
Send Deacon Keith Your Prayer Requests

Please click the link below to submit your prayer requests.
Why am I asking you?
Because we must unleash the most powerful force in the world - PRAYER. Let me explain in more detail.
Before calling the Apostles, Jesus spent the entire night in prayer. (Luke 6:12) In His Sacred humanity, Jesus shows us the pattern for our life.
Because you - like me - see the importance of our Catholic faith, YOU can participate in our mission to spread the Gospel to all nations.
Here is how you can: I am inviting you to be a "first responder" by sending your prayer request to me, thereby joining our worldwide movement of praying for one another.
Here is all you need to do: Click the link below and tell me what you'd like me to pray for you.
Deacon Keith Fournier
Chaplain of YCVF and Dean of Catholic Online School

Let Us Pray
Together, let us pray for the needs of our brothers and sisters.
Please remember these intentions in your daily prayers.
- Thank you Jesus for my grandson Joseph first day in school. May You always Bless, guide & protect Joseph from all evil.
Cindy , 8/24/2015 - Heavenly Father, forgive me, my family and all of your children for our sins. Heavenly Father, I thank you for all the blessings you have bestowed on me, my family and all of your children. Heavenly Father, I pray to you for help. I pray to you Heavenly Father for my sisters speedy recovery from her recent surgery and better health. I pray to you Heavenly Father for my friends speedy recovery from her recent surgery, that it is successful and she will be pain free and healthy. Also, help her to free herself from her reliance on pain pills. I pray to you Heavenly Father that my mother's surgery will be successful. That her health and her outlook on life will change for the better. I pray to you Heavenly Father that you will bring together me and my special lady, that we will get married and spend the rest of our lives together, that we will have a child together, that I will lover and take care of her kids as if they were my own, that I will have the financial resources to provide for my special lady and kids and our families, that we all will get closer to you Heavenly Father. I pray to you Heavenly Father to help me become a better person. I pray to you Heavenly Father to help all of your children to become better people and get closer to you, I pray to you Heavenly Father to help and take care of all of your children here and in heaven. I pray to you Heavenly Father in the name of your Son Jesus. I ask all of you who read this to pray also, as I will pray for you.
tim, 8/24/2015 - Hello my name is jorge.well brother's and sister's please i encourage all of you to please pray for me and my family i am trying to get my life back i want to go back to school and i need a employment so i could get back in my feet thank you and GOD bless
Jorge, 8/24/2015 - there is so much addiction in my family. please pray to rid this world of deadly addictions. not only my family, but all families!!!!!
Joanna, 8/24/2015
- I would like to pray request for my self. I have done my Immigration Medical for extension of visa but there was Low value of MCH and MCV so that I have to do repeat Blood Investigation tomorrow I believe that In Jesus their is nothing Impossible he cure all the disease n keep his child healthy so I request to do pray for me.
Daisy, 8/24/2015 - Please pray for Susan to regain her normal hearing ability.
Julian, 8/24/2015 - Please pray for my father, Victor who is 56 years old. He was yesterday diagnosed with liver cancer and was told by the doctor that he doesn't have many days left as there is no treatment available for him to heal him right now. He is devastated and worried, but I pray that Jesus will work His miracles and heal my father. I also pray that my father will convert to believe in Jesus after seeing how He has healed him. God bless all of you.
Amen, Flora
Flora, 8/24/2015 - Dear Heavenly Father, I'm requesting prayers for my son, Brian who has lost his job and struggling each day! He has a interview on Wednesday and I pray he will get it! I also need prayers for my husband Raymond who needs surgery! I ask for these prayers in your name. Amen
Debi, 8/24/2015 - Please pray for my mother in law she is currently in the hospital in a comma her brain isn't responding and the doctors are giving us two days for her to respond if not we will have to disconnect her from the life support machine oly a miracle can make her wake up please I beg you keep her in your prayers I really wish god can give us a opportunity to love her and value her presence here in this earth so her grandkids can grow with her as well that's what she always wanted please pray please.
mayra, 8/24/2015 - Please pray that my boyfriend Brian will pull his thoughts and heart together and will want to be a dad to the kids and want me as his wife soon. Pray that we will grow together close to God and do his work.
Jenny, 8/24/2015 - 8-24-15 YAHWEH in the holy name of JESUS i cry out to YOU, please answer yes to all our needs. please provide the daily needs of 3500 for american mattress man. for guidance in my life direction financial and all things. audra peace in a trying situation. art jr healing and peace in the truth and work direction. jessica healing and renewed passion for each other. stuart and leland cleer direction and protection. steve and denise home to come together well. justin fully clear on work. Praise YOU!
travis, 8/24/2015 - dear god, i'm praying because i'm getting frustrated at why my brother has not even attempted to apply for jobs. i've done so much to help and pray but god, i need your help because as time goes on, its going to get harder. i'm praying so earnestly and not sure what to do, which is why i've prayed to you daily. god, i'm praying for a miracle and your guidance for him, to start doing something as i fear he will never ever become something in life. please god, he is in dire need of confidence, please dear god, help him through this period. amen
sal, 8/24/2015 - Our Help is in the name of the Lord
Who has made Heaven & Earth
The Lord be with you
and with your spirit
Our Help is in the name of The Lord
Who has made Heaven and Earth
The Lord be with you
and also with you
Our help is in the name of The Lord
Who made Heaven and Earth
The Lord be with you
and may He also be with you
Let us pray:
Dear Lolrd, grant your blessing on mine all-seeing-eye-pentalpha, grant that it be empowered to serve many a purpose, grant it may work wiuth touching the eye with my index finger. Right for any purpose, left for Ultimate Power, and this statement: "It is my will....." and this incantation:
"Khenti-an maa akhet" Grant also that it be 100% effective both spiritually, and phsyically, strictly devoted to me alone, activate it, remain active make 100% Fully fundctional. Grant that it be lin ked to my 3rd-eye, my heart, my life, my DNA, my all my chakras, and my aura, and my spirit, and my flesh. Grant that it be always be exorcised for Your honor and Glory. Thank You I love you..may itts powers come through You Heaven Father. Through Christ our Lord..amen.
Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdome come, Thy will be done. On Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us our daily Bread, and forgis our tresspasses, as we forgive those who tresspass against us, and, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the Kingdom, the power, and the Glory art Thine, now and forever, amen
Sean, 8/24/2015 - Lord God thank you for all that you have done for me and my family,I asked of your blessings now that I drive.
Patience , 8/24/2015 - God,
I pray that I am able to over come my ITP. I pray that I am able to provide for my child and give her a bright future. I pray that we become closer, happier and loved then ever. I pray for that mother and daughter bond.
God, I pray for her father to be able to support more. I pray that I over come my debt and find my winnings soon. God, please, protect my child. I pray for everyone in my family.
amen
Helen, 8/24/2015
- Most holy prayerfully of petition and thanks to the Holy Spirit the Paraclete for waking me up this morning to be able to love and serve the Lord, allowing me to have an ordinary life. Love for my enemies and prayer to my persecutors, those that follow me. I ask God and Our Lady to please give me an increase of beauty of holiness and strength to help me carry out my day. Thanks be to Holy Death for the candles and flowers. I pray for my family, grace of conversion, health, future, work and my neighbors, especially the Tustin Car Wash Workers’. All this in the name of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Carlos, 8/24/2015 - Dear God, Heavenly Father, Sweet Jesus, Loving Lord, be with us I pray. Thank you for all our blessings and for blessings to come. Please bless all our unions, take care of all our needs and concerns and sasfely guide us to our destination/s, today, tonight and tomorrow. Please be with all our family, friends and extended family. Thanks be to God, your loving servant, Lorna, Amen
Lorna, 8/24/2015 - Nicholas W
requesting prayers for my grandson, Nicholas age 23 in & out of jail & rehab; was on heroin, now on methadone & living with me, his grandma and doing very well and attending methadone clinic every day;; however it has come to light that Nicholas has two (2) outstanding warrants; and, that the police knows that he is living with me and can be picked up at any time; and since he never shows up for his court dates he is probably looking at a year in jail when & if he is picked up which could come at any minute; please pray for right action in this situation; and for Nicholas' inner peace, comfort; and for the courts to allow him to live with m, the grandma & go to methadone clinic daily instead of looking at a year in jail; thank you, God & Saint Anne
mary/grandma, 8/24/2015 - Please pray for the Family of Louisiana State Trooper Steven Vincent who was shot and killed in the line of duty while he was assisting his shooter in a minor car crash. RIP Trooper Vincent. EOW 08/24/2015
dtaylor, 8/24/2015 - please pray for Mary who is struggling with many afflictions right now including a bout with cancer, diabetes and just now Bells Palsy - please pray for relief from these afflictions. thank you
Sanda, 8/24/2015 - Heavenly Father, I thank you for never giving up on me.I pray that my illness that torments me nightly is gone and that Holy Spirit can heal me spiritually, physically and mentally.At times where faith is lacking, please forgive me. I also pray to be not giving in any sort of temptations and negative thoughts.I promise to be better in terms of being a good Catholic in time.Please let me turn to You in times of turmoil and happiness- be more grateful for what You have been giving me, my family. Please bless and protect them each day so that they too will be healed of their pains and worries.
Ame, 8/24/2015 - I pray for SFC my daughter that she will be accepted for the opportunity she is being offered as she feels that this would give her a better opportunity in her field in Jesus Name I pray; Father not my will but yours be done
CF, 8/24/2015 - Please pray that I and my family may receive the blessing of financial success. I am 24, and unable to work full time to help support my parents, so please pray that we may be successful in alternative ways of making money. Please pray that I sell all of my paintings on or before Sept. 4th, 2015. Thank you.
CL, 8/24/2015 - Please help me pray as I pray to God to help me to forgive others as He has forgiven me. I want to be filled up with God's Grace, Love, Peace and Joy. I pray that God will help me to lay down the burden of holding grudges against others. I want rid of this sin from my life. It requires so much more energy to hold hatred and bitterness in my heart than it does Love. Only God can rid me of this sin that I willingly give over to Him. Thanks and love to all for your prayers.
April, 8/24/2015 - For my niece Ashley Tousignant who had a traumatic brain injury, that her Eyesight will be restored and she will be able to see her little boy. Please pray that her eye function will be fully restored as before the accident. Thank you for this prayer
Jennifer, 8/24/2015 - I have had been through a lot this past year and coming up on a year since I lost my mom, my cat, two cars, kid off to college, guy I dated for 2 years. I am ready for peace as my car is now another $500 today, waiting to be towed. Negative in my bank account, past due and credit starting to fall. I need help lord, please help me in every single way. Show me the way, show me how to live in peace, companionship, financially, single mom for 12 years. please lord, amen
g, 8/24/2015 - I am scared. I know that there are so many other reasons people need help, and i have had a very fortunate life, I have no right to complain or ask for help on something that was our own doing (financial)... but please somehow, as well as the other pain and lies that I have been praying for, I ask for more help. I am trying to be a better person, and follow you. I am so lost in all aspects of life. Pray for us, our children, our parents, our home, our souls. I ask all the Angels and Saints and our Blessed Mary, to intercede for us. Grant us peace, and help with these many issues we face. Love to all. Em
Emily, 8/24/2015 - I request for a prayer for to get married and a job.
i request to know God in Spirit
CECILIA, 8/24/2015 - Heavenly Father Jehovah Rapha, Thank you for your blessing & grace we received for our family. I beg you to resurrect Melissa left eye to 20/20 vision and make the Uveitis eye disease and swollen optic nerve go away permanently.
Jesus said, "I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it" (John 14:13, 14).
I come to you Heavenly Father today and I have confidence in Your Word, and I take hold of your promises to completely heal my daughter Melissa Ang.
Please forgive all her sins and remove all obstacles that is preventing her from healing.
FATHER GOD / JESUS, you are the miracle healer & physician. I believe whatever treatment medication, injection & laser on the eye you have directed us to go to the doctor is to resurrect Melissa's left eye 20/20 vision permanently and making the eye disease go away.
We trust GOD and have faith that Melissa's left eye will be completely healed by your blessing and healing touch.
In Jesus name, I pray. Amen!
Philip, 8/24/2015 - IN JESUS' NAME I PRAY, DECLARE AND THANK YOU LORD JESUS DEAR GOD AND JESUS PLEASE HEAR AND DECLARE MY PRAYERS I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE BE MY SON'S CO-PILOT SO HE IS SAFE WHILE DRIVING AND ANYWHERE ELSE MY DAUGHTER, MY HUSBAND AND I TOO IF YOU SEE DANGER COMING LORD JESUS PLEASE TAKE THE WHEEL TO KEEP US SAFE I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET MY SON, MY DAUGHTER, MY HUSBAND AND I BE HEALTHY HEALTHY HEALTHY AND SAFE SAFE SAFE I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET MY FAMILY AND I BE HEALTHY HEALTHY HEALTHY AND SAFE SAFE SAFE AND PROSPEROUS LORD JESUS I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE KEEP OUR HOME SAFE FROM ANY KIND OF DANGER ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY FROM FIRE AND/OR INTRUDERS WHILE WE ARE IN AND/OR OUT OF OUR HOME I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET MY SON AND DAUGHTER MEET THEIR MATES FOR LIFE VERY VERY VERY SOON ESPECIALLY FOR MY DAUGHTER I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET MY TOOTH PROBLEMS GO AWAY LORD JESUS I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE HELP ME THROUGH THIS CAVITY I'M SCARED I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET ME HAVE NO MORE HIVES OR SWELLING OF THE FACE MY FACE IS FEELING FUNNY TODAY LET THAT FEELING GO AWAY WITHOUT COMPLICATIONS I PRAY AND DECLARE PLEASE LET MY PVC'S, PAC'S, DEEP BREATHING, DIZZINESS, OPTICAL MIGRAINES, STYES IN AND OUT OF THE EYES AND ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY BLURRINESS, HIVES AND SWELLING OF THE FACE AND PAINS OF ANY KIND LIKE CHEST, ARM, STOMACH, HEAD THROAT LET ME JUST FEEL GOOD LORD JESUS THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR ALL OUR BLESSINGS DEAR LORD THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT CHECK UP LORD JESUS I THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING WE HAVE AND WILL HAVE I THANK YOU FOR IT ALL I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONLY SON WHO YOU GAVE UP FOR US AND OUR SINS I THANK YOU FOR LETTING US BE WELL AND BEING YOUR MASTERPIECES AND KNOWING THAT WHEN WE ARE SICK OR HURTING YOU WILL MAKE US BETTER WITHOUT COMPLICATIONS AND YOU INSTEAD OF A DOCTOR WILL MAKE US BETTER I THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACIOUS HAND UPON MY SON, MY DAUGHTER, MY HUSBAND AND I FOREVER AND ALWAYS ALWAYS AND FOREVER YOU HAVE MY LOVE, FAITH AND BELIEF IN YOU AND YOUR SON I LOVE YOU BOTH SO VERY VERY VERY MUCH THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR ME TODAY AND ALWAYS HELP ME ONE MORE DAY TOMORROW AND LET MY MOUTH FEEL BETTER I PRAY, DECLARE AND THANK YOU IN YOUR SON JESUS' NAME AMEN
DONNA, 8/24/2015
- Lord, make me a channel of your peace. Let there be no one who speaks ill of me. Amen.
mctl, 8/24/2015 - Dear Heavenly Father, I have to ask a very special although selfish favor to be granted. I am begging you to let my car be able to be fixed without any problems and if at all possible at not a great expense. Please dear Lord I need this car and you know what my situation is. Please bless any and all who may see this prayer and have the mercy to pray for me. I humbly beg this of you in Jesus' holy name, Amen.
lisa, 8/24/2015 - Thank you for my husbands pay check this week it is going to help so much please help me to do the right thing and use it as I should that you for all your blessings please watch over my boys at school help them to do the right thing I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH please help us at work today that we do that right thing I love you very much
Jennifer, 8/24/2015 - Lord please forgive me for all my sins and bless me and my relatives , pets , friends , workplace with peace , safety , grace , joy, good health , protect us from any danger and trouble and give me strength to face all my challenges , lord I pray to you that hopefully I find my new love and new place to live , please bless my finances and give me sign of hope amen
Rodger, 8/24/2015 - heavenly father jesus/yahshua please protect me from evil spirits, please protect tim and his friends from LiveSciFi from all demons/evil spirits please purge all demonic, satanic, witchcraft, voodoo from them please forgive their sins, negativity
josh, 8/24/2015 - PLEASE PRAY FOR:
For a student who found her dad hanging in the garage on June 30th. On the way back from the funeral her mom, new baby brother and herself were hit by a drunk driver. Mom and student suffered considerable injuries but the baby was not hurt. Mom has been unable to work and student has been the caretaker.
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Josh and Kristina had a little boy this week, named Mason. Last night, Mason went by medevac helicopter to Saint Christopher's in Philadelphia because he was having heart/breathing problems. Please pray for Mason and his family.. UPDATE: Baby Mason is scheduled for surgery on his heart tomorrow (8-24-15). Please pray for him! Thanks, Kim Mullin.
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HELEN, 8/24/2015 - Almighty God, I consecrate my loving family to You. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit so that we can really experience the Peace and Love in a special way. Amen.
Ana, 8/24/2015 - My 24 year old son has made some very bad choices. He has become addicted to drugs. I know that we have free will and can do as we please so I pray every day for road blocks between him and the poison that is systematically taking everything away from him. Right now he has a good job. For how much longer though I do not know. He is not even speaking to me and hasn't for some time. The devil is behind that poison I know it. I need help praying for his physical, psychological and spiritual healing. I pray every day that he finds his way back to the Lord. He is the one true healer and can cure all that ails my son. Please help me pray.
Ashley, 8/24/2015 - I request for the conversion of my fiance Manu Milan. He is a Hindu by birth and now as we are getting married, he has decided to follow our faith and therefore I pray that he should have an urge and be inspired for a change.
Lincy, 8/24/2015 - I have to make an important decision, where I think both paths/outcomes are supported by scripture. I don't want to have to 'flip a coin' between the two. Please pray for God's guidance for me to make the correct decision. I commit my way to Him, whatever His decision, please pray that He will show me the right choice; and that I cannot misinterpret what He says.
Henry, 8/24/2015 - please pray for me having problems breathing my wife is not feeling well too
peter, 8/24/2015 - Please pray for my health. I have been suffering from chronic gastritis and gerd. I am taking medication to control my symptoms but I feel like it had stopped working. I'm afraid of the damage to my esophagus and the risk of cancer. Please pray for me for a fast recovery. I pray and ask every day when will I be healed. I know Jesus wants to heal me but I don't know when he will. I pray that one day I am fully restored back to good health and no longer have to take medicines and suffer with the symptoms in Jesus name. Amen
leidy, 8/24/2015 - Prayer for RELATIONSHIP Restoration in Love & Faith. Blessings, Peace & Confidence for each other.
Heavenly Father, God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob.. And our creator!! Please lay your mighty hands over me and Maizle Costa, remove all the obstacles between us and give peace in our hearts for each other, help us to be together with Love, Joy and Happiness. Bless us in all what we desire, I TRUST IN You JESUS. Thank You Lord. In Jesus name, AMEN!!!
(Goa, India)
Vance, 8/24/2015 - Eternal rest grant unto the souls in purgatory Oh Lord in particular Enrique who just recently joined our Creator, Rosario, Pepito and all the souls who need our prayers. Grant also the speedy and complete healing of Arwin and all our dear family members and relatives who are now down with illness. Amen.
Daisy Anne, 8/24/2015 - Lord I Thank You for all You have done for me. Forgive me for all my sins. I pray that my sons Michael & Joe be blessed by You my God. Guide & protect them both. May Almighty God bless them with good health, love, work & protection. I love You Lord & Thank You for everything!
Cindy , 8/24/2015
- For the purity of my soul so I can be worthy of the Lord. May I have a pure heart by St. Francis' intercession through God's grace.
Juan, 8/24/2015 - May The Lord cure my grandson from Autism. May The Lord also bless, guide & protect my grandson everyday!
Cindy, 8/24/2015 - Dear Lord, I thank you for all the blessings you have bestowed upon me, my family and friends. Lord, I thank you for another blessed day. Dear Lord I thank you for continuing to heal Mary, Lawrence, Sydney, Cornell, Patricia, Brenda and Brielle. Dear Lord I pray that you will continue to bless them and restore them to good health so that they can continue to serve you Lord. Thank you for your prayers. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Denise , 8/24/2015 - Please keep my husband in your prayers.
He's been suffering from PTSD for many years now.
He also needs some closure regarding his father who passed away eight years ago.
If you can please keep me in your prayers too, I'd greatly appreciate it. For my physical and mental health.
Thank you so much.
Martha, 8/23/2015 - Oh lord plz forgive my sins plz help us n guide us plz mwke me to be good plz guide us plz take care of everything I beg u oh lord plz bles us plz dont test us oh lord plz bring out of this case oh lord
arn, 8/23/2015
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