Please pray for a friend who is really having a tough time right now. She has lost her faith in God and with all of the difficult circumstances in her life, she really sees no hope for the future. Please pray that God will send her whatever it is she most needs right now, and that she is given the strength to get through the days ahead. Please ask for the intercession of Padre Pio.
Also, please ask for the intercession of St. Joseph as I try to figure out what it is God wants me to do with my life.
Thanks!
For your friend Gilsgirl…
Father, let this suffering pass from Gilsgirl’s friend;
yet not her will but yours be done.
May you be blessed forever.
Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on her.
With you we are nailed to the cross.
Let her pains be mingled with yours
for the saving of the world.
Holy Spirit, comforter and consoler,
heal what is ill in Gilsgirl’s friend,
strengthen what is weak,
sweeten what is sour or cranky.
Save her from depression and self-pity;
renew her courage;
bring us to pray with Jesus on the cross:
“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
Amen
For you Gilsgirl…
Lord Jesus,
up until now you have been quietly
preparing Gilsgirl to be your disciple.
Now the time of preparation is ending.
She needs to hear you say to her, as once to Peter;
“Will you also go away?”
You were saddened then by friends who failed you.
But Peter did not fail.
“Lord,” he said, “to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.”
We stand with Peter.
Through prayer and counsel,
show Gilsgirl, Lord,
where it is in your vineyard
that you want her to serve.
Then give her strength to be faithful.
Mary, Mother and Model,
help Gilsgirl to respond in generous love
to the call of your Divine Son.
Amen