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The title of or Blessed Whenever we pray to a saint, recognizes that a person lived a we are asking that person to holy life, is in heaven, and their intercede directly on our behalf life should be an inspiration to to God, knowing that all us. However, there are many answered prayers and more saintly in Heaven come from the power of God, who are not known to us on not the saints themselves. earth. Having pictures or statues of This practice of honoring saints saints is not much different came from a long-standing than having pictures in our tradition in the Jewish faith of house or wallet of loved ones honoring and holy who have passed away. It people with . reminds us of the holiness to which we are called.

Created by the Hospital Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington WHO IS ? Saint Padre Pio is one of the greatest intercessors in the today. He was a Capuchin Catholic from . During his lifetime, he became known for bearing the (wounds of Christ), and performing many miracles. His life work was devoted to the suffering and to his hospital. He loved to pray the , encouraging others to pray also. Padre Pio was a Catholic mystic who sought union with God. He taught that through and contemplation, the could be brought into union with God.

Padre Pio encouraged his Christian followers to seek to do the will of God and to be detached from personal desire. Here are some of Fr. Stefan Starzynski’s favorite quotations from Padre Pio: • “Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry.” • “My usual manner of praying is this: I no sooner begin to pray than my soul becomes enveloped in a peace and tranquility that words cannot describe. All I can say about this prayer is that my soul seems to be completely lost in God and that in those moments it gains more than it could in many years of intensive spiritual exercises.” • “Through the study of books one seeks God; by one finds him.” https://saintpiofoundation.org Praying this 9-bead chaplet to St. Padre Pio regularly is a beautiful way deepen your relationship with God. Pray on the Crucifix: Oh , full of grace and charity, victim for sinners, so impelled by Your love of us that You will to die on the cross, I humbly entreat You to glorify in heaven and on earth, the , Padre Pio of , who generously participated in Your sufferings, who loved You so much and labored so faithfully for the glory of Your heavenly Father and for the good of souls. With confidence, I beseech You to grant me, through his intercession, (mention your request here...) which I ardently desire.

On each set of the three beads say one Our Father, one and one Glory be.

Concluding Prayer on the medal: † Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have Your present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You. † Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often. † Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light an without You I am in darkness. † Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will. † Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You. † Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and always be in Your company. † Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You. † Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love. † Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes; death, judgment and eternity approach. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that I need You. It getting late and death approaches; I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile! † Stay with me tonight, Jesus; in life with all its dangers, I need You. Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart. † Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love. † Stay with me, Lord for it is You alone I look for, Your love, Your grace, Your will, Your heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more. With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.

Prayer for the Intercession of St. Pio of Pietrelcina Dear God, You generously blessed Your servant, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, with the gifts of the Spirit. You marked his body with the five wounds of Christ Crucified, as a powerful witness to the saving Passion and Death of Your Son. Endowed with the gift of discernment, St. Pio labored endlessly in the confessional for the salvation of souls. With reverence and intense devotion in the celebration of , he invited countless men and women to a greater union with Jesus Christ in the of the Holy Eucharist. Through the intercession of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, I confidently beseech You to grant me the grace of (here your petition). Amen. Glory be to the Father… (three times). Pope St. John Paul II

O Blessed Trinity, we thank you for Pope John Paul II (Karol having graced the Church with St. John Wojtyla) was born on Paul II and for allowing the tenderness May 18, 1920 in of your fatherly care, the glory of the Wadowice, Poland. Cross of Christ and the splendor of the He entered the seminary Spirit of love to shine through him. in 1942 during the Nazi’s Trusting fully in your infinite mercy and occupation of Poland, and was ordained in the maternal intercession of Mary, he a priest in 1946 when communists ruled has given us a living image of Jesus the the country. In 1978, he was elected as Pope and took the name of John Paul II. Good Shepherd. He has shown us that He led the Church as Pope for 26 years, holiness is the necessary measure of and was a prolific writer, teacher and Christian life and is the way of traveler. During his Papacy, the Soviet achieving eternal communion with you. Union dissolved and the revised Grant us, by his intercession, and Catechism of the Catholic Church was according to your will, the graces we published. He died on April 2, 2005 and implore, through Christ our Lord. Amen. was canonized a saint on April 27, 2014. https://www.jp2shrine.org

Venerable Nelson Baker

Father Nelson Baker was born on February 16, Lord, you gave us Your servant 1842 and ordained a Nelson Baker as an example of priest on March 19, 1876 service to the poor, homeless, and for the Diocese of Buffalo, young. By Father Baker’s ardent NY. In 1882, Fr. Baker concern for those in need, inflame was assigned to Lackawanna, NY, where he our hearts and lives with stayed for the rest of his life. While there, he formed the Association of Our Lady of compassion for the poor, justice Victory, and began to build a new church for the oppressed, hope for the and various homes for unwed mothers, a troubled, and courage for those in hospital, an orphanage and industrial doubt. We pray through the school. Later, he built the Basilica of Our intercession of Our Lady of Lady of Victory and several Homes of Victory, if it be Your will, that Your Charity. He died on July 29, 1936 and the servant, Nelson Baker, may one process for his is underway. On January 14, 2011, he was named day be canonized. Amen. Venerable. http://www.fatherbaker.org St. Damien of God, we praise you for the gift you gave the Born in rural Belgium lepers through St. Damien. St. Damien, you on January 3, 1840, had to spiritually uplift a forgotten people, Jozef De Veuster was and encourage them through the physical the youngest of 7 and emotional pain involved with their children in a pious disease. You also had to battle the family. In 1863, he depression and lawlessness of such broken took his ’s place on a mission to people. When you contracted the disease , and was ordained a priest there yourself, you taught by example the beauty in 1864. Much of his ministry was and importance of life no matter the helping the sick, and in 1873, he circumstances. St. Damien, give me the volunteered to live on the island of grace to teach through my own pain as Molokai to help the lepers who were well. Help me to use the crosses in my life relocated there by caring for them to inspire others, bring hope, and give God physically and spiritually, building glory. At this time, I also bring you my hospitals, houses, a church and school. petitions to include in your prayers. In 1884, he contracted leprosy himself, (State your intentions here) and died on the island in 1889. He was St. Damien, Pray for Us! canonized on October 11, 2009. http://damienchurchmolokai.org

St. of Molokai Barbara Koob (Cope) was Lord Jesus, you who gave us your born on , 1838 commandment of love of God and neighbor, in Heppenheim, Germany., and identified yourself in a special way with and emigrated with her the most needy of your people, hear our family to the prayer. Faithful to your teaching, St. Marianne a year later. In 1862, she Cope loved and served her neighbor, especially entered the Sisters of St. Francis and took the most desolate outcast, giving herself the name “Sr. Marianne.” For 6 years, she generously and heroically for those afflicted by served as the administrator of a hospital in leprosy. She alleviated their physical and spiritual sufferings, thus helping them to NY, before being asked to manage a accept their afflictions with patience. Her care hospital in Hawaii. In 1883, she arrived in and concern for others manifested the great Hawaii with six other , and worked love you have for us. Through her merits and with people who had leprosy. In 1888, she intercession, grant us the favor which we moved to Molokai to assist St. Damien in confidently ask of you so that the people of his final months, and to take care of the God, following the inspiration of her life and patients and children living there. She apostolate, may practice charity towards all lived there until her death of natural according to your word and example. Amen. causes in 1918, and was canonized on Through the intercession of St. Marianne Cope, I ask for the grace of (mention your request). October 21, 2012. http://www.saintmariannecope.org St. Mother Cabrini Frances Cabrini was O Almighty and eternal Father, born on July 15, 1850 Giver of all Gifts, show us Your in , Italy. mercy, and grant, we beseech You, As a young child, she through the merits of Your faithful dreamed of being a servant, Saint Frances Xavier missionary. In 1877, Frances professed her Cabrini, that all who invoke her and a few years later, intercession may obtain what they founded the Missionary Sisters of the desire according to the good of Jesus. In 1888, Pope pleasure of Thy Holy Will. Leo XIII asked her to go to America and (mention your request). help the Italian immigrants there. She St. , beloved traveled throughout North, Central and spouse of the Sacred Heart of South America, establishing 67 orphanages, schools and hospitals. She Jesus, intercede for us that the died on December 22, 1917 as an favor we now ask may be granted. American citizen, and was canonized Amen. on July 7, 1946. www.cabrininationalshrine.org

St. Teresa of Calcutta Agnes Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, you allowed Albania, and left her the thirsting love of Jesus on the home in September Cross to become a living flame within 1928 to join the you, and so became the light of His Sisters of Loreto, love to all. Obtain from the Heart of where she took the name Sister Mary Jesus (here make your request). Teresa. In 1929, she departed for Calcutta, India, and upon taking her final Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate vows in 1937, became . and possess my whole being so In 1946, she received the call from Jesus completely that my life, too, may to found the Missionaries of Charity and radiate His light and love to others. work with the poor and the suffering. Amen. After almost 50 years of tirelessly , spreading her mission to love and serve cause of our joy, pray for me. the poor throughout the world, she died on September 5, 1997, and was Saint Teresa of Calcutta, pray for me. canonized on September 4, 2014. https://www.motherteresa.org/about.html St.

Little is known about the life of St. O faithful and glorious , Philomena, but it is believed she was a St. Philomena, who works so many Greek princess who became a virgin miracles on behalf of the poor and martyr and died at 13-years-old. St. sorrowing, have pity on me. You Philomena was apparently scourged, know the multitude and diversity of drowned with an anchor attached to my needs. Behold me at your feet, her, and shot with arrows. Each time she full of misery, but full of hope. was attacked, angels took to her side and I entreat your charity, O great saint! Graciously healed her through prayer. Finally, the hear me and obtain from God a favorable answer Emperor had Philomena decapitated. to the request which I now humbly lay before Devotion for Philomena began to spread you (here mention your petition.) I am firmly once her bones were exhumed in May 1802. convinced that through your merits, through the After her were enshrined, cancers scorn, the sufferings and the death you did were cured, wounds were healed, and endure, united to the merits of the Passion and miracles occurred, all attributed to St. death of Jesus, I shall obtain what I ask of you, Philomena. Other saints, such as St. John and in the joy of my heart I will bless God, who is Vianney and St. , venerated admirable in His saints. Amen. Philomena and attributed miracles in their St. Philomena, powerful with God, pray for us. lives to the young martyr. https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=98

St. Joseph, Patron of Universal Church This prayer, found in 50 AD, is considered to Everything we know be a powerful novena (said 9 days in a row): about St. Joseph, the O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so husband of Mary and strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I the foster father of place in you all my interests and desires. Jesus, comes from O St. Joseph, assist me by your powerful Scripture and Tradition. intercession and obtain for me all spiritual Second to the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph is blessings through your foster Son, Jesus considered the most powerful saint in Christ Our Lord, so that, having engaged Heaven, and is the of the here below your heavenly power, I may offer Universal Church, as well as of fathers, of you my thanksgiving and homage. workers, of the sick, and of a happy death. O St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating St. Teresa of Avila had a deep devotion to you and Jesus asleep in your arms. I dare not him, and said: To other saints, the Lord seems approach while He reposes near your heart. to have given grace to succor us in some of Press Him in my name and kiss His fine our necessities but of this glorious saint, my head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss experience is that he succors us in them all when I draw my dying breath. and that the Lord wishes to teach us that as St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray He was Himself subject to him on earth … just for me. so in Heaven He still does all that he asks. http://catholicstraightanswers.com/who-was-st-joseph/ Prayer in Time of Sickness or Trial Prayer to Our Lady of Victory O good Jesus, I accept willingly this by Venerable Fr. Baker sickness [or trial] which it has pleased O Victorious Lady, Thou who has you to lay upon me. I confide all my ever such powerful influence with pains to your Sacred Heart, and beg you Thy Divine Son, in conquering the to unite them with your bitter hardest of hearts, intercede for sufferings, and thus perfect them by those for whom we pray, that their making them your own. hearts being softened by the ways of Since I cannot render you the praise due Divine Grace, they may return to the to you because of the multitude of my unity of the true Faith, through sorrows and afflictions, I ask you to Christ, our Lord. Amen praise God the Father for all I suffer, with the same tribute of praise you offered him when your agony on the Cross was at its height. As you thanked him with all the powers of your soul for all the sufferings and injustice which he willed you should endure, so, I pray you, give him thanks for my trials also. Offer my sufferings, physical and spiritual, to him together with your most holy pains to his eternal honor and glory. Amen.

Prayer to accept suffering Jesus, You suffered and died for us. You understand suffering. Teach me to understand my suffering as You do; to bear it in union with You; to offer it with You to atone for my sins and to bring your grace to souls in need. Calm my fears; increase my trust. May I gladly accept your holy will and become more like You in trial. If it be your will, restore me to health so that I may work for your honor and glory and the salvation of all. Amen