Can I Pray With You?

Saints invoked in today's episode: St. Martin de Porres -- Patron Saint of Interracial Harmony; St. Jude -- Patron Saint of Hopeless Cases; St. Michael -- Patron Saint of grocers, soldiers, doctors, mariners, paratroopers, police, and sickness; St. Raymond Nonnatus -- Patron Saint of Children; St. Joseph -- Patron Saint of Families

Lord, we pray this rosary for the repose of the souls of Amaud Arbery, Botham Jean & Atatiana Jefferson, Jonathan Ferrell & Ranisha McBride, Stephon Clark, Jordan Edwards, Jordan Davis, Alton Sterling, Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, The Charleston 9: Clementina Pinckney, Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel L. Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton & Myra Thompson, Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Corey Jones, John Crawford, Terrence Crutcher, Keith Scott, Clifford Glover, Claude Reese, Randy Evans, Yvonne Smallwood, Amandou Diallo, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. May they find peace in Your Kingdom and loving embrace. In Your name we pray. Amen.

O, powerful St. Rita, rightly called Saint of the impossible, [we] come to you with confidence in [our] great need. You know well [our] trials, for you yourself were many times burdened in this life. Come to [our] help, speak for [us], pray with [us], intercede on [our] 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 [ours] and obtain for [us] the grace [we] desire [strength and whit for parents supporting children learning from home, support for those children learning from home, comfort for the lonely, rest for the tired, and peace for those who are stressed with financial instability]. You who were so very pleasing to God on earth and are so much so now I heaven, I promise to use these favors when granted, to better our lives, to proclaim God's mercy, and to make you more widely known. Amen.

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