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shannin
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Fr_Ambrose
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I am really grateful for all your prayers.
My spiritual father who tonsured me at Zica Serbia foresaw that I would be reduced to what the Serbs call asfaltni monasi - asphalt monks who have to go back into the world and serve parishes- and he said (paraphrasing here): “Don’t loose heart. God will use you while you are young for the needs of the church in your homeland. Solitude will not be a possibility. But at the end He will give you a time for what you have always wanted.”
It was the same for Fr Dositej himself. Every morning after Liturgy he would leave the monastery, sometimes taking me, and on foot and by bus, he would visit the Christian families for miles around, praying with them, serving their Slavas, and just generally talking about life and the state of their souls. Nearly always he would make it back to the monastery in time for the evening Vigil and he would serve it, exhausted and dropping on his feet. In the end cancer in the neck allowed him to withdraw from the parish work and he found the peace and solitude he always desired before his death.
Again, please let me say, I am grateful for your prayers, and keep you in mine.
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I am really grateful for all your prayers.
My spiritual father who tonsured me at Zica Serbia foresaw that I would be reduced to what the Serbs call asfaltni monasi - asphalt monks who have to go back into the world and serve parishes- and he said (paraphrasing here): “Don’t loose heart. God will use you while you are young for the needs of the church in your homeland. Solitude will not be a possibility. But at the end He will give you a time for what you have always wanted.”
It was the same for Fr Dositej himself. Every morning after Liturgy he would leave the monastery, sometimes taking me, and on foot and by bus, he would visit the Christian families for miles around, praying with them, serving their Slavas, and just generally talking about life and the state of their souls. Nearly always he would make it back to the monastery in time for the evening Vigil and he would serve it, exhausted and dropping on his feet. In the end cancer in the neck allowed him to withdraw from the parish work and he found the peace and solitude he always desired before his death.
Again, please let me say, I am grateful for your prayers, and keep you in mine.
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twiztedseraph
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DEUS, qui ad maiestatis tuae gloriam et generis humani salutem, Unigenitum tuum summum atque aeternum constituisti Sacerdotem: praesta, ut quos ministros et mysteriorum suorum dispensatores elegit, in accepto ministerio adimplendo fideles inveniantur. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
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thefizzle656
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Mickey said:Let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy.
*O Lord Almighty, the Healer of our souls and bodies, You Who put down and raise up, Who chastise and heal also; do You now, in Your great mercy, visit our brother, Fr Ambrose, ***who is sick. Stretch forth Your hand that is full of healing and health, and get him up from his bed, and cure him of his illness. Put away from him the spirit of disease and of every malady, pain and fever to which he is bound; and if he has sins and transgressions, grant to him remission and forgiveness, in that You love mankind; yea, Lord my God, pity Your creation, through the compassions of Your Only-Begotten Son, together with Your All-Holy, Good and Life-creating Spirit, with Whom You are blessed, both now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy.
O Lord our God, Who by word alone did heal all diseases, Who did cure the kinswoman of Peter, You Who chastise with pity and heal according to Your goodness; Who are able to put aside every malady and infirmity, do You Yourself, the same Lord, grant aid to this Your servant Fr Ambrose and cure him of every sickness of which he is grieved; lift him up from his bed of pain, and send down upon him Your great mercy, and if it be Your Will, give to him health and a complete recovery; for You are the Physician of our souls and bodies, and to You do we send up Glory: to Father, and to Son, and to Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen.
Amen! I will pray for him.
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whosebob
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Fr Ambrose:
Fr. Ambrose, you are most certainly in my prayers.
Memorare
(attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
*Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen.*
That’s my favorite prayer to Our Lady. I even have a T-shirt which has those words printed on the back.
In Christ.
IC XC NIKA
I am really grateful for all your prayers.
JMJ + OBT
Fr. Ambrose, you are most certainly in my prayers.
Memorare
(attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
*Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen.*
That’s my favorite prayer to Our Lady. I even have a T-shirt which has those words printed on the back.
In Christ.
IC XC NIKA
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Fr_Ambrose
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**
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen.
One of my favourites too. And one I know by heart.
Along with Hail Holy Queen!**
(attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux)Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary,
that never was it known
that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession,
was left unaided.
Inspired with this confidence,
I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins my Mother;
to thee do I come,
before thee I stand,
sinful and sorrowful;
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
despise not my petitions,
but in thy clemency hear and answer me.
Amen.
One of my favourites too. And one I know by heart.
Along with Hail Holy Queen!**
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LatinCat
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I too add my prayers for Fr. Ambrose:
“Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry , poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us. And after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary. Pray for us O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”
“Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you do we cry , poor banished children of Eve. To you do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us. And after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary. Pray for us O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”
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