Loving God our Father,
Please hear the persistent prayers and petitions of your loving children in this intention. Please bless and have mercy on all your people suffering from all sorts of mental diseases, and especially depression, panic/anxiety attacks, bipolar disorder, Alzheimers, schizophrenia, ocd, Asperger’s Syndrome and related maladies. Dear God, your suffering people are often discriminated against and bear a special cross when they suffer and anguish from these challenges in their lives. Please help them not to lose hope, to maintain a strong faith, to follow obediently the remedies and improvement strategies of their medical care givers, and cure them if it be your Holy will. Please bless all who minister to these folks, especially close family and the medical care givers that we might help these special people to prosper and live out their calling with joy and peace. Please also protect and hold those of us close who are tempted to despair that we may not despair; rather, that we will look always to you for strength and comfort as we strive to give of ourselves to those who are so dear to us. And Father, forgive me when I am so stricken with grief over what seems an irretrievable loss of the beautiful personality of my son, when I know you hold his care in your grasp as a child precious to you.
I pray especially for Jhash1’s family members, for Georgia, for Dean, for my son who is having such a difficult time in the torment of his issues despite his faithful pursuit of the medical care extended to him, for my father who struggles in the grip of alzheimers, for S_V7 whose concerns are known to you, for Holly3278 whose concerns are known to you, for onwillowbay whose concerns are known to you, and for Trishie’s husband.
Dear Lord, we also thank you for sending us prayer partners to pray for these difficult intentions. Thank you for Jhash1, brigid12, 244rocket, Trishie, Suzanne57, sidhe54 and all who pray for your suffering people. May each of them feel for themselves and their families your favor for offering so faithfully prayers on behalf of these your children.
Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy Will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
