the favor. Say prayer for 3 days. After the
3rd day, the request will be granted
promise to help others to have devotion to you, oh holy spirit . Amen
On the last day of the St. Jude Novena, we received a call that we had an offer for our home. Thank you, St. Jude.
John-Paul,
Will you be sending reminders for the Pro-life Novena which begins on January 14th? I find your reminders help me to actually pray a whole novena! My prayers have not yet been answered, but everything happens in God’s time, not mine.
I believe God led me to to you and this wonderful prayer community. I have prayed every Novena published since September and my prayer to eve able tonprovide a safe haven for my children WAS answered! Thank you John-Paul for providing me with a way to keep my eyes on GOD everyday.
Hello and bless you for your work. I have a question – are these novenas approved for public use, and do they have to be?? I know that litanies are public/private but I can’t find that information for novenas. A group at my church prays together and wanted to know if they can use your novenas. Thank you!
I firmly believe in prayer, praying in numbers with my brothers and sisters in Christ and you all make me feel better, that we can pray together. We all have situations and circumstances that are out of our hands, in which God’s will can only grace in His own ways and time. As a praying unit that does not divide all of our intentions, saves us positively and finding peace, fear is lost: “How we all love and show our love” affirms my belief in the righteous justice of Jesus Christ. We will arrive and recognize this in hope, faith, and love …my trust is in the name of the Lord. In summary: Let us be constant in prayer, love, mercy and glorify His Majesty and His Holiness, where all strength comes from. I love you all. I will respond to this wonderful-hopeful compliance. Thank you for your vision, John-Paul, you truly seeked the invisible to be visible. Jesus I will go to the ends of the earth for you.
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M
With all the talk during the current season concerning which candidate can spend — or discover spent in his favor — XYZ millions for his campaign war chest, it would appear the media would have us believe that nominations go to those with the most cash.
Given the nationwide demonstrations of last Friday rallying for religious liberty, Catholics concerned for the preservation of liberty might call upon a different wealth towards promoting the Social Reign of Christ the King:
As it has enjoyed notable grassroots’ spread over the past fifteen years, particularly in homeschooling circles, more and more of the Faithful are now familiar with St Gertrude’s prayer for the Holy Souls and the pious belief that this prayer can release 1,000 from Purgatory.
While side-stepping the temptation to “abacus spirituality” such a claim can, nonetheless, help to form a practice. Leaving to our Lord the exact numbers involved, it is most certainly true that charity towards the Church Suffering is very pleasing to Him. It is likewise true that in heaven there is no such thing as ingratitude and that the saints are happily disposed to assist by their prayers those whose aid meant the final payments of their debts.
Anitcipating such gratitude, one is particularly drawn to make a special effort on behalf of one million souls. How? Offering St Gertrude’s prayer twice around one’s Rosary for a ten-day period. (50 beads x 2 rounds x 10 days x 1000 souls).
Recalling, too, the seven-fold procession around the walls of Jericho, the seven months before the election each offer an eminently-suited ten-day period for such a practice:
Apr: the Divine Mercy novena + the Sunday feast
May: Apostles’ Fast” (Ascension Thursday to Vigil of Pentecost)
Jun: Vigil of Corpus Christi (technically, the Wednesday after Trinity Sunday) to the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
Jul: Feast (6th) of Maria Goretti — latter-day martyr for chastity — to the vigil of Our Lady of Mt Carmel (itself, the 16th) — Patroness of the Holy Souls.
Aug: Transfiguration (6th) until the Assumption (15th)
Sep: Our Lady of Sorrows (15th) till our Lady of Ransom (24th).
Oct: Francis of Assisi (4th), author of The Canticle of Brother Sun to the 95th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima (13th).
To be clear: we are asking the souls whom our prayers assist to obtain graces for our country such that the upcoming elections result in bringing to office leaders who will serve the social reign of Christ the King, protecting the rights and liberties God Himself has granted the sons of men.
The more widely known such a campaign becomes, the more this act of Faith would: call to mind the teaching of our Lord (before Pilate on Good Friday) whence authority to govern; demonstrate quite pointedly where the Church goes to obtain its deliverance; put the enemies of our Lord on notice that the Church means business when She celebrates the final solemnity of the liturgical year.
Here’s hoping those reading might take to heart participating in this effort, even unto spreading the word and encouraging this work of cooperation amongst the Saints Militant, Suffering and Triumphant.
A blessed Passiontide and Triduum to you all!
St Gertrude’s Prayer with concluding prayers.
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy divine Son Jesus
in union with all the Holy Masses offered today throughout the world
for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory
and for sinners everywhere: for sinners in the universal Church
and those within my own home and within my own family. Amen
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon them.
May all the souls of the Faithful Departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
St Gertrude the Great, pray for us.
St Nicholas of Tolentine, pray for us.
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, pray for us.
Queen of Mt Carmel, Patroness of the Holy Souls, pray for us.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
During the Divine Mercy Novena please pray for Agnes to get a good paid full time job in the recreation therapy working with seniors.Then please pray for this broken family, my sister Sara and for her two children and her ex-husband as well , may God forgive their sins , heal their wounds and show the direction towards eternity .Thirdly please pray for an old friend Ola Olu ,who is suffering from nerve damage on his neck and his two arms are paralyzed .He has difficulty with every day living: dressing , eating, cooking doing all chores.
God bless all of us , who join in the prayer of the Novena.
Agnes N
Peace and Love
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Dear Prayers ~
I have recently joined since last fall to this praymorenovenas and found it encouragingly to my routine prayers; the Rosarys, for the purguragtory souls (con’t of my parents prayer since my father passed away.), momentarily grateful prayers from mornings to nights and personal to world prayers such as families,financial , to poverty and hungers. im glad to keep up on continuing on praying and learning more abt God, relationship and communication to Mother Mary to Jesus thru Holy Spirit and to The Son thru the Holy Spirit to God! i have also been going to church like i used to since when i was younger. So, here i am letting u know abt my prayer intention for the Divine Mercy novena. It is abt the relationships from marriages, parents to sons + daughters, sons + daughters to the parents, engagements (commitment), families’ siblings, relatives,cousins, in-laws, to worldly relationships from the shepherds to all nations to be united in peace, love, and joy! On behalf of this Divine Mercy, i ll continue praying for our Pope. That’s all for now. Good nite~ Have a nice Easter :) May God Bless U And All !
I think this site is really cool. I am not Catholic, and have never really understood all the saints. Recently, I came across a published thank you to St. Jude and decided to pursue finding out more. What a blessing!! But I have a few questions….. 1. Can one pray multiple novenas to St. Jude, consecutively for the same issue, or for different issues at the same time? Can someone pray to St. Jude for another person? Thank you.