We have recently added a new prayer to our website and YouTube channel — The Healing Prayer to Our Lady of Good Health
The Prayer to Our Lady of Good Health is a petition to Mary under her title of Our Lady of Vailankanni, asking her intercession for healing and strength in times of sickness. It calls upon her compassion as a mother who has brought comfort and recovery to the sick throughout the ages, entrusting our bodily and spiritual needs to her care and asking for the grace to accept God’s will with patience and peace.
The “Novena to the Infant Mary” invites us to contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary in her earliest years, from the moment of her Immaculate Conception through her childhood. This nine-day devotion honors Mary as the pure and holy child who was destined from her very beginning to become the Mother of God, recognizing her unique privilege of being conceived without original sin.
This novena is traditionally prayed during the nine days leading up to the Feast of the Nativity of Mary on September 8th.
Are you facing an urgent need, a sudden crisis, or an impossible situation? St. “Mother” Teresa of Calcutta was famous for her “Flying Novena”—an emergency prayer to Our Lady that “flies” straight to heaven for swift intercession.
In this novena, the Memorare is prayed ten times: nine times for a pressing intention and a final time in confident thanksgiving, allowing our urgent petitions to “fly” swiftly to the Blessed Virgin Mary for her immediate intercession.
This novena leads up to St. Teresa of Calcutta’s feast day on September 5th.
We have recently added a new prayer to our website and YouTube channel — The Litany of Gratitude.
The Litany of Gratitude is a prayer of thanksgiving that walks through the many gifts God has given us, from the gift of life and faith to family, home, daily bread, and the trials that draw us closer to Him. It moves from the mercy of God through the daily blessings of everyday life and closes with a prayer asking that our lives, not just our words, become an expression of gratitude to Him.
The Chaplet of St. Monica is a devotion imploring the prayers of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, whose seventeen years of prayers and petitioning led to conversion of her son, who ultimately became a saint in the Church.
This chaplet is especially intended for parents and loved ones who are praying for the conversion of a son, daughter, family member, or anyone in need of conversion.
Today the Church honors St. Maximilian Kolbe on his feast day!
St. Maximilian Kolbe was a priest and martyr who gave his life at Auschwitz during the Holocaust in place of a stranger condemned to die. Even in a place built for despair, he chose love, leading his fellow prisoners in prayer until his final days.
This prayer asks for his aid for all those who are imprisoned, struggling, or in need of the grace to face life’s hardest trials with faith.
Join us in prayer as we seek the powerful intercession of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the martyr of charity, for courage and sacrificial love. If you are facing a difficult trial or feeling forgotten, let us pray together for the strength to endure.
Do you have someone in your life who has drifted from the faith, wandered into doubt, or seems far from God right now? This novena is for them. Bring their name to St. Monica each day and ask her to intercede the way she did for her own son, with patience, with trust, and without giving up.
St. Monica spent nearly twenty years praying, fasting, and weeping over her son Augustine, who ran wild for most of his youth before becoming one of the Church’s greatest saints. She never lost hope, even when things looked hopeless, and a bishop once told her that “the son of these tears shall never perish.” She also had a difficult marriage to a pagan husband, and her quiet, steady example eventually helped bring him to the faith too. Today she’s the patron saint of mothers, wives, and the conversion of loved ones, which makes her novena a natural fit for anyone praying for family who’ve drifted away.
St. Michael’s Lent is a 40 day period of prayer, fasting, and penance observed each year from August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, to September 29, the Feast of the Archangels.
This devotion traces back to St. Francis of Assisi, who kept it in honor of St. Michael, withdrawing to the mountain of La Verna to prepare himself through prayer and fasting. Near the end of that period, he received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ marked into his own body.
Franciscans have carried on the tradition since, treating these weeks as a season of renewed prayer and penance, offered in thanksgiving for St. Michael’s protection and in preparation for the feasts of fall.
St. Jane Frances de Chantal is the patron saint of forgotten people, widows, and parents separated from their children, and is invoked by those struggling with in-law difficulties.
Born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot in Dijon, France, in 1572, she lost her mother as an infant and was raised by her father, a president of the Parliament of Burgundy, who gave her a strong education and formation in the faith.
At 21, she married Baron Christophe de Chantal, and the couple had a happy marriage and six children, though only four survived to adulthood. Tragedy struck nine years later when her husband died from a hunting accident. Widowed and grieving, Jane struggled to forgive the friend responsible, and for a time lived under the difficult authority of her demanding father-in-law.
During a Lenten sermon, she heard Bishop Francis de Sales preach on forgiveness, and his words moved her to pardon the man who had caused her husband’s death. Francis de Sales became her spiritual director, and together they founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary in 1610, a community dedicated to prayer and to caring for those other orders would not accept, including the sick and the elderly.
Jane spent the rest of her life building up the Visitation order, establishing dozens of convents across France. She died on December 13, 1641, in Moulins. She was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767. Her feast day is celebrated on August 12.
The Queenship of Mary Novena is a devotion honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth. Rooted in the ancient tradition of the Church, this novena prayer recognizes Mary’s participation in the redemptive work of her Son.
Through this prayer, we acknowledge Our Lady’s royal dignity as the Mother of Christ the King, and we seek her powerful intercession in our times of need. It is a devotion particularly suited for those seeking peace in their hearts, protection for their families, and the grace to follow God’s will with the same “fiat” as our Blessed Mother.
Our Lady of Knock is a title given to Mary in honor of her silent apparition on August 21, 1879, in the small village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, where fifteen witnesses saw her appear alongside Saint Joseph and Saint John the Evangelist, with a lamb and cross upon an altar nearby. Though she spoke not a single word, the apparition has brought healing, peace, and conversion to countless pilgrims ever since, and Knock has become one of Ireland’s most beloved Marian shrines, drawing over a million visitors each year.
The faithful continue to turn to Our Lady of Knock with confidence, trusting in her intercession for healing and hope in every trial. Her feast day is August 17th.
Reminder! First Friday is this week — August 07, 2026.
The First Friday Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is prayed on nine consecutive first Fridays of the month. The requirements are attending Mass, receiving Holy Communion with the intention of making reparation to the Sacred Heart, and going to Confession around that time. After completing the nine, Jesus promised special graces including the grace of final perseverance.
St. Roch is known as a powerful patron against plague, epidemics, and contagious disease, a devotion that spread quickly after he was credited with healing the sick during a plague in Italy through prayer and the sign of the cross. He is also invoked as patron of surgeons, invalids, pilgrims, bachelors, and dogs, the latter tied to the faithful hound who cared for him after he himself contracted the plague and was left to suffer alone in the woods. His feast day is celebrated on August 16, and to this day the faithful turn to him with confidence, trusting in his powerful intercession for protection from illness and disease.
Our Lady of the Assumption is a title given to Mary that honors the mystery of her being taken up body and soul into heavenly glory at the end of her earthly life. Pope Pius XII solemnly defined this as a dogma of the Catholic faith in 1950, though the belief itself stretches back to the earliest centuries of the Church.
The feast is celebrated every August 15 as one of the great Marian solemnities of the liturgical year, reminding the faithful of Mary’s unique place in salvation history and standing as a sign of the resurrection and eternal life promised to all who follow her Son.
