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"Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus." This unique statement in John's gospel tells us of the special relationship Jesus had with Martha, her sister, and her brother. Apparently Jesus was a frequent guest at Martha's home in Bethany, a small village two miles from Jerusalem. We read of three visits in Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-53, and John 12:1-9. Many of us find it easy to identify with Martha in the story Luke tells. ... Continue Reading
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St. Martha your prayer came to us in a pray book I brought this week. Today is my first Tuesday of your novena and by my 9th Tuesday my beautiful baby boy Matthew will have being born he's due on the 13th July but they are taking him early at 38 weeks. Please st martha answer our prayers our unborn baby has a heart condition the bottom left side hasn't deveolped, please heal his little heart make the left side grow fully, strong and healthy. I have 2 scans this month the 24th & 31st May please show the the doctors a sign that his little heart is growing and that his heart is healing. Please save our baby, my 3 children and my husband are my life, keep my husband strong at this time and keep a watch over my beautiful children keep them safe always.
St. Marta I promise to make your name known I'm going to leave you Novena pray in the church so others will come to know you too, and I promise to light a candle to you every Tuesday. Please Help me like you have helped so many others.
Thank you
Maureen
(A Mother in need of a Miracle)
Saint Martha is one of my favorite Saints. She has been very good to my family over the years. I hope that many more people/families will come to know her, and receive her aide. In turn come even more closely to GOD, and Mother Mary. It is with this hope that I would like to post the Novena Prayer we recieved many years ago to Saint Martha...
A POWERFUL NOVENA
SAINT MARTHA, I RESORT TO YOUR PROTECTION AND AIDE, IN PROOF OF MY AFFECTION AND FAITH, I OFFER THIS LIGHT WHCH I WILL BURN EVERY TUESDAY. COMFORT ME IN MY DIFFUCULTIES, AND THROUGH THE GREAT FAVOR TOU DIDST RECIEVE WHEN THOU SAVIOUR WAS LODGED IN THOU HOUSE, INTERCEED FOR MY FAMILY, THAT WE WILL BE PROVIDEDFOR IN OUR NECESSITIES. I BESEECH TH SAINT MARTHA, (ASK FAVOR) FOR HELP AND GRACE AS THOU DIDST RECIEVE WHEN YOU OVERCAME THE DRAGON THOU DIDST HAVE AT THOU FEET.
3 OUR FATHERS
3 HAIL MARYS
3 GLORIAS
This prayer is said 9 Tuesdays in succession. On each Tuesday, light a candle and leave a copy of this prayer in the church for someone to spread devotion. This Sant grants everything no matter how difficult, and within the 9 Tuesdays. She is well known in Europe, but little known in this Country.
I promise to enkindle light evry Tuesday.
I got financial difficulties and I pray that you help me settle all of these things. I'm not working right now as I am looking after my daughter who has a cancer. I do believe that you will help us in facing any obstacles either financial or emotional.
Pray over me and my family that love and respect will remain always in us.
Pray that my children as they grow will never lose trust and respect to us.
Pray that they will be God fearing persons.
Guide my children in school and wherever they go.
Keep my husband safe on the road and where've he goes too.
Pray that we will fight those weaknesses in our lives.
I was baptized and confirmed as Martha.As I observed,as well the others, she lives in me. How happy and lucky as in those times, I witnessed the resurrection of Christ.
St Martha, you are the patron of cooks and I do love cooking.Its my passion.
The patron of servants, I helped people with no waiting for a return.Its wholeheartedly.
I just need to lessen to worry little things.
St. Martha, you believed in Jesus Christ, that's why you served him a lot.
I wanted to served Jesus Christ more.
I lose track of ou, still thru u in asking favors, you are sill there for me.My GranMae and mum believes in you. Please help me to go back.
Show me the way not to worry that much.Learn me to set priorities.
My mother gave me the name Martha because she is devoted to St Martha as well my granny.My mum as I grow old, I also learnt to pray the novena every Tuesday but coz maybe of the bad experiences I had , I suddenly lose hope,faith.Now, I realized that I was given this name coz I need to set aside my worries, apprehensions.know my priorities.That I have to keep my faith stronger.
I ask of you ,St Martha to lead me at the right path.Please guide me to set my priorities.I have now a family and we are now facing different situation as my daughter,Marian ,is diagnosed for a cancer.please give me the courage to face this.Strengthen our positive outlook.Now I promise to light a candle and start my novena to you.Please hear our prayers.Please make my daughter experience the life.In accordance to Gods will thru you, Guide and protect us.Amen.
Thank you St Martha. We are starting a group of women names 'Friends of Martha' in our Church. St. Martha pray for this group.
Thank you st. Martha for all the help you've given to me and to my family. You're always there when i need you. You never failed me st. Martha.. At this moment of my life, im in a deep sorrow, about my job and my relationship to my boyfriend. I dont know what is the right thing.. to give up or to hold on? Please hear and help me st. Martha:( i trust you with all my heart...
please st martha answer my prayers please allow for this terrible time in my life to go away and for all that causes my heartbreak to be dropped! please allow my husband to keep his career and job and that if prayers are answered and the turmoil we are in gets dropped we can have our lives back! im praying with all my heart and soul please hear and answer my prayers xxx always yours laura xx
St Matha you are a true saint may you keep me safe and make me healthy and happy i will always love you your my best friend with st theresa, st anthony, sacret heart of jesus, holy mary mother of god and all the angles who i have the highest of respect for xxx Thanks for everything.
Thank you St Martha for granting my favour getting my hours changed at work. Please help me in my financial needs that i get someone to share the house with me, and i get money payed back to me from 2 borrowers. my sis can find happiness in a relationship and her op is a sucess and my cousin finds peace of mind and happiness after the death of his loving wife. michael can return to good health in finding the cause of his high blood pressure. that i can be friends with my bro whom i fell out with , my horse will have great health and sucess after his op keep us safe travelling the roads with our horses to our enjoyable hobby. I have been praying to st martha for nearly 20 years and she has never let me down thanks with all my heart please mend my brokenheart. Lots of love xxx
St. Martha, today is my second Tuesday of your novena. Thank you for taking away the pain in my heart. St. Martha at the moment my husband is on a vacation with another woman. St. Martha please bring my husband home to our marriage and our relationship. Please open his eyes for me and for us. Thank you St. Martha.
..St Martha is very miraculous. I've been praying to her since 2004.She granted almost all my wishes and petitions. Devote your time every Tuesday and ask for her help. She never failed to help me especialy in my big problems.
i want financial help from u
why because iam a paster iam working for lord please help for my gospal work
I have been praying to St. Martha since the 80's and to this date, I know so little of St. Martha, the Saint who answered all my prayers. True, everything that I have prayed for was accorded, and true, even before the 9th Tuesday my prayers were acknowledged.
Your faith will lead and help you see through the different dimensions of how your prayers are acknowledged. For me, it was and I look at it as: yes, no (not this, something better is meant for you) or wait. Have faith and pray to harden your faith.
I was just introduced to St. Marta and have started to do her 9 day novena. Talk to her like you would a mother or a friend. She just did something very sweet for me. I was crying to her and asked her to let me have communication from my estranged husband, and a few minutes later my phone dinged... it was him... amazing. It was completely St. Marta's doing - he rarely communicates with me. Oh, I put a little rosary beside her picture and candle.
My name is Martha, and i love it. This is also my Confirmation Name :) St. Martha you are, a true saint and you have brought happiness and joy in everyone's life. I'm very lucky to have this beautiful name, Martha.
St Martha, your prayer came to me as a help from persons unknown and I will begin the novena to you next Tuesday 20.3.12. I ask you to intercede for me with the Lord and obtain the grant of my request for the man who is right for me (right inside and out for me, the Lord and with himself) and who I am right for to come into my life as my partner through life. I ask that this happens soon and that we achieve a happy, holy, faithful, loving and blessed eternal marriage. Thank you. Amen.
Dear St. Marta: I have just discovered you. I ask you to help restore my marriage of almost 15 years and bring my husband home to me. St. Marta I promise to do your novena for the next 9 weeks, lighting your candle on that Tuesday. I will pick the candles up this evening. St. Marta, please encourage me by giving me some immediate sign. I have worked so hard to keep my marriage and my family together and I love my husband. Awaken him to see that his family hold true and unconditional love for him and the rest is not real.
St. Marta I promise to make your name known by publication, and I promise to bring you some treat each Tuesday.
Help me St. Marta like you have helped so many others, please restore my marriage to the man I love. Thank you, Anne
With grateful thanks to St Martha for granting my novena yet again - my special saint since childhood and always grants my favours for which I am so grateful - thank you for all the mini miracles in my life and for looking after my family too.
Also St Jude, St Christopher, St Martin & St Anthony to whom I always pray and of course our guardian angels who watch over us and our home.
We lead a gifted life and for that I am truly grateful