Prayer Request

[Brooklyn]

Hello Everyone,

I just want to say a big THANKS again for all your well wishes, support, and prayers during this difficult period. Prayer makes such an enormous difference, the only really worthwhile and lasting difference in fact to each and every soul, of that I am certain now more than ever.

I visited my mother Elsie/Ellen again yesterday morning at 9am and having stayed at the nursing home throughout the day I decided I should stay throughout the night too. We started praying the Rosary audibly (Sorrowful Mysteries) just after 1am. Then we started on the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and having finished just one decade my mother breathed her last and passed over peacefully at 1-50 am this morning. I am as sure now as any human being possibly could be (without an actual vision) that she is now in, or well on her way to heaven.

2 Cor 5:8
Eddy Barry

Oh, Eddy, what a marvelous blessing! Certainly my greatest sympathies on the loss of your dear mother, Elsie. But the fact that you were there praying the Rosary and then the Divine Mercy Chaplet when she died tells me she was taken in the arms of angels and our Blessed Mother. As St.Faustina quoted our Lord:

When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying not as the just judge but as the Merciful Savior."

I have a friend whose mother died just as she and her father were finishing the Rosary, and then several years later her father died just as she was finishing the Divine Mercy Chaplet. She said both deaths were actually joyous because she knew they were both being taken home.

Elsie is now home and praying for you and your brothers and sisters. I will certainly be praying for her and for all of your family . God bless you, Eddy. You are an inspiration.

 

[the_phoenix]

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her and may she rest in peace.Amen

Amen

 

[Steady_Eddy]

Hello Everyone,

Just a few personal words of THANKS again for all your kindness, and all your prayers recently. My mother Elsie/Ellen was laid to rest this morning after the 11am Mass. It was of course a very sad occasion, but a beautiful service nonetheless, with personal prayers, funny stories, lovely hymns etc, and I myself even done a reading which I am pasting below. I was actually very nervous about reading. And to make things even more difficult I used a combined narrative lengthening the reading somewhat. Though quite familiar with the Bible, I had never read in public before. Anyway, I just read slowly, from the heart, somewhat emotionally too, or was I just shaking because of the very cold and wet weather Anyway, everything went okay. One person said afterwards that I read very coherently, another lady said I should read regularly in Church, but between us, I was just relieved not to have made a mistake

A reading from the book of Wisdom, Combined Narrative. Chapter 3:1-9 and Chapter 5:16-17

But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery: And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace. And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality. Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.
As gold in the furnace he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them. The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever. They that trust in him, shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love shall rest in him: for grace and peace is to his elect. The just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the most High. Therefore shall they receive a kingdom of glory, and a crown of beauty at the hand of the Lord: for with his right hand he will cover them, and with his holy arm he will defend them.

2 Cor 13:13
Eddy Barry