Prayers of Devotion to Saint Rita of Cascia

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1.  Prayer to Saint Rita

Dear St. Rita, messenger of peace and herald of reconciliation, despite hardship and suffering you lived the gospel message of compassion and forgiveness and showed the power of love to conquer hatred and to establish harmony.

Help me to follow your example and to be an instrument of Christ’s peace. 

Pray that my heart by always open and my arms extended to pardon those who do wrong and even to embrace with mercy those who inflict injury.

Pray that God may use my humble gestures to touch hearts and sow peace.

2.  Daily Prayer to Saint Rita 

Dear Saint Rita, during your entire life on earth you found your happiness by following the will of our heavenly Father.  Help me to be as trusting of God in all his designs for me.  Help me this day to give myself to him as you did, without limit, without fear, without counting the cost.  Help me to be generous in serving the needs of others, patient in all difficulties, forgiving toward all who injure me.  Help me to learn more deeply the great mystery of the cross of Jesus, so that by embracing it as you did, I may come to experience its power to heal and to save.  Amen.

3.  Prayer to Saint Rita

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 known 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).

Obtain for us our request

By the singular merits of thy childhood,
By the perfect union with the Divine Will,
By thy heroic sufferings during thy married life,
By the consolation thou didst experience at the conversion of thy husband,
By the sacrifice of thy children rather than see them grievously offend God,
By thy miraculous entrance into the convent,
By thy severe penances and thrice daily bloody scourgings,
By the suffering caused by the wound thou didst receive from the thorn of thy Crucified Savior,
By the divine love which consumed thy heart,
By that remarkable devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, on which alone thou didst exist for four years,|
By the happiness with which thou didst part from thy trails to join thy Divine Spouse,
By the perfect example thou gavest to people of every state of life,
 

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.