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He is on coumadin for a clot in his leg. He decided to go to JOhn Hopkins in Baltimore and has an appt on the 15th... will keep you all posted thank you soo much.
lol a cure for stupid??? would that be great will have to take alook at that!
Love to all
Maria
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Theresa - you will knock their socks off. And - there is such a shortage of women in the IT field -- that's a big plus for your prospects!
Maria - Sheila's right - start at the beginning of the thread or it won't make any sense. Even then it doesn't make much sense -- just funny nonsense
Tori - any word when your husband can come home?
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But you will learn the term cluck it ---and love it
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cluck it!!!! I did I did I loved it too funny!
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Kay,
So sorry to hear about your BIL. Gosh, I have no words. Prayers for him and all of the family, so hard.
Theresa and all,
Yup, tired. I came home, went into the bedroom, lay down and it took 10 minutes to get back up. gotta take out the little bugger now.
So I wish you a wonderful interview tomorrow! Just remember all that you have done over the years, and your vast experiece. How many times you have been thrown into a situation, and not only survived, but thrived. Just ask God to open up all channels of energy and communication, and to guide you in this process. will be thinking about you tomorrow!
Alrighty, Love to all, and am thinking about everyone, even from my couch
Just in case I nod off again, Sweet Dreams and Prayers of Protection for all,
Traci
Janet..yes, nappies are good for healing :0
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Traci - I feel your tiredness!! I've been dragging this week. Which might be good that my interview was rescheduled to next Wednesday afternoon!!! Like I told Becky, this gives me time to get my hair trimmed and highlighted etc. I'll be more prepared. Plus, maybe it will feel more like spring next week instead of rain/snow showers!!
Thanks to you all for your votes of confidence and advice, though. I just get so nervous and tongue tied, and that was BEFORE chemo and tamox! And it will be a team tackle, I mean interview. Oi!
Plus we have a short sale negotiation going on and that's been stressful. The bank is supposed to have a decision to us by tomorrow. Just lots going on.
Plus I feel guilty about leaving my present company. My supervisor and I had a career development (mandatory) meeting today and I told him that I felt like I hit the proverbial glass ceiling. I've been at my current job code for YEARS. Janet, I'm not really in IT, but more engineering and yes, there aren't many women. I'm not an engineer, per se, but in systems engineering (processes and procedures to keep the engineers honest and in line...which they hate) and I feel that the engineers (men) get promoted while I'm still doing the same thing. But then I can't complain too loudly b/c I think the company promotes if you work 60-80 hours a week and I won't do that. Some travel 80- 90% of their time. No thank you. All of that is unhealthy. So, I'm going to listen carefully to the interviewers and try to ascertain the stress level I would be jumping into! :-)
Time for rest (after I clean the kitchen!) Good night sisters!
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HMMMM theresa you keep the engineers on track- translation you keep them honest to their task and they get promoted with higher pay grade, and the person resposible for watching their quality is paid less and not promoted----you must be a woman. Thats America!. In one job, I was teaching. I made less than the people I was teaching. They were 95% male, my career was probably 99% female. I resigned with the statement that the students shouldn't make more than the teacher, and if I was running the program I should have the title program director. Lots of drama in between. We negotiated. I did get a 23% increase in pay over 6 months. But didn't get title of Program Director. Downside, when the hospital targeted people in cost control years later. I was one. MUCH MUCH DRAMA- and I was a poor student. Retrospect, I got screwed and if I had understood more about the contractual relationship of the group I was "working " for I had a huge lawsuit. Because I worked for the hospital and NOT the GROUP. The GROUP interferred with my relationship with the hospital. DUH ignorance is not bliss. Sorry Theresa these thoughts have just blown out. Must be because I have my tin hat on.
You are awesome. Figuire out what novena we all should say starting this week and lets get it going. it may not be complete , but will be almost complete. Namaste L&H sheila
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Thanks all for the prayers for my bil. Yes, very hard. They are taking it one step at a time and have a great attitude though.
Good Luck Theresa. You are right to be cautious and make sure it is something you'd want. Remember you're interviewing them in addition to them interviewing you.
Did I miss it or hasn't Betty's grandchild's name been posted yet? What a wonderful time for you.
Prayers for your fil Maria and you Sandi, and Tori and Janet and Skip and everyone. I've felt much better this week than last week. I guess the second week from chemo is easier? Just in time to go back on Monday. Will be one step closer to being finished. Good night all. God Bless.
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Good evening Ladies, My GD's name is Ava Marie and she looks like a little porcelain doll. I was also in the delivery room when she was born. I cried like a baby and she's my second one. I am so Blessed.
Theresa, Good luck tomarrow, I will pray for you. I love the stations of the cross thanks. Michelle, God Bless ya how rewarding. Kay I am glad your feeling better just hang in there. Sandy I hope you have a speedy recovery. I am praying for all of us every night so we are in good hands. Betty
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Theresa
Praying for you! Good Luck, what will be will be put the whole thing in Gods hands absolutely leave the conversation up to the Divine and you it will be taken care of for you!
Ladies please add my 13 year old son to your prayers he needs the spiritual uplifting right now as well as my Husband - they are both struggling and struggling together. I will write more later about it but they need prayers for peace and for God to lift them to who they should be!
Thanks for including them.
I went to visit a young Mom last night with new dx she is 35 ish with young daughters. She was in the middle of chemo, lost her hair and struggling with the "fear", it was so hard on me you all I left crying it just brought back so MUCH PAIN, that I really never want to feel again.
Please pray for Katrina she is a lovely woman and is at the beginning of all of this YUK
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mm5 will be praying for your son and husband and also Katrina! May God uplift them all and ease theirpain and fears! As well as give you peace and strength.
Kay glad you are feeling better as the week goes on!
hugs to all!!!
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Michelle- add them to the intentions page----whatever there struggle , we will pray to let it pass. If they only knew the fear you carry, they would straighten up right quick. Adolescents have there own problems and most men never outgrow the same only to a degree.
As I sit here with a tin hat on my head, I can say the only son is finally fledged, except for car insurance which should be taken care of this week. I made his last medical insurance payment. He's on his own with everything else. A lifetime of denial, so we could save for his future. I hope at one day he gets it. But if we hadn't done the denial, we may have not come out financially stable with 2 of us having cancer at the same time. Greg had the "right" kind of cancer Lymphoma> he was able to get a grant. 5000.00 $. That goes a long way in paying bills. If anyone knows of something comparable with BC let everyone know.
What do we say to those that don't know how the cancer word changed us. What do we say to those that see that something has changed, but can't define it. Those that are mature will stay the course and behave with grace. Less mature will see themselves at the center of the change, yet they aren't . They want things to be the same as they were yesterday before the word cancer. They will act out, become a problem, leave or whatever. It' s the me, mine ,why did you do this to me whine. When this happens remind them everyone is still alive. For a moment in time, there is possibility in the next moment we may be gone. I saw both happen in 2010. One brother gone within moments, the other brother gone in months- my Greg,. Life is a gift. we should cherish each one. Don't whine. Don't carry on. Don't do something that would make the ones that love you most ---sad. We did not make cancer happen. We did not wish it to be. We did not do it to interrupt your life. Every part of our being would have nothing to do with this if we had the say. BUT we didn't , it's here. What we can do is cling to each other and enjoy each moment of life as if it were the last.
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sas-schati, what a beautiful last paragraph you wrote above! And I love the line, "It's the me, mine, why did you do this to me? whine." ;-) Amen, sistah!
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SAS That was beautiful and brought tears to my eyes... so nicely said and so true!! Thank you for writing and sharing that.hugs!
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Love ya Sas! I like the way you think!
When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action. And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I'll be there."
He is with us!! xo
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Sheila - truly inspired writing! :-)
I'd like to post one of the Office of Readings from today by Tertullian, a priest and very early Church father (b. ca 160 AD). He was one, if not the first, to write about the Trinity (3 persons, 1 substance). Here is a super long article about him:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14520c.htm
I will post the "From the treatise On Prayer by Tertullian, priest" in a separate post.
My interview is next Wednesday. A novena would be really nice, thanks... I'll look one up. I want to do God's will with this, not mine, not Skip's, not my family's... God's. But I really hear you about women vs men and their pay. Women have come a long way, but we've also shot ourselves in the foot along the way, so we're limping along. Yes, we're in the workforce, for better or worse for ourselves and our families, but we still carrying the heavier load at home... and I think we work harder than our male counterparts. I never, ever dreamed that I would be in management in the corporate world when I was younger. NEVER. But here I am. Limping along. Yes, Kay, you are right (glad you're feeling better after week 2), I will be interviewing them as well. I found out today that this company is a competitor of ours on a pending contract, so I have to watch my Ps and Qs.
Michelle - prayers for your son and husband and Katrina.
Betty - what a beautiful name!!!
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Reading From the treatise On Prayer by Tertullian, priest
The spiritual offering of prayerPrayer is the offering in spirit that has done away with the sacrifices of old. What good do I receive from the multiplicity of your sacrifices? asks God. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and I do not want the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats. Who has asked for these from your hands?
What God has asked for we learn from the Gospel. The hour will come, he says, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit, and so he looks for worshippers who are like himself.
We are true worshippers and true priests. We pray in spirit, and so offer in spirit the sacrifice of prayer. Prayer is an offering that belongs to God and is acceptable to him: it is the offering he has asked for, the offering he planned as his own.
We must dedicate this offering with our whole heart, we must fatten it on faith, tend it by truth, keep it unblemished through innocence and clean through chastity, and crown it with love. We must escort it to the altar of God in a procession of good works to the sound of psalms and hymns. Then it will gain for us all that we ask of God.
Since God asks for prayer offered in spirit and in truth, how can he deny anything to this kind of prayer? How great is the evidence of its power, as we read and hear and believe.
Of old, prayer was able to rescue from fire and beasts and hunger, even before it received its perfection from Christ. How much greater then is the power of Christian prayer. No longer does prayer bring an angel of comfort to the heart of a fiery furnace, or close up the mouths of lions, or transport to the hungry food from the fields. No longer does it remove all sense of pain by the grace it wins for others. But it gives the armour of patience to those who suffer, who feel pain, who are distressed. It strengthens the power of grace, so that faith may know what it is gaining from the Lord, and understand what it is suffering for the name of God.
In the past prayer was able to bring down punishment, rout armies, withhold the blessing of rain. Now, however, the prayer of the just turns aside the whole anger of God, keeps vigil for its enemies, pleads for persecutors. Is it any wonder that it can call down water from heaven when it could obtain fire from heaven as well? Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God [win His heart, get His attention]. But Christ has willed that it should work no evil, and has given it all power over good.
Its only art is to call back the souls of the dead from the very journey into death, to give strength to the weak, to heal the sick, to exorcise the possessed, to open prison cells, to free the innocent from their chains. Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.
[Traci will like this... very Franciscan too] All the angels pray. Every creature prays. Cattle and wild beasts pray and bend the knee. As they come from their barns and caves they look out to heaven and call out, lifting up their spirit in their own fashion. The birds too rise and lift themselves up to heaven: they open out their wings, instead of hands, in the form of a cross, and give voice to what seems to be a prayer.
What more need be said on the duty of prayer? Even the Lord himself prayed. To him be honour and power for ever and ever. Amen.
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Awesome reading this morning! Praise be to God for giving us our Church Fathers and Mothers! We have so much to learn from them.
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I have a perfect Novena for us. It's long, but I love St. Joseph and he always helps! The novena can be found on this link, but I will post the prayers every day for 9 days. It's different each day.
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/novena/joseph.htm
Let me know your intentions, and I'll add them at any time during the 9 days. We can start today.
I'll get back to posting the Stations of the Cross too!! It's been quite a week.
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Day One - Novena to St. Joseph
FOSTER-FATHER OF JESUSSaint Joseph, you were privileged to share in the mystery of the Incarnation as the foster-father of Jesus. Mary alone was directly connected with the fulfillment of the mystery, in that she gave her consent to Christ's conception and allowed the Holy Spirit to form the sacred humanity of Jesus from her blood. You had a part in this mystery in an indirect manner, by fulfilling the condition necessary for the Incarnation -- the protection of Mary's virginity before and during your married life with her. You made the virginal marriage possible, and this was a part of God's plan, foreseen, willed, and decreed from all eternity.
In a more direct manner you shared in the support, upbringing, and protection of the Divine Child as His foster-father. For this purpose the Heavenly Father gave you a genuine heart of a father -- a heart full of love and self-sacrifice. With the toil of your hands you were obliged to offer protection to the Divine Child, to procure for Him food, clothing, and a home. You were truly the saint of the holy childhood of Jesus -- the living created providence which watched over the Christ-Child.
When Herod sought the Child to put Him to death, the Heavenly Father sent an angel but only as a messenger, giving orders for the flight; the rest He left entirely in your hands. It was that fatherly love which was the only refuge that received and protected the Divine Child. Your fatherly love carried Him through the desert into Egypt until all enemies were removed. Then on your arms the Child returned to Nazareth to be nourished and provided for during many years by the labor of your hands. Whatever a human son owes to a human father for all the benefits of his up-bringing and support, Jesus owed to you, because you were to Him a foster-father, teacher, and protector.
You served the Divine Child with a singular love. God gave you a heart filled with heavenly, supernatural love -- a love far deeper and more powerful than any natural father's love could be.
You served the Divine Child with great unselfishness, without any regard to self-interest, but not without sacrifices. You did not toil for yourself, but you seemed to be an instrument intended for the benefit of others, to be put aside as soon as it had done its word, for you disappeared from the scene once the childhood of Jesus had passed.
You were the shadow of the Heavenly Father not only as the earthly representative of the authority of the Father, but also by means of your fatherhood -- which only appeared to be natural -- you were to hide for a while the divinity of Jesus. What a wonderfully sublime and divine vocation was yours -- the loving Child which you carried in your arms, and loved and served so faithfully, had God in Heaven as Father and was Himself God!
Yours is a very special rank among the saints of the Kingdom of God, because you were so much a part of the very life of the Word of God made Man. In your house at Nazareth and under your care the redemption of mankind was prepared. What you accomplished, you did for us. You are not only a powerful and great saint in the Kingdom of God, but a benefactor of the whole of Christendom and mankind. Your rank in the Kingdom of God, surpassing far in dignity and honor of all the angels, deserves our very special veneration, love, and gratitude.
Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of having been chosen by God to be the foster-father of His Divine Son. As a token of your own gratitude to God for this your greatest privilege, obtain for me the grace of a very devoted love for Jesus Christ, my God and my Savior. Help me to serve Him with some of the self-sacrificing love and devotion which you had while on this earth with Him. Grant that through your intercession with Jesus, your foster-Son, I may reach the degree of holiness God has destined for me, and save my soul.
NOVENA PRAYER
*(prayer to be said at the end of each day's devotion)Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.
Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:
(Mention our requests).
Theresa:
To know God's will with my upcoming job interview.
Bring all our children back to the Church.Michelle:
Help for the needs of her 13 year old son and her husband.
Peace and healing for her friend Katrina.Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.
MEMORARE
Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.0 -
Sheila - that was THE most beautiful post. You are so right to enjoy each moment. Life is fleeting for all living things. It is a privilege to just be aware of that and simply live each day as it comes.
Theresa - what would we do without your prayers! Interesting that this novena has a different prayer each day! St. Joseph also helps you sell a house! Yes. I even asked a priest about that one time. I guess that goes to his carpenter roots.
Had my post-op apptmt today. Drain OUT! Got the pathology - all "clear." However, a lot was going on in that breast much of what I don't know what it means except no cancer - fibrocystic change characterized by stromal fibrosis, multiple small cystic spaces, apocrine metaplasia, adenosis with microcalcs, hyperplasia without atypia, well circumscribed .5cm nodule. I KNEW that breast didn't feel right despite clear mammo. I am very glad I decided to do this because I think it was only a matter of time. Thank you Mary & Jesus. My surgeon said she used my case (not my name of course) at a conference this week on preventive mastectomies.
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Theresa
THanks for the Novena, I am going to join you each day can you please add 2 more intentions for me one for my 10 year old who is a Juvenile Diabetic and is struggling with regulating blood sugars, and two for me to be able to transition full time into my hearts desire for a career.
Janet I am so happy for you that you made this decision, I did the same and in many ways it has been a little piece of mind in that area. I know how wonderful it is to get that drain out and it just made me feel so much better.
Sheila I was laughing about your grown men comment, it is so true my husband is 46 and still reminds me of my boys issues sometimes.
THeresa you are in my prayers daily for your vocation as I hear your intentions echoing my own.
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To all thank you for your kind thoughts.
Theresa Thank you for the novena, i will be here too. Please add my intention "That our minds heal, as we pray for our bodies to heal "
Namaste Sheila
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Oh, so much to read! I'm afraid most will have to wait for tomorrow.
Michelle,
It sounds as though your family is in need of some special prayer. I was thinking that for prayers tomorrow night, we could spend some time in prayer for you and your family, and for Laura and her family (and both of your businesses?) I consider you both to be the inspiration behind the Divine inspiration. Laura has mentioned some struggles lately as well, and is have some health challenges.
so can we do that?
and we have a new Novena
Theresa, so next week...that's good
a little more time to know your worth, and let it be absorbed into your cells.SAS, I could not agree more.
Kay...glad you are feeling better this week.
Tori..You are in the last sprint!
Paula should be with her mother now too. I pray for a very meaningful visit.
for our Sister recovering, take good care.
Hi Tink! Betty, gorgeous name for a beautiful little soul who has come to earth. LMFSM (waving)
alright, if I missed any one...oh I did..Rena....with the pretty purple flowers.
See you all tomorrow night.
sweet dreams of Angel wings
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Thanks for the new novena Theresa. I attended a seminar on changes coming in the liturgy (Advent, 2011). It was very interesting and participated in a sung prayer service before.
I pray for Olga's husband in his new sorrow and pray for all my sisters.
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Thank you for the novena. I love St. Joseph.
I don't know why but I am overcome with worry lately. My husband thinks it because my bil is having such bad news and results with his melanoma. I just feel like the chemotherapy doesn't seem to be working. It doesn't seem to be shrinking the tumor. I guess I'm back in that waiting for news mode. I see the doctor on Monday for treatment #2. I am sure she will say if she thinks there has been any change or not. Please pray for good news for me and for my bil. His short term memory is really bad. My sister says the worst part of the whole thing is she has to tell him over and over again that he can't go back to work. All through the cancer treatments he has been working. I am sure it is helping him cope and keep moving some. Now he keeps asking if he's going to work tomorrow and she has to tell him no and half an hour later she has to tell him again. She says it's heart-breaking.
Namaste.
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Kay
Don't worry have you started the Herceptin yet? Usually within 3 Herceptin treatments they will see regression of tumor. What size was the tumor in the beginning I am sorry I cant remember if you shared with us the reason they suggested neo adjuvant chemo (prior to surgery).
Anyway you just hang in there Herceptin will kick in and help you! I am so sorry about your BIL does he have children at home? I pray for him and his wife, Please come here often and share your fears. I used to come on here multiple times per day 2-3 years ago and share my intense fears. I was so afraid and my son had just been diagnosed as well, and I just was not couping well. Back in those days Laura and Jacqueline and Jeannine and Angel were all here and they really lifted me up and NONI Jones too. I felt as I shared my fears here I was leaving with God and his online angels as well. It worked and I have come through so much and it was the prayer here and the sharing that carried me. I noticed a real change at about 2 years right around the time we did the Novena to OUR Lady OF Guadalupe!
When I look back now I see how much I struggled and what I was praying for at that time has come to pass, in so many wonderful ways. I see the evolvement (is that a word hee hee) of all of us here and the prayers that are said and what is coming to pass. Just trust in the Lord today he is really carrying us and the struggle is really inside of us we can find ways to release that struggle but I for one will admit it is difficult. BUT I truly see the beauty in the process of letting go.
Blessings to all of you today I cant wait to join you in prayer tonight! I have been so busy with baseball basketball games on Friday nights 7pm is hard for me but tonight is a free night yeah...See you at 10 your time
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Theresa
WOW I just reread through your Novena and story of Joseph and it really struck me how much we venerate Mary and how much I forget about Joseph. What a beautiful novena and highlight you wrote about him. I felt such compassion for him and pure compassion coming back. I am so excited to participate in this NOVENA for 9 days. I am passing it to my Husband as well as it speaks volumes on the role of Fatherhood. Very timely thanks THeresa!
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St. Joseph Novena
Second Day
VIRGINAL HUSBAND OF MARYSaint Joseph, I honor you as the true husband of Mary. Scripture says: "Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, and of her was born Jesus who is called Christ" (Matt. 1:16). Your marriage to Mary was a sacred contract by which you and Mary gave yourselves to each other. Mary really belonged to you with all she was and had. You had a right to her love and obedience; and no other person so won her esteem, obedience, and love.
You were also the protector and witness of Mary's virginity. By your marriage you gave to each other your virginity, and also the mutual right over it -- a right to safeguard the other's virtue. This mutual virginity also belonged to the divine plan of the Incarnation, for God sent His angel to assure you that motherhood and virginity in Mary could be united.
This union of marriage not only brought you into daily familiar association with Mary, the loveliest of God's creatures, but also enabled you to share with her a mutual exchange of spiritual goods. And Mary found her edification in your calm, humble, and deep virtue, purity, and sanctity. What a great honor comes to you from this close union with her whom the Son of God calls Mother and whom He declared the Queen of heaven and earth! Whatever Mary had belonged by right to you also, and this included her Son, even though He had been given to her by God in a wonderful way. Jesus belonged to you as His legal father. Your marriage was the way which God chose to have Jesus introduced into the world, a great divine mystery from which all benefits have come to us.
God the Son confided the guardianship and the support of His Immaculate Mother to your care. Mary's life was that of the Mother of the Savior, who did not come upon earth to enjoy honors and pleasures, but to redeem the world by hard work, suffering, and the cross. You were the faithful companion, support, and comforter of the Mother of Sorrows. How loyal you were to her in poverty, journeying, work, and pain. Your love for Mary was based upon your esteem for her as Mother of God. After God and the Divine Child, you loved no one as much as her. Mary responded to this love. She submitted to your guidance with naturalness and easy grace and childlike confidence. The Holy Spirit Himself was the bond of the great love which united your hearts.
Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being the virginal husband of Mary. As a token of your own gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace to love Jesus with all my heart, as you did, and love Mary with some of the tenderness and loyalty with which you loved her.
*NOVENA PRAYER
Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.
Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special graces we now implore:
Theresa:
To know God's will with my upcoming job interview.
Bring all our children back to the Church.
Successful sale of NJ house.Michelle:
Help for the needs of her 13 year old son and her husband.
Peace and healing for her friend Katrina.
10 year old son who is a Juvenile Diabetic and is struggling with regulating blood sugars.
For success at transitioning full time into my hearts desire for a career.Sheila:
That our minds heal, as we pray for our bodies to heal.Mary:
For Olga's husband in his new sorrow and pray for all my sistersSkip:
Fr. deRosa's mother who was just diagnosed with bc, she is 80 years old.
Health and well being of Immaculata SFO, especially Sharon who is battling double pneumonia and lymphoma.Kay:
For good news for me and for my bil.Maria:
For my daughter with her "growing pains" and is a facilatator on a Confirmation retreat... I pray she finds some inner peace and is able to reach out to the Conformandi and guide them as well.
Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.MEMORARE
Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.0 -
Amen.
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im here ladies... can we add my daughter to the pray list she is having some "growing pains" and is a facilatator on a Confirmation retreat... I pray she finds some inner peace and is able to reach out to the Conformandi and guide them as well.
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