Current Causes for Canonization

Catherine McAuley, Founder of the Sisters of Mercy

Prayer for Beatification of Catherine

Loving God, you chose Catherine McAuley for the service of your people
who are poor, sick and uneducated. You inspired her to found the Sisters of Mercy so that these good works might endure. Give to each of us, her daughters, a portion of her compassionate spirit and an ardent desire to serve your suffering people. Bless all our undertakings and grant that union and charity may always thrive among us.
Graciously hear our prayer for Catherine, and by granting the favours we ask through her intercession, hasten the day when her sanctity will be celebrated by all the church. Amen .

Prayer for a Sick Person, Asking Her Intercession

O beloved Catherine, through the power of my most compassionate Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I humbly beseech you to look with love and pity on (name) who is ill at this time. Stir up in me the same passion that impelled you to respond to the needs of your time. Bless me with the sure knowledge of your presence and with a complete trust in your providence. Use once again your spirit of compassion and your ardent desire to alleviate suffering and to restore her/him to full health if it is God's holy will. I ask this in the Name of Jesus who lives and reigns with the Father in unity of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Read more about Catherine McAuley

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Sisters of Mercy
7262 Mercy Road
Omaha, NE 68124-2389

(402) 393-8225

www.mercyoma.org

(As a sidenote: I personally attended Mount Saint Mary's Academy for Girls in Little Rock, AR, for 4 years, graduating in 1977. This is a school run by the Sisters of Mercy, and we were taught about Sr. Catherine McAuley and her sanctity. I support her cause. The Sisters of Mercy are awesome! )

Prayer to Obtain Canonization for Blessed Brother Andre Bessette

O Jesus, You wanted the devotion to Your foster father St. Joseph to be made known through the efforts of Brother Andre. Grant that the Church may glorify, at the earliest opportunity, this faithful friend of the poor, the sick, and the afflicted.

St. Joseph of Mount Royal, pray for us.

O God, You are most admirable in Your saints, and we petition You to grant us, through the intercession of Brother Andre, the apostle of St. Joseph, the favor of (mention your intention), so that Brother Andre might be glorified in the Church and that we may be led to imitate his virtues. Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

Read more about Blessed Andre Bessette, Feast Day: January 6

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Brother Ulysses Hamel, CSC
Secretary, Cause of Brother Andre, CSC
St. Joseph's Oratory
3800 Queen Mary
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3V 1H6

(514) 733-8211

Prayer for the Beatification of the Servant of God: Frank Duff,
Founder of the Legion of Mary

God our Father, You inspired Your servant Frank Duff with a profound insight into the mystery of Your Church, the Body of Christ, and of the place of Mary the Mother of Jesus in this mystery. In his immense desire to share this insight with others and in filial dependence on Mary, he formed her Legion to be a sign of her maternal love for the world and a means of enlisting all her children in the Church's evangelizing work.

We thank You Father for the graces conferred on him and for the benefits accruing to the Church from his courageous and shining faith. With confidence, we beg You that through his intercession You grant the petition we lay before You (make your request here). We ask too, that if it be in accordance with Your will, the holiness of his life may be acknowledged by the Church for the glory of Your Name, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Read more about Frank Duff

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Legion of Mary
De Montfort House
Morning Star Avenue
Brunswick Street
Dublin 7,  Ireland

EMAIL the Archbishop of Dublin: archbishop@abhouse.org

Prayer for the Canonization of Father Patrick Peyton, CSC:
20th Century Rosary Crusader

Dear Jesus, Father Peyton devoted his priestly life to strengthening the families of the world by calling them to pray together every day, especially the Holy Rosary. His message is as important for us now as it was during his life on earth. We beg You, therefore, to hasten the day of his canonization so that Your faithful people everywhere will remember his message that the family that prays together, stays together, will imitate him in his devotion to Your Mother and ours, and will be inspired by his holy life to draw ever closer to You with childlike confidence and love. Amen.

Read more about Father Patrick Peyton

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Office of the Vice Postulator
Father Peyton Center
518 Washington Street
North Easton, MA 02356-1200

(508) 238-4095

http://www.familyrosary.org/main/home.php

email the Office of the Vice Postulator

Prayer Asking Favors Through the Intercession of the Servant of God: Catherine Doherty

All loving Father, through Your beloved Son, Jesus, we have been taught to ask for what we need. And through His spouse, our Mother the Church, we have been instructed to pray for one another, and to ask the intercession of Your servants, who have fallen asleep in Christ. Therefore, through the intercession of Your servant, Catherine Doherty, we ask (mention your petition). We ask this for Your honor and glory, and in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son our Lord. Amen.

Imprimatur: J.R. Windle, Bishop of Pembroke; May 1, 1993

Read more about Catherine Doherty

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Postulator for the Cause
Madonna House Apostolate
2888 Dafoe Rd
Combermere ON  K0J 1L0
Canada

cause@catherinedoherty.org

 

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa's United Nations Prayer
(Mother Teresa composed this prayer for the United Nations International Year of the Family)

Heavenly Father, you have given us a model of life in the Holy Family of Nazareth. Help us, O loving Father to make our family another Nazareth where love, peace and joy reign. May it be deeply contemplative, intensely Eucharistic and vibrant with joy. Help us to stay together in joy and sorrow through family prayer. Teach us to see Jesus in the members of our family especially in their distressing disguise. May the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus make our hearts meek and humble like His and help us to carry out our family duties in a holy way. May we love one another as God loves each one of us more and more each day, and forgive each other's faults as You forgive our sins. Help us, O loving Father to take whatever You give and to give whatever You take with a big smile. Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. Holy Guardian Angels be always with us, guide and protect us. Amen.

Prayer by Mother Teresa

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

Read more about Blessed Mother Teresa

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Postulation of Mother Teresa
2498 Roll Drive
PMB 733
San Diego, CA 92154 USA

www.motherteresacause.info

EMAIL: post@motherteresacause.info

Bl. John Paul the Great

PRAYER FOR ASKING GRACES THROUGH THE INTERCESSION
OF Blessed JOHN PAUL II

O Blessed Trinity
We thank You for having graced the Church
with Pope John Paul II
and for allowing the tenderness of your Fatherly care,
the glory of the cross of Christ,
and the splendor of the Holy Spirit,
to shine through him.
Trusting fully in Your infinite mercy
and in the maternal intercession of Mary,
he has given us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd,
and has shown us that holiness
is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life
and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you.
Grant us, by his intercession, and according to Your will,
the graces we implore,
hoping that he will soon be numbered
among your saints.
Amen.

With ecclesiastical approval:
CARDINAL CAMILLO RUINI
the Holy Father’s Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome

Read more about Bl. John Paul II

If anyone should experience a miraculous favor, please contact:

Mons. Slawomir Oder
Vicariato di Roma
Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 6/A
00184 ROMA

http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/Beatificazione/HomePage.asp

e-mail: Postulazione.GiovanniPaoloII@VicariatusUrbis.org

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06/01/2011