My mother took my rosary

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My mother has never been very religious. She believes in God, but just doesn’t go to church. I managed to get a Christian education because my childhood friend’s father was a pastor. I went to church with them. My family didn’t go to church (well my brothers would sometimes with me), they only prayed on Thankgiving and Christmas. We never really brought religion up, like politics kind of.
My mother DID come to my baptism and confimation in 2005 :D. Since I’ve become Catholic, I try to talk about it but her husband always has snide remarks. Ticks me off because he was raised Catholic and used to teach RCIA… sigh
Anyway…my step-father is in the ICU right now 😦 I told my mom I was tempted to call a priest, but wasn’t sure if he wanted me to. I also said I was going to bring him my rosary. She told him about the rosary (not the priest 🤷) and he said “That would be nice”… I was shocked. I was back up there and I said “Well I have it in my pocket today if he wants it”… I was going to go to the chapel and pray a rosary for him.
My mom said “What do you do with it?”… I said “You pray and focus on God”. She said “Do you have to use it to pray”?? I was like “No, but it helps you meditate on God and keep your focus on the prayer”. She said “Can I use it”…:eek: Um…Okay…And here I have my pamphlet with me. So I hand her my rosary and my “how to pray the rosary” pamphlet. I just had an urge to stick the pamplet in my pocket to.
So…That was a neat experiance. Now I pray Jesus and Mary can help bring healing.
Just one step closer to my prayer of their conversion.

Kind of sad it takes all this medical stuff to get it out of her though. sigh
 
Amber,

What a blessing. I can feel your sighs completely and I hope that God will also give you the nourishment you need to continue to be a source of support, comfort and the Holy Spirit for your family. You have obviously been a witness to them and God is using you to make sure two of His lost sheep are found!! What an awesome calling!

Your family is in my prayers.
 
AmberDale said:
.Okay…And here I have my pamphlet with me. So I hand her my rosary and my “how to pray the rosary” pamphlet. I just had an urge to stick the pamplet in my pocket to.
So…That was a neat experiance. Now I pray Jesus and Mary can help bring healing.
Just one step closer to my prayer of their conversion.

Kind of sad it takes all this medical stuff to get it out of her though. sigh
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alright, way to go, this is how it starts, have seen it many times before, esp. in my own family. Mary will take over from here on in.

reasons #147 to always keep a rosary and pamphlet on hand for evangelizing
 
When my parents have a medical emergency, I often go to morning Mass.

Admissions in a hospital ask the religion question. The hospital then calls your Parish and tells them about you admission. One time I was at the morning Mass and the office received a call from the hospital after I had just spoken with the secretary myself. I had such an ominous feeling that Mom was dying, and she wasn’t dying and thankfully I remained at Mass. That question at admissions takes care of visits as well as notifications of death … impending death too?

Our Parish has a prayer list for those who are ill. You can add someone in your family to a prayer list which will go to Parishioners who will pray, but, you cannot add the same person to the Sunday bulletin prayer list without their permission. It used to be that the Sunday list was not in the bulletin, instead they were mentioned in the prayers at Mass. Some people are on the list week after week, until, perhaps, they die: They have a limit of weeks for both, unless another request is added. If you are on that more public list, is is more serious.

Ask your Mother to attend morning Mass, and add your Father to the prayer list. Having a rosary and a prayer booklet in the hospital room is also a very good thing, after asking if it something that they want. Sometimes the Parish visitor will have a prayer card to give the patient. Parish visitors (we have deacons, lay volunteers, a parish nurse as well as the Pastor and assistant Pastor) to the hospital may give Holy Communion, or, they may just visit, or if a Priest, then the Sacrament of Healing. I don’t know whether, without the mention in admissions, someone from the Parish would stop in, but surely your parents have friends there who are involved in Parish duties.)

I wish that you parents could avail themselves of that healing Sacrament, as it is given after Masses sometimes. I wonder if there is a barrier due to their marriage that keeps them away from Catholicism. If not, then it doesn’t seem insurmountable and a prayer should go a long way with them. A Sister has said that if there is a barrier one should make an appointment to discuss it with someone at the Parish who can help one with it.
 
AmberDale said:
So…That was a neat experiance. Now I pray Jesus and Mary can help bring healing.
Just one step closer to my prayer of their conversion.

Kind of sad it takes all this medical stuff to get it out of her though. sigh
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How wonderful! 👍

Prayers for your family, for spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health. :crossrc:
 
ohioszo said:
When my parents have a medical emergency, I often go to morning Mass.

Admissions in a hospital ask the religion question. The hospital then calls your Parish and tells them about you admission. One time I was at the morning Mass and the office received a call from the hospital after I had just spoken with the secretary myself. I had such an ominous feeling that Mom was dying, and she wasn’t dying and thankfully I remained at Mass. That question at admissions takes care of visits as well as notifications of death … impending death too?

Our Parish has a prayer list for those who are ill. You can add someone in your family to a prayer list which will go to Parishioners who will pray, but, you cannot add the same person to the Sunday bulletin prayer list without their permission. It used to be that the Sunday list was not in the bulletin, instead they were mentioned in the prayers at Mass. Some people are on the list week after week, until, perhaps, they die: They have a limit of weeks for both, unless another request is added. If you are on that more public list, is is more serious.

Ask your Mother to attend morning Mass, and add your Father to the prayer list. Having a rosary and a prayer booklet in the hospital room is also a very good thing, after asking if it something that they want. Sometimes the Parish visitor will have a prayer card to give the patient. Parish visitors (we have deacons, lay volunteers, a parish nurse as well as the Pastor and assistant Pastor) to the hospital may give Holy Communion, or, they may just visit, or if a Priest, then the Sacrament of Healing. I don’t know whether, without the mention in admissions, someone from the Parish would stop in, but surely your parents have friends there who are involved in Parish duties.)

I wish that you parents could avail themselves of that healing Sacrament, as it is given after Masses sometimes. I wonder if there is a barrier due to their marriage that keeps them away from Catholicism. If not, then it doesn’t seem insurmountable and a prayer should go a long way with them. A Sister has said that if there is a barrier one should make an appointment to discuss it with someone at the Parish who can help one with it.
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No…my mother is NOT Catholic and my step-father is not from this area. He doesn’t know anyone from either parish (we have two). Also, the hospital is not religion based. They chose to go to the Community hospital instead of the local Catholic one. I go to the Community one as well, because it’s where my doctor is and I’ve always gone there. At this hospital they do NOT ask anything about religion. Trust me, I’ve been admitted SEVERAL times. Even when I was Catholic they didn’t ask. A “chaplain” came in, but then learned I was Catholic and said “I’ll call your parish”… She never did. NEVER!! I had to call (after being in a hospital bed for several days). The pastorial assistant was like “They never called Amber!! I’m so sorry. We’ll send someone up”. Come to find out they have this issue often. sigh

My mother would have to go through RCIA and find out from the priest what she would need to do to become Catholic. And my step-dad would need to talk to a priest (confession/annulment) to see if he could come back. Right now that is not my concern. Right now I just want them to focus on being with Jesus and ask Mary to pray for them.
I do believe that the RCC is the one TRUE church, but right now I just want my mom to see God not worry about priests and that stuff. You know? It’s scary when you don’t have God, try all of sudden throwing all these Catholic rules in there and it will scare her away even more. Trust me! I’m a convert and used to not have God (I did go to church but also was into many bad things)…
 
ohioszo said:
Admissions in a hospital ask the religion question. The hospital then calls your Parish and tells them about you admission.
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Under HIPAA in the United States, that’s not allowed. If your hospital is calling the parish and telling who is in the hospital without their permission, then they are violating HIPAA.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacysummary.pdf

My husband was recently, 7 months ago, in the hospital. I was the only one allowed to call the pairsh and tell them, and it was a Catholic hospital.
 
AmberDale said:
…My mom said “What do you do with it?”… I said “You pray and focus on God”. She said “Do you have to use it to pray”?? I was like “No, but it helps you meditate on God and keep your focus on the prayer”. She said “Can I use it”…:eek: Um…Okay…And here I have my pamphlet with me. So I hand her my rosary and my “how to pray the rosary” pamphlet. I just had an urge to stick the pamplet in my pocket to.
So…That was a neat experiance. Now I pray Jesus and Mary can help bring healing.
Just one step closer to my prayer of their conversion.

Kind of sad it takes all this medical stuff to get it out of her though. sigh
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Can you give one to my mom, too? 😉 She’d actually probably listen better to someone besides me anyway.

I’m praying so hard for my family to be Catholic… . Sigh.

OutinChgoburbs is correct about privacy laws (I work in healthcare). Another sigh on that one.

(Its good to see you back OutinChgoburbs!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 )
 
I lost my Father this July. He was Catholic and always regreted us kids were not raised in the faith. 3 years ago my husband and I became Catholic. He said it was the best thing I did (besides having my son baptised Catholic) My other siblings are not catholic. With the passing of our father, my youngest sister wanted one of his roseries. Then after the funeral, few days later we were cleaning out his house and she said she would like to become Catholic. I think I could almost feel Dad smile. Due to another death in the family (Did I mention this has been a very bad year for my family?) she has been unable to make it to RCIA. The good news is she keeps asking questions and has asked for help in learning how to pray the rosery. Strange sometimes how things have to be so bad to bring someone around, but out of all my siblings, she was the most supportive when I was going to RCIA.
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
Under HIPAA in the United States, that’s not allowed. If your hospital is calling the parish and telling who is in the hospital without their permission, then they are violating HIPAA.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacysummary.pdf

My husband was recently, 7 months ago, in the hospital. I was the only one allowed to call the pairsh and tell them, and it was a Catholic hospital.
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If a hospital is asking what religion you are, chances are they’re following up with “do you want us to call your Priest, minsiter, pastor…etc”. Or “is it ok to let them know?” Or “Do you want to be listed on the census for the public (and volunteers which includes chaplains from local churches)” if you say yes to any of this, you’ve waived your privacy in this case.
 
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