Prayer

Rita, humble and pure; patient and compassionate lover of Christ Crucified!

We have confidence that everyone who has recourse to you, will find comfort and relief.

You know our challenges, our issues, our sorrows.

Protect us in all our needs and show your power with God on our behalf.

Remind God of each one of us all.

Obtain our petitions for us, if they are for the greater glory of God and for our good.

Amen.

O Powerful St Rita

Rightly called Saint of the Impossible,

I come to you with confidence in my great need.

You know well my trials,

for you yourself were many times burdened in this life.

Come to my help, speak for me, pray with me,

intercede on my behalf before the Father.

I know that God has a most generous heart

and that he is a most loving Father.

Join your prayers to mine

and obtain for me the grace I desire

[mention your request here].

You who were so very pleasing to God on earth

and are so much more now in heaven,

I promise to use this favour, when granted,

to better my life, to proclaim God’s mercy,

and to make you more widely known and loved.

Amen.

O Holy Patroness of those in need, St Rita,
whose pleadings before thy Divine Lord are almost irresistible,
who for thy lavishness in granting favors
hast been called the Advocate of the Hopeless and even of the impossible.

St. Rita, so humble, so pure,
so mortified,
so patient and of such compassionate love
for thy Crucified Jesus,
that thou couldst obtain from Him whatsoever thou askest,
on account of which all confidently have recourse to thee expecting,
if not always relief, at least comfort;
be propitious to our petition,
showing thy power with God on behalf of thy suppliant;
be lavish to us,
as thou hast been in so many wonderful cases,
for the greater glory of God,
for the spreading of thine own devotion,
and for the consolation of those who trust in thee.

We promise, if our petition is granted,
to glorify thee by making know thy favor,
to bless and sing thy praises forever.

Relying then upon thy merits and power before the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
we pray thee grant that [mention your request here].

By the singular merits of thy childhood,
Obtain for us our request.
By thy perfect union with the Divine Will,
Obtain for us our request.
By the sacrifice of thy children rather than see them grievously offend God,
Obtain for us our request.
By the miraculous entrance into the convent,
Obtain for us our request.
By thy severe penances and thrice daily bloody scourgings,
Obtain for us our request.
By the suffering caused by the wound thou didst receive from the thorn of thy Crucified Savior,
Obtain for us our request.
By the Divine love which consumed thy heart,
Obtain for us our request.
By that remarkable devotion to the Blessed Sacrament,
Obtain for us our request.
On which alone thou didst exist for four years,
Obtain for us our request.
By the happiness with which thou didst part from thy trials to join thy Divine Spouse,
Obtain for us our request.
By the perfect example thou gavest to people of every state of life.
Obtain for us our request.

Pray for us, O holy St. Rita,
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:

O God,
Who in Thine infinite tenderness
hast vouchsafed to regard the prayer of Thy servant,
Blessed Rita,
and dost grant to her supplication
that which is impossible to human foresight, skill and efforts,
in reward of her compassionate love and firm reliance on Thy promise,
have pity on our adversity and succor us in our calamities,
that the unbeliever may know Thou art the recompense of the humble,
the defense of the helpless,
and the strength of those who trust in Thee,
through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

Amen.