St. Gerard Majella
Patron of expectant mothers
Died: 1755
St. Gerard Majella, religious, is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born at Muro, Italy, in 1726 and joined the Redemptorists at the age of 23, becoming a professed lay brother in 1752. He served as sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. However, because of his great piety, extraordinary wisdom, and his gift of reading consciences, he was permitted to counsel communities of religious women.
This humble servant of God also had the faculties of levitation and bi-location associated with certain mystics. His charity, obedience, and selfless service as well as his ceaseless mortification for Christ, made him the perfect model of lay brothers. He was afflicted with tuberculosis and died in 1755 at the age of twenty-nine.
This great saint is invoked as a patron of expectant mothers as a result of a miracle effected through his prayers for a woman in labor.
Prayer: O Great Saint Gerard, beloved servant of Jesus Christ, perfect imitator of your meek and humble Savior, and devoted Child of the Mother of God: enkindle within my heart one spark of that heavenly fire of charity which glowed in your heart and made you an angel of love. O glorious Saint Gerard, because when falsely accused of crime, you did bear, like your Divine master, without murmur or complaint, the calumnies of wicked men, you have been raised up by God as the Patron and Protector of expectant mothers. Preserve me from danger and from the excessive pains accompanying childbirth, and shield the child which I now carry, that it may see the light of day and receive the lustral waters of baptism through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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St. Gerard,
God brought you to me during this trying time in my pregnancy. Please watch over me and my unborn child. Even though I am only 6 weeks pregnant, it is already a trying pregnancy and will be very hard and difficult, with many complications. I pray to you and to the Holy Mother for the life of my unborn child and myself. Amen
Dear St Gerard, pls bless my unborn child, may he or she be born without any complications and may you please bless me throughout this pregnancy and delivery. Pls watch over my baby and I. Also pls bless my friends, jacky, mayeli and Claire, may they also have healthy babies and pregnancies. Thank you
Dear St Gerard I have come again,this time to thank you for your miraculous intercession for seeing me thru my pregnancy and by the power of the risen Christ granting me a safe natural delivery. I'm now a proud mother of a 2 week old healthy and perfect baby boy. I ask for your continuos guidance over him and pls grant also the desires of all who turn to you for help so that just like me their joy will be complete thru Jesus Christ our lord,Amen.
Dear St Gerard
I prayed to you 14 years ago to bless my husband and I with as many children as we could love. I am grateful to you as my children are 12, 10 and 9 years of age and just the most amazing people I know. Thank you yesterday, today and tomorow.
Saint Gerard,
I pray to you to please hear our prayers and bless my husband and I with a happy, healthy baby. We have been trying to get pregnant and every month that passes without a positive pg test is another break in our hearts. We want nothing more than to bring a child into the world and raise it with God's love. We love you. Thank you. Amen.
Please St. Gerard help my daughter to conceive a healthy, beautiful baby. Please let it be God's will to bless this couple with children. Thank you - Amen.
Dear St. Gerard I pray that you may intercede for me in praying for a child. I have lost 3 pregnancies so far and i am beginning to loose hope. Pray for me and my hushand that we may be blessed with a family. I also pray for my two best friends who are also trying for babies. Remember us dear Saint. Amen
Saint Gerard , please intercede to the good lord Jesus for healing over my body. I have been told that there is no baby Iim my gestational sac . Been have spotting so may miscarry be pray that everything turns out ok
Dear St. Gerard,
I humbly ask a prayer,for my wife rachel for a healthy pregnancy and till delivery, from her starting in ist 3 to 4 months pregnant she countered spotting leaving doctor a advice to bed rest, and now she in 27weeks, and come to doctor for the ultrasound for what the baby condition,the doctor finds out our baby in her's womb is a baby girl, the position of the baby is breech presentation, i humbly ask of your guidedance and safeguard to my wife normal pregnancy and until delivery,and please help the doctor and personnel who are assisting on her delivery guiding them to there work always, with all this i pray, with your intercession st. gerard, and Mother Mary, in Jesus name. Amen.
Please pray for me and my husband as we been trying for 5 years to have children
I ask to be bless because I want to give my husband child please I don't know what to do anymore please help us please pray for me speak to my father ask him to bless up please. My name is Eloise Alexis
O great St. Gerard, wonder worker of our day and intercessor before God. I call upon you and seek you help that i may remain pregnant as i am experiencing difficulties. We have tried very hard to conceive this child and i pray that you will bless this baby and keep it safe and strong enough to endure an entire full term pregnancy. Please pray for this baby and for me that we may have a strong healthy pregnancy and beyond.
Amen.
Thank you St Gerard for helping me to be a mother to my beautiful daughter. i have lost two angels in the last 9 months. please intercede for my husband and i fall pregnant and carry a baby to term. i cant face the pain of loss again, Sacred heart of Jesus i place all my trust in thee.Pray for us.
Amen
Dear St. Gerard
I pray for your protection and safety of my first baby. After 3 losses, I pray that my 18 weeks baby grow to be healthy until my due date on Sept. 4. Please free me of any worries that I am feeling right now. If I develop gestational diabetes, please let it be not life threatening or not pose harm to me and my baby. I pray for my upcoming routine ultrasound that there will be no complication to me and my baby. This I pray to you St. Gerard and to Mother Teresa, Amen.
St Gerard, please grant us our wish to have children. We trust and confide in you that one day we may become parents. To you we pray to help us fulfill our wish, Amen
Dear St Gerard,
I pray the Novena to you this month, thank you for entering our lives when we need you most, I pray this is our month to conceive a healthy baby girl or healthy baby boy, if it is God will. Thank you. Amen
St. Gerard,
Please help me have a healthy successful pregnancy. We struggled to conceive this child and are worried that it may not be strong enough to endure the entire 9 months. Please intercede for us that the baby may grow strong and healthy and that I remain strong and healthy throughout the pregnancy and beyond so that I may raise this child to love God, Jesus his Savior, Mother Mary and you.
Amen!!
St. Gerard,
Please help my sister in law and I have safe and healthy pregnancies and beyond
Dear Saint Gerard,
Me and my husband waiting to have baby for 13 years. One cycle of IVF also got failed last month. I pray to you to bless us & show the correct path. Please pary for us and give us the child. I TRUST in you.
St. Gerard, I ask that you please watch over Jacqui Trinh and please help her deliver a healthy baby. Please protect both mother and child. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Thank you St.Gerard for the miracle you've done for us,we appreciate it and now we have the most wonderful,healthy little girl.I'll ask you once more to help others who's pregnant,especially Stephanie Chan Koop Man who is having difficulty with her health,please may her and bub be healthy throughout the whole pregnancy and may her deliver her baby without any problems.I am sure you'll look after her.Amen.
From Gina,Destiny and Matt.