Prayer Request for Suicidal Catholic

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Greetings~

I need some prayers for a friend of mine who is having many difficulties in her life right now and is considering taking her own life.

Let me just explain. She’s recently been diagnosed with bipolar and borderline personality disorder. When her boss at work found out, he made it his mission to have her fired. It’s so mean I can not even fathom it. He went around to all the other employeees and told them she was ‘mentally unstable’ and that they all needed to keep and eye on her. He gave them all evaluation sheets to fill out on her so that he could get her fired.

And in addition to that, her home is in foreclosure, she must find a new place for her family to live by September 9th. She has recently filed for bankruptcy so no one wants to rent to her. She’s in an abusive marriage to a man who has an addiction and it looks as if they might be homeless soon along with their 2 children.

She has told me that it seems the only way out is suicide. Apparently when she told her psychologist about her desire to take her own life, the psychologist said, “you don’t seem that depressed to me.”

I am beside myself trying to help her but I can’t give her money or anything to change her circumstance like that. I even wonder if Jesus can help her. It all seems to overwhelming and hopeless.

Can anyone recommend anything, a book, a prayer, a suggestion to help this poor woman end her suffering without taking her own life? She is a Catholic with great devotion to Mary but as she suffers she grows further away from God. It’s as if the more she suffers, the less she trusts God.

Prayers would be great, too. Please pray for Hildagard (her confirmation name).

Thanks,
Jen
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Praying hard for Hildagard. I hope that she realizes that her children desparately need her. Try hard to encourage her to keep on plugging away.

:blessyou:
 
The Lorica (Breastplate) of St. Patrick
–translation from Gaelic by Cecilea Frances Alexander, 1989

I bind unto myself today
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same
The Three in One and One in Three.

I bind this today to me forever
By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation;
His baptism in Jordan river,
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spic-ed tomb,
His riding up the heavenly way,
His coming at the day of doom
I bind unto myself today.

I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of cherubim;
The sweet ‘Well done’ in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word,
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the prophets’ scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord
And purity of virgin souls.

I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the star lit heaven,
The glorious sun’s life giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea
Around the old eternal rocks.

I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide, His shield to ward;
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.

Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility
I bind to me these holy powers.

Against all Satan’s spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart’s idolatry,
Against the wizard’s evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave, the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.
By Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord.
 
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