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In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read?
Continued from THESE.
Let’s remember all who are ill, who will die soon, who have died recently, who have lost their jobs, who are afraid.
I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Some are heart-achingly grave and urgent.
As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give each other a hand. We should support each other in works of mercy.
If you have some prayer requests, feel free to post them below.
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- In your kindness continue prayers for my mother, who has been diagnosed with something grave, progressive and incurable. She went to the emergency room today.
- Pray for me, for my circumstances and wisdom in my decisions.
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For my parish, an ICKSP apostolate, to find a new home within this diocese. (We’re in temporary digs on non-consecrated ground at present).
For the flourishing of the choir under my direction, that we may make the beauty of the Mass ever more evident.
For my son, who is training with the Border Patrol, and expecting the birth of his first child.
There are many family needs, but we are praying fervently now for our daughter in KY as that area and others are facing severe weather, possible outages, etc. She is recovering from hip surgery and God forbid she has to walk in icy areas (she’s back at work). God bless you, Father, and may the Lord and His angels help your mother.
•In reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Face of Jesus, the Sorrowful & Immaculate Heart of Mary, & the Most Chaste & Paternal Heart of St. Joseph.
•For the release of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, especially the most abandoned & forgotten.
•For Holy Mother Church & her restoration. For all bishops, priests, seminarians, novices,& religious (living & deceased).
•For peace in the world, especially in war torn areas. For the needs (temporal & spiritual) of the nation, the church, & the world.
•For the protection of the unborn. For an end to all legalized sin in the USA & the world.
•For the despairing & despondent. For those contemplating abortion or suicide. For the least, the lonely, & the last.
•For J, J, A, & I: for their living situation. For J’s financial, job, & legal situation. For safe & uneventful travels, especially whilst flying.
•I will keep the readership & their intentions in my prayers.
Deo Gratias!
For Cardinal Pierre’s successor, and for the Holy Father to choose a man with remarkable holiness and sense.
For me, having just submitted my application to the diocesan seminary, that my bishop may swiftly decide whether to accept me into the propadeutic year of formation.
For my brother and sister, lapsed for many years, that they may return to the faith and the sacraments Christ established.
For my friend, a Protestant from birth, on the cusp of entering OCIA, that he may be strengthened in faith and guided to unity with Christ’s mystical body even amidst insults from his family.
For my brother seminarians-hopeful, that our love of tradition and beauty may not be squandered by our formators.
I pray for the safety of all in the path of this storm, especially those dependent on life sustaining medical equipment. Thank you in advance Lord.
For my uncle whose stomach cancer appears to have spread to his pancreas.
For the repose of the souls of Jack F, a colleague of mine who passed away suddenly a couple of weeks ago and for Mr. Frank, who took care of my grandmother (they were neighbors).
For my son Anthony, as he applies for entry into religious life.
For the University, that we may find a good candidate for VPAA, who can lead us in the foreseeable future.
For safe travel for myself and a group of pilgrims who are taking a trip to the Holy Land this summer.
In your kindness, please pray for Thomas. Pray for spiritual and psychological healing and form and clear direction and confidence in his life. That he may joyfully and peacefully do God’s will, and in Thanksgiving for his faith. Thank you! May God bless you!
In your charity, please pray for me that my CT scan on 1/31 goes well. I will pray for your intentions, as well. Deo Gratias!
Pray for my family of eight. Our oldest son has autism and is causing great disruption and upset to the other children. Also I may be about to lose my job due to illness.
For my mother. She has defied the medical professionals who were willing to let her die. She’s improving! God’s will be done!
For my SIL that he finds a job soon to support his family.
For various family members to return or enter the Church.
For my brother Wayne, that he be cancer free and made whole. Thank you.
That in His great mercy, Our Lord Jesus will free Jack from addiction, heal him and call him back to the sacraments.
Through the intercession of Our Lady of the Snows, Jesus will calm this storm and we will not lose power.
In Jesus’ Holy Name I ask God The Father to grant all of our prayers. Amen.
My local TLM was unjustly cancelled in a power-grab by the pastor, which has left my community feeling homeless, betrayed, and left with nowhere to go.
Firstly, please pray for those hurt, as the actions of the pastor and parish council has offended and wounded many. The aforementioned individuals have undeniably committed grave sins (of which I will not name as I have no reason to slander these anonymous individuals). So secondly, pray for their repentance and conversion.
Thirdly, please pray for my community as we pursue the possibility of the establishment of an ICKSP oratory in the liturgical desert in which my community and I live in. We intended to this previously and now it seems we have all the more reason to do it, but due to the situation, we may have more roadblocks than we previously had.
Thank you.
I haven’t told anyone this. I’m really struggling to keep faith. I’m angry with God, depressed, and despairing because of His apparent lack of presence in my life. I’ve truly tried my best throughout my life to be faithful to Him. He doesn’t seem to care at the moment.
Nothing really seems enough. I’ve been through a lot and carry many scars on the inside. I know I’m not perfect, but the Bad just never seems to let up. I have some vices/addictions I’m trying to kick. I can’t stop being angry much of the time. It seems that I’ve lost everything that makes life worth living. It’s really not an exaggeration to say that my life the last 10 years is like the book of Job or Psalm 88 (87).
It’s all just fallen apart. I don’t get it. Where is the love? Where is the joy? I could use some of that right now, but the world really doesn’t have any to offer. Does the Church have any? Does God? Perhaps He does. I still get glimpses of that when I have the strength to pray. I feel that I cannot abandon Him, nor submit to His Will either. So I’m stuck in the middle.
I see the Good that the Church offers. I see much of the Good that she fails to. All of that Goodness that the Church fails to offer–because of the sin of her members–I see is alternatively being offered by the world as an enticement away from Goodness Itself. The Church is a really lonely place to be right now. We don’t seem to get along with each other, from the top of the hierarchy down to the parishes and even individual families. What’s the point of all this faith if we can’t even get along with our own families? What’s the point if it won’t save our country from political and cultural self-destruction? Is there nothing the Church can do? Why does she so often refuse to celebrate the Eucharist with proper humility, respect, and devotion? I really believe that this would be the beginning of healing for the whole world if She could just admit her mistakes when it comes to the celebration of the Eucharist.
Where is God, and why do we call him “Good” if this is the sort of thing he allows from his children? They’ve been saying to “watch and be vigilant” for the End for 2000 years now. Why must this be so drawn out? They say that “the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of man.” I agree that this is truly foolishness…
Yet I still believe that Jesus rose on the third day. I recognize the same could still possibly happen to us in this terrible moment of history…But what agony this is!
If this comment somehow gets approved, please pray for me to persevere. Its amazing that Christ persevered while on his own cross. I’m truly sorry to make you read this, Father Z. To the readers, I’m sorry to be saying this to a bunch a strangers. I don’t have anyone else to say this to. Thank you, brethren, for reading.
@ nex001
I’m sorry that my response on Thursday didn’t go through; something went wrong with the website or something.
Please don’t despair. You’re not alone. Even Our Lord prayed “My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
Yes, things are jolly difficult sometimes. We were promised as much in the Gospels, as well as by Our Lady at Fatima. Look to Jesus rather than to His imperfect followers.
Thank you for sharing your situation. No apology necessary. That’s part of the reason we have brethren in Christ.
I prayed on Thursday for you to persevere and I will keep you in my prayers.
“And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold. But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.” Matt. 24:12-13.
The Lord seems to have given me a little answer about the Problem of Suffering. Fr. Boniface Hicks recounts the symbolic meaning of the ritual use of incense: that incense is hardened tree sap. The tree is wounded and the sap (analogous to blood) flows out. The incense represents the holy wounds of Christ, and are placed by the priest on the fire of love (the charcoal within the thurible). These wounds are burnt as an offering to God and become a sweet smelling odor that “opens” God’s heart and softens it to our pleas for help and mercy.
Specifically, a lot of my doubt was centered on this question: what kind of father allows his son to die for any reason when he could have prevented it? I identify a lot of my own suffering with Christ’s; perhaps that’s justified, perhaps not. But I really felt there was nothing that could justify a Father letting his Son die, not even the redemption of Creation.
I’m still pondering and sorting it out, but I thought everyone who read my previous comment deserved an update. Thank you, those of you who prayed. Thanks, IaninEngland for your reply.
Good to hear, nex001!!! May God grant you all your heart’s good desires.