Prayer Requests and Reports: August 2004 Archives

My son, says the Lord, listen to my words, the most delightful of all words, surpassing all the knowledge of the philosophers and wise men of this world. My words are spirit and life and cannot be comprehended by human senses alone.

They are not to be interpreted according to the vain pleasure of the listener, but the must be listened to in silence nd received with all humility and great affection. Imitation of Christ-- Thomas á Kampis

Prayer Requests

Please continue to pray for Dylan

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Today his mother, tomorrow the great Doctor of the Church himself.

Thereupon she said to both of us: "Bury my body wherever you will; let not care of it cause you any concern. One thing I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be." A quotation of the last words of St. Monica from Confessions--St. Augustine

Prayer Requests

For the two children struck by lightning yesterday, for their families, tor the bus driver, and for their teacher that they may all witness the miracle of God's healing love

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Brethren, let us follow that vocation by which we are called from life to the fountain of life. He is the fountain, not only of living water, but of eternal life. He is the fountain of light and spiritual illumination; for from him come all these things: wisdom, life, and eternal light. The author of life is the foundtain of life; the creator of light is the fountain of spiritual illumination. Therefore, let us seek the fountain of light and life and the living water by despising what we see, by leaving the world and by dwelling in the highest heavens. From an Instruction--St. Columban

Praise and Thanksgiving

Davey's Mommy is now the mother of two sons--pray for her! And rejoice with her and her family in this new life. The young one is presently being watched for some signs of possible infection, so be certain to include them in your prayers. (All information courtesy of Peony at Two Sleepy Mommies)

Mr. Nixon reports that he is feeling much better after his surgery and is back at work. He thanks everyone for their prayers.

Prayer Requests

For the two children struck by lightning yesterday, for their families, tor the bus driver, and for their teacher that they may all witness the miracle of God's healing love

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Today two children from a friend's class were allowed off their school bus in the midst of a thunderstorm. They were struck by lightning. One was taken to Arnold Palmer (our Critical Care Children's Hospital), I don't the fate of the other.

Please pray for these children, their families, the bus driver, and the teacher of these two children (my friend).

May the three Persons of the Holy Trinity and all the saints protect you from every evil. And may the Lord give you the grace to do His will so that He may be served and honored through you, tha in the next life we may together come to see Him and praise Him unceasingly. Amen. A Blessing on His Son from "A Spiritual Testament"--King St. Louis of France

Praise and Thanksgiving

Davey's Mommy is now the mother of two sons--pray for her! And rejoice with her and her family in this new life. The young one is presently being watched for some signs of possible infection, so be certain to include them in your prayers. (All information courtesy of Peony at Two Sleepy Mommies)

Mr. Nixon reports that he is feeling much better after his surgery and is back at work. He thanks everyone for their prayers.

Prayer Requests

For Samuel and his present concerns that we are able to comfort him and provide him with the reassurance that he needs to remain the happy guy that he is.

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

It was clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive, in fact, it persuaded the whole world. Their discourse was not of unimportant matters but of God and true religion, of the Gospel way of life and future judgment, yet it turned plain, uneducated men into philosophers. How the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and his weakness stronger than men!

. . . For the good deeds which tax-collectors and fishermen were able to accomplilsh by God's grace, the philosophers, the rulers, the countless multitudes cannot even imagine. "Homily on the first Letter to the Corinthians"--St. John Chrysostom.

Praise and Thanksgiving

Davey's Mommy is now the mother of two sons--pray for her! And rejoice with her and her family in this new life. The young one is presently being watched for some signs of possible infection, so be certain to include them in your prayers. (All information courtesy of Peony at Two Sleepy Mommies)

Fiona has recovered nicely according to Katherine. Praise God for His infinite mercy and tender care.

Prayer Requests

SPECIAL URGENT REQUEST: For Jane P. that she weather her tests well and that they all come out negative.

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

"If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights!" from St. Rose of Lima

Praise and Thanksgiving

Davey's Mommy is now the mother of two sons--pray for her! And rejoice with her and her family in this new life. The young one is presently being watched for some signs of possible infection, so be certain to include them in your prayers. (All information courtesy of Peony at Two Sleepy Mommies)

Fiona has recovered nicely according to Katherine. Praise God for His infinite mercy and tender care.

Prayer Requests

SPECIAL URGENT REQUEST: For Jane P. that she weather her tests well and that they all come out negative.

Pour out prayers on the people of Florida who have lost their homes, their livelinhoods, and their lives in this storm.

For Johnny and Layla and family who recently lost a fourteen month-old child, that the family be mended and able to continue in the face of this terrible loss.

Please continue to pray for Dylan

For a deeper understanding of and commitment to the strengthening grace of the sacrament of marriage, especially for those who are presently undergoing trials.

Please storm heaven for my friends in Louisiana, they've had a long string of misfortune and could do with some good news.

For the people of the Sudan that they may know peace and security and that they might learn to live together.

For a dear friend who is undergoing a troubling period in her life, beset with a number of problems, physical, financial, emotional. May God hold her close to His heart.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Who by this time may have delivered her second child! Yesterday her water broke so by this point she may have a new addition to the family. Wherever she is in the process, please pray for her and for her new child.

Love is sufficient of itself, it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself. Its profit lies in its practice. I love because I love, I love that I may love. Love is a great thing so long as it continually returns to its fountainhead, flows back to its source, always drawing from there the water which constantly replenishes it. Of all the movements, sensations, and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him. From a sermon by St. Bernard.

Praise

Word from Dylan's mother suggests that Dylan may soon be rejoining us. Pray that it is so and please continue to pray for his health and well-being.

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Blessed surely in seed and blessed in the shoot, blessed in the flower, blessed in the gift, finally blessed in thanksgiving and praise, Christ the seed of Abraham, was brought forth from the seed of David into the flesh. from a Treatise on the Haily Mary--St. Baldwin of Cantebury

Praise

Word from Dylan's mother suggests that Dylan may soon be rejoining us. Pray that it is so and please continue to pray for his health and well-being.

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Where I am stuck (flight 1/2 hour too late) while my family weathers the storm on their own. Please pray for them as my guilt overwhelms my ability to be coherent. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit who is within me prays with groanings beyond human understanding when I lack the sense and the words.

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

of the Sovereign Nation of Texas.

Spent the evening watching the bats fly out into the night from underneath one of the main bridges in the city.

But only a brief time and I write to beg you to continue pouring out prayers on behalf of my Louisiana Friends as they cope with this dreadful setback. Please also remember Mr. Nixon who should be recovering from his surgery by now.

Sorry so short a note, expect only brief and spotty communications for the next several days.

Please pray for my very good friends in Louisiana who have just moved in and gotten settled. They are once again without work.

All this He endured in working our salvation. For since those who were enslaved to sin were liable to the penalties of sin, he himself, exempt from sin though he was and walking the path of perfect righteousness, underwent the punishment of sinners. By his cross he blotted out the decree of the ancient curse. . . From a Treatise on the Incarnation of the Lord--Theodoret of Cyr

Prayer Requests

A correspondent writes and asks for prayers for healing--for an end to the ringing in his head

For a special intention for Linda and me.

For a St. Blog's parishioner in need of work to forestall financial catastrophe, that the Lord provide all that is needed in both material and spiritual blessings.

For a young lady of e-mail acquaintance who requests our prayers as she continues on the path of healing and attends a retreat in the near future. She needs all of our support and love.

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John. Let us be caught up like Peter to behold the divine vision and be transfigured by that glorious transfiguration. Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the body, detach ourselves from creatures and turn to the creator to whom Peter in excstasy exclaimed: Lord, it is good for us to be here. From a sermon on the transfiguration--St. Anastasius of Sinai.

Praise and Thanksgiving

For a new addition to St. Blog's family. Mark, at Minute Particulars helped receive into the world a new baby girl. Sorry it took me so long to remember to add this.

Requests
Please continue to pray for Dylan

For Katherine's two friends as they each struggle with a different difficulty related to their respective pregnancies. Especially for S. as she spends the next ten weeks in the hospital, separated from her family seeking to preserve the life and health of the infant she presently carries.

For Franklin's father and family as they struggle with the present circumstances

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Below Katherine ask for prayers for those attending Retrouvaille in San Diego this weekend.

In light of this dismaying report these prayers are especially needful. (Originally located thanks to Alicia and TSO.)

Please be sure to pray today and each day this weekend for those attending Retrouvaille.

It is certain that Hell rejoices with each victory against the sacrament of marriage.

And for an end to the racist hatred that is inspiring genocide. Pray for just international intervention to rescue those displaced and to bring proper pressure to bear to stop to the atrocities. Pray for wisdom for our own leaders that they will speak out on this horror and not allow another Rwanda. Pray for those who cannot pray for themselves, in fear, alone, abandoned, displaced, struggling in the rough terrain just south of the largest desert on Earth. Dear Lord, use our prayers to help the people of the Sudan, sustain their spirits in this unjust oppression, give comfort, shelter, food, and all necessities through the miracle of charity and concern.

Later: Thanks to Katherine's notice:This notice about troubles on the Southern Border See comments to this post for a reference to the problems in Western Sudan.

I put a reminder up every day at the head of the prayer requests, and repetition tends to dull the senses. So I make a special plea that everyone remember Dylan in their prayers. He has been absent from us too long and I know that he will return in his own time. In the meantime long absence makes for uneasiness on my own part. So, please remember him as he has much need of our prayers.

Lord, take away my heart of stone, a heart so bitter and uncircumsized, and give me a new heart, a heart of flesh, a pure heart. You cleanse the heart and love the clean heart. Take possession of my heart and dwell in it, contain it and fill it, you who are higher than the heights of my spirit and closer to me than my innermost self! You are the pattern of all beauty and the seal of all holiness. Set the seal of your likeness upon my heart. God of my heart and the God who is my portion for ever! Amen. From a treatise by Baldwin, Bishop of Canterbury.

Praise and Thanksgiving

For a new addition to St. Blog's family. Mark, at Minute Particulars helped receive into the world a new baby girl. Sorry it took me so long to remember to add this.

Requests
Please continue to pray for Dylan

For Katherine's two friends as they each struggle with a different difficulty related to their respective pregnancies. Especially for S. as she spends the next ten weeks in the hospital, separated from her family seeking to preserve the life and health of the infant she presently carries.

For Franklin's father and family as they struggle with the present circumstances

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.from the Catechism on Prayer--St. John Vianney

Requests
Please continue to pray for Dylan

For Katherine's two friends as they each struggle with a different difficulty related to their respective pregnancies. Especially for S. as she spends the next ten weeks in the hospital, separated from her family seeking to preserve the life and health of the infant she presently carries.

For Franklin's father and family as they struggle with the present circumstances

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.

Accordingly, we must flee from all vanity and show an utter hatred for the deeds of the evil way. Do not turn inward and live only for yourselves as though already assured of salvation; join together rather and seek for the common good. from a Letter attributed to Barnabus

Praise

One of the three Carmelites from New York who recently had surgery had been on a ventilator for five days. Yesterday he was taken off the ventilator.

Requests
Please continue to pray for Dylan

For Katherine's two friends as they each struggle with a different difficulty related to their respective pregnancies. Especially for S. as she spends the next ten weeks in the hospital, separated from her family seeking to preserve the life and health of the infant she presently carries.

For Franklin's father and family as they struggle with the present circumstances

A special request from two gentleman battling particularly troublesome and besetting sins for grace and help as they continue forward.

For those struggling against self to attain holiness, that the Good Lord will raise up new Saints for our times, visible beacons that draw all people toward Christ.