![]() ![]() Those wishing to offer a novena should repeat this prayer for nine days. (Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be to the Father, three times.) Rita, I may obtain what my heart so fervently desires. (Here ask the favor you wish to obtain.) Everyone praises thy glories, everyone tells of the most amazing miracles performed through thee, must I alone be disappointed because thou hast not heard me?Īh no! Pray then pray for me to thy sweet Lord Jesus that He be moved to pity by my troubles and that, through thee, O good St. ![]() Art thou not called the Saint of the Impossible, Advocate to those in despair? Then honor thy name, procuring for me from God the favor that I ask. Must I thus despair in this crisis of my life? O come, St. Rita, worker of miracles, from thy sanctuary in Cascia, where in all thy beauty thou sleepest in peace, where thy relics exhale breaths of paradise, turn thy merciful eyes on me who suffer and weep! Thou seest my poor bleeding heart surrounded by thorns Thou seest, O dear Saint, that my eyes have no more tears to shed, so much have I wept! Weary and discouraged as I am, I feel the very prayers dying on my lips. Rita to encourage devotion to her, publish my favor & a private promise. Please I don’t know why this is being denied me. Rita of Cascia, for an impossible cause Next Prayer In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: Under the weight of my burden, I turn to you, dear. We are both older & time is not on my side. I so desperately want to begin a serious romantic committed relationship with Eric by February 2016 that leads to marriage & a child. ![]() Rita for partially granting my favor & hoping she completes it this week finally. In making miracles happen for others every day.I want to thank St. Please let me be open to the part I can play Help me to trust that He has a solution that I cannot seeĪnd that He will bring it about in His time. To me, it feels enormous and-at times-even hopeless. Please carry my intention to Jesus and ask for His help. You knew that even in a cold winter garden, Your life was full of difficulties and challenges, So, maybe it’s a good day to ask her to take whatever’s on your mind and carry it to Jesus for you. But as I look at this pandemic and how it’s affecting our world, a good and timely solution often seems not just complicated and mysterious, but impossible.Īnd May 22 happens to be St. Maybe it’s not your own dilemma but an intention you’ve been carrying for someone else. Maybe it’s a financial or family or health crisis. I don’t know what situation in your life seems impossible right now. Rita is patron of several things, including parenthood and marriage difficulties, but what she’s best known for-and perhaps most needed for today-is impossible causes. It was January, but the rose and figs were growing there. Rita asked her to bring her a rose and figs from her parents’ garden. When she was very ill, a relative visited her, and St. Rita was able to join the Augustinian Nuns and later received the partial stigmata. Before they could, however, they both died of natural causes, and they weren’t able to follow through on those plans. On his way home from work one day, Rita’s husband, Paolo, was murdered, and their sons-who were teenagers-decided to avenge his death. She and her husband had two sons-who were apparently twins. Rita grew up wanting to become an Augustinian nun, but her parents had promised her in marriage, so she was forced to marry at age 12. Rita, so humble, so pure, so mortified, so patient and of such compassionate love for thy Crucified Jesus that thou co. ![]() I love this story of how white bees dropped honey into her mouth when she was a baby. Rita, whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible, who for thy lavishness in granting favors hast been called the Advocate of the Hopeless and even of the Impossible St. Rita, worker of miracles, I am in need of. Rita for a miracle comes into play: Dearest St. Rita’s story-how she was born to her parents in the later years of their lives. In moments where we yearn for divine intervention, the prayer to St. When I was a little girl, I didn’t know much about her other than that she was a nun and that she had a wound on her forehead. Rita statue because she was my very own saint. There’s a little space tucked off to the side that’s full of statues, and one of them is St. That was always exciting, especially because it meant there was a chance we’d get to ride the carousel at the Inner Harbor afterward.Īfter Mass was over, we would walk up to the front of the church to see the statues. When I was growing up, every now and then we would wake up on Sunday morning, and my parents would announce that we were going downtown to St. ![]()
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