Prayers to St. Gerard for Expectant Mothers, Women Hoping for Pregnancy and Fatherhood and Motherhood

Prayer to St. Gerard for Expectant Mothers
Great St. Gerard, beloved servant of Jesus Christ, perfect imitator of our meek
and humble Savior, and devoted child of the Mother of God, enkindle in my heart
one spark of that heavenly of charity which glowed in yours and made you a
seraph of love.
Glorious St. Gerard, because, like your Divine Master, you bore without murmur
or complaint the calumnies of wicked men when falsely accused of crime, you
have been raised up by God as the patron and protector of expectant mothers....

Maximilian (274-295)

BY: John Dear

Maximilian

(274-295)

By John Dear

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Francis Of Assisi (1182-1226)

BY: John Dear

Francis of Assisi

(1182-1226)

            Francis came alive to me in 1995 when I attended a week-long...

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

BY: John Dear

Gerard Manley Hopkins

(1844-1889)

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Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)

BY: John Dear

Therese of Lisieux

(1873-1897)

            “When I sit in jail thinking of war and peace and the problem...

Dorothy Day (1897- 1980)

BY: John Dear

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(1897-1980)

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Fr. Peter De Smet, SJ

BY: From the Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen

His first missionary tour among the red men was in 1838 when he founded St. Joseph's Mission at Council Bluffs for the Pottawatomies. At this time also he visited the Sioux to arrange a peace between them and the Pottawatomies, the first of his peace missions. What may be called his life work did not begin, however, until 1840 when he set out for the Flathead country in the Far North-west. As early as 1831, some Rocky Mountain Indians,...