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Catholic Prayers for Financial Help, Debt and Money Worries

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Summary

  • Seven short prayers cover this month’s bills, getting out of debt, a family in difficulty, a lost job, sleepless worry, wisdom with money and thanks when help comes.
  • Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (the collect “in any necessity”) and from Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide (Pope Leo XIII’s prayer to Saint Joseph).
  • The 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia says Saint Cajetan (1480–1547), founder of the Theatines, is “invoked for the interposition of Providence”; his link to money trouble is popular devotion.
  • The Catechism (paragraph 2830) teaches that the petition for daily bread covers material as well as spiritual goods; Scripture also warns that “ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
  • In 2 Kings 4 Elisha helps a widow whose creditor was about to take her sons, telling her to “sell the oil, and pay thy debt.”
  • In the US, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Charities give practical help with rent, food and other needs.

Every Our Father already asks for daily bread. For bills, debt or a lost job, a Catholic can add: “Lord, you know what we owe and what we have. Show me the next right step, keep me from fear, and provide what we need. Saint Joseph, pray for us. Amen.” Older prayers include the collect “in any necessity.” Prayer goes alongside practical help. In the US, parish conferences of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul help with rent, food…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (2 Kings 4:1–7; Proverbs 22:7; 30:8; Matthew 6:11–12, 24, 31–32; 13:55; Luke 11:4; Romans 13:8; Hebrews 13:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, “In any Necessity,” p. 166; Collect of the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, p. 752. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Lasance, F. X. The Catholic Girl’s Guide. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. “Prayer to St. Joseph for the October Devotions,” p. 596. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa
  • Keating, Joseph. “St. Cajetan.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03145a.htm
  • Ragonesi, Franciscus. “Theatines.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14557a.htm
  • Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraphs 2111 and 2830. https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P7E.HTM and https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PAA.HTM
  • Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA. https://www.ssvpusa.org/
  • Catholic Charities USA. “Find Help.” https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/find-help/

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