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Please pray for us…

Throughout the past year we (as a family) have gone through tremendous challenges (health, financial, occupational and social). We’ve struggled as a family through meningitis, epilepsy, cancer, as well as other challenges. Each challenge has been difficult, but it is the cumulative effect of all of them that has worn us down. We are exhausted. I dont understand WHY we face so many challanges, seemingly without interruption…
 
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Praying for you and your family from today’s Liturgy of the Hours:

Lord, support us as we pray,
protect us day and night,
so that we who under your guiding hand live in a world of change
may always draw strength from you,
with whom there is no shadow of alteration.
[We make our prayer] through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.

May the Lord bless us and keep us from all harm; and may he lead us to eternal life.
AMEN
 
May you know that this is how our Lord treats those he loves the most. (St. Theresa of Jesus has said this, as have other saints.) May you offer up you exhaustion and suffering for a good cause so your suffering will be co-redemptive and most meritorious. May you keep trusting in the Lord no matter how tired out you get. Praying that the Lord gives you strength, patience, courage and holy abandonment. May you be abandoned to our Lord’s merciful love full of confidence in his merciful love. May you keep faithful and pray ceaselessly for the grace of perseverence and for the spirit of prayer. May you pray, pray, and then pray more. (Your constant prayer and daily sufferings born patiently and lovingly will sanctify you and bring you to heaven.) Amen.
 
  • “Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, it’s no wonder you have so few!” as St Teresa of Avila (of Jesus) said.
 
Dear Catherine, I’m sad to hear of so many overwhelming problems. There have been times I too have wondered if the problems would never stop following each other. My sister joked at one time, “I think God’s lost your file!” early 2009 to early 2011 were horrific, and yes, I’m still very tired, and I still wake some mornings with chest problems, the place where auto-immune problems most tend to hit members of my family, however, am gradually recovering…so I do understand what you mean.

I’ll keep your family and you in my prayers.

Lord said: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways…Yes, and the heavens are as high above the earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.”* [Isaiah 55:8-9] *

Isaiah says, “I was thinking: ‘I have toiled in vain, I have exhausted myself for nothing.’ And all the while my cause was with God, my reward with my God.”* [Isaiah 49:3-4]

For* “the Lord is not being slow to carry out His promises…but He is being patient with you all, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to change his ways**.”* [2Peter 3:9] *

“My brothers, you will always have your trials but, when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your faith is only put to the test to make you patient, but patience too is to have its practical results so that you will become fully developed, complete, with nothing missing.” [James 1:2-4] “So, even those whom God allows to suffer must trust themselves to the constancy of the Creator and go on doing good.” [1Peter 4:19] “These sufferings bring patience…and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.” [Romans 5:3-5]
*“Nothing can become between us and the love of Christ, even if we are worried or troubled, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of Him who loved us.” [Romans 8:35-37]
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“Think of what Christ suffered in this life, and then arm yourself with the same resolution that He had” and not “ruled by human passions, but only by the will of God.” [1Peter 4:1-2]
  • “If in union with Christ we have imitated His death, we shall also imitate Him in His resurrection. We must realise that our former selves have been crucified with Him to destroy his sinful body and to free us from the slavery of sin…having died with Christ, we shall return to life with him.” [Romans 6:5-8]
*“I think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us.” [Romans 8:18]
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“Happy the person who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love Him.” [James 1:12]
  • “Through your faith, God’s power will guard you until the salvation which has been prepared is revealed…to bear being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that, when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will have been tested and proved like gold.” [1Peter 1:5-7] *
 
Praying hard for you and all your needs …

Our Father …
Hail Mary …
 
Prayer in time of suffering:

Behold me, my beloved Jesus,
weighed down under the burden of my trials and sufferings,
I cast myself at Your feet,
that You may renew my strength and my courage,
while I rest here in Your Presence.
Permit me to lay down my cross in Your Sacred Heart,
for only Your infinite goodness can sustain me;
only Your love can help me bear my cross;
only Your powerful hand can lighten its weight.
O Divine King, Jesus,
whose heart is so compassionate to the afflicted,
I wish to live in You;
suffer and die in You.
During my life be to me my model and my support;
At the hour of my death,
be my hope and my refuge.

Amen.
 
Praying for you and your family!

Day by Day
Thanks be to You Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benifits and blessings which You have given to me, for all the pains and insults which have borne for me. O merciful Friend, Brother, and Redeemer: may I see you more clearly, love You more dearly, and follow You more nearly, day by day.
Amen:signofcross:
 
Thank you… Everyone…

Cannot tell you how much I appreciate your prayers…
 
Our Father, which art in Heaven
Hollowed 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

Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
Amen
 
Blessed are you, loving Father,
Ruler of the universe:

You have given us Your Son as Your Leader,
And have made us temples of Your Holy Spirit.

Fill our family with Your light and peace.
Have mercy on all who suffer,
And bring us to everlasting joy with You.

Father,
We bless Your Name for ever and ever.
Amen

Almighty God, I pray that thou wilt sustain this family when they may be enduring for a purpose, and to accomplish it seems beyond their strength. Renew them with courage, and give them unceasing hope, and faith that is able to hold out to the end.
Amen.
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Continuing to pray for you and your family- may the Blessed Mother wrap her arms around you, giving you comfort and strength.

Bless you…
 
Praying for you from today’s Liturgy of the Hours:

Short reading Romans 8:18-21 ©
What we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from its slavery to decadence, to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God.

Short Responsory
At the break of day I will reflect on you, O Lord.
– At the break of day I will reflect on you, O Lord.
Lord, you have been my help.
– At the break of day I will reflect on you, O Lord.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
– At the break of day I will reflect on you, O Lord.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among 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.
 
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
 
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