
Send Deacon Keith Your Prayer Requests

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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.
- I need prayers for my marriage. I don’t understand what’s going on. My husband always criticizes me and tells me I don’t do things right. I try so hard and my heart hurts when he talks like that. Please pray for me.
Cindy, 1/17/2018 - Pray for my family. My sister is having a hard time getting her life together. She has been unstable for awhile now. She has 3 very young children that need their mother in thier lives. Pray she finds strength and courage to get her life back. She has been lost in drugs and depression for to long. Pray my family gets stronger to help her along the way
Cynthia, 1/16/2018 - Father
I pray I have a successful evening at work
Let me feel beautiful on the inside and out the whole night
Let me make my customers happy
In Christ's name I pray-
Amen
Megan, 1/16/2018 - My rent is due and i dont have the funds to pay as with given time,i am asking prayers on behalve n my Landlord (Shaibu,and son James or anyone regarding my apartment due)to give me time and never be evicted as i have no way to go.....
I have asked a friend by name Silvie so as to loan me funds to enable me pay and solicited help from few friends.I am asking on prayers on them for God to touch their hearts and soul
for compassion and support.Also asking for divine favor it be from North,South,East or West
so as to help me secure this apartment for the year....
I am diabetic and asking for prayers to have my health back,I need Gods favor and mercy on me towards my business i am doing ..i pray it goes successful I ask prayers for wisdom,good-health,peace,divine protection from all negative forces and a divine breakthrough.. God richly blesses anyone that prays for me...Amen!!!
Kuuku, 1/16/2018
- Please pray for my sister-in-law who is in the hospital. She has sepsis. Please ask God to heal her
Deb, 1/16/2018 - Oh lord plztc of everything I beg u oh lordplz guide us n help plz make him to b good n make him to go in a right path plztc of everything I beg u oh lord
Arn, 1/16/2018 - Please pray for my youngest daughter Kelly for faith & discernment about what God's will is for her. She is helping me which she partly believes God's will is. Please ask God to bless her and guide her for her life's purpose & open doors for her to move to another place also her room mates are fighting & one of them is a sex offender who is difficult & mean.Also for a GOOD spouse who believes in God. I offer all suffering for the poor souls in purgatory & pray for all requests daily. Thank you for praying for us!!!
Ginny, 1/16/2018 - Dear Lord, please let me have an answer to my question regarding JAM this evening. And know exactly where I stand, and the truth of all. Need to be able to know and move forward in a healthy way.
Also my concerns and anxiety in regards to JM please let me see and now.
Thank you all our blessings and keeping the kids safe and free from harm!! Amen
Rebee, 1/16/2018 - Oh lord plz tc of everything I begu oh lord plz tc of him her parents n all oh lord
Arn, 1/16/2018 - Tuesday, January 16th prayer request
Dear Lord God Almighty; Our Lady of Lourdes
All I want to say is THANK YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY for bringing me through the surgery and curing my stomach cancer. For hearing my sighs and mourning. For listening to my cries and driving away all my fears and anxieties. For answering my Prayers and delivering me from death of my soul
Glory and Praises be unto Thee. How can l thank Thee Lord I will call upon Thy name and Glorify Thee. I will exalt Thy Blessed Holy Name, I will testify to the whole world for what you have done for me. I will strive to do your Holy Will in your glory. I will testify your wonderous deed to me l will shout your Mighty Name to the world and show them how Good you have been to me. Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Mother Mary, Blesseds St. Joseph, St Anthony, St Jude, St Peregrine, St Ann, St Benedette, St Faustina , St Catherine, St Maria Goretti, St Thomas, St. Padre Pio, and All you Saints and Angels for interceding on my behalf to the Almighty God.
Please Lord forgive my sins, fill me with your Holy Spirit, surround me with your Holy Ghost Fire, wash me with your Precious Blood, heal me, protect me, my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters and all my loved ones from all evil and the devil who is prowling around us to ruin our souls.
Let your Supernatural Archangel St. Michael and all your Angels and Saints guard, protect and defend us from the devil, satan the evil spirit. Let the devil fall into his own trap that he has dug for us to the bottom of the pit and RISE NO MORE.
Bless me, my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters and all my loved ones with good health and everlasting life and please grant us a piece of your Kingdom.
Lord l entrust into your care all the clergys, the Pope, nuns, friars, brothers, monks, all your Holy and Apostolic churches and its member, prayer warriors, the sick and the dying, the destitute, the children, the old, the young, the poor, the orphan, the widow and the widower, the prisoners, the blind, mute, deaf, the crippled, the homeless, the jobless, travelers and all this earth’s exile into your loving care,
Please Lord have pity and mercy on us and please love us
Lord be in our midst where there is war and calamities and grant us your Peace, protection and mercy. Have pity on us please Lord and sanctify our souls for in Thee do we trust and believe. Please do not allow the devil to defeat and laugh at us
Thank you Lord. Amen
Edith, 1/16/2018 - DEAR LORD , I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO TILL NOW I HAVE NO JOB . I AM WORRIED BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SETTLE ALL MY BORROWED MONEY WITH 20% INTEREST WVERY MONTH. I DON'T WANT TO LOST HOPE AND TEACH ME ALWAYS HOW TO BE STRONG . PLEASE HELP ME THAT I CAN FIND A LIVE IN JOB. HOPE THE PEOPLE I ASK HELP IS WILLING TO HELP AND FIND A JOB FOR ME . THANK YOU AND SORRY ALL MY SINS I COMMIT .
Ingie, 1/16/2018 - pray my husband of 29 & 1/2 years kevin leaves his 32 year old mitress returning to our family honoring our sacramental marriage vows
JODI, 1/16/2018 - I pray for your strongest soldiers to be send to me. I plead oh Jesus for a strong inner circle, and foundation to defeat all this chaos in my past that tried to mess up my reputation. I plead Jesus for you to send me your strongest soldiers to defeat all my past, clear my reputation, and being the right fruits to my life. I plead Jesus with all the hope in the world, and faith that you will listen, and understand me. With all the right intentions in the world. I ask in your most precious name Jesus. Amen.
Griselda, 1/16/2018 - Please help the pain go away in my hip and knee
Kathleen, 1/16/2018 - I am asking for prayers for Frank, the father of my unborn baby daughter. I ask that God heal his depression and addiction, show him direction, open his heart, and return him to this family. Remind him of his purpose and lead him down the right path. Show him the way to Jesus and accept His forgiveness. We love him and we need him in our lives.
Lisa, 1/16/2018
- Prayers for a friends brain surgery may Jesus heal and take care of her.amen
leanora, 1/16/2018 - Can you pray for Khadijah that God will save her soul and that she will have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, Amen.
Jamal, 1/16/2018 - Dear Lord,
I believe things will look up for my husband and myself financially. We are believers and know you have a plan for us and our baby on the way.
Bless my mother and her retirement. Give her wisdom and guidance to move forward in this path of life. She is such a loving and giving Mom she deserves to be at peace with this new chapter in her life.
Lord I pray that you bless this month with new opportunities for my husband. Let that job that is meant for him come knocking down his door and declare boundless money for our future. He deserves the very best and I love him so much. He is such a good man who should not be in this situation. He should sore and provide for his family. Lord you are the author and maker of our future make it known. Amen!
God bless my child that is growing inside of me. Such a blessing to be a mother and I know you have blessed me with this opportunity because you see trust in me and believe that I can do the job effortlessly. Thank you Lord!
I pray that all these blessings come to pass for 2018!
Amen
Andrea, 1/16/2018 - Please please Pray that My husband and I conceive this cycle. We are hoping to be pregnant. Please Lord help us to have a happy healthy baby.
Please also pray for my husband's business to be a success.
Tania, 1/16/2018 - Lily - may she have a Miracle and go home with her Family and have good health
Raymond Anthony - May his curse be lifted, get his vision back We need prayers and financial healing in 2018
Michelle, 1/16/2018 - Dear Lord, I pray for the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Please, Lord, allow him to run the country with honesty, integrity, and fairness. Help Congress surpass their agenda of opposing him for the sake of opposition and help them come together for the good of the country. Lord, please help him bring our country back to greatness. Help him overturn Obama's legacy of bad policy and legislation. Lord, our country needs a miracle. Bring the light of God into this new administration. May the Blessed Mother, wrap her mantle around everyone in Government, Congress, and the President's cabinet. Bring us peace, joy, and prosperity, In Your Precious and Holy Name. Amen!!!Please Lord, put an end to the Anti-Trump movement (it's a movement solely motivated by hate, Lord) in this country which only serves to hurt the country and the things the President and his administration wish to accomplish!
Dear Lord, please, help the Trump administration (his family) overcome the investigation into the Russian hacking... help what they have found amount to nothing that can distract and hinder the President's agenda. Please, Lord, allow him to govern wisely, honestly, and with integrity. Please let Congress unite in a just and honest governing of our country. Allow all the good our President has already done to come out and overshadow the minutia that seems to have overtaken what is really important. Please, Lord, for the sake of our country and it's restoration to greatness, help the President do his job well and without opposition. Amen!!!
Thank you, Lord, that our trip was a success, with so many moments of grace and blessings. In Your Precious and Holy Name, Lord!!! Please continue to bless and grace our friendships that our hearts will always be united, strengthen our friendships, Lord! In Your Precious and Holy Name. Amen!!!
Dear Lord, Please receive my son, CJ, at the Foot of Your Cross. I place Your Blood that was spilled on the ground on my lips, that it may not go wasted but instead purify my lips as my prayers float up to the Throne of Our Father. I thank you for the healing he received when he was released from the "stronghold" on his heart. Please continue the healing to full restoration of his hope and trust in You, and bring him to the fullness of Your Love. Please, Lord, he still has desires of joining the military. If it is not within Your Will for him, please remove these desires and replace them with Your Will on his life; that he may fulfill Your purpose for him. Lord, I am afraid. I do not want to see him go off to this futile war of evils. I place this prayer at the Foot of Your Cross, that it may be cleansed and purified before it reaches the Throne of Our Father; that the Father may return them renewed and restored. Please, Lord, bring CJ the desire to pursue a career in law enforcement to fruition. Bring him the tools, resources, and perseverance to bring his desires to completion, if it is Your Will, Lord. Replace his desire for the military with his desire to serve in the FBI. Lord, if it is Your Will. I place CJ in Your merciful and loving arms. Bring him peace, joy, and prosperity. Help him to live a life dedicated to fulfillment of his purpose and commitment to his faith. In Your Precious and Holy Name. Blessed Mother, wrap him in your mantle and be with him always throughout his journey. Amen!!!
Cassandra, 1/16/2018 - Please, Lord, I ask that you please bring light and love to Congress. Help them come together for the countries sake. I don't think any of them really care. The President is trying and the hate and disrespect directed at him, by the media and the left is hindering what he wants to accomplish. Please lift the President, Lord, he gets so much ugliness, negativity, and evil, how can he overcome it. He can't we need to pray for him. Pray for Congress that they do the right thing, for the good of the country and not their self-imposed agenda. Don't let us lose the majority come this election period. Your Will be done, Lord. We need a miracle to bring our country back to greatness. There is so much division and evil, by people on all sides. Lift our country, Lord. In Your Precious and Holy Name. Amen!!!
Dear Lord, please, if it is Your Will that I should meet someone else to share my life, please, Lord, make him kind, caring, compassionate, loving, funny, and generous. May we share the same beliefs and values. If You choose to let me live out my life singly, please, give me the resources and energy to continue to live my life in service to you, Lord. I do get lonely sometimes, Lord, but then you know that, don't You? Blessed Mother, help me be a good mother to my son. Help me make his life with me a blessing, that will lift him up and not drag him down... until such time as the Lord sees fit to send him out on his own... In Your Precious and Holy Name, I pray, Lord. Amen!!!
Dear Lord, if it is not Your Will for my son, CJ, to go into the military, please remove it from his heart. I'm so afraid, Lord. I know our soldiers really do a heroic and wonderful thing for our country and freedom, but I really don't want to see my son in this terrible war of evils. They all come back so wounded and broken. Please, Lord, remove it from his life, but I pray for Your Will to be done, as always. Bring him godly and supportive friends; friends that will lift him up rather than drag him down. Bless and keep my son in Your Adorable Arms, cradle him always in that love that never ends. In Your Precious and Holy Name. Amen!!!
Cassandra, 1/16/2018 - For continued recovery of my brother's friend, Yuri. For a good friend of my mother's, Mrs. Raymond, that her fractured back from the fall will heal and the pain she is in will begin to subside for her. For comfort and recovery for her. Thank you for continued protection over my family, here and in Houston. Thank you for watching over our son in Chicago, continue to guide him to Your desires and will, Oh Lord. Amen
Carolyn, 1/16/2018 - please pray for my son Daniel that he will win his case with the state of florida very soon and he will get out of his depression very soon and live his life to the fullest
roxanne, 1/16/2018 - Please pray so that Janeth's problems at college may be solved positively and soon. Amen.
Rene, 1/16/2018 - Lord please answer my prayers and requests regarding my financial issues. I cannot control these things and I need your help. Thanks.
Scott, 1/16/2018 - Dear Lord Let my neurologist help me. Amen
T, 1/16/2018 - I wish I can pass for the 10 days training in call center agent . Thank you 😇
Angeline , 1/16/2018 - Please pray for me to be employed and to meet and get married to my better half. Thank You.
Chiamaka, 1/16/2018 - Dear GOD I really need u right now. I am full of doubt and unsure I can even do this job. I pray that u take this fear and insecurity away. GOD please give me great favor and acceleration. Give me some encouragement and give me a sign that I will succeed here and can stay. GOD I really want to stay here but I must produce. Please help me produce. Lead me to the right doctors to call and let everyone I speak to be receptive and excited to do business with me. Please just answer this prayer as I am getting weary and really unsure of myself. I know w u all things r possible and u told me to ask big so here goes I pray that u allow me to bill 1 million for 2018. I pray that u restore my finances. I love you very much and thank u 4 all that u do 4 me. Please answer my prayers. Thank u JESUS 4 keeping your promise.
Jeana, 1/16/2018
- Please lift up your prayers for Josh Pieters, a South African born YouTuber and social media content creator, now living in England - pray that God will bless this kind, talented 24 year old during 2018. Thank you.
John, 1/16/2018 - Dear Lord,
Please help me get a job. I need to stay closer to my family.
Nicole, 1/16/2018 - Pls for me to get godly wife, from 5 years I am trying, lot of problems facing to get married. Amen
SUDHAKAR, 1/16/2018 - Pray for my daughter in her new job and city and help her to accept the love she is receiving and fall in love with the man she is dating. He is good for her.
Mi, 1/16/2018 - The winter is very difficult for us and savings are disappearing, we need help. Lord please help us.
Janis, 1/16/2018 - Heavenly Father
Let me have a successful evening at work tonight. Let me be on point with every beat. I pray I satisfy my customers. Let me make my customers happy and have a good time. Father, I need your blessing of divine energy this week. I pray for Your energy to run through me this week. I pray for Your strength and patience each day. Father I pray for energy, strength, and patience to its fullest in my life right now. I pray that I do really well at work this whole week and let everything be fine with my coworkers. Thank you for my countless blessings and graces in my life each day. I am truly grateful for my healthy body and mind.
In Christ's name I pray-
Amen
Megan, 1/16/2018 - Please pray for my girlfriend and her family. Please..
W, 1/16/2018 - Please pray that my daughter Maria dose well on her law school finals on Jan 16 2018. God help her remember all she has learned. Thank you.
Lupe, 1/16/2018 - Please provide my son a school Lord. And please stop them from blacklisting me. Amen
Kathy, 1/16/2018 - I pray that Wayne and his drama will leave Daves work place. Dave needs to be set free from the stress and control that is causing him to dislike work. I pray for all my suffering to go to the foot of the cross for all those who are suffering worse than I. In Jesus name, Amen.
Kathy, 1/16/2018 - I am in the need of prayer. I want to go back enroll in my college courses for my second Masters, but I have an issue. I have the money but my mother is insensitive and believes I should not go back and wants part of the money for rent. I am praying to God that I receive a blessing.
JASMINE, 1/15/2018 - Dear Lord, I am thankful and grateful for your blessings. Lord, I pray for continued blessings of good health and happiness. Dear Lord, I pray for more togetherness and empathy in 2018. In Jesus name, Amen.
Denise , 1/15/2018 - Prayer request for my wife of 2 years, Jessica. She has had pain in her abdominal area for the past 3 years but visits to the doctor and ER, has never been able to determine why. Today she got an MRI that showed the possibility of liver cancer. She is so despondent, stubborn about chemo, radiation, and other traditional treatments. She's said to me she'd rather die. She would see her father on the other side. Her father Joao was lost 2 years ago, just 34 days after our wedding. I am scared, I don't want to lose my wife.
When she came into my life in 2014, she rescued me from a depressing, miserable life of failure and blindness. Spiritual death, per se.
Please lord god let her be ok, lead us not into the worst case scenario, I don't want lose my wife...our life together has just begun, so much promise ahead of us. Please lord I pray watch over us.
Amen
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Matthew, 1/15/2018 - Please pray that Curt gets the sleep he needs to adjust to his new job. This job has been a miracle and such a blessing, and I know the sleep adjustment has been really hard. Please continue to take care of him as you always have and let him know you are by his side giving him peace and letting him get the sleep he needs. Please continue to let the good in him shine through and let him be recieved well by others. Thank you for your mercy and grace. I pray these things in Jesus's holy name, Amen.
Mandy, 1/15/2018 - Broke
In serious Debt
Have wife and children
Need more jobs and Gods help
Philip , 1/15/2018
- Monday, January 15th prayer request
Dear Lord God Almighty; Our Lady of Lourdes
All I want to say is THANK YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY for bringing me through the surgery and curing my stomach cancer. For hearing my sighs and mourning. For listening to my cries.For answering my Prayers and delivering me from death of my soul
Glory and Praises be unto Thee. How can l thank Thee Lord I will call upon Thy name and Glorify Thee. I will exalt Thy Blessed Holy Name, I will testify to the whole world for what you have done for me. I will strive to do your Holy Will in your glory. I. Will testify your wonderous deed to me l will shout your Mighty Name to the world and show them how Good you have been to me. Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Mother Mary, Blesseds St. Joseph, St Anthony, St Jude, St Peregrine, St Ann, St Benedette, St Faustina , St Catherine, St Maria Goretti, St Thomas, S Padre Pio, and All you Saints and Angels for interceding on my behalf to the Almighty God.
Please Lord forgive my sins, fill me with your Holy Spirit, surround me with your Holy Ghost Fire, wash me with your Precious Blood, heal me, protect me, my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters and all my loved ones from all evil and the devil who is prowling around us to ruin our souls.
Let your Supernatural Archangel St. Michael and all your Angels and Saints guard, protect and defend us from the devil, the evil spirit. . Let the devil fall into his own trap to the bottom of the pit and rise no more.
Bless me, my son Christopher, mother Margaret, brothers and sisters and all my loved ones with good health and everlasting life and please grant us a piece of your Kingdom.
Lord l entrust the care of all the clergys, the Pope, nuns, friars, brothers, monks, all your Holy and Apostolic churches and its member, the prayer warriors,the sick and the dying, the destitute,the poor, the prisoners, the blind, mute, deaf, the crippled, the homeless, the jobless, travelers and all this earth’s exile into your loving care, please have pity and mercy on us.
Lord be in our midst where there is war and calamities and grant us you Peace, protection and mercy. Have pity on us please Lord and sanctify our souls
Thank you Lord. Amen
Edith, 1/15/2018 - To all my Brothers and Sisters in same Faith Pls. Include us to your prayers..
Pls. Pray for me and to my baby inside me..
Dear Almighty God..
Pls. Protect me and my baby.. stop me from spotting or bleeding.. bless my baby with a healthy body and soul.. let my baby grow normal to my womb until his/her ready to come out and see the wonderful World you creat for us.. and Let us be safe the day of giving birth to my baby.. thank you for everything
Amen. And ammeen
Mary Ann , 1/15/2018 - Please pray that I will get help with the house in one way or another amen
Jennifer, 1/15/2018 - Please pray for the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual healing of my sweet friend Mary who is suffering from severe PTSD (Post traumatic stress syndrome). I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. *Thank you all for your prayers. May you all be blessed by enormous peace, happiness and the fulfillment of all the deepest desires of your hearts. <3
Marcus, 1/15/2018 - Please pray for me-I have been unemployed for 3 years. I went on an interview on Thursday at a Warehouse and really liked this job, it was for a Night Supervisor job. I want to provide for my family, I'm almost out of money. I want to be a good person and provider, I promise to pay it forward. Please pray for this blessing.
Joe D., 1/15/2018
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