What are some good prayers to offer up to the Saints on your behalf?

Question

What are some good prayers to offer up to the Saints on your behalf?

Answer 1

I pray daily to St Michael and to St Joseph.

I feel naked if I don't.

I pray for members of my family, and for the world, whoever needs it the most.

I also pray to my childrens' guardian angels

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of Battle; Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke Him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast into h**l, Satan and all the other evil spirits, who prowl through the world, seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen

* * * * * *

(This powerful prayer of exorcism was composed by Pope Leo XIII; in a vision, he had been shown the fearful battle to be waged between Satan and St. Michael, over the Church of the future. Now, as never before, the Church needs the intercession of St. Michael Please say this prayer every day.)

Prayer to St. Joseph over 1900 years old

O   St. Joseph whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires.  O   St. Joseph do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having engaged here below your Heavenly power I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the Loving of Fathers.  O   St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms.  I dare not approach you while He reposes near your heart.  Press him in my name and kiss His fine Head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.  St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for us.   Amen.

Say for nine consecutive mornings for anything you may desire.  It has seldom been known to fail.

Answer 2

All of them!  I need all the prayers I can get!

How about you?

Answer 3

Prayer to St. John, Patron of Caregivers

Beloved St. John, from the cross Jesus entrusted to you

the care of His Blessed Mother.

Help me and all those taking care of a loved one

who is sick, elderly, disabled or frail.

Pray for us, that as we go about our many caregiving

duties, we may never lose sight of that truth

which Christ revealed to His disciples:

"Whatever you did for one of these,

you did for Me." Amen.

Dear Rita, model wife and widow, you yourself suffered in a long illness showing patience out of love for God. Teach us to pray as you did. Many invoke you for help, full of confidence in your intercession. Deign to come now to our aid for the relief and cure of (name). To God all things are possible; may this healing give glory to the Lord. Amen.

Lord,

make me an instrument of Your peace.

Where there is hatred,

let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.   

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;

to be loved as to love;

for it is in giving

that we receive;

it is in pardoning

that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying

that we are born to eternal life.