Pray Without Ceasing

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Greetings to my CAF friends!

Some of you may know about my mother being in ICU.
Thanks for your much needed prayers and please continue to lift her up.

I flew to CA to be on my mother’s bed side last weekend. With tubes all over her body, mother is suffering big time. It was indeed a very miserable sight. Different specialists came in to check on her. One doctor said it would take a miracle for her recovery.

However, what matters is not what the doctor said, what matters is what God said. God said “I am the Lord who heals you.”

We have four sisters in the family, three Catholics and one Protestant. We prayed in agreement for our mother’s recovery. The three of us said many Rosaries and Chaplet of Divine Mercy. We also prayed the St. Bridget’s prayer. I could actually **feel **the power of prayer when those vocal prayers were said non stop.

We literally prayed without ceasing - one rosary after another, one chaplet after another, nonstop all the time. And my mother’s previously abnormal vital signs went back to normal – her heart beating, breath rate, lung, liver and kidney functions, all improved, back to normal range. The power of prayer happened in front of our eyes, on the screen of the monitor.

After Sunday evening Mass, the priest came to visit. Even though my mother is a Protestant, Father still kindly gave her the anointing of the sick. He prayed and then asked if any of us could pray in tongue. My protestant sister, the priest and I prayed in tongues. I have never used my tongue in public before. I was shy about it. It is comforting to find out that my tongue is almost exactly the same as the priest’s. That was amazing.

It is so precious that we Catholics are given the prayers such as rosary and chaplet of divine mercy. That is the only way we can literally pray without ceasing, especially for the case of urgent healing prayers. It will be very hard to use our own words to pray every single minute. Thank God for Catholic prayers. I experienced many of God’s grace lately.

My mother is still in ICU, still fighting, please pray for her. I believe my mother will walk out of the hospital sound. I have to walk by faith not by sight. I am professing my faith.
 
InLight,
praying for your mother and for you and your family.

God Bless
Jim
 
It sounds beautiful. I know it is hard, but what a picture of faith. In my prayers, Tim
 
My mother is making progress, she can partly breath on her own now. Her white blood cell count is lower, her intestines now have movements. Though still in ICU with all the IVs and tubes, her condition is very hopeful.

“Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Thanks for your prayers. Please don’t stop. I prayed a Chaplet of Divine Mercy for all CAF friends last night during Adoration. God bless you all!
 
Glory to God!

You have given us grace at this time to offer You a common prayer together and have promised that when two or three are gathered together in Your name, that You will grant their requests for their mother to be healed in this life and the life to come; fulfill, Lord, the prayers of Your servants, which are for our welfare, grant us the knowledge of Your truth in this world and life everlasting in the world to come. Amen.

Grow closer to the Holy Spirit, it is he who prays within us without ceasing. He sings praises to our God, in the deepest parts of our sleep. Amen! Praying in tongues brings us closer to God, for we do not know how to pray, only the Holy Spirit praying through us knows perfectly the prayer we and others need from us.

One of the ways of the Eastern Church in the Jesus Prayer. As one prays it continually, the Holy Spirit and our soul, pray it for us
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a Sinner

Here are a few examples
imd.gr/html/en/section02/fathersmatters/01/05.htm
 
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a Sinner.
Thanks! Yes, this is another good way of praying without ceasing.

Truly I feel the joy of the Lord in my heart during these various concerns I am going through right now. My comforts are from God’s grace and all the supports of the loving people.

However the days are, so are the strength needed.

Praise be to God!
 
**“Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it shall be done for him.”
  • Mark 11:23
“These signs will accompany those who believe.” – Mark 16:17

“If you believe you will see the glory of God.” – John 11:40**

I am encouraged by the Word of God. My mother keeps on making progress. She can breathe on her own now. Her improvement is slowly but surely.

Sometimes in prayer, an assurance rises in heart about things yet to happen. That’s what I sensed in my prayer, the peace and the knowingness of my mother’s recovery. This insight is waited to be proved. But I am confessing it as the evidence of my faith, and hoping to bring encouragement to others who also need some kind of breakthrough in their lives.

God bless!
 
To confirm what you are saying, something I wrote a while back.

Look at Abraham, Romans 4:17-25, God changed Abrams name to Abraham, which literally meant, “I have made you the father of many nations.” Abraham could look and see with his eyes that he sure didn’t have any children, so how was it he could be the father of nations. See God’s word would not return to him void, it will perform the action for which it was meant. Abraham did become the father of many nations. Remember the Scripture, " even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us (John 17:21)." When we are in Christ we are a new creation, all the old things have past and way, and we are made new. With this happening then we are sharers in God’s word, Matthew 12:35,37 “The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and for by your words you will be justified.” Just as with Abraham, we have been justified through faith, and when we speak the word of God according to his principles, we are justified through faith because we are partakers in the divine plan of Christ.
Romans 4:17-25
[17]as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations” – in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
[18] In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, “So shall your descendants be.”
[19] He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
[20] No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
[21] fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
[22] That is why his faith was “reckoned to him as righteousness.”
[23] But the words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone,
[24] but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
[25] who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Since we were justified in God through the faith of Abraham, our faith should do the same as his. And our words become in ‘agreement’ with the Word of God and mountains are moved.

Glory to God!
 
To confirm what you are saying, something I wrote a while back.


Since we were justified in God through the faith of Abraham, our faith should do the same as his. And our words become in ‘agreement’ with the Word of God and mountains are moved.

Glory to God!
Thanks for your affirmation. Yes, glory be to God!

The breathing tube has been taken away from my mother’s nose.
She is breathing on her own. The blood pressure drug has also been taken away. Her blood pressure is now functioning without medicine. All the signs are indicating to recovery. One doctor used the word “unthinkable” while talking to my sister yesterday.

Faith and prayer are the most important resource. This is true for you and me of everything and every situation in life.

Thanks be to God!
 
Wow- this is very inspiring. Please know that your mother and your family are in my intentions at mass today.
 
Wow- this is very inspiring. Please know that your mother and your family are in my intentions at mass today.
Thanks Mary for your kindness, and thank you for being a prayer warrior.

This is really a warfare. I just came back from our church’s CCD teachers meeting and got a message that after the doctor took away the breathing machine, my mother had some problem of breathing. They are putting on an overall oxygen on her and she is getting better again. I feel this is not only a physical warfare but a spiritual one also.

But faith is the substance of things not seen. Jesus, I trust in You.
 
Praying for your Mom…
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JMJ,
Ricardo
Faith is to see the invisible, to believe the impossible, and to be perseverant.

It is not always easy not being weary. The kindness of others often enhances one’s ongoing strength. I heartily appreciate all of your prayers, expressed, or in silence.

And I keep all of you in my prayers of gratitude.
 
I cannot help dwell on the topic of suffering. I understand our suffering becomes redemptive and significant when united with the Cross.

What about the person who has no such concept and does not know to offer the suffering up? Is there still a significance of the suffering? If we take the suffering as purgation on earth, then no matter it is offered up or not, it is still meaningful. Is this thinking correct?

My mother is still suffering big time in ICU. She has been making progress, but she is still going through different painful procedures and her situation is still unstable. I just have to be persistent in my prayer and trust everything in God’s plan.

I keep on saying “Jesus, I trust in You.” And I do.

P.S. To my friend who PMed me last week:
I am concerned about the last thing you talked about, but my PM to you won’t go through.
I hope all is well with you. You are in my prayers. God bless!
 
If we take the suffering as purgation on earth, then no matter it is offered up or not, it is still meaningful. Is this thinking correct?
I believe it is still meaningful - how much it is? I am not sure. However, if we are aware of what we offer up, there are a lot more things to come into our spiritual life.

When one offers up his pain:
  • he is to stop complaining to God why it happens to him.
  • he may be given graces to love God and to unite with God.
  • he may be given grace to understand more the Passion of Christ.
  • he may be given knowledge to understand more the suffering of the Holy Souls.
  • …etc …
 
I started this thread about a month ago for the affirmation of my own faith and for seeking your prayer support.

All the time I was holding up a very positive expectation, hoping that my mother would make it, hoping I would come back here to announce the good news that my mother was recovered.

She did make progress. But situation went down hill couple days ago. After so much suffering, my mother passed away last night.

God is in control. I thank God for His will be done.

Thank you again for your kindness.
Please say a prayer for my mother’s reposed soul.

God bless!
 
Please say a prayer for my mother’s reposed soul.

God bless!
Praying for your mother, and will pray for her at Adoration and at Mass this evening.
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May the Holy Family console you...

         JMJ,

           Ricardo
 
Light, I am so sad and very sorry for your great loss. My heart goes out to you and all of your family. I am with you in spirit and prayer during the coming days.

I am sure your prayers and everyone else’s provided your mother, by God’s grace, with alot of courage and consolation during her final hours this side of life.

I am sure due to your great love your mother is in the arms of Jesus the other side of life.

Your mother, you and all of your family and friends are within the Living Prayer of my life.

My love to you

In the Living Prayer of my life
 
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