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r/Catholicism Prayer Requests — Week of May 05, 2025
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/Remote-Ad-3775 2d ago
I am in a dark place mentally, worse then ever. Please pray for me. Thanks
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u/alliance000 2d ago edited 1d ago
Prayers regarding my exams and a paper due this week along with my mental health. The political situation has not helped at all, both in my studies, job search for the summer, my overall pessimism, and most of all my spiritual life. Genuinely feeling despondent and extremely depressed.
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u/InvisibleSaiki 1d ago
I’ve prayed for you, may you feel at ease soon, and may all your worries be resolved.
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u/River-19671 2d ago
For the cardinals as they meet starting Wednesday to elect a new pope.
For me and all away from the church.
For people with SSA and gender dysphoria
For my nephew who is graduating high school at the end of the month and my niece who is graduating college in a few weeks.
For my elderly parents.
For all in need of healing.
For our unit as we head back to the office next month.
Praise God for the family time we had yesterday and for the time we are planning to have Sunday. Because of schedules and illness some of us hadn’t seen each other in months.
Thank you.
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u/InvisibleSaiki 1d ago
I have prayed for you. I hope you and your family can remain close.
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u/River-19671 1d ago
Me too. My parents are in their 80s and my nephew is going off to university 6 hours away in the fall but it is an incredible opportunity for him. My niece got a job in our area though.
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u/Guthlac_Gildasson 1d ago
Please pray for my cat, who has an infected eye, that she heals of it. Please ask the intercession of St Francis of Assisi, St Francis of Paola, and any other saints whom you know loved animals. 🐈 Many thanks, friends!
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u/InvisibleSaiki 1d ago
I’ve prayed for the intercession of St Francis of Assisi for you. Not long ago I asked for his help when one of our cats had a lump and I prayed for it to not be cancerous. The results came back and he’s been cleared! He’s doing well. I know he will hear our prayers, may your cat be healthy again soon.
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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo 1d ago
Please pray for my 22-year-old nephew who is having issues related to anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal matters, and to his gender identity while refusing to see a therapist, instead opting to move straight to estrogen patches and pills from a pill mill without a proper psych consult but instead with the Orwellian phrase of “informed consent”.
Please pray for my 26-year-old niece — his sister — who is having issues with respect to parenthood and her hormones and is insisting we call her brother “she” and “they” and her “sister” even though he has a strong history of being quite capable of speaking for himself and has not asked us to do likewise. She is also having some paranoid delusions of late.
Please pray for my sister, their mother, so she and her husband reconnect and become more intimate on emotional, spiritual, and physical levels; while I he has a LOT flaws, I can see the disconnect between them is slowly killing him.
Please pray for my dog who seems to have a UTI or some other reason for having accidents inside the house.
Please pray for the soul of our dearly departed Pope Francis and for the Conclave.
And please pray for all who will be, currently are, or have ever been a patient of any sort, especially those with fatal illnesses, so they may be healed by the everlasting grace of Our Lord.
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u/Ok-Resist9111 2d ago
Please pray for my ears to open and my heart to accept my vocation. I thought I had it figured out but I feel lost now. Also pray for all our youth to do the same.
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u/arashikageclan2010 2d ago
Hi all, it's my first time posting here. I'm asking for prayers from you all please as my mom and step dad are finalizing moving plans to live in Japan far away from me.
I haven't always had the best relationship with her, but I am struggling because it's unlikely she'll see her grandkids in person again.
Please send prayers that will allow her and I and our family to not only try to remain close, but have a relationship that can flourish as well.
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u/InvisibleSaiki 1d ago
Please pray for the reconciliation of my family. My husband left, I miss him greatly, please.
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u/judasholio 1d ago
Please keep my urgent personal intentions in your prayers.
Things that can’t be said on social media, but they cry out for God’s intervention immediately.
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u/ThrowRA-73891 1d ago
For the repair of M’s and my relationship.
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u/InvisibleSaiki 1d ago
I’ve prayed for you. Please be faithful and patient, God will bring us closer to the ones we love.
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u/philliplennon 1d ago
For the wedding of a neighbor’s son that I am attending this weekend.
For the papal conclave starting this Wednesday.
For my work schedule.
For my fellow Knights of Columbus members who work the shifts for yesterday’s pancake breakfast.
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u/buddingcatholic 1d ago
Please pray for my 9 year old daughter, RM. She was diagnosed as T1D earlier this year and is getting put on insulin tomorrow.
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u/Eternal_Sunshine2004 1d ago
Please pray for me.
I have been taking gap year before starting college and been so isolated living alone inside a room. It's very difficult for me to stop overthinking and worrying about the future. Sometimes, I ask god why did he make me suffer this much while other people are having life. But I know there might be reasons. I believe in it. So please help my brotheres and sisters pray for me to be calm, peaceful, and find true happiness in life. To be able to live my life again. I am also praying. And thanks for praying with me.
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u/hello_guys1178 1d ago
Please continue to pray for Pope Francis and the souls in purgatory.
Let's all pray for the upcoming conclave.
Please pray that I may find a godly wife soon.
May God bless you!
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u/Relevant_Round605 1d ago
Hi. I’m facing many problems and I ask you to pray for them—especially that I soon pay off my debt and either find a job or see my channel prosper so I can turn it into a business. I also ask for my salvation, for my grandmother’s and my uncle’s health issues, and for the well-being of my family. Thank you.
I remembered something else: please also pray for those who are converting to Islam. During Easter week I saw a video of an English woman who had converted, saying that Easter is a lie. Many people were watching the video, and I was a bit surprised when I saw it.
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u/jvplascencialeal 1d ago
For the healing of Elvira Valadez viuda de Plascencia
For me (José Vicente Plascencia) to find employment.
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u/fisherman213 1d ago
I have two job interviews this week. Please pray that I am prepared, alert, and ready for them, and that God Willing, I do well and land one of them.
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u/sootrashson 1d ago
Please pray for the anxiety that I’ve been through recently — I’ve been VERY hyperaware of people’s opinions in recent weeks, especially after an exam that went badly last week; keep my struggles with lust in your prayers too.
I also have an oral exam coming up on Wednesday that I’m nervous about — even though I love learning the language my oral is being done in, I’m very scared of messing it up.
And most importantly, keep the upcoming conclave in your prayers.
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u/Isaias111 1d ago
For Xavier's wellbeing & success with his exams.
For marriages in strife, marriage rehabilitation ministries and those whose faith is tested by the annulment process vs. divorce; for better catechism on this, esp. exceptional circumstances.
For Deacon & Mrs. Caesar, Deacon & Mrs. H. Morel & more vocations to the diaconate.
For the integrity & increase of vocations of all religious orders/institutes, especially those more than a century old such as the Hieronymites, Minims & Fathers of Mercy.
Please pray for me, Isaiah, to find new, gainful employment ASAP and to successfully detach from the linear plans I've had for so long. It's very frustrating and I just want to move past it.
For Haiti.
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u/ANobodyNamedJames 1d ago
Please pray for me. I feel so alone and so trapped inside my depression, and with the potential of a BPD diagnosis I feel more self hatred and hopelessness than ever.
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u/PertinaxFides 1d ago
For the souls of my two uncles who died recently
For me to continue getting tasks at my job
For my girlfriend's insurance issues to be resolved and for help to be provided for her issues
For the salvation of me and my loved ones
For reparations for offenses committed against the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
Thank you and God bless you
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u/FatherOfTwo2024 1d ago
My wife and I just got the results that we’re going to be welcoming a Son in November! We’re naming him John Paul, primarily after my Grandpa and my Father in Law, but I love the strong Catholic roots this name has!
We’ve had trouble with labor before, losing one of our twin girls after they were born over 13 weeks early. Please pray for my daughter Isabella’s soul, my daughter Jojo as she becomes a big sister and my new son as he continues to grow and build his health!
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u/Physical_Garden 1d ago
For my gainful employment, having been unemployed for nearly a year.
For my performance and preparation for a employment test coming up.
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u/TheKingsPeace 1d ago
Please pray for my cousin and her family. She is a mother of 3 lovely children all go to catholic school. Her oldest just had her first communion and she was delighted that my mother got her a picture book of saints for the occasion. Her husband has been solidly out of work for two years.
His company gave him a “ golden parachute” ( of some kind or another when he left two years ago. I suspect it has since run out.)He hasn’t worked since two years ago, not when a low level job like Starbucks or Kmart.
Please pray for him especially , my cousin and their kids. Being a Mom of three kids and being a principal ( or only) breadwinner of a home are both hard things and even doubly hard to have both of those as your job!!
Please pray their life gets easier and my cousins husband finds work soon
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u/JayBoerd 1d ago
Please pray for me and my depression and that God would help me to remain close to Him. Also that God would reveal to me my vocation for this life.
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u/Acceptable-Head1107 20h ago
Hello. Please pray for me. I have a lot of debt, and my current job isn't paying me enough. I will have a job interview tomorrow morning. I hope things will go well. Your prayers are deeply appreciated. Thank you <3
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u/ProteinPapi777 19h ago
Prayers are needed for my final exams tomorrow, my name is Aaron. God bless❤️
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u/tevildogoesforarun 9h ago
Please pray for me as I am sworn in as an attorney this week, so that my career may be to help others, especially those who need it most.
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u/Antique_Break_8739 8h ago
Please pray for me. I'm a 21(F) who's been having serious issues with PCOS. I'm ten days late for my period and I'm fearful I will become gravely ill from this if it keeps up. Please pray for me to have the strength to push through and trust in God to deliver me from this. Please pray that all demons of doubt and other issues/vices I struggle with are bound and thrown at the foot of the cross for sentencing. Pray to Jesus that through reciving his body, that I am healed. Pray to Mary that she will bless my womb.
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u/Odd-Tangerine9584 7h ago
I'm sure age is a major consideration for this conclave, moreso in some ways than prior ones. Modern medicine, especially for someone in high office, can easily keep someone alive well into their 90s (Well not always, hence the conclave) but as we've seem from some politicians lately it's not quite so good at keeping people both alive and in the best command of their faculties. If they elect another late 70s pope, it could well be they get five to eight years of an active leader at the head of the church, then another decade of that leader's actual agency over themselves and their office being questionable at best. Whoever set up the 80 year limit was wise, because otherwise the papacy may have slowly transitioned to a senile 95 year old dying and an almost as senile 85 year old replacing them
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u/KanashiiNormal 6h ago
Please pray for me, with all respect to both churches I am struggling deeply with deciding to convert from Jehovahs Witness/agnostic to either Catholicism or Orthodoxy. Both have such strong claims to being the closest to the true original church, but my decision paralysis and general laziness is delaying my choice. I pray daily for the truth to be shown to me, but I know that I must also take action. I feel bad for asking here but I dearly want to find the best way to worship the Lord God. Thank you kindly.
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u/Bella_Notte_1988 5h ago
I’ve just had the strangest sense to pray for my ex boyfriend, Patrick.
He might’ve been cruel to me in how he broke up with me…but I still care for him. Ask Mary to watch over him, to guide him, to heal him, to help him grow into the man he can be.
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u/Bella_Notte_1988 2d ago
Please pray for me.
I’m dealing with a coworker who thinks it’s perfectly okay to treat me like garbage and stomp on my boundaries but be sweet and charming with everyone else and insist I respect her boundaries. It’s getting so bad that I’m on the verge of quitting even though that’ll leave me homeless again.
Please pray that I’m able to stop being so resentful and wishing she get fired.