Prayer to St. Gianna for an Expectant Mother
June 22, 2004
SharonMarie

In thanksgiving, we turn to you in our hour of need,
beloved Gianna.
Our God has seen to it that we come to know you,
even after your passing.
As a physician,
your compassion magnified a heavenly love and caring
for your neighbor.
As a wife,
your devotion poured forth in your thoughts, words and actions,
as you nurtured your marriage with gentle attentiveness.
In your motherhood, your joy was complete.
Can a mother know a greater earthly sadness
than the loss of her child?
In your two miscarriages,
we know you entered into a sorrow that was not of this world.
Yet, to know you as a mother is to know that joy was the nature of your being.
We ask you this day to assist us as we pray for all mothers who carry life within them,
especially~(mother's name).
Assist us as we lift our hearts to heaven, that God will return His favor with grace and joy.
may this little life within, grow to the world's awareness, so that the world may come to know God.
Saint Gianna, we ask for your faithful, motherly intercession for~(mother's name).
Obtain for her the interior peace she seeks as she endures all that is unseen,
in the unfolding of this hidden miracle of life.
Ask Our Heavenly Mother to impart her tender affections to this mother,
who is living in the advent of God's plan to be revealed.
Guide her in the desire to pray, fervently, to seek God's will
in all the hidden mysteries of motherhood.
Plead, on her behalf, that her faith be preserved should sorrow be in her midst.
Pray that a childlike trust continues to grow within her,
and that this trust may ignite the healing flames of Divine Love and Mercy
to all who have been entrusted to her care.
Join us, Saint Gianna, as we pray:
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be
Jesus, Mercy!

Prayer to Saint Gianna for a Mother Who is of Ill Health.

Saint Gianna,
You are a mother who was faced with the painful awareness
that your health would not keep you with your children.
Your intense suffering was sustained
by the consolations you received in the Eucharist.
We ask for your faithful, motherly intercession
for this mother~(name of mother).
Obtain for her the interior peace she seeks to endure her suffering.
If it be God's Holy will,
ask that she be freed of this cross of ill health
so that she may continue to radiate God's purpose in her family.
Impart a fervent desire in this mother
for a renewed devotion to the
Blessed Sacrament, the font of all graces!
Entrust to her the image of the crucified Christ,
where, laboring beneath the Cross,
His Mother gave birth to us all.
As Mother Mary remains at the foot of all crosses,
plead to Our Lady to present this request
of healing and mercy to her Son,
for the sake of His sorrowful passion,
We ask this, beloved Gianna, in humility and thanksgiving.
Join us, Saint Gianna, as we pray:
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be...
Jesus, Mercy!

Written by Sharon Willoughby
June 22, 2004