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God has not forgotten you. He hears your prayers. Please continue to have hope that He has a loving plan for you. And please continue to remember to persist in your prayers, as St. Monica did for 15 years.
We hope that God will continue to bless you and be with you in your every need.
I have been divorced from my husband for 4 years and separated physically and emotionally for 10+. I pray for the Lord to reach him and for his realization that his lifestyle is harmful to his health and his soul. I finished the Novena on the 25th and on the 27th he tearfully apologized to me for the demise of our marriage. This is the first time he has ever admitted any wrong doing. He called our children and asked for their forgiveness and vowed to be a better man and father.
He has let us down so many times before, but I see the Lord calling him, and working in his life. I continue to pray for him and his path. I thank St Monica for her example and her intercession
Dear St Monica,
Please pray for me that I may get my heart desire.
Thank you for listening.
I prayed for my son to hear from dental schools as this is his third year applying. He received word today of an interview. I will keep praying that he gets accepted. Thank you for the novenas, they provide peace to me as a mother.
Thank you God the Father and thank you Saint Monica for your intercession on my my request for my daughter’s marriage. Prayer is powerful. With so many broken families today I continue to pray for this beautiful family to stay together. I will continue to pray for my sil to be given the knowledge and open heart to be a loving, devout, faithful husband and father.
While praying this novena my family was in the intention section. On one of those days my oldest brother made a mistake while working on his truck. Be forgot to chock the tires and when he pulled the drive shaft the truck rolled on him. He was able to push it off with an adrenaline rush. My s-i-l took him to ER. All he has is 1 broken Rib. Praise God.
I was facing a huge challenge with getting foreign exchange to pay my son’s university fees and I took this challenge to our mother in the Novena.
Just ten minutes ago my son received an approval and a deposit of his student loan. Tomorrow he heads out to resume classes.
Thank you Lord. May your name be glorified in all corners of the earth.
Dear Lord of compassion, through the prayer of St Monica for me, may your compassionate heart lift my marriage problem. May heavenly peace ever remain n may the strong defence of God never be broken by satan n all its evil works.
Dear Lord of compassion, through the prayer of St Monica for me, may your compassionate heart lift my marriage problem. May heavenly peace ever remain n may the strong defence of God never be broken by satan n all its evil works.
Thank you dear Lord and all our saints to whom we have entrusted our prayers. My daughter is now pregnant, my son & family are reasonably happy in their new house, my husband’s business mess is getting resolved so he can finally retire & little Mia is back home after a painful ordeal in hospital.
Thank you St Monica for prayers answered. Thank my sweet infant JESUS for prayers answered.
My prayers are partially answered. My youngest son has found a part-time job to help support his family. He has been out of work for a year and a half. Thank you my God and Jesus for each prayer answered. Amen
Hello everyone.
Praise God with me, I prayed for my knees pains as am sending this am I healed believe God to answer each and every one of us. Amen
Hi all
I had prayed for my husband and mine job visa to get approved and it has been answered. Thank you my JESUS CHRIST and Thank you St.Rita for praying for us
Praise and Glory to GOD ALMIGHTY for prayers answered. I have been praying for my son to find a job and he is going to start his job this Sept. 6. Thank you so much MY LORD GOD for your mercy, love and faithfulness endures forever. I love you and trust you so much LORD GOD. In the name of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Amen
Thank you for all your prayers and GOD BLESS US ALL.
I prayed for physical healing and employment. Yesterday was the first day at the new job. As far as the healing it has been steady and consistent. Thank you Lord and thank you St. Monica for praying for me.
My prayers were answered! I prayed that my sister would get the job she really wanted and St Monica interceeded on her behalf and Good answered my prayers for her. I also prayed that I would find my spouse. St. Monica interceeded on my behalf and God saw fit to bring a Godfearing catholic man into my life. Still early in the dating process but those are answered prayers! Amen!
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30 th August ,2016. 2:03 pm
Praise to lord, Thank you St . Monica for praying me. My son today blessed with your blessing. Thank you one more time , please shower your love and blessing on us.
My daughter wanted to go to vacation school but I didnt have any money for that. On the third day of St Monica Novena I received my for daughter’s fees. Thank you St Monica and may you continue to intercede for all parents who are in difficult financial situations, especially all the single mothers who follow this website. Amen.
Thank you Saint Monica, for Praying for me and your intercession. I have been blessed with a career. My family and friends have been blessed by making their lives: education, careers and better choices in their lives.
Please Saint Monica, please continue to be with me, Pray for me, and please help me, my family, and friend out. Especially, when it comes to forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace.
Please Saint Monica, please pray for all those who are struggling in their marriage or relationships. Please Saint Monica, Pray for those who struggle with alcoholism and addictions of all kinds.
Please Saint Monica, continue to Pray for all on this website (whether they posted or not) and please Pray for John-Paul and Annie.
Thank you Saint Monica, Thank you Blessed Mother Mary, Thank you Jesus.
Thank you st Monica, thank u lord for the speedy recovery of my daughters health
Thank you, St. Monica, Blessed Mother, and our Lord, Jesus Christ. I have been praying for a better job with increased salary to assist me as I care for my aging and I’ll parents. My prayers have been answered and I have been offered a new teaching position. I am grateful for my answered prayers and I am grateful for the Pray More Novenas community. I pray that your prayers are answered according to God’s plan. I pray that we all have patience and understand that God has a plan, even if we can’t see the way at this moment. Have faith and trust in God. Thank you!
St Monica !!!!! I am so grateful for your intercession and all those saints in Heaven who also interceded. My sons surgery was successful and we are home recouping !!!!! God is so good
My husband who is not a Catholic has been going to Mass with me, even on vacation. Thank you St Monica and thanks you to God and all the saints.
Shortly after praying the St Anne novena my prayers were answered and I’m now pregnant th my second child
Praise God for His Goodness! I would like to thank our Lord for my husband’s conversion.. He is on his way to changing his ways and turn his back on pornography and chatting with other women. I pray that He would continue this change and eventually develop to have a more deep spiritual life.. Thank you St. Monica and thank you praymorenovenas.com. Godbless us all!
Thank you Lord Jesus for all the blessings and as I followed to pray novena of Saint monica…yesterday afternoon when I was my doctor’s appointment to know the result of my ultrasound examination of my ovary cyst and smear… When the doctor said that all is normal,, No cancer, no cancer cells, no need operation… I was very happy and I thanks to the Lord that he answered my prayer…So, I always trusted, believed and hoped that Lord Jesus will answers my prayers..in my strong faith,trust, believe and hope that all my prayers will be granted… Amen..
As my love to the Lord and my healing power through the holy spirit I was healed…. Amen.
Thank you St Monica.
We prayed for us to be able to win an auction for a house where our family can live happily.
We bought a house on the Feast Day of St Monica.
Many thanks to this community for joining us in prayer.
Answers and blessings:
My brother Bob, for whom we have prayed for over 10 years, has been converted to the faith!!
John, for whom we have prayed renewal and deepening of faith, has completed his first novena :-).
I prayed for my son to return to the Church. During the novena to St Monica he texted me that he had started praying again and told God that “he’s back and returning to the flock.” Praise Jesus.
My brother got a new job that meets all of his financial needs finally after many years of struggling. Yay!
My wife was found to have a growth in her breasr. The growrh was determined to be benign. My prayers were answered.
My wife who has not been going to church for the past two years, the past two Sundays has joined the family to Mass and I hope this will continues. I thank the intercession of St. Monica and thank God for answering the prayers
My health and my daughter’s health were recovered thank you God and St Monica’s intercession
Thank you Lord for helping me through the tough time, I feel much better but still waiting for an answer from the doctors them about my kidney.
Thank you St. Monica for your novena. God is so good…praise be to him. Amen
During the St. Monica novena I was praying for my daughters to return to the church. Today, on the feast of St. Augustine, my daughter texted me that she and my granddaughter went to Mass. When my granddaughter asked her if they would come again, my daughter emphatically said yes. She had been away from the Catholic church for 13 years. Praise be Jesus Christ!
I am overjoyed with gratitude! I skipped the last novena bc I thought well, my prayers haven’t been answered and it’ll just happen in God’s timing. Then I decided to pray the St Monica Novena for my 20 year old son who would spend a week with his good friends, most of them pot smokers. We had just had a wonderful week with family and many positive experiences. I knew, as he headed off, that his week would be full of temptation, the same temptation he has experienced for years. He texted me just yesterday that he realizes now how living the pot- life is primitive and that that life is no longer for him. He said he can’t wait to get back to his normal lifestyle. PRAISE JESUS!!! Thank you, St Monica and St Augustine!
Please pray for son to get job closer to home. ..he just got layed off..
Love mom
I praise Jesus that my grandson spoke to me. I continue to pray for his mother. Thank you St Monica for your intercession! My heart was breaking with this separation but now I have peace. Thank you Jesus.
My Fiance and I are going through marriage prep right now and realized there were a lot of knots that needed untying! Our hearts felt chained, unable to freely love each other. So we asked St.Monica for her most holy intercession, and behold! We were granted the grace to identify those knots and the chains on our hearts were set free to love! No longer any knots and Jesus can now run freely through our veins!
On the 6th day of this novena my prayer for my sister to find a new job was answered after she had searched for three years. Thank you Saint Monica!
This weekend and last weekend Marvin did nt go to the bars to drink. Although he has not come back to our relationship at less he is not at the bars. And I will keep praying for him to go to church and for his return to me. Thank you St. Monica for interceding for me. God is good. Amen!!!
Thank you Lord through the intercession of Saint Monica, we were able to find a venue for one of our activities in the youth ministry. God is good all the time.
Thank you dear Lord Jesus for prayers answered. My husband has agreed to travel to USA to spend Christmas with the whole family especially with my daughter and her family. We have even bought the flight tickets.
I thank St Monica for interceding for me.
In Jesus name, Amen.
Praise be to God! I’d like to thank God for answering my prayers that my stepfather started seeking help for his alcoholism and addiction. I continue to pray for his successful treatment and for him and my mother to always have the means to help each other and those around them especially my brother in law Chris who is also going through the harsh effects of gis addiction. I continue to pray for Chris’ strength, protection and guidance and that God will provide for him always. May peace, harmony and good health surround our family including Christian Almiranez and Uncle Steven Corder. Thank you St. Monica and to all the and the saints and Mama Mary. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
I am being praying this novena for my marriage for last two years.
I can feel the difference of prayers working in my marriage that is both in me and my husband’s heart changing and inclining more towards God and his wonders that are there our life, our kids.
My prayers for the change of heart of my sister-in-law who was pregnant and did not want her baby, I was blessed by answering my prayers. She is happy and willingly accepts her baby as a blessing of God.
Thank you Jesus! praise you Jesus!
Thank you St. Monica, a wonderful mother and saint!
I prayed for the first time to this powerful saint.
Thank you st.Monica for interceding my request was answered on the 8 day.I will pray in the future for your help.
Thank you Jesus for all the graces I receved.
St Monica thank you for giving me a new prospective on my prayer life. I have medics problems and so does my husband. We are better and my test turned out good. I pray we will continue to pray for Gods will be done. Thank you for more patience and telling things as they are instead of how I want them to be. In Jesus name. Amen
I must first thank God for His Mercy and love towards me and my family especially for the gift of life. May glory and thanks be to God’s Holy Name. Amen. I’m praying and asked Saint Monica to pray to God for my son to turn to God, I know that one day my prayer for him will be answered and I asked St Monica to also to pray for my private intentions best know to God. May God help me. I must continue to glorify The Lord, and know He will never let me down, Amen. I love Lord Jesus I praise u Lord Jesus I thank u Lord Jesus Amen
I prayed for my friend and his alcohol addiction especially for his sisters to have strength to not enable his drinking
Today I met his sister and she told me they had been able to stand up to him and that circumstances surrounding the family business which he was using to feed his addiction had changed to the point where he is unable to work there. Although this sounds harsh it is exactly what he needs to begin to recognise and take responsibility for his addiction. Thank you Saint Monica for interceding and for gods grace for his sisters to stand up and be courageous in doing. The hardest thing for him
It was my first time confiding in St Monicas, I am happy and thankfull to St Monicas. I specifically prayed this Novena to pray for my father’s debtors to pay him,nomally people take his money and not pay him like agreed. I was praying on the 5th day that those who owe him should pay him tommorow and someone came the following day to pay him like I asked.He has since been owing him more than 4months ago. I am still expecting Her to help him break that money curse now that we have completed the Novena.
I did get one answer to my prayer novena.
My son and daughter in law had a baby boy nine pounds and two ounces on June ,27th. I was praying that he would not be mentally challenged and he was not. But we were not to come and see him,
Finally this last Wednesday they asked me if I wanted to see him. That’s almost 2 months not being able to see your new grandson. It was very disappointing. So I was praying to be able to come and see him or they to come a see us.. My husband has not yet been asked to see him. I don’t understand them. But I will continue to pray that my husband can see him.
Thank you so much for the Novenas. I also am praying that all my children will come back to the Catholic Church where they were raised in. That hasn’t happened yet.
God bless you in your wonderful work for Him
Prs
My son is getting treatment for his issues with alcohol and at the present time is doing well. Our relationship is doing better again. I am so thankful to St. Monica and our Heavenly Father!
My son is getting treatment for his issues with alcohol and at the present time is doing well. Our relationship is doing better again. I am so thankful to St. Monica and our Heavenly Father!
I have been praying for my son to find a better job. He was contacted by a company for an interview. Please pray for him that his good luck will continue and a better job will come his way. Thank you St. Monica and everyone else who will keep my son in their prayers. May God bless you all!
I prayed to St. Monica to help with a sharp tongued, hurtful family member. The next day, that person said they had been wrong and asked my forgiveness. Thank you, St. Monica for your prayers. I plan to learn more about you and pray for your intercession in the future.
Thank you, St. Monica! My son-in-law got an interview for a good job and also some extra work to help out. Continued prayers needed but good news!
Thank you St. Monica! My neighbor came to mass last weekend!
I had been praying the St. Monica novena for some of my cousins who had drifted away from the church over the years. On day 6 of the novena I was told that one of my cousins who hadn’t gone to church in a number of years had scheduled a meeting with our parish priest and had asked my parents to be the godparents of her 9 month old baby boy. My heart was filled with joy! Thank you St. Monica for your intercession and thank you God for Your grace!
I thank St. Monica for interceding for me. I really wanted annual leave in August so as to enjoy at home with my family and grandchildren which was granted.
2. I got stuck with finances when my two sons had to join university and I was granted a small loan to cater for their admission…. Thank you Dear St. Monica.
3. My overdue house allowance was increased. I will never stop this Novenas.
God is good all the time I prayed the whole novena and my prayers were answered I was praying for my immigration process which is going on well I thank and praise God
I want to thank God for healing my sister who I prayed amongst other things during the novena to St monica. The major operation was cancelled on the third day of the novena because she became well and was discharged home on the seventh day
Thank you Lord for her healing.. I put all my trust in you.
St monica and St augustine pray for us as always for our careers and quest for a new home.
God will bless you all and answer your prayers at his time..Amen.
In my prayers at each of these novenas is for the conversion of my husband, and the return of my children to the Catholic Church. I know my prayers will be answered because God has given me little signs along the way.
My daughter just got a teaching job at a public school, but it is in the building that used to house a Catholic school. The church connected to the school is still a parish church. The name of the parish is St. Augustine of Hippo. How could our Lord not have a plan?! Thank you, my Lord, St. Monica and St. Augustine! I trust your timing. ♥
I was praying for two things. One that my son heal from the inside out. His struggles with drugs and alcohol and other mental/emotional challenges. I don’t know if he is ‘actually’ healed but he has made a big changes in the past three weeks or so. I pray he holds on this time. Thank you St Joseph of Vianney and St Monica
Thank you God for answered prayers and St. Monica for her intercession. My husband went to confession for the first time in years during this novena.
Thank you for all blessings answered. We continue to pray.
My daughter got mixed up in the wrong crowd; years ago, after high school and well into her early twenties. She lost her marriage, her son (she sees him very little now), and pushed back her family. Her brother, sister and mother pretty much wrote her off; I was close but gave knew I could not abandon her. I had a plan to get her back; but what I soon found out it wasn’t God’s plan.
It’s been years, with prayers for her everyday. It wasn’t until this novena that it happened. I prayed not only for my daughter to turn back to the family but that she would become “a great and venerable Saint of the Church.” God is great: she called yesterday and we went to lunch; she wants God and family back in her life but is scared and not sure where to start.
God has a plan; we will get her back. Thanks to all who continue in prayer and hold onto the faith that God has so deeply enriched us with.
My son has been looking for a better job and he hS written several applicationa. It so happen thar in rhe day the Novena started he was called for any interview i began the novena and aaid it right through. On the eightb day of the novena he was called and told he had the job Praise be to St. Monica for her intercession to Jesus for him.
Thank God. My son who is diagnosed to be on the spectrum. Finally broke down last night and starting crying that he is tired of been special needs. And gradually started using his words. I had never seen this before. I am still in awe of everything that happened last night. All I can say is THANK YOU JESUS THE HEALER. With God all things are possible.
I received a new kind of compassion towards those for whom I’ve been praying to receive the redeeming love of Jesus Christ. I’ve been able to see more clearly, their charitable goodness and other virtues, in essence focusing on the presence of Christ within and not on what is lacking. Our God supplies all our needs, unto his riches in glory. He is a generous God and will supply the grace we all need to purify our lives more completely providing confident faith, confident hope, confident love. Jesus, I trust in you, for the redemption of my loved ones.
My dad was always so fervently devout while I was growing up and he gave me such a solid foundation in the church. However, over the last 5-6 years, he’s become complacent and simply stopped making church a priority. I’ve been praying for his return to church for awhile, but he’s been resistant to my invitations to come back to the church. However, out of the blue on day 8 of St. Monica’s novena, he let me know that he was back in the church’s good graces by going to confession and was heading back to daily mass!
Thank you St.Monica for helping my son find a new apartment.
Thank you God for all of my blessings, my family’s blessings, and my friend’s blessings. St. Monica, please pray for a successful medical procedure that I have to have next Thursday. Thank you St. Monica for all of your prayers.
St Monica thank you for answering my prayer I have prayed for long this to happen to get a sponsor and I got next month am starting to go school thank you so much I believe and have faith that everything I prayed for I will receive them amen
While shopping at the grocery store yesterday, August 26, the cashier who rang up my order had on a lovely pin attached to her uniform right under the collar. I made a comment about how much I admired it. She said she makes them. When I asked her about the price, she took off the pin and gave it to me. I felt so blessed, as this act of kindness does not happen every day. Of course I thanked her and told her I would “pay it forward”. Now I will either give or do some act of kindness to someone else. This made my day as I am suffering from depression and really gave me hope. Thank you God.
I have a friend that left the Catholic Church several years ago, I’m not sure the exact reason but I can guess that it was cause her kids wanted to go to another church and she supported them. She continued to go to church every now and then, but earlier this week she felt she was called back to the Catholic Church because of a dream she had about her grandmother and the next day her son gave her a rosary and told her that he felt she needed it. She said it was God telling her welcome home.
Thank you my company allowed me to go exit re entry visa.
Thank you for helping me to pray
During this novena I prayed for reconciliation and a better understanding between my boyfriend and I, thanks to St Monica, we are on that path. I know my prayers are before God who will answer as He sees fit.
My son tried out and made the band at his new college on the 2nd day of this novena. He’s also starting to meet people and I pray that this turns into lifelong friendships. He’s even joined the university’s Catholic bible studies group! Thanks be to God!!
Thank you st Monica for all the wonderful things are going to happen in life,l was paid half of my wages ,l know l will be paid the rest,l will continue working with michael.Bless michael and his family,Bless my children and families back home and bless my friend’s in Jesus name l pray Amen
My prayers haven’t been answered but I’m a woman of faith and know that God’s and all the saints are listening. Never lose faith!
Thank you St. Monica, for your help, I prayed so strongly for you to please open up my husbands eyes and allow him to realize what he was about to lose a marriage of 20 yrs and 4 daughters-for his ongoing affair with his manager for years and he refused to leave his job. Thank you for interceding for me and allowing me to find out about other secrets that have made me realize that this was not my fault and I deserve better! Along with our 4 girls that he disliked because they were females and he could not produce a son. Thank you for the eye opener! All I ever wanted was a family and peace in our lives and I am so blessed that I was given the opportunity to live free again and not tied to a marriage of painful lies, AMEN!
Following a miscarriage in June, I prayed this novena asking St. Monica to intercede on my behalf that God would grant us a living child. On day 4 of the novena I learned I was pregnant, and on day 9 I received great test results which showed that we did not experience the same type of miscarriage and our child is alive and growing. We are entrusting this child and pregnancy to the continued intercession of St. Monica!
St. Monica, pray for us!
Please pray my ongoing case to be successfull, because I was terminated more than 2 yrs. ago. I fight it for wrongfull dismissal. Right now we are suffering financial crisis because only my husband is working. We always lend money from our friends and we have a loan also to the financial services to pay off our mortgages and other bills. My husband has 2 job partime and full time. Last 1st week of July he was terminated on its full time. The Union were fight for the termination of my husband. So this coming September 20, the company, the Steward and my husband has a meeting. Pls.pray my husband to return back on his job. Also, pray my son to removed his hatred to his father and forgive him what my husband did something wrong for the past yrs.and this yr.(gambling addiction). I want my son to love and respect his parents and remove his shopping addiction and become understanding our situation at this time. Please help us to pay our debts. In Jesus Christ Amen.
Thank you, St. Monica, for the positive signs I received today … signs of Hope for my marriage!