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r/Catholicism Prayer Requests — Week of October 12, 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/75rpm 22h ago edited 22h ago
Hi all,
On June 28th, 2025, I posted my first prayer request on this subreddit for my mother following a serious diagnosis.
Sadly, she passed away in the early hours of this morning. I'm so grateful that I was able to see her yesterday and give her a kiss goodbye.
Please could you keep her in your prayers and pray for the repose of her soul.
I also want to thank all the doctors and nurses who cared for her throughout her illness, and everyone here who took the time to say a prayer for her.
I'm absolutely devastated, but in my original post back in 2025, my greatest hope was that she wouldn't suffer towards the end, and thankfully, she didn't.
Thank you all for your kindness and prayers.
God bless.
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u/Cursed_Sun_Stardust 15h ago
Pray for the soul of Fr Pedro Muñoz from the diocese of Raleigh who suddenly passed away this past weekend. He was beloved by everyone. He had previously served at the cathedral but was currently located in pinehurst nc.
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u/o_portista 23h ago
Please pray for all those who seem lost, and seek guidance. May they be healed from the pains they suffer from, whether it be physical, or mental pain, let it be known, that'll you'll make it through, and your not alone, may my health rise to a better condition, and that I truly make something out of this period of my life, Thank you so much! 🙏❤️
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u/sparklypitbull 19h ago
After dealing with recurrent pregnancy loss and secondary infertility, I found out I am pregnant on the same day I was laid off from my job of 13 years. Please pray for the health of our baby and for strength and guidance while navigating this.
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u/_theexbear 15h ago
Please pray for my mental and spiritual health. I’m currently in a PHP but I often still feel helpless and hopeless. On that note, does anyone know of any Catholic mental health support groups or something similar?
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u/StThomasMore1535 10h ago
The diocese ought to have a mental health line to connect you with a local service.
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u/estellesrosaries 23h ago
A close friend of mine is studying to become a priest and just moved to a new parish for his internship. Please, pray for him 🙏🏻
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u/criticalvictor 22h ago
Please pray for me. I live with my mom and older brothers and I want to leave the situation.
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u/RemusLupin768 21h ago
Two of my parish Priests Father Sebastian and Father Troy died recently if this lovely subreddit would be so kind to pray for the repose of their souls it would mean the world to me 💙
God Bless you all
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u/Alexplayss 20h ago
Please pray for my mum, who suffered the death of one of her closest friends on Friday.
Please pray for my mum (again) and sister, for them to start taking the faith more seriously. I'm really struggling with the fact that no one's bothering to even consider going to Mass on Sunday, while I'm driving myself mad over it. I haven't been to Confession in THREE MONTHS.
I've recently started praying the Rosary and I'm trying to be consistent by praying it daily. I forgot yesterday until, like, 11 PM, on a school night. Please pray for me so I can keep consistent.
Please pray for my mental health, which has only gotten worse over time. I find it hard to find reasons to keep going at times. No one depends on me, and there isn't a person in the world who I am the closest to. I wouldn't mind my life being shortened.
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u/philliplennon 18h ago
For my work schedule.
For my Knights of Columbus meeting tonight.
For my sister Caroline and her husband.
For everyone who attended last week’s YP event.
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u/folklore2023 16h ago
Please pray for my family’s finances. We are struggling at the moment.
Please pray for my husbands conversion to Catholicism.
Thank you all!!! 💕
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u/StThomasMore1535 15h ago
For those suffering spiritual warfare.
I have finally started taking steps to make my life better and my walk with Christ better, and Satan decided to whirlwind me with reminding me of everything wrong or bad about my life, past and present, and he gut punched me with my worst weakness last night that has left me in a sorry state and not open to God's graces at all out of shame.
Yesterday and this morning came straight out of Satan's playbook.
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u/Ok-Editor1747 15h ago
Please Pray for all the suffering souls to have peace. Please Pray for those in Purgatory to go home. Please Pray i can let go of my anger and have peace. Im just so tired.
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u/novavickie 14h ago
Please pray that my MRI last week was good enough for me to continue with the fertility sparing treatment for my endometrial cancer and that my follow up appointment on Wednesday is good. I'm just don't want to have to have a hysterectomy until I can have at least one healthy child.
I also ask for blessings for all the people who have prayed for me and wished me well.
I hope you all are doing well. Thank you.
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u/Alex_tepa 13h ago
I pray for me to understand how to love your neighbor even though they don't understand you and you're trying to say I'm sorry to them but we don't understand me to be able to do what God does
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u/jvplascencialeal 13h ago
Please pray for me this week:, for the work opportunity that finally came along May it be stable 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 agency over my hopes and dreams but according to God’s will and plan.
Lord, thank You for hearing my prayers and for opening this door to stable work. I am deeply grateful for this opportunity and for the people and circumstances You placed along the way to make it possible. Please guide me as I begin this new chapter: help me make the most of this opportunity, learn quickly, work with diligence, humility, wisdom, patience, and responsibility, and do my job well. Give me the ability to contribute meaningfully, earn the trust of those around me, grow professionally and personally, overcome the challenges that may come, and build greater stability for my future. Keep me from taking this blessing for granted, and help me remember that every opportunity is also a responsibility and a chance to serve others through my work. Please continue guiding my family and me so that we may speak to one another with understanding, gratitude, and peace as we make decisions about the future. And I also pray for those who are still searching for work, especially those who need it most: may You open the right doors for them and give them strength and hope. Bless the Human Resources employees and hiring managers who review their applications; give them wisdom, compassion, and fairness, and may they never forget the human part of their work or the person, family, hopes, and needs behind every résumé they receive. Above all, Lord, help me recognize Your will in this opportunity, use it well, grow through it, and remain grateful for the blessing You have given me. Amen.
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 against my bad impulses and emotions especially those against myself, and for my strength against the sins of lust, wrath, envy, gluttony and sloth.
Please pray for the souls of the recently departed and the ones in purgatory, specially the ones in most need.
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, Víctor Manuel Vucetich 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 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.
Lord my God, You know my heart, my hopes, my failures, my weariness, and everything I long for: meaningful work, independence, love, a family, and a life in which I can use well the gifts You have given me. You also know how deeply I have loved her and how difficult it has been to surrender what I wished could have been. I do not bring these desires before You as demands or conditions, nor do I doubt Your goodness when I ask, “Lord, what is Your plan for me?” I ask because I trust You and want to follow You, even when I cannot understand the road ahead. If I am doing something wrong, show me; if I must persevere, strengthen me; if I must wait, give me patience; and if You are leading me somewhere I never expected, give me courage to follow. Bless and protect RCG always, purify my love so that I may desire her good without possessing or interfering, and keep my heart open to whatever future You have prepared for me. Deliver me from false promises, divination, despair, bitterness, and every temptation to seek certainty apart from You. I will not trade my conscience or my faith for love, success, money, or anything else I desire. Help me pursue what is good without mistaking Your silence for abandonment or today’s struggles for the sentence of my whole life. I do not ask for a life without a cross, Lord; I ask for the grace to carry faithfully the crosses You permit without inventing others for myself. And when I am tired, frustrated, or unable to understand, let me still say: “Father, I do not understand, but I am still here. I trust You. Lead me, and let Your will be done in my life, not as a defeated man surrendering to despair, but as a son placing his life in the hands of a Father who loves him.” Amen.
AMEN
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u/jeffisnotmyrealname 11h ago
Pray for my sanity and sanctity.
Pray for my family's conversion as well as the conversion of Patrick, Tom, Regan, Marty, Alison, Karen, Nina, Sheila, Lauren, Angela,
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u/bluglass21 10h ago
That my husband will get one of the jobs he has applied for. That our financial situation will improve. That my symptoms of schizophrenia will cease or at least decrease. For an end to war. Amen.
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u/knightofourlady 8h ago
Please pray for my healing of my chronic illness. I went to the doctor today and once again they weren't able to help me. My symptoms continue to get worse and I'm struggling to have hope. I need a miracle.
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u/evergreenyankee 6h 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/SJBaerosols 12h ago
Please pray that our brethren renounce the slaver on our "team" and the ridiculous holiday commemorating his horrid example of Christianity
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u/hyperfixatin 5h ago edited 5h ago
please pray for my husband and i as i’ve been without a job for four months now and we just discovered i’m pregnant
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u/wanderingmapletree 15h ago
Please pray for all mothers, especially new mothers and those that are struggling with their mental health, that they find the support that they need.
Please also pray for celebrities who loudly advocate for abortion, that the Holy Spirit enlightens them with the truth.
Mary Mother of God pray for us.