Charlene, when you were only twelve years old, you showed heroic faith, hope,
and love; dying of leukemia, you joined yourself to Jesus on His Cross and
offered your intense pain for others. You thereby echoed St. Paul’s words to his
people in Colossians 1, 24: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and
in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf
of His Body, the Church.

Charlene, I believe you are with God. Please ask our Heavenly Father, His only
Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit to grant me the following favor:
(mention favor sought)

Charlene, thank you for helping me. May Jesus Christ always be praised. May Mary, Jesus’ Ever-Virgin Mother, always be called blessed.
Amen.

Prayer for Beatification

Our Father in Heaven, moved by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Your Son and our Savior, we lift up our hearts to You and ask that, if it be Your
will, You grant our request. May Your servant and native of Louisiana,
Charlene Marie Richard, be raised to sainthood by the Holy Father, Successor
of the Apostle St. Peter, and visible head of Jesus’ Church on earth.

We trust this prayer to You through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, under her title by which she is known as the
Patroness of Louisiana: The Immaculate Conception.

Our Father…Hail Mary…Glory Be…

(For private devotion only)