O humble and kind St. Rita, you are rightly called the 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 with tribulations and sufferings in your life. I humbly ask you to come to my help, to speak for me, to pray with me, to 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. You who were so very pleasing to God on this earth and who 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.
Many of the faithful turn to St Rita of Cascia with their seemingly impossible causes. Rita was born in the 14th century to a peasant family, its only child. She longed to be a nun, but instead followed her parents wishes for her to marry. After a violent, abusive relationship with her husband, after his murder and the death of her two children, she was finally accepted into the Augustinian convent as a religious sister. Rita was well known for being obedient. She was made a saint in the year 1900.
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