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  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 48
    edited September 2009

    I just listened to Marty and you are right his music is very nice as well!

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    Fellow sisters in Christ... God bless you and I hope you day ROCKED!

  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 347
    edited September 2009

    Laura,

    I saw on another thread that your bone scan came back negative today...so giving thanks to the Lord for that good news...Congrats and thanks for starting this thread!

    God Bless!

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    Awe.. thank you Angel! I did no ask for prayer here on the bone scan... as truly, I know the Lord has healed me.. and this scan ... was my third or forth in a yr.. I told them I had rib pain from radiation, and NO ONE wants to accept this.. so they said.. BONE SCAN.. whatever... lol... I look forward to seeing what they say now...

    Thank you for giving thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ! I am too... all the time...

    you are very welcome for the thread.. I just wanted to let everyone know who the patron of Cancer was... :).. and it turned into a beautiful prayer thread...

    Our God is an AWESOME God!!!

  • plainjane64
    plainjane64 Member Posts: 521
    edited September 2009

    Hi girls....Im out the door, CXR 1ist followed by mamo and MRI, blood work somewhere in there and an ekg too.....Thanks for the positive thoughts, vibes and PRAYeRS from you prayer warriors!

    Peregrine and agatha time to do your magic and thank you ladies! for you magic!

    gulp, here goes!

    con dios!

    xoxo,

    jennifer 

  • nancyd
    nancyd Member Posts: 557
    edited September 2009

    I offer my prayers today to St. Peregrine, St. Agatha, and St. Jude today for their intercession on behalf of all here.

  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 347
    edited September 2009

    Jennifer...prayers going out in a special way for you today!

    Carol...just remembered who I was thinking about....it is Kathleen Farrell! She has done some beautiful songs for liturgy. Also, you might want to try Grayson Warren Brown for some uplifting songs, and Donna Cory Gibson for some very beautiful spiritual tunes.  She has done a CD on Prayers of the Great Saints that I listen to frequently.

    Hope you enjoy these....love the line...singing is like praying twice!

    God Bless!

    Angel

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    ((Jennifer))

    It will be ok.

  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 762
    edited September 2009

    Sending you prayers Jenifer, we are with you!  In sisterhood, xo

  • artemis
    artemis Member Posts: 105
    edited September 2009
    Welcome, Jennifer!

    Laura ~ wonderful news about your bone scan!!

    I'm going to begin the novena again for Heidi, Stephanie, and my prayer warrior sisters in this thread.

    Praise Report:  Stephanie posted a few days ago, and though she is still very sick, she is MUCH better than she was.  Thank you, Jesus!

    Day 1...for Heidi, Stephanie, and the prayers of my sisters in this thread.  Amen.
  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    THANK YOU JESUS!

    I will begin again with you Art! In Jesus name. Amen

  • yatcomw
    yatcomw Member Posts: 58
    edited September 2009

    I pray to St. Jude and St. Theresa (of lost hope).....but the prayer that gets me everytime is the prayer I have to Mary....


    A friend of my sister's gave me a medal to wear when I was diagnosed.....he was on a plane on the way to visiting his ill sister and was talking to the stewardess.  She heard where he was going and went to her purse and gave him this medal....she had been on a flight with both the pope and Mother Theresa many years ago and was given several medals blessed by both of them.  He was told to let the ill person wear it.  He brought it to his sister and she got better...he gave it to someone else and they got better.....he isn't a very religious person but really believes this medal helps so when he heard about me from my sister he gave the medal to me.  It was the Miraculous Medal of Mary.  I put it on and never took it off.....I then went to church and found a little booklet with the story behind the medal and some prayers....how odd I just happened to come across it...right?

    The prayer in the booklet that I keep with me is this one.... I read it before every scan, tumor marker test, etc. I am told you have to pray in a way that comes very, very deep inside.  You can't just read it....you have to find this place within you....deep....and say it in such a way that she hears you.....

    Remember, O most compassionate Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone that fled to your protection, implored your assistance, or sought your intercession was left unaided.  Inspired with this confidene, we fly unto you. O Virgin of Virgins, our Mother: to you we come; before you we kneel sinful and sorrowful.  O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in your clemency hear and answer them. Amen.

    I believe she hears me when I pray it.....I believe she understands how much I want to raise my kids.....I believe she wants us to have a cure.....

    My sister's friend finally asked for his medal back after 18 months.....killed me to give it up!!!  It has served me well so far....

    Jacqueline

  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 347
    edited September 2009

    Jacqueline...that is a beautiful prayer. It is called the Memorare...I pray it every Monday as I do the Perpetual Novena in Honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.  What a great gift for you to have received it since it was touched by 2 people who I am sure will be saints someday.....and such a powerful intercessor Mary is for us...

    Thanks for sharing!!

    God Bless!

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    Jacqueline.. thank you for that!  AWESOME story...how blessed you were to get that medal.. and how perfect our Lord is for placing it in your hands!

  • plainjane64
    plainjane64 Member Posts: 521
    edited September 2009

    WEll................It's all good!  FINAL mamo and MRI Iook fine/negative/no suspicious findings!

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!  Someone else said to me...."How did you expect them to come back?'............Honestly...I don't know.....what I do know................I take NOTHING forgranted anymore and when 2 of the last 3 came back w/ a serious issue..............we CELEBRATE and give thanks for 'normal/negative'!  I cannot wait to liberate myself from this!  and it is happening soon!  so nice to actually be able to celebrate that now!

    Thanks so much to all you...and of course to agatha and peregrine!  Agatha stays on m neck and rosary bracelet on the wrist...great sources of comfort!

    xoxo,

    jennifer

  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 48
    edited September 2009

    Angel,  Singing is like praying twice?  What a beatiful thought.  I never thought of that, but do know that in life when I was headed in any wrong direction, it is the choral and /or worship music that has spoken to my heart and reminded me of the importance of Looking to the Lord for peace.

    I will check out the muscicians.  Still high on Come to Me.  I played it today for a friend and she got goose bumps on her arms!

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    Jennifer... so happy for you!

  • Mary22
    Mary22 Member Posts: 428
    edited September 2009

    Congrats to all with good news and neg tests!!!! God truly does answer our prayers.

    Well now sisters in Christ, I need to pray for a friend of mine, she helped me get through my BC tx.  She is a BC survivor, she had double mast, hyster, recon and needs one more surgery and one procedure. Well today we found out her cancer spread to her brain. She starts rads tomorrow at noon. Please say a prayer for her. Thank-you

    Have a blessed evening and Peace of out Lord be with you!

  • Angel10
    Angel10 Member Posts: 347
    edited September 2009

    Mary,

    I will add your friend in my intentions ASAP!  Jennifer....hip, hip hooray!! God is soooo good!!!

    OK all....just caught the tale end of the story of Fr. Solanus Casey who I believe is heading toward sainthood...many miraculous cures are attributed to his intercession.  He was a simple Capuchin priest, so much so that when he was first ordained, he was not even allowed to hear confessions or preach homilies....wow...

    Anyway, he was quoted as saying, and I am paraphrasing here, that we should be faithfilled and assured of God's generosity to us that we should thank Him before we even ask anything of Him!  Of course, we do need to ask and continue to pray, but be confident in His goodness....give Him thanks even before our prayers are answered.. How powerful is that?  I love it!!

    So I give thanks to God for answering my prayers, and I continue to praise Him as Lord and Creator of all good! AMEN!

    God Bless! 

  • abinneb
    abinneb Member Posts: 16
    edited September 2009

    Hi Angel -

    There is a Guild for Fr. Solanus Casey for the Cause for Beatification.  Of all things, my grandmother knew him.  I think she donated to the monestery?  Not sure - but I do know that he was at the St. Bonaventure Monestery in Detroit.  I grew up right outside of Detroit and was made familiar with him through my grandmother.  She always thought he was a very hold person. 

    Hope you all have sweet, restful, healing sleep ~~  you are in my prayers tonight

    Amy

  • Mary22
    Mary22 Member Posts: 428
    edited September 2009

    When I was in high school, the nun at our church was working to get him appointed to sainthood and that was back in 1983/1984. Well one night I had to stay after school to do some make up work for typing class which I almost failed, go figure???? Well my friend was suppose to be my ride home, but she did not stay and I realized it too late. So walking home I prayed to Fr Solanus Casey and low and behold my uncle ended up driving down the road I was walking down to go home. This was before for cell phones and before claassrooms had a phone in evry room, so my only options was to walk home about 10 miles.

    Since he was out of Detroit, that would explain why Sr. Esther and my grand mother were trying on his behalf to make him a canidate for saint hood. They both taught at a Catholic school just outside of Detroit in the 60's and 70's.

    Good morning to all!!!!! and God Bless.

  • plainjane64
    plainjane64 Member Posts: 521
    edited September 2009

    Thanks everyone for sharing my joy!

    Mary, so sorry to hear about your friend,  praying for her now.

    Interesting about Fr. Casey.......

    OK, so much to do..and so grateful to be able to do it!

    con dios!

    xoxo,

    jennifer

  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 797
    edited September 2009

    Hi Dear Ladies

    I feel I have been away in the last few days and just struggling so......! I am happy for you Jennifer, and Mary I posted prayers for your dear friend on another post.

    Dear Ladies I finished the St. Agatha Prayer and just still feel so tortured, I come on this site and see so many suffering, and new dx of painful mets and I just get so down. I think the Mental piece of this has been more difficult then the physical. I just get to feeling ok and very faithful and then I just hit rock bottom. I have never suffered from Depression, just anxiety here and there and this is just scaring me on a daily basis to the point of creating physical symptoms. I love to read your stories and they inspire me. I pray every day that I will find the type of faith that is so illustrated here. Thank you for letting me be honest here.

    Michelle

  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 797
    edited September 2009

    So in my anxiety I have been reaching for anything that can help to calm my mind. This morning I reached for my very OLD  (HS Catholic Bible) and went to a passage that I had underlined 20 some years ago in PINK of all colors.

    John 14

    If you love me obey me: and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, for it isnt looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you do, for he lives with you now and some day shall be in you. No, I will not abandon you or leave you as orphans in the storm    I will come to you. In just a little while I will be gone from the world, but I will still be present with you. For I will live again and you will too. When I come back to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. The one who obeys me is the one whol loves me; and because he lovesme, my Father will love him; and I will too, and I will reveal myself to him.

    SO........ I guess what this means to me is obeying is having great faith and we will never be alone I pray to take comfort and real meaning from this and to feel it inside and out.

    I

  • lovemyfamilysomuch
    lovemyfamilysomuch Member Posts: 762
    edited September 2009

    Sweet Michelle, it is ok to feel down, we are here with you. Thank you for the lovely passage. I am thinking about you and sending you support and love. Just be who you are. We honor that here.

    In sisterhood, xo

  • artemis
    artemis Member Posts: 105
    edited September 2009

    Day 2...for Heidi, Stephanie, and the prayers of my sisters in this thread.  Amen.

    (((mmm5)))

  • Mary22
    Mary22 Member Posts: 428
    edited September 2009

    Thank-you everyone!!!!

  • Estepp
    Estepp Member Posts: 2,966
    edited September 2009

    Day 2 in joining the Novena with Artemis... Amen

    Michelle... Girl... it is hard. Hard for us all... it hurts. It is scary.. and I used to get down right  teary out of the blue.... but as time goes by... and I pray for peace... it gets better. I have not cried over all I felt I lost for some time now. If you do not start getting a little better day by day... check with your doctor.. PTSD is very common in Cancer ...Big hugs and kisses sweety!

  • plainjane64
    plainjane64 Member Posts: 521
    edited September 2009

    Michelle,

    It is OK to cry, grieve, feel bitter and angry...........IT'S OK to be human!  You feel free to express yourself, there are plenty here who DO care...and if you have a counselor, need meds to help, even better....LET people help you!  Let it out sweetheart!  Don't stifle.......

    love and prayers,

    jennifer

  • DenverDiva
    DenverDiva Member Posts: 77
    edited September 2009

    Michelle,

    It is through dark times that we come to know the light.  Finding that pink underlined passage is like finding a light in a dark place.  I agree with all of the others that counseling and meds may help, but I know that you are a strong, spiritual , beautiful woman, and God will guide your way to find the thing that will ease your pain.

    I feel so blessed by your postings, and you are in my prayers daily.  Thank you for your inspiration.

    Also ladies, please pray for Karen who is having surgery in WI today.

    Love, and Blessings,

    Susan

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