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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.
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In your kindness continue prayers for my mother, who is much better but recovery is slow.
ALSO… UPDATE
Back 0n 22 August I posted:
Also, for my physical next-door neighbor, “Mike”, who knocked my door the other day for a ride to the hospital. He has been diagnosed with leukemia which came on, BANG!, without warning. The jab is suspected. He’ll be in the hospital for over a month. I am taking care of his house, lawn, etc.
I stayed in touch with Mike via text and then he went silent. I had a phone call from his sister yesterday who got my number from Mike’s phone. Mike died. His sister said that he just couldn’t stand the treatment anymore and asked for hospice care. She told me that they got a priest there – THANKS BE TO GOD – who heard his confession, anointed him, and gave him Communion. I hope he got the Apostolic Pardon, too.
Anyway, I’ll be taking care of his house and lawn for a while until the family (who are in another part of the country) figure things out.
Please pray for the repose of soul of Mike M.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
And as far as you readers are concerned, remember the most important petition in our Church’s great Litany:
“A subitanea et improvisa morte… From a sudden and unprovided death, spare us O Lord.”
A sudden death can be a blessing.
A sudden and unprovided death – unprovided in the sense of having no recourse to the sacraments when you are not in the state of grace – is a horrifying prospect.
Make plans for, provide for, the needs of both body and soul for yourselves and those in your charge.
You don’t know when your death will come, natural or not.
Everyone….
GO TO CONFESSION!
Fathers! Bishops! You will be called to account for the souls entrusted to you.
Preach about sin, about the Four Last Things, about the Sacrament of Penance.
HEAR CONFESSIONS!
The Fischer Random (960) tourney is over at the St Louis Chess Club. Sam Sevian (22) took the honors with 7/9. Shankland, Aronian, and So shared 2nd with 6/9. It was fun watching Garry Kasparov (60) play. Intense guy. He has a way of moving that could be a slight distraction to one’s opponent.
NB: Scroll down for the Latin and English texts for the Blessing of Beer.
Stop for a moment. Consider what our eternal prospects were before the birth not only of Our Lord, but also before the birth of His Mother, from whom He took our human nature, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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