Desperately need prayers Update - Originally posted by Onwillowbay
My dear friends I love you all so much. Your prayers mean so much to me. I am still looking for work. Haven’t had an unemployment check since August due to a glitch in a former employer’s paperwork. I did get approved for food stamps ($25/month) but it is getting hard on mom. So far, we have been able to borrow some money from my aunt to pay bills but mom is still in the doldrums. Last night she said she was just tired of living and I told her I needed her with me and not to ever say that. She means so much to me but says she never thought we would end up like this. I didn’t either but God must be holding some special something for us and we are barely managing (but managing) to keep the rent paid. I had applied for disability due to my back’s pain which is so severe at times I can’t get out of bed but was turned down (I haven’t had insurance or been to a dr in 3 yrs so I couldn’t prove it). I kkeep all of you in my prayers. The list is endless and my prayer list is so long. I love you so much. Just thinking of all of your own problems/illnesses and yet you still pray for us…Please know our prayers are with each and every one of you each day. I don’t have much money but still manage to lite a candle at mass for all of us here at the CAF with so many needs. I love you forever from the depths of my being. God has given me a great gift in you. Diane
God has not abandoned us, because God is love. He loves the world he made, and he loves us, broken though we are.
With Prayer, All Things are Possible.
Your sister in Christ, Diane
CAF name: Onwillowbay
still praying for you Diane
A DAILY PRAYER
BEFORE DAILY MASS
(By Saint Ambrose)
O gracious Lord Jesus Christ,
though I, who am a sinner,
in nowise presume on any merits of my own,
and put all my trust in Thy goodness and mercy,
yet do I fear and tremble in drawing near to the Table
on which is spread Thy banquet of all delights.
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul
because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips:
nevertheless it is to Thee,
O God of majesty and love,
that I turn in my extremity,
for Thou art the fount of mercy;
to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed:
for Thou alone canst heal me;
I take refuge under Thy protection.
I dare not face Thee as my judge,
but I cleave to Thee as my saviour.
Thy mercy is above all Thy works.
Though I fear, because of my sins,
yet I trust in Thee on account of Thy mercy.
Turn, then, those pitiful eyes of Thine upon me, O Jesus Christ,
our everlasting king and Lord,
Who art God and man,
and Who for man wast crucified.
Have mercy upon me,
full of misery and of sin though I be, upon me,
whose only hope is in Thee,
because of Thy loving-kindness.
Hail! Thou saving victim,
offered up for me and for all mankind upon the gibbet of the cross!
Hail! thou glorious and most Precious Blood,
that flowest from the wounds of Jesus Christ,
my crucified Lord;
to wash away the sins of all the world!
Forget not, O Lord,
that I am one of those whom Thou hast created,
and with Thine own blood hast redeemed.
I repent me of my sins:
I will strive to amend my ways.
O most merciful Father,
put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences;
so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul,
I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
Grant, in fine, that the holy foretaste of Thy body and blood,
which thou vouchsafest to me, a poor sinner,
may be a pledge of the full remission of my sins
and of the washing away for evermore of all my guilt.
From my mind may it chase away every sinful thought:
in my will may it foster all holy desires:
may it spur me on to the doing of works well-pleasing to Thee;
and may it be to me, of body and of soul,
a very sure protection and defence against the craft of all my enemies.
Amen.
