Prayer to Santa Marta to receive any kind of grace

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"Admirable Virgin,
with full confidence I appeal to you.
I confide in you hoping that you will fulfill me in mine
need and that you will help me in my human trial.
Thanking you in advance I promise to disclose
this prayer.
Comfort me, I beg you in all my needs and
difficulty.
Reminding me of the profound joy that filled the
Your Heart at the meeting with the Savior of the world
in your home in Bethany.
I invoke you: assist me as well as my loved ones, so that
I remain in union with God and that I deserve to
Being fulfilled in my needs, in particular
in the need that weighs on me…. (say the grace you want)
With full confidence, please, you, my auditor: win
the difficulties that oppress me as well as you have won
the treacherous dragon that has been defeated under yours
foot. Amen"

Our father. Ave Maria..Gloria to the father
3 times: S. Marta pray for us

Martha of Bethany (village about 3 kilometers from Jerusalem) is the sister of Mary and Lazarus; Jesus loved to stay at their home during the preaching in Judea. In the Gospels Marta and Maria are mentioned on 3 occasions while Lazarus in 2:

1) «While they were on the way, he entered a village and a woman named Marta welcomed him into his home. She had a sister, named Mary, who, sitting at Jesus' feet, listened to his word; Marta, on the other hand, was completely taken up with the many services. Therefore, stepping forward, he said, “Lord, don't you care that my sister left me alone to serve? So tell her to help me. " But Jesus replied: “Martha, Martha, you worry and get upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part, which will not be taken away from her. "» (Lk 10,38-42)

2) «A certain Lazarus of Betània, the village of Maria and Martha his sister, was then ill. Mary was the one who had sprinkled the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; his brother Lazarus was ill. The sisters then sent him to say: "Lord, behold, your friend is sick." On hearing this, Jesus said: "This disease is not for death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified for it." Jesus loved Martha, her sister and Lazarus very well ... Betynia was less than two miles from Jerusalem and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them for their brother.
Martha therefore, as she knew that Jesus was coming, went to meet him; Maria was sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died! But even now I know that whatever you ask God, he will grant it to you. " Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha replied, "I know he will rise again on the last day." Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live; whoever lives and believes in me, will not die forever. Do you believe this? ". He replied: "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who must come into the world." After these words he went to secretly call his sister Maria, saying: "The Master is here and is calling you." That, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him. Jesus had not entered the village, but was still where Martha had gone to meet him. Then the Jews who were at home with her to console her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, followed her thinking: "Go to the sepulcher to cry there." Mary, therefore, when she arrived where Jesus was, seeing her she threw herself at his feet saying: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!". When Jesus saw her cry and the Jews who had come with her also wept, she was deeply moved, upset and said: "Where did you place him?". They said to him, "Lord, come and see!" Jesus burst into tears. Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Couldn't this man who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept the blind man from dying?" Meanwhile Jesus, still deeply moved, went to the sepulcher; it was a cave and a stone was placed against it. Jesus said: "Remove the stone!". Martha, the dead man's sister, replied: "Sir, it already smells bad, since it is four days old." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said: "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me. I knew that you always listen to me, but I said it for the people around me, so that they believe that you sent me. " And having said that, he shouted in a loud voice: "Lazarus, come out!". The dead man came out, his feet and hands wrapped in bandages, his face covered in a shroud. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go." Many of the Jews who had come to Mary, at the sight of what he had accomplished, believed in him. But some went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. »(Jn 11,1: 46-XNUMX)

3) «Six days before Easter, Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead. And here they made him a dinner: Martha served and Lazarus was one of the diners. Then Mary, taking a pound of very precious nard-scented oil, sprinkled Jesus' feet and dried them with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the perfume of the ointment. Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was then to betray him, said: "Why didn't this perfumed oil sell for three hundred denarii and then give it to the poor?". This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and, since he kept the cash, he took what they put into it. Then Jesus said: “Let her do it, to keep it for the day of my burial. In fact, you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me ”. "(Jn 12,1: 6-26,6). The same episode is reported by (Mt 13-14,3) (Mk 9-XNUMX).

According to tradition, after the resurrection of Jesus Martha emigrated with her sister Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene, arriving in 48 AD in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, in Provence, after the first persecutions at home, and here they brought the creed Christian.
One of the popular legends tells how the marshes of the area (the Camargue) were inhabited by a terrible monster, the "tarasque" who spent time terrorizing the population. Martha, with only prayer, made him shrink in such a size as to make him harmless, and led him to the city of Tarascon.