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lynnareyno
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I recieved this email tonight:
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Received today re: Fr. Corapi
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Received today re: Fr. Corapi
Father Corapi to have surgery this week
Dear Prayer Warriors
The following was sent to me by Sue Lopez and written by Terry, a
pro-life sidewalk counselor there in San Diego. It is the accurate
details on Fr. Corapi’s health–Let’ s pray for his successful surgery
this week.
God bless,
Celine
I know many of you have been concerned about Father Corapi and his
health. The rumors were indeed true, but thanks to Father Corapi’s Weekly
Wisdom program , (fathercorapi. com), he addressed the whole issue on his
health in today’s program (March 29th). Realizing most of you aren’t
subscribers, I will give you the overview. However, should you want to
watch it yourself, the quality is excellent and you can buy a month’s
package for $10.
Bottom line, Father Corapi has a parathyroid tumor and will be going back
to the Mayo Clinic next week for surgery. It’s a very rare (6 in 1
million men get it), tumor, which is 98% of the time not cancerous. The
good news is they ruled out lymphoma, which is what they thought he had.
He goes through great detail explaining and extolling the Mayo Clinic,
his tests, and our obligation to keep our bodies as healthy as we can. He
also said for the past 7 months he was too sick to get out bed 70% of the
time; intense exhaustion with flu-like symptoms (a result of the excess
calcium this type of tumor causes, in addition to osteoporosis) . Surgery
is the only cure.
As you might suspect, he turned his experience into a redemptive
suffering lecture, reminding us that God’s true power comes via our
weakness. He also touched on what I’ve seen more and more recently
especially among strong Catholics close to Mary and who offer their
sufferings and that is the obvious; how much the world right now needs
the help of redemption from the souls willing and able to offer it back
to Christ via Mary, united to the cross. I’m sure most of us figured out
it was pretty obvious that God needed Father Corapi’s suffering
especially during Holy Week.
He talked in fairly great detail about his week of tests; including the
anxiety for his family, about maybe ‘checking out,’ i.e., having cancer,
etc. In his forever wit, he joked about the benefit and happiness of
dying (except for the pain to his family), rather than having to endure
and see the face of a certain next US President. He quite seriously said
death would be better than having to endure the next likely president for
four years. Yikes!
Anyway, please spread the world to keep Father C in your prayers. His
favorite prayer is the Memorare, which is what he asked be prayed for him
when he was first admitted to the Mayo Clinic. He wrapped up his segment
with the profound words from his thesis on redemptive suffering: To be
set at the foot of the cross is to be set at the pinnacle of all human
possibilities
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Thank You All,in love,terese

