Lord, please accept this mother into the eternal banquet. Send many graces to somehow help this poor co-worker through this suffering, that he might develop profoundly and ever the virtues of joy, faith, hope, love, wisdom, understanding, and temperance. Send him “Simons” to help him bear his every cross in life, just as you had Simon to help you carry your cross to Calvary. Please grant this co-worker a foretaste of divine light, that he might have hope and expectation to be reunited with his departed family members. Send him comforting and loving angels to minister to him through this and all his life’s events. Have mercy, please, O, Lord. Our Lady, angels, and saints, pray with us. Amen.