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I am copying a post I happened to read on Oct 20 under active topics. Sara, the mother of Emilee (16 year old daughter with breast cancer) is asking for prayers. Please remember both Sara and Emilee in our prayers tonight.
Hello Ladies -
My sister learned of this through our local Komen affiliate. The girl's mother requested this be sent to anyone who cares about cancer and would pray for her daughter. I know that's certainly you ladies. I have also read on here that you are great with card showers. You cards would certainly brighten this young girl's day and your prayers would be appreciated.
I'll be doing the same.
Thank you and my best to all of you.
Kathryn
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Sara Vest just called and asked that an update be sent in regard to her
daughter Emilee. Her original tumor was malignant and grew
very, very quickly. The hope was that the mastectomy would be the end of it
all. The tests today have shown that the cancer has spread throughout and
beyond her chest wall and into other parts of her body. Sara said that she
will remain at Children's Hospital with Emilee until a plan is made. It is
respectfully requested that you refrain from visiting the hospital, as they
wish privacy a this particular point in time.We acknowledge that there was an outpouring of generosity for Emilee when
she was first diagnosed with breast cancer last year at the age of 16 - set
up through Southern Ohio Survivors. The original request to SOS from Sara,
was to "shower" her daughter with cards.Thank you to those that "showered" her with cards, blankets, books, checks,
etc. last spring. Your generosity was certainly unexpected, and very much
appreciated. Emilee received cards from all over the country and it was a
blessing.Sara is a single mom and will be unable to work until there is some
resolution to Emilee's treatment. Emilee is her only child and there is no
emotional or financial help from an extended family. We are not asking for
anything but PRAYER for this family. Right now there is nothing that we
know of that is needed for Emilee and Sara except PRAYER - and more PRAYER.
If there comes a time when there are financial concerns, it will be
coordinated through the Ross County YMCA (where Emilee was a member) and
Southern Ohio Survivors.Cards of love can be addressed to Emilee Coy c/o The Wellness Director, YMCA
of Ross County, 100 Mill Street, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601.Sara asks that you forward this updated information on to everyone who cares
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adies Here is an updated list of the intentions to be prayed for, have had an overwhelming response. So happy this is happening. Please print this updated list for the prayers each day. The Intentions are below and we can add to them today if I have forgotten any or you just have new to add:The Ladies of this Catholic Thread and their specific intentionsPat, her Grandson's well being and CouragePrayersareanswered, success of surgery, health upon surgery, and positive prognosis of PathologyTheresa, Peace of mind and Health, for her 4 children to return to the FaithLMFSM, Health and Safety of her familyPaula, Return to health, relief from fatigue. For her Mother Terry's return to health, and for her Husband and children as well,support in passing broker's examRose, Return to Health, recover from Coma.Marylee and MJ, Peace and financial help, health of familyMichelle, return to health, intentions for Husband Rick, and family. Support for personal spiritual project. AMG!Laura, for her son Taylor and her friend on BCO here that needs support, and relief and healing of her LE Kindone (Betty) for her Husband's return to health, successful outcome of her upcoming surgery, and friend Debbie that is dealing with brain cancer. Patty and Steven, healing from Cancer For Sheila's dear Husband Greg, that he has found heaven and is at Peace.Traci, a return to health and her pain addressed, for her disabled Father, and for her Sister to find the true spirit. Torigirl, for complete response to surgery and therapy and complete eradication of bc.,for her brothers and sisters and all here on bc.org needing healing and support, end of bc for good. PatMom, for her brother's eternal peace and the healing of her family Emilie and EBANN ..Miracles BCMOMOF3, for miracles in treatment and for her family For all of the ladies here: Laura, Jeannine, Apple, Carol, Barb, Judy, Sheila, Jan, Janet, Traci, Nita, Betty, Nancy, Pat, PatMom,Camul,NoniJones, YATCOMW,Pure.Paula..........and prayers for an end to breast cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ladies
I added the list of intentions on the previous page lets offer up these intentions each week as we go through out prayers, I can modify at any time, just let me know.
I did add EBANN and Emilie
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Janet,
Dear God in Heaven....too young, too young. By all means, Emilee will be part of our prayers tonight, and her mother as well. I'm wondering if we could include them in Theresa's offer of prayers to be said through the month of November?
Prayersareanswered,
I hope you have a wonderful mass tonight, and if you have already gone, I ask that you tell us about it later? We will be sure to hold you in our prayers as you prepare and recover and heal from your surgery. I was thinking if we aimed for in between the two holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, we would be sharing the holiday excitement, and then hopefully we would all be up to meeting?
Theresa,
I too have a hard time welcoming suffering. Specifically physical pain. Do you mind sharing the How to bear suffering and god Always gives us strength...even before the Gold in our lives? I think I need to survival skills/tools before embracing it. Does that make sense?
I'm happy share more stories...they are comforting to me, and I hope they are to others as well.
Paula, You are so wonderful for posting prayers!! )I will PM a particular observation, but stories will be here if they continue to be of interest or helpful.
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Traci - I definitely want to hear more stories!
Theresa - me too on interest in reading handling physical suffering. Had to have a blood test today (4 vials). Blood tests have never bothered me, but today it did. I just think because I've had so much the last 8 weeks - too many needles to count, biopsies, wire locators, SNB, surgery, IVs for scans, IVs for whatever, etc. I know people endure much more and I shouldn't complain (my guilt thing again). But I'm beginning to feel like my yellow lab. She HATED going to the vets. All she needed to see was the building from the car window and she shook uncontrollably from that moment until the apptmt was over and back in the car. She was the 'dog of my life' - still miss her!!!
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Hi ladies,
I LOVE having all the intentions in one easy to find spot. It makes them so personal - I feel a part of each person's spirit as I pray for their intentions. In our Mass, we shake hands in the beginning to introduce ourselves, then we all hold hands as we say the Our Father and lift them even higher to the heavens as we say "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, now and forever". I feel that power surge through me. It is now my favorite part of Mass and recharges my batteries. I get goosebumps everytime. I feel the prayers being lifted to God - all the open hearts and for just that few minutes it takes to pray...we are all one pure and divine voice whispering in God's ear.
Here's another of my goosebump stories I will mention since I saw a similar topic on tonights thread...
My Grandfather and I shared the same birthday and were super close. He also was very close to my children, then ages 7 and 3 1/2. His passing was so sad for me, but he lived a wonderful life well into his 90's. He battled stomach cancer, lymphoma and skin cancer a few times, nodes involved, surgeries, chemo, radiation...you name it. Always came through like a champ!
My 7 year old son started telling me Granddaddy was coming into his room at night and talking to him. I ignored it for awhile, but it got to the point that my 3 year old felt left out!! So she started spending the night in the my son's bedroom. This went on for months and I chalked it up to healthy imagination. I frankly ignored it. BUT, one morning was different. The kids yelled and we went flying in. "He said bye", they said. "Who did?" my husband and I asked. "Granddaddy did", they said very matter of factly. Then they told their story. Their room got "yellow" and their were LOTS of Grandaddy's friends on a hill having a picnic, and there were steps leading over and they wanted him to come. There were all KINDS of fruits and beans, and bushes and bushes of berries (I distinctly remember my 3 year old rolling her eyes saying "EVERYWHERE") and things to "pick" and eat. And Granddaddy said bye, and went over to his friends. He told them he would not be back to see them, but that he was very very happy. Now ladies, bear in mind...this is coming from a 7 year old and a 3 year old, who were finishing each others sentences with the events that transpired. My husband looked at me dumbfounded... "You KNOW he was here last night." They never spoke about it again, and were very matter of fact about it all. Discussing it later with my father, I asked what he thought about the "bushes and bushes" of berries and such. My dad offered the perfect explanation. My grandfather had been a farmer all his life. He had been planting crops and "bushes" since he was a child himself. A perfect heaven to him...woud mean sunshine (yellow) and bushes of bushes of produce. I have no doubt in my mind that more awaits us after this life ladies. And I state this on the glory of my grandfathers very spirit!
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Gee whiz,
What a great story! Thanks for sharing.
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love this story
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Amen sheila
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that's nice.. that story.
prayers for all.
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Hi Ladies
Will you please offer a prayer for my health tonight, I have had a stomach virus for 5 days now, and my son is home as well, I am so tired and worn out, and of course worried it's something else as it is not relenting,however my son has been ill today. I just know if we are all praying tonight it will be taken care of.
Thanks Michelle
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Sorry about your tummy Michelle
I will say an extra prayer for you. I did read that flu is starting up already. I'm going to a flu shot clinic tomorrow.Geewhiz - that gave me goose bumps. A testament of the love between grandparents and grandchildren!
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How to Bear Suffering
Even the greater sufferings that may fall to our share from time to time become easy to bear if we accept them with serenity and patience. What really makes suffering difficult to bear is our own impatience, our revolt, our refusal to accept it. This irritation increases our sufferings a hundred-fold and, besides, robs us of all the merit we could have gained thereby.
We see some people pass through a tempest of suffering with the greatest calm and serenity; wheras, others get irritated at the slightest annoyance or disappointment. We can all learn this calm and patience. It is the secret of happiness.
An eminent physician, in a conference which he gave to distinguished scientists and fellow doctors, told them that he owed all his great success in life to the simple fact that he had corrected his habit of impatience and annoyance, which had been destroying all his energy and activity.
Everyone, we repeat, without exception, can learn this calm and serenity.
God Always Gives Strength To Bear Our Sufferings
Thirdly, [Secondly is "Suffering is the Gold in our Lives" and I'll post tomorrow], when God gives us any suffering, He always gives us strength to bear it, if we only ask Him. Many, instead of asking for His help, get excited and revolt. It is this excitement and impatience that really make suffering hard to bear.
Consider that we are now speaking of all suffering, even the most trifling ones. All of us have little troubles, pains, disappointments, every day of our lives. All these, if borne for love of God, obtain for us, as we have said, the greatest rewards.
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This is from Franciscan literature on the subject of suffering:
With the help of grace, it is the spirit that must overcome the body if we are to attain everlasting glory in heaven. However, we cannot obtain this glory without suffering. God, in His Providence, uses the result of sin [he was talking about original sin of Adam/Eve - spiritual defect] as the means of our sanctification because Our Lord sanctified this means by His death on the Cross.
Oh, how we run away from suffering! But let us not be cowards. Whether we like it or not, EVERYONE must suffer - rich or poor, king or peasant. What is important is what we do with that suffering that God sends us. Are we going to be like the robber who complained about it or like the one who said he deserved it? Even though both suffered the same amount of bodily pain, the former suffered his way to hell and the latter his way to heaven! But my friends, it is not enough to simply accept all sufferings with resignation. If one is to become a saint, one must actively desire and seek it! Yes, indeed. Our beloved Seraphic Father [St. Francis] so desired and loved suffering that when a fellow Friar complained that God was being too harsh on Francis, our beloved Seraphim rebuked him! St. Francis took utter joy in his suffering, especially in the wonderful gift of the stigmata.******************************************************************
Sisters, suffering is really a tough topic. I think it takes more than me waking up tomorrow and saying "I'm going to suffer with joy today!" I think it takes a lot of prayer, acceptance, breaking habits of complaining, grace.... I don't think the saints changed over night ... it was a process. Like an unveiling... layer by layer of onion skin. But we have to be open to allow this change of heart, allow God to work in us so that we can come to that morning of "My bones ache so much, I offer all my sufferings for the intention of others, praise be to God." Yep, this is really a tough one.
My grandmother suffered a lot. A lot. Never complained. Always loving and kind. My cousin was the only one in the room when she died in the hospital ... we were doing round the clock duty ... he said when she passed, he knew she went straight to heaven. Her ashen, wrinkled face turned peachy and smooth and she had finally a look of blissful peace. Maybe that's what it means.
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Theresa
Excellent Post, I am beginning my prayers with offering of intentions.
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Geewhiz - wonderful story. :-) So assuring.
Michelle - I'm sorry you feel bad. We have a lot of people out sick either with the cold or the stomach virus. I think viruses hang onto we cancer patients b/c our immune system is so compromised.
Janet - I know about the sticking with needles and in the same arm every time!!!!! I have scar tissue now.
Ok, I need to settle into prayer time. I'm here ladies. <deep breath> Namaste - Peace and all good
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Thank you Theresa - I needed that.
I am starting prayers now too.
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Hi, I'm here!!! Traci, you are the leader in the prayer, so when you see the verbiage in [ ], that means you are the one to say it. K?
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I'm here and starting, I will read all of your posts..I saw Michelles
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geewhiz, That's incredible. I believe that happened. I think when we here stories like that it take a lot of fear out of passing. I often think about all who went before us. (my sister) I don't want to be afraid of dieing and sometimes I am not. Its just that I like being where I am. I don't want to miss out on anything. LOL
God works is some strange ways. Let me tell you, when I was getting back into God. I was going to prey worships services and still do. Born again vs Catholic I was very confused and I needed to know answers. Well I am a LPN and Ekg tech, I work at the hospital and a DR. office on Fridays..The Dr tells me to do a ekg on a patient and he has a shirt on form a Christan collage as I am hooking him up he tells me he is a pastor. Well I asked his a ton of questions as I was doing his ekg. The poor guy it became all about me, but he didn't mine. Let me tell you he put my mind at rest. On the way out he gave my his card and said if I want to talk give him a call.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Betty
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Dear Sisters,
I've just finished #8 rads and the lymph area is inflamed. There's also slight burning sensation inside. Even when the machine zapped me today, I could feel it. Not sure why? Please pray for zero size effects and for this strangeness to go away. Amen, Thank you.
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As I am going through all the prayers here I would like to offer up three more that keep bubbling to the top for me as I am praying. Please say an additional Hail Mary for:
Laura.. I know she suffering with LE
NoniJones...IN Gratitude as I believe her post touched all of us so much
Paula ....For an easing of her Radiation Treatment and for health
One More>>>for all 3 of Apple's Brothers, for the Lord to be with all of them and their own specific trials.
AMEN
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I am here....
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Ladies...I am here in prayer as well...
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Lord, thank you for these sisters and the peace we find together in prayer. Amen.
Goodnight everyone.
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Please pray for brother in law Dann - he is feeling the effects of "treatment" for bladder cancer and has lost 10 pounds already.
Prayersareanswered for healing by the will of God
Two little children died in a local fire this week and grandmother is in critical but stable condition - grandfather is beside himself and worries what his wife will do (the grandmother) when she finds out her grandbabies died in the fire. She doesn't know. Prayers for the souls of the children, for the grandmother and grandfather.
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Heavenly Father,
Please bless the children...born and unborn...
Please bless those that are bullied, that they find strength to overcome and know that better days are on their way...
Please bless all those that are lonely, scared and afraid, they they know comfort and feel secure with your love..
Please bless all those that are hungry tonight...
Please bless all those that have no place to lay their weary heads...
Please bless all those that suffer mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and most especially physically...may they all experience the healing and cure that they so deserve through You....
You know all of our petitions and prayers..those that we speak of and those that we hold dear to our hearts...
Please hear our prayers....
Amen...
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Oh Theresa I am sooooo SORRY and taking the extra time right now to pray for the family. There are no words for that. We need Mary to help here as she IS THE MOTHER>
I am praying
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Lord, you created us as uniquely as a crystaline snowflake and know every ache and pain, every sorrow, every joy, you know precisely what each of us needs to feel whole and loved and warm and squishy. Send your Holy Spirit to each of us, embrace us with your love, heal us, touch us, awaken us to do Your will - we cannot find acceptance with joy, we cannot see Christ's suffering in ourselves or others without your help. We are entirely Yours. - Amen
Good night dear sisters.
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Amen.
Paula, thank you so much, and I want to thank all of you that make this such a special gathering. I know that each one of us grows in prayer. I look forwards to reading all of the new stories, and special messages and yes, even about suffering
Thank you ALL for being here, and if not here, joining us in prayer and in spirit.
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GeeWhiz ~ that's a wonderful wonderful story and it brought happy tears to my eyes. It must have been a hard decision for your grandfather, because I think that once he made the choice of crossing the steps, he would not be able to come and visit as freely. It's great that he made the choice and found his eternal happiness. God Bless him. Your children are very lucky to encounter this.
Michelle ~ I pray that you will be healed from the stomach bug, quick!
Laura ~ pray that your LE symptoms will be gone.
Traci ~ please post your stories, I'm so anxious
Hope your pain has subsided altogether.Sheila ~ thank you again, the rad techs seems to be taking precaution. The monitor now has a white cardboard to the side, it sort of blocked 97% of the image on the screen, even when you walk past it going into the rad room.
All sisters, thank you for joining me in prayers tonight. Lovely group!!!
Namaste!
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