Prayer to Saint Rita

Rita of Cascia, born Margherita Lotti, (1381 – 22 May 1457) was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

In Christian iconography, she is depicted with a bleeding forehead wound and sometimes holding a thorn.Rita has acquired the reputation, together with St. Jude, as a saint of impossible causes. She is also the patron saint of sterility, abuse victims, loneliness, marriage difficulties, parenthood, widows, the sick, bodily ills, and wounds.

O Glorious St. Rita, who didst miraculously participate in the sorrowful Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, obtain for me the grace to suffer with resignation the troubles of this life, and protect me in all my needs. Amen.

 Prayer to St. Rita When in Special Need 

O powerful St. Rita,rightly called

the 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 gene-

rous heart, and that He is a most loving Father. Join your

prayers to mine and obtain for

me the grace I desire, ( here mention your request ).

You, who were very pleasing to

God on earth, and are so much

so now in heaven, I promise to use this favor, when granted, to

better my life. To proclaim God's

mercy, and to make you more

widely known and loved.


AMEN