4 Powerful Intercessory Prayer to St. Monica For A Wayward Person

Prayer #1)

Exemplary Mother of the Great Augustine,

you perseveringly pursued your wayward son,

not with wild threats but with prayerful cries to heaven.

Intercede for all mothers in our day

so that they may learn to draw their children to God.

Teach them how to remain close to their children,

even the prodigal sons and daughters

who have sadly gone astray.

Amen.

Prayer #2)

Dear Saint Monica, you were once the mournful mother of a prodigal son.

 Your faithfulness to prayer brought you and your son so close to God

 that you are now with him in eternity. By your intercession and God’s

 grace, your son St. Augustine became a great and venerable Saint of the

Church. Please, take my request to God with the same fervor and

persistence with which you prayed for your own son.

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With your needs, worries and anxieties, you threw yourself on

 the mercy and providence of God. Through sorrow and pain, you

constantly devoted yourself to God. Pray for me that I might join

you in such a deep faith in God’s goodness and mercy.

Above all, dear Saint Monica, pray for me that I may, like your son,

turn from my sin and become a great saint for the glory of God. Amen.

Prayer #3)

Dear St. Monica, troubled wife and mother,

Many sorrows pierced your heart during your lifetime.

Yet you never despaired or lost faith.

With confidence, persistence and profound faith,

you prayed daily for the conversion

of your beloved husband,

and your beloved son, Augustine.

Grant me that same fortitude, patience and trust in the Lord.

Intercede for me, dear St. Monica,

And grant me the grace to accept his will in all things,

through Jesus Christ, our Lord,

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God forever and ever.

Amen.

Prayer #4)

Blessed Monica, mother of St. Augustine,

we give thanks to our Father in Heaven Who looked with mercy

 upon your tears over your wayward son. His conversion

and heroic sanctification were the fruit of your prayers.

Dear St. Monica, we now ask you to pray with us

for all those sons and daughters that have wandered away from God,

and to add your prayers to those of all mothers who are worried

over their children. Pray also for us that,

following your example, we may, in the company of our children,

one day enjoy the eternal vision of our Father in Heaven.

Amen.

Blessed St. Monica pray for us. Amen.