Traditional Catholic Prayers for Miracles

When we ask for a miracle, we are asking God to work in a special way in our lives or in the lives of those we love. Catholic prayers for miracles often involve asking for the intercession of the saints, who are believed to be able to pray for us and intercede on our behalf before God.

May these prayers bring comfort and hope to all those who recite them, and may they receive the miraculous blessings they seek through the loving intercession of the saints.

St. Anthony Miracle Prayer

St. Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Franciscan friar who was known for his powerful preaching and miracles.

Blessed St. Anthony,

Glorious on account of the fame of your miracles, and through the condescension of Jesus in coming in the form of a little child to rest in your arms, obtain for me of His bounty the grace which I earnestly implore and which I need so much in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life.

O gentle and loving St. Anthony, whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my petition into the ears of the Sweet Infant Jesus, who loved to be folded in your embrace, and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours.

Amen.

St. Jude Prayer for Miracles

St. Jude is also known as the patron saint of hopeless causes.

O most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need, that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly (mention your request) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you. Amen.

Padre Pio Prayer for a Miracle

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio, was an Italian Capuchin friar who was known for his holiness, devotion, and miracles. He was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2002 and is revered for his holiness and devotion to God.

Dear God, You generously blessed Your servant, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, with the gifts of the Spirit.
You marked his body with the five wounds of Christ Crucified, as a powerful witness to the saving Passion and Death of Your Son.
Endowed with the gift of discernment, St. Pio labored endlessly in the confessional for the salvation of souls.
With reverence and intense devotion in the celebration of Mass, he invited countless men and women to a greater union with Jesus Christ
in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Through the intercession of St. Pio of Pietrelcina,
I confidently beseech You to grant me
the grace of (here state your petition).

Glory be to the Father… (three times). Amen.

“Padre Pio Prayers for Healing and Miracles” – Padre Pio Foundation, https://padrepio.com/2020/03/padre-pio-prayers-for-healing-and-miracles/

Our Version

There are different variations of Padre Pio’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

O dear Padre Pio,

You who were blessed with the stigmata of Jesus and were known for your miraculous powers, please intercede on my behalf. I come to you with a heavy heart, seeking your guidance and assistance. Please pray for me and for the intentions I hold dear in my heart.

May the Lord grant me the strength and courage I need to face the challenges before me. May His love and mercy surround me and bring me the peace and healing I so desperately need.

Through your intercession, I pray for the miracle I seek. May the Lord’s will be done in all things.

Amen.

St. Joseph Miracle Prayer

St. Joseph was the foster father of Jesus. He is considered the patron saint of workers, families, and the Catholic Church.

O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interest and desires.O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers. O St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you, and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him close in my name and kiss His fine head for me and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen.

“Unfailing prayer to St. Joseph” – Aleteia, https://aleteia.org/2018/02/28/this-ancient-prayer-to-st-joseph-has-never-been-known-to-fail/

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Joseph’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

Dear St. Joseph,

You are the patron of families and the protector of the Church. I humbly ask for your intercession on my behalf as I face this difficult situation. Please pray for me and ask God to grant me the help, guidance, and strength I need.

I trust in your powerful intercession and know that with your help, all things are possible. Please also pray for my loved ones, that they may be protected and guided by God’s love.

Thank you, St. Joseph, for your powerful intercession. I place my trust in you and know that with your help, I will be able to overcome this challenge and find peace and joy once again. Amen.

St. Therese Miracle Prayer

St. Thérèse of Lisieux, known as the Little Flower of Jesus and Mary, was a French Carmelite nun and known as the patron saint of missions and the sick.

O Little Therese of the Child Jesus, please pick for me a rose from the heavenly gardens and send it to me as a message of love. O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God to grant the favors I now place with confidence in your hands (mention your specific request here). St. Therese, help me to always believe, as you did, that God is loving and merciful, and that He will hear my prayers. I will try to imitate your “little way” each day, so that I can become more like Jesus. Amen.

Day 1 prayer of the St. Therese of Lisieux Novena

St. Rita Miracle Prayer

St. Rita of Cascia was an Italian Augustinian nun. She is recognized as the patron saint of impossible causes and troubled marriages.

O powerful St. Rita, rightly called 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 generous 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 so 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.

“Prayer to Saint Rita in Special Need” – Catholic Culture, https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=1118

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Rita’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

O God, Who for the greater glory of Your Church and the salvation of Your people, in Your boundless mercy, willed to grant the special favors which we implore through the intercession of St. Rita, virgin and spouse, grant us the grace to imitate her heroic virtues and the gift of prayer.

O St. Rita, patroness of the impossible, and comforter of the afflicted, I turn to you in my need. Your trust in God was so great that you were able to ask for the impossible and receive it. Please intercede for me now and ask God to grant the favor I seek (mention your request). I believe that if it is His will, He will grant it through your intercession.

I offer you this prayer in gratitude for all the graces you have obtained for me and for all those who have turned to you in their need. Amen.

St Benedict Miracle Prayer

St. Benedict of Nursia is the patron saint of Europe and the founder of the Benedictine Order.

Glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God’s grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne Of God. To you I have recourse in the dangers that daily surround me. Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor. Inspire me to imitate you in all things. May your blessing be with me always, so that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom.

Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries and afflictions of life. Your heart was always full of love, compassion and mercy toward those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. You never dismissed without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to you. I therefore invoke your powerful intercession, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayer and obtain for me the special grace and favor I earnestly implore (name it).

Help me, great St. Benedict. to live and die as a faithful child of God, to run in the sweetness of His loving will and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven. Amen.

“A Novena to St. Benedict: for Spiritual Protection and Inspiration” – Our Catholic Prayers, https://www.ourcatholicprayers.com/novena-to-st-benedict.html

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Benedict’s prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

Blessed Benedict, holy Father, whose life was a miracle of prayer, whose heart was a haven of peace, whose lips always blessed and praised the Lord, pray for me.

I pray that you will watch over me, protect me and guide me on the path that leads to heaven.

May your prayers bring me strength and courage in times of trial, and may your blessings fill my heart with joy and peace.

Through your intercession, may I come to know and love God more deeply, and may I serve Him with all my heart.

Amen.

St. Dymphna Miracle Prayer

St. Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness and those suffering from emotional or psychological difficulties.

Lord, our God, you graciously chose St.
Dymphna as patroness of those afflicted
with mental and nervous disorders. She is
thus an inspiration and a symbol of
charity to the thousands who ask her intercession.

Please grant, Lord, through the prayers of
this pure youthful martyr, relief and 
consolation to all suffering such trials, and 
especially those for whom we pray.
(Mention those for whom you wish to
pray). We beg you, Lord, to hear the
prayers of St. Dymphna on our behalf. 
Grant all those for whom we pray
patience in their sufferings and
resignation to your divine well.

Please fill them with hope, and grant them the relief and cure they so much desire.
We ask this through Christ our Lord who suffered agony in the garden. Amen.

“Prayers to Saint Dymphna” – Catholic Faith Store, https://www.catholicfaithstore.com/daily-bread/prayers-saint-dymphna/

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Dymphna’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

O most holy and blessed Dymphna, who, in a time of great trial and suffering, offered comfort and hope to those in need, we turn to you now in our time of need. We pray for your intercession on behalf of (mention person or group), who are struggling with mental and emotional difficulties.

Grant us the grace to see and understand the challenges they face, and give us the strength and wisdom to support and care for them in their time of need. May your example of compassion and selflessness guide us as we seek to be a source of comfort and hope for those who suffer.

We pray that through your intercession, (person or group) may be granted the strength and courage to face their struggles with hope and faith, and that they may find peace and healing in the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

St. Peregrine Miracle Prayer

St. Peregrine is the patron saint of those suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses.

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called ‘The Mighty, ‘ ‘The Wonder-Worker, ‘ because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you.
For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fibre of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favoured with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you.
(Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying)
Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy.
Amen.

“Novena to St. Peregrine” – EWTN, https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-to-st-peregrine-306

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Peregrine’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

O great St. Peregrine, you who have been called “The Mighty,” “The Wonder-Worker,” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you, I come before you today in great need of your special intercession.

You know the value of suffering, having borne the wounds of Christ on your own body. You also know the power of faith and trust in God to bring healing and strength.

I pray that, through your intercession and the help of God, I may find relief and healing from the physical ailment that afflicts me. I ask for the grace to bear my suffering with faith and courage, and to offer it up in union with the sufferings of Christ.

St. Peregrine, I also ask for your intercession for all those who are suffering from any kind of illness or affliction. May they find comfort and healing through the power of Christ’s love.

O great St. Peregrine, patron of those suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses, pray for me and for all those who invoke your aid. Amen.

St. Philomena Miracle Prayer

St. Philomena was a young virgin and martyr who is venerated as a patron saint of children, youth, and the poor.

O illustrious Saint Philomena, who so courageously shed your Blood for Christ, I bless the Lord for all the graces He has bestowed upon you during your life, and especially at your death. I praise and glorify Him for the honor and power with which He has crowned you, and I beg you to obtain for me from God the graces I ask through your intercession (Mention your request here…).

Amen.

“Miraculous Prayer to St. Philomena” – Novena Prayer, https://novenaprayer.com/2020/06/08/miraculous-prayer-to-st-philomena/

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Philomena’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

Dear St. Philomena, virgin and martyr, who by your prayers obtained from God numerous miracles, I implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the merciful God the favors I ask in this novena. You who were favored by God with the gift of miraculous cures, and who are so powerful in obtaining every grace, I have great confidence in your prayers. I implore your powerful intercession, and I know that through it I will obtain the help and graces necessary in my spiritual and temporal needs.

I offer you all the love and devotion of my heart, and I promise, if you will obtain for me the favors I ask during this novena, to glorify your name and spread devotion to you.

(Mention your special request here…)

St. Philomena, powerful virgin and martyr, pray for me and obtain my requests. Amen.

St. Charbel Miracle Prayer

St. Charbel Makhlouf was a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest who is venerated as a saint in the Maronite Catholic Church.

Lord, infinitely holy and glorified in Your saints, You have inspired Charbel, the saint monk, to lead the perfect life of a hermit. We thank You for granting him the blessing and the strength to detach himself from the world so that the heroism of the monastic virtues of poverty, chastity, and obedience might triumph in his hermitage. We beseech You to grant us the grace of loving and serving You, following his example. Almighty God, who have manifested the power of Saint Charbel’s intercession through his countless miracles and favors, grant us this grace (here mention your intention) which we request from You through his intercession. Amen.

“St. Charbel – Prayers, Chaplet and Devotions Text…” – Discerning Hearts, https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/st-charbel-prayers-chaplet-and-devotions/

Our Version

There are different variations of St. Charbel’s miracle prayer and no consensus on an official version. We suggest the following version, which combines the many variations into one beautiful and powerful prayer.

Oh, St. Charbel, who through your holy life and miraculous intercession, have been a model of devotion and virtue, I come to you today seeking your powerful intercession before the throne of God.

Please pray for me and all those I hold dear, that we may be blessed with good health, strength, and peace. May your intercession help us to turn away from sin and turn towards the love of God.

Grant us the grace to live our lives in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and to imitate your own holy example.

Through your powerful intercession, may we be granted the strength and courage to persevere in times of trial and temptation, and to always seek the will of God in all things.

St. Charbel, pray for us and all those who seek your help and intercession. Amen.