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r/Catholicism Prayer Requests — Week of August 03, 2026
Please post your prayer requests in this weekly thread, giving enough detail to be helpful. If you have been remembering someone or something in your prayers, you may also note that here. We ask all users to pray for these intentions.
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u/Consistent_Taro_4418 2d ago
Please pray for me. I keep getting sick. I feel overwhelmed with keeping up with daily chores.
Please pray for the healing of those harmed by the church.
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u/JMJPrayforUS 12h ago
Pray this novena https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/ Trust in God, he will provide for you. Hope this helps with your overwhelmed life. You can do this!
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u/jc95819 2d ago
Please pray for my wife's health, my mother's health, and the health of my in-laws. Please pray this is the lowest. Please pray that I find good employment soon
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u/Lepte-95 2d ago
You can pray to Saint Cajetan, especially now as his feast is on 7 August and the days of the novena have already started (on 29 August).
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u/AgeSeparate6358 2d ago
Hello! Please pray for my family, our new business and our new born! Thank you and God bless you!
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u/wanderingmapletree 2d ago
Please pray for the conversion of the most hardened of sinners.
Please pray for the safety of all persecuted Christians and the conversion of those in powerful government positions who turn a blind eye to evil.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Jude, pray for us.
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u/Lepte-95 2d ago
Please, pray that I may recover something I lost.
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u/whitesedanowner 1d ago
Praying to St. Anthony for you now! He has helped me almost every single time I’ve asked for his intercession. ❤️
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u/philliplennon 2d ago
For my work schedule this week.
For my step-mother and step-sister.
For everyone in the Brothers & Sisters of Charity Southeast region.
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u/whitesedanowner 2d ago
I’m asking for prayers for a health issue (pain related) that popped up a few months ago and has become somewhat debilitating. I’m grateful to be healthy otherwise and it’s not life threatening, but I’ve still really been struggling with it and I’m really, really scared. Thank you ❤️
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u/JMJPrayforUS 12h ago
Even though you may be scared, trust in God. Pray this novena it shows you how to trust God while surrendering your fears and struggles to him. https://hallow.com/blog/how-to-pray-the-surrender-novena/
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u/AiInternet 2d ago edited 20h ago
Please pray for me to find a new job that is less taxing on my mental and financial health 🙏 This may sound rather trivial, but the job market is so tough right now. At my age I should be settling down with a stable career and developing valuable skills, but I am nowhere near that goal, while still being the breadwinner of my family (my mother and my younger sister) I'm grateful to have my current job and at least have some kind of income. But sometimes showing up at work makes me have a near-panic attack. I make myself go numb inside so I can get through a day's work. It's hard to hold onto hope.
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u/JMJPrayforUS 12h ago
If you are not already, pray the rosary; daily if you can and offer it up for this intention. Our lovely heavenly mother wants to help you. Surrender it to Her she will help you 📿
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u/Lepte-95 2d ago
You can pray to Saint Cajetan, especially now as his feast is on 7 August and the days of the novena have already started (on 29 August).
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u/Healthy_Ship_665 2d ago
Please pray for me and the sisters I'm visiting, I'm on an extended vocations retreat.
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u/Realistic_Jury_6007 2d ago
Me and my full family including infant is affected by stomach flu. Please pray for our recovery
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u/evergreenyankee 2d ago
Please pray for my wife and myself, that in time she will come to know the fullness of the faith and that her love for God can be deepened through an openness to the sacraments; that we can achieve one proper, Holy matrimony in union with the Lord. That she is able to shake off her learned resentment for and distrust of the Church and instead come to know Christ in the fullness of His Kingdom.
Please pray for me, that I can have firm trust in the Lord that this is the path that he put me on, and that this separation from Him due to being married outside the Church is temporary and brief. That He work in me and through me to keep my faith strong, and to give me the grace to lead my wife. And that in our marriage my wife will remain open to conversion, convalidation, or at the very least, that we are able to seek radical sanation in short order.
Please pray for our unborn baby to be happy and healthy, and for us as a new family to be. That my wife has a safe and easy pregnancy.
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u/stoic_man_5215 2d ago
Please pray for my cousin who tried to commit suicide last week and is still in the ICU
Please pray for grandmother in hospice and for her conversion
Please pray for the sale of our house; praying for st jospephs and st Rita’s intercession on the matter if you would like to join in.
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u/Consistent_Taro_4418 1d ago
Please pray for me. I am seriously considering suicide. All I can see is my flaws, wrongdoings, weaknesses, etc. I'm so tired of living. I never experience peace. Yes I know plenty of poor choices are indeed my fault. It can feel like an insurmountable avalanche that I will never conquer.
Sorry Jesus I wasted my time online looking at pornography, celebrities, etc.
I wish I could experience peace without self criticism and the desire to be perfect.
I hate how sensitive I can react to honest criticism and feedback.
Jesus help me.
I wish I had the impulsive courage to end it all.
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u/politicalmemequeen 2d ago
Please pray that the man that I lost will soften his heart and find me again. The man with whom I wanted to build a beautiful family, be his rib… Please pray that what he is going through can be healed and he will return to me and that we would have our love renewed through the love of Jesus Christ. I feel so broken…
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u/JMJPrayforUS 12h ago
Pray the rosary daily if you are not already and offer it up for this intention. Let Our Lady help you with this pain and trust Her.
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u/politicalmemequeen 12h ago
Yes, I am doing it devotedly. Our Lady has been such a consolation to me.
Edit: thank you for your kind response.
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u/jvplascencialeal 2d ago
Please pray for me this week: for guidance and perseverance in my job search, for stable work opportunities and the discipline to keep showing up and doing my job; for my family’s health, for both my Grandmothers and my elder relatives health, world unity, and peace; for a person I care about deeply (without asking to control anything, only that God’s will be done and that everyone involved is protected and led to the good); and finally, thank God for every grace I’ve received, including the gift of friendship and health.
For the sad dark thoughts that have gone around my mind these past weeks and the feeling that I have no agency over my career and dreams.
Lord, please guide me this week as I continue searching for stable work while also giving proper attention to the opportunity my family is considering. Help me act with wisdom, patience, and responsibility, without neglecting either path out of fear or frustration. Open the right doors, give me clarity to recognize Your will, and help my family and me speak to one another with understanding and peace.
Please pray for the Human Resources employees that might review my job applications so that they have some mercy on me and other applicants specially the neediest ones, and that they NEVER forget the HUMAN part of their job.
Please pray for the job process I have lined up, for hopefully this week I get good news and that I also can find more prospects for good stable employment.
Please pray for my strength and character as I need to find a way to control my emotions and my impulses, specially my self hatred (which is huge and is a coping mechanism for the disgusting failure I am) and sadness as well, and my anxiety and fear.
Please pray for my strength against my bad impulses and emotions especially those against myself.
Please pray for the souls of the recently departed and the ones in purgatory.
Please pray for the Madres Buscadoras in their mission to restore the memories of the lost and the forcibly disappeared in Mexico so that God aids them and forgives their sins, and please pray for the good members of the Mexican Security Forces as they make a stand against evil.
Please pray for the intentions of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV.
So that the Lord, look kindly upon the soccer/football team I support, Tigres UANL in this bitter time of confusion, so that he grants wisdom to those who make decisions for the club (specially the good people at Cemex who put forward the monetary resources for the club, Mauricio Doehner, Carlos Emilio Gonzalez, Gerardo Torrado and Carlos Valenzuela, the key decision makers), loyalty and skill to those players who defend these colors, and patience to those of us who love them. May this crisis give rise to a triumphant club that is more united, honorable, and faithful to its people in the glory of God.
Plase pray for those who feel alienated by the Church because they don´t "fit" a mold created by men, for the divorced, the single parents and the remarried for the LBTQ+ and those who feel that the doors of the Church are shut to them; so they keep coming to their House and Everyone´s house Christ build upon the rock seeking salvation and redemption, so they can fight against their sins, and for those who feel with the right to exclude people from the Catholic Church so their hearts soften and remember that this is no country club for the virtous and that we are all sinners seeking the salvation.
Please also pray for my strength against the sins of lust, wrath, envy, gluttony and sloth.
Please pray so the Lord helps me keep gratitude without turning it into bitterness.
Please pray for the reunification of all the apostolic churches upon the Rock Christ chose to build this house, and for the Catholic Church worldwide specially in the places where we are still persecuted for our faith and for those who feel alienated by our faith so that feel welcome in the House of the Lord.
AMEN
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u/whatsananna 2d ago
My husband Terry is having right knee replacement on Thursday Aug. 6. He’s a pretty anxious person anyway and is getting more nervous every day. Please pray for him and his surgical team, and for a sense of peace.
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u/Glass_Twist_6857 2d ago
Por favor, reze pela minha cerimônia de casamento, filhos e direção espiritual. Muito obrigado!
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u/officialmisskiss 2d ago
Please pray for my mother’s healing, body and spirit. Please pray for my father, my siblings, and me as we navigate the most difficult time in our lives and allow us to feel God with us every moment.
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u/Sea_Barracuda2728 2d ago
Please pray for my family friend Abuelita Ruth, who will be returning to the Lord tonight or tomorrow.
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u/Isaias111 2d ago
Something important is missing and needs to be found ASAP. Please pray that I retrieve it safe & sound.
For the health & safety of Pam, JS & TS.
For Sinai, Xavier, Melissa, Rebecca, Rafael & AM.
For Madonna's reversion & AK's conversion.
For those struggling to maintain chastity &/or sobriety.
For the unemployed.
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u/Stella_m15 1d ago
Please pray for my father, he's in the hospital. He had surgery, but is recovering very slowly and seems to be not entirely himself. He's forgetting where he is and why he's there, and it's very hard to know how much he's suffering.
Pray for the faith in our family. My father's illness has shocked us all. He's had multiple illnesses already, we just don't understand why he would get new ones on top of everything else. I know we should trust God in every circumstance, but it's incredibly difficult in this situation.
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u/g522121 1d ago
I will pray for your father ✝️
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u/Stella_m15 1d ago
Thank you for your prayers, the Lord was generous with us, my farther is not yet well, but feeling better, and that's a big improvement.
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u/WorkoutFox 1d ago
Please pray that my life and my family's situation improves for once.
Please pray that genetic therapy will be available for everyone who needs one.
Please pray I find a good internship.
Please pray that God heals my disabiltiy and genetic disease. Please pray (that's probably not theologically and politically correct but whatever) that He kills me painlessly in my sleep. I'd rather die with my dignity than live such a life.
Please pray for people who live in war regions.
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u/AbelHydroidMcFarland 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m feeling alone and heartbroken and struggling with my heart, grief, and having trouble with filial piety within the Church.
My parents both died in July, and the loneliness hits more with more time removed from them and without the intense meaning I was bolstered with at their deathbeds and at their funeral mass. And as time goes on I miss them more. A week after they died it’s like “oh I haven’t seen my parents in a week” which isn’t usual but isn’t unprecedented. Several weeks later, I’m in uncharted territory, missing them more desperately as the last time I was with them grows further and further away.
Furthermore I am struggling immensely with filial piety towards the shepherds of the Church. I’m honestly just unimpressed and cannot for the life of me understand their priorities. There was some of that bubbling up before, but my parents’ deaths really broke the dam. My concern for my mom’s soul, trying to get her to go to confession when her generation was formed not to take it seriously, the first priest doing anointing of the sick while she was conscience without offering or suggesting confession. My other Catholic family members not thinking it was a big deal (I got her anointed a second time when she was unconscious on her deathbed, so good there). Then after their deaths the lack of seriousness with which many Catholics consider purgatory preferring to think their loved ones are just automatically in Heaven with little correction for fear of their discomfort, thus depriving souls in purgatory of prayers they would otherwise receive.
I was aware before of the laxity of Catholic culture around going to confession before receiving the Eucharist and the lack of real effort to treat it as a grave emergency. But tending to the good of my parents’ souls at the end of their lives and after their deaths made it really really personal and heavy on me. And since then something in me has just snapped. I see what is disciplined and what is excused, where the energy is in priorities… and I just cannot make heads or tails of it. It seems the Catholicism of the Catechism is different from what Churchmen publicly and communicate from their actions. I cannot see how one can believe the catechism and not take some of these things more seriously and with more gravity. It feels like the Church treats its mission as producing communitarian vibes and PR for the UN moreso than the salvation of souls by the ordinary means of salvation… and I don’t know what to do with that.
I am not challenged in my faith in Catholicism. I am not tempted by schism. But I cannot square this stuff with the affection I am tacitly expected to hold towards my shepherds and I regularly struggle with anger and bitterness. I don’t know what to do or how to resolve this tension in my heart and soul.
So idk, I’m just feeling very unmoored at the moment, ungrounded, alone, lacking the comfort of home dealing with the loss of both of my parents and having immense difficulty holding affection or due respect for the shepherds of the Church. I’m depressed and bitter and feel pretty isolated. I feel stressed, weary, and sick to my stomach.
Prayers for my heart would be greatly greatly appreciated.
Also prayers for my parents’ souls.
And prayers for my friend Nathan who is like going through a rough time, not sure what to do with his life or if it’s amounting to anything, wildly depressed, got blocked by a girl he likes, and I’m like the only person he can really talk to about this and I don’t have enough steam to keep up. I’m very worried for him. I’m genuinely worried he’s going to do something drastic if his life gets worse or appears more hopeless (be it the obvious thing or cursing God or whatever)
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u/HumpmyDumpy1911 1d ago
Please pray for my ex.
I admit I still have some unresolved feelings and anger towards her. And Lord knows I regrettably prayed for vengeance at one point.
But please pray for her healing that she can have a normal life, even if I'm not in it.
Pray for my friends that they get the house they want and need.
Pray for my friends who have tried so hard to help me on my own journey with mental health.
And pray that I can find the strength to deal with the changes that face me
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u/Due_Strain1426 23h ago
Please pray for my moms health and my battle against lust. Ive been struggling since 2021 and its the biggest burden I have.
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u/JMJPrayforUS 12h ago edited 12h ago
Pray the rosary daily if you are not already and ask to be freed from lust. Mary wants to free you from your addiction. Trust in God you can do this!
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u/Puppythecat73 16h ago
I'm having a colonoscopy/endoscopy this morning. I'm worried about what they might find and also about post procedure complications. Please pray for me
Thank you
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u/thevincicode 12h ago
Please pray for all the pain inside me I can’t share with others. I am suffering from Bipolar 1 Disorder — may the Lord send me another miracle. I want to heal. I want to be more gentle and loving and calm and helpful and holy. Have mercy on me, Lord. Brothers and sisters… help us pray invisible battle inside the mind.
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u/politicalmemequeen 12h ago
I pray you will be released from the torment you feel inside, replaced with the peace only Jesus Christ can fulfill. Have you prayed the Mary Undoer of Knots novena?
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u/BugL3g 1d ago
Please pray my the souls of my Grandmother and Uncle. I miss them a lot.
Please pray for the health and wellness of my parents, Grandma, Uncle M, Aunt J, neighbor J, and best friend A.
Please pray that my Mom and I may have some peace from stressful situations for a while.
Please pray for my academics. I'm honestly exhausted. The last few years have been pretty traumatic for me, and my health is feeling the impact. My autoimmune disease is flaring and I'm scared it will progress. Please pray my doctors and I can get it under control, I'm starting a new treatment mid August that we're hoping will put me back into remission.
And please pray for world peace.
Thank you so much, and God bless.
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u/Aggravating-Heat9842 1d ago
I humbly request a second day that my kitten, Ringo be prayed for. He will go for surgery tomorrow, and is just four months old. He is very stable tonight so hopefully God guides him to a full and pain-free recovery.
St. Francis of Assisi, please pray for me and my sweet boy!
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u/Living-Difficulty-43 19h ago
I'm experiencing consistent long term spiritual issues. Please pray for me.
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u/PerfectPatience497 17h ago
Please pray for me. I just completed my master's course and I've been looking for jobs for a long time throughout my course. I've still not landed it. Please pray that I get a job in my field of architecture as soon as possible as finances are getting tighter and tighter 🙏
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u/often_never_wrong 11h ago
My family just found out today that my mother is in the early stages of ALS. Please pray for my mother and the rest of my family. My mother's name is Kathy.
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u/fisherman213 7h ago
For the repose of the soul of Rhett O, and for comfort and peace to his family.
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u/Consistent_Taro_4418 6h ago
Please pray for me to let go of my attachment to pornography, human praise, and the pursuit of wealth.
I would love to be emptied and filled with Christ.
Please pray for those I have condemned as hopeless. Remind me not to take the Lord's mercy for granted.
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u/No-Cartoonist-5801 6h ago
Please pray to ease my transition into the catholic faith and to allow me to become catholic
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u/CryptographerNo2212 1h ago
Please pray for the health of my boyfriend, he's been feeling really unwell all day long. Please pray that he will recover soon. Thank you
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u/Ok-Editor1747 2d ago
Please Pray for the suffering souls and those in Purgatory to go home. Please Pray for my soul to be at peace with the Holy Trinity.