The prayer to St. Expedite is often recited by individuals seeking quick resolution or assistance in urgent and difficult situations. Here are some reasons why people might choose to say this prayer and appropriate occasions for its recitation:
- Seeking Immediate Help in Urgent Situations: St. Expedite is known as the patron saint of urgent causes. People often turn to this prayer when they need swift assistance or intervention in pressing matters.
- During Times of Despair or Affliction: The prayer appeals to St. Expedite’s role as a protector of the afflicted and desperate, making it particularly relevant for those who are going through challenging times and need immediate relief or support.
- For Protection Against Harm: The prayer includes pleas for protection from harm, making it suitable for situations where one feels threatened or in danger.
- Encouraging Swift Decision-Making: Given St. Expedite’s association with avoiding delays, this prayer can be recited when one is hoping for quick decisions or resolutions, either personally or from others.
- Strengthening Faith and Courage: The prayer asks for strength, courage, and serenity, which can be particularly comforting during times of uncertainty or stress.
- For Intercession in Matters of Great Need: The prayer explicitly invites St. Expedite to intercede with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, making it a powerful plea for divine intervention in situations that seem beyond one’s control.
- Promoting a Return to Peace and Tranquility: Those seeking a return to a state of peace and normalcy in their lives may find solace in reciting this prayer.
- As a Form of Devotion: Reciting the prayer can also be an expression of one’s faith and devotion, and a way to honor and spread devotion to St. Expedite.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
My St. Expedite of Urgent and Just Causes. Please intercede for me with our Lord Jesus Christ. Flucker me in this hour of affliction and despair, my St. Expedite. You who are a Holy Warrior, you who are the Saints of the afflicted, you who are the Saints of the Desperate, you who are the Saints of Urgent Causes. Protect me, help me, give me strength, carriage and serenity. Hear my plea. [Mention your urgent need here.]
My St. Expedite, help me to prevail through these difficult hours. Protect me from all those who want to harm me. Respond to my plea with urgency. Bring me back to the state of peace and tranquility, my St. Expedite. I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life, and I will speak your name to all those who have faith.
O glorious martyr, St. Expedite. You who know the greatest obstacle in life is the delay of time. Please, answer my plea with urgency. Intercede for me with the Holy Spirit to intercede on my behalf before the Father. May I receive your blessings and favors, and quickly see the manifestation of your intercession.
O St. Expedite, patron of those who hope for rapid solutions. I humbly kneel before you, seeking your miraculous aid. Through your intercession, may my urgent request be granted. With sincere gratitude, I promise to glorify your name and spread devotion to you. Amen.
May the intercession of the glorious martyr, St. Expedite, recommend us, oh my God, to thy goodness, in order that his protection may obtain for us what our own merits are powerless to do. Amen.
We supplicate the Lord to inspire by thy grace all our thoughts and actions. That thou being their principal, we may by the intercession of St. Expedite be conducted with courage, fidelity, and promptitude, at the time proper and favorable, and come to a good and happy end, through our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
St. Expedite, honored by the gratitude of those who had them devote thee at the last hour and for pressing cases, we pray thee to obtain from the all-powerful goodness of God by the intercession of Mary, immaculate, today, or such a day, the grace we solicit with all submission to the divine will, amen.
Let us pray, our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trust us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit to thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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This prayer is a heartfelt plea to St. Expedite, invoking his aid in urgent and desperate situations, seeking his intercession for protection, strength, and the swift resolution of pressing needs.
