June 15 is the feast of St. Germaine Cousin, patroness of victims of child abuse and neglect.

I will be doing a novena to St. Germaine on my Instagram page, starting June 6 and running through June 14, with a final prayer on the actual feast day. (Fair warning–they may go on my TikTok first, but they’ll get to IG soon enough after, if you are a TikTok avoider.)

Read more about St. Germaine here.

Here’s where I need your help:

The prayer I will be using has space to name specific children in special need of such prayer. Comment below (or send me a DM or email) with the first name of a child (including an adult child) who has gone through this excruciating but all too widespread pain. First names only, please. I will include these names in this novena.

If you’re really brave and would like to lead the novena one of the days, please comment or DM as well. I’m more than happy to share.