Join us for our Praying with the Saints monthly events for 2023-2024! Come be inspired by the story of St. Gerard, an Italian lay brother who was a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), and a patron of pregnant mothers.
On Tuesday, October 24, at 6:30 PM, we will gather for prayer and will be blessed by a relic of St. Gerard Majella. Following the event, we will share food and fellowship!
Learn more about St. Gerard in this 4-min video:
Prayers to St. Gerard
For Motherhood
O good St. Gerard, powerful intercessor before the throne of God, wonderworker of our day, I call upon you and seek your help. While on earth, you always fulfilled God’s designs; help me too always do God’s holy will. Beseech the master of life, from whom all parenthood proceeds, to bless me with offspring, that I may raise up children to God in this life and heirs to the kingdom of God’s glory in the life to come. Amen.
For a Pregnant Woman
O almighty and everlasting God, through the Holy Spirit, you prepared the body and soul of the glorious virgin Mary to be a worthy dwelling place of your divine Son. Through the same Holy Spirit, you sanctified St. John the Baptist, while still in his mother’s womb.
Hear the prayers of your humble servant who implores you, through the intercession of St. Gerard, to protect me amid the dangers of childbearing and to watch over the child with which you blessed me. May this child be cleansed by the saving water of baptism and, after a Christian life on earth, may we, both mother and child, attain everlasting bliss in heaven. Amen.
Prayers taken from: St. Gerard Majella - The Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province - Washington, DC