Please forgive my absence. I have been suffering from migraines, brought on, no doubt by stress.
update: The cancer markers in the blood have dropped yet again and the initial tumour and associated lymph nodes are shrinking. They did a biopsy on the lesions on his liver. The results have confused the oncologists. They were expecting cancer, but they don’t know what it is.
David’s fingernails are lifting and the skin is peeling off his hands from the chemo. He is finally starting to lose some hair but from his legs. He didn’t have much on his head to lose anyway. He started going bald at 16, so he keeps it very short, a number 1 cut.
For David’s healing and for his conversion:
Offering of the Holy Face:
Almighty and Eternal Father, since it has pleased Our Divine Savior to reveal to mankind in modem times the power residing in His Holy Face, we now avail ourselves of this Treasure in our great need. Since our Savior Himself promised that by offering to You His Holy Face disfigured in the Passion we can procure the settlement of all the affairs of our household, and that nothing whatsoever will be refused to us, we now come before Your throne.
Eternal Father, turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes. Look instead upon the Face of Your Beloved Son; for this is the Face of Him in whom You are well pleased. We now offer You His Holy Face covered with blood, sweat, dust, spittle and shame, in reparation for the worst crimes of our age, which are atheism, blasphemy, and the desecration of Your holy days. We thus hope to appease Your anger justly provoked against us. The All-Merciful Advocate opens His mouth to plead our cause; listen to His cries, behold His tears, O God, and through the merits of His Holy Face hearken to Him when He intercedes for us poor miserable sinners.
The Golden Arrow Prayer
(Prayer revealed by Our Lord to Sister Marie of St. Peter in 1843)
May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.