Thank you so much for your continued prayers. I would also like to add the following to my list: J. recovering from a difficult surgery, H. a co-worker in a difficulty marriage who has just been diagnosed with cancer and has limited monetary means, a co-worker who just lost her son and her family, some individuals we know with disabilities, 2 friends in a difficult marriage, one of whom is getting divorced, a nephew who will soon be getting married.
O Holy Apostle, you are the Rock upon which Almighty God has built His Church. Obtain for me I pray you: lively faith, firm hope, and burning love, complete detachment from myself, contempt of the world, patience in adversity, humility in prosperity, recollection in prayer, purity of heart, a right intention in all my works, diligence in fulfilling the duties of my state of life, constancy in my resolutions, resignation to the will of God and perseverance in the grace of God even unto death; that so, by means of your intercession and your glorious merits, I may be made worthy to appear before the Chief and Eternal Shepherd of Souls, Jesus Christ, Who with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns forever. Amen.