Trishie losing your brother i’m sure was terrible but it must have been such a comfort to you when he died knowing he had returned to the Church and had made his peace with God. This is what i want for my brothers one who no longer believes in God and the other two who believe but have their own ideas on how to live their lives outside the Church.My sister left 21 years ago and joined her husbands evangelical church i long for them all to return home along with their families, as i said before i live in hope and with God nothing is impossible. I remember talking with my sister years ago and she asked why God would send her in one direction (evangelical Church) and me in through the Catholic Church, i could not answer her then, but over the years as i have become stronger in my faith and belief in the one true Church, (she is very much aware of this) i have come to the conclusion that this happened for a reason and that was to bring us both fully to him within the Catholic Church. Last year for her birthday i gave her a book on the early Church Fathers but i know she has not read it. As far as she is concerned the Church is manmade/organisation and nothing more. My dearest wish is for them all to return and i Pray some day soon they all will. God bless
I’ll pray for them with my family. There was a time when three of my four sisters were outside the Church. All came back. Three brothers are still to return, so I’ll keep your siblings with prayer with my brothers.
I guess, you’re your family’s Joseph Old Testament), sent to prepare for that time when your siblings come to join you. It’s hard, isn’t it. It hurts.
Love, Trishie
The prophets intercede with God for their people
Our God, I emulate Moses and Abraham in praying for my dear ones, for the Church, for priests, and for numerous others throughout the world, whether or not followers of Jesus or members of His Church.
This temporal world obscures the spiritual world, thus many good people sincerely do not believe in You. Life is complex and challenging, as the people of Abraham and Moses knew. They turned aside from a God who seemed unresponsive to some of their genuine needs for security and progress. A natural human response is to move away from pain of hope in God and religion. The Jews desired a manageable, tangible God, as even do some of Your modern followers.
When You sent Moses back to the people, determined to bring Your wrath against them for displacing their God and Rescuer with a statue, Moses argued with You to spare them. Moses, scripture tells us, was ‘the humblest man on earth’, yet he won in the argument for mercy, and Your wrath therefore did not come against his people. They remained the chosen people of God.
Like Moses and Abraham, I humbly bargain for the eternal happiness of my dear ones, and of all benevolent unbelievers. In their sincere choices to be considerate in the relationships and events of their lives, they effectively choose to stand with the sheep at the last judgement—that yardstick by which Jesus, Your beloved Son, measures charity. I plead the judgement story of Jesus for my dear ones and for all unbelievers who offer kindness to others.
Bless and flood them with Your love, goodness and truth. Bring them to love and worship You. Let them merit a final judgement with the ‘good sheep’. Transform them into the image of Christ, following His path. Restore anyone whom they have wounded or failed. Grant that they live the Gospel in love and forgiveness.
Thank You for the beauty and goodness in the lives of my dear ones and of all persons. Thank You for the love and service they give others and therefore Yourself, even where they are unconscious of this union in Your love. March 2005
