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Theresa how perfect to bring the Archangel Michael to this battle.. I don't know or remember where the thought came from---but laying on of hands Which I have believed in for along time. for each part of Micheal is important. We dodn't know is injuries, but my training says to concentrate on the head , the eyes and the neck. All other body parts are important . I kept being drawn to the back of his head , deep in. I know physically what they coorespond to., but several times I came back to these sites. Then the center of the front of the brow, then the mouth , then the throat, and then his heart. I let the rosary guide my prayer.With the eyes there was the blackness. My prayer was that they open and he see the light. I have never said a rosary quite like it. I don't think I missed a body part. I didn't keep track , but there may have been most of a second rosary for each part of the head.
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I do not have words.
Saint Michael, protect your namesake tonight.
Mary & Joseph, stay close to his mother and father.
Amen.
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Sisters-- only 2 more boosts to go, but now I have shingles....ugh....and OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! Just started on meds so I'm hoping it will start to help soon....I think they caught it fairly early, but WOW does it smart!!!!
God bless Michael....
May God bless each and everyone of us....
Sleep well and sweet dreams!!
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My prayers tonight for Michael and his family. I just can't imagine.
Paula, prayers for your family and your mon.
Traci, speedy recovery.
Tori, 2 more great rads great, shingles yak
The rest of you ladies in my prayers nightly and with novena.
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Thank you Sheila... it seems like such a sensless tragedy.... the kids said when they announced his passing this afternoon all the seniors just broke down and were allowed to leave early... They have already started a Facebook tribute page to him and I am in awe of how many classmates have already written on it even saying they didnt know him but were so touched and devastated my the communities loss.... it is heartbreaking!... thank you for the prayers and advice
Beautiful prayer Theresa
Tori.... your almost there!!!! you go girl!!!! hugs!
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Tink I was afraid to look. I really felt he was gone already. So , sorry. Extend my condolences to Justin. So, sad.
Namaste to Michael and family. sheila
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THank you Sheila!
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ITink, feel good about us though, we sent alot of prayers his way and to the family too.
more insomnia. And when I can sleep the dog thinks it's time to getup because we did it last night clungkin damn Aromasin.
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Maria - thank you for posting about Michael. We were out of pocket yesterday afternoon. I just had a feeling driving in this morning that he had gone. Here is the diocese response:
The other day I sent a request for prayers for Michael S, the senior at Paul VI who was apparently injured at a rugby game. This morning Michael entered his eternal life. Please continue to keep the family and the students at PVI in your prayers as they must deal with this very difficult situation.
The family are parishioners at St. Leo The Great Parish. I do not know any of the arrangements at this time.
Michael, requiescat in pace.
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Last day of the Novena, and appropriately... [I think we started this novena for Michael's sake more than my original intention.... coincidence? Nah.]
St. Joseph Novena
Ninth Day
PATRON OF A HAPPY DEATHSaint Joseph, how fitting it was that at the hour of your death Jesus should stand at your bedside with Mary, the sweetness and hope of all mankind. You gave your entire life to the service of Jesus and Mary; at death you enjoyed the consolation of dying in Their loving arms. You accepted death in the spirit of loving submission to the Will of God, and this acceptance crowned your hidden life of virtue. Yours was a merciful judgment, for your foster-Son, for whom you had cared so lovingly, was your Judge, and Mary was your advocate. The verdict of the Judge was a word of encouragement to wait for His coming to Limbo, where He would shower you with the choicest fruits of the Redemption, and an embrace of grateful affection before you breathed forth your soul into eternity.
You looked into eternity and to your everlasting reward with confidence. If our Savior blessed the shepherds, the Magi, Simeon, John the Baptist, and others, because they greeted His presence with devoted hearts for a brief passing hour, how much more did He bless you who have sanctified yourself for so many years in His company and that of His Mother? If Jesus regards every corporal and spiritual work of mercy, performed in behalf of our fellow men out of love for Him, as done to Himself, and promises heaven as a reward, what must have been the extent of His gratitude to you who in the truest sense of the word have received Him, given Him shelter, clothed, nourished, and consoled Him at the sacrifice of your strength and rest, and even your life, with a love which surpassed the love of all fathers.
God really and personally made Himself your debtor. Our Divine Savior paid that debt of gratitude by granting you many graces in your lifetime, especially the grace of growing in love, which is the best and most perfect of all gifts. Thus at the end of your life your heart became filled with love, the fervor and longing of which your frail body could not resist. Your soul followed the triumphant impulse of your love and winged its flight from earth to bear the prophets and patriarchs in Limbo the glad tidings of the advent of the Redeemer.
Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being able to die in the arms of Jesus and Mary. As a token of your own gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace of a happy death. Help me to spend each day in preparation for death. May I, too, accept death in the spirit of resignation to God's Holy Will, and die, as you did, in the arms of Jesus, strengthened by Holy Viaticum, and in the arms of Mary, with her rosary in my hand and her name on my lips!
*NOVENA PRAYERSaint 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 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.
Her 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.
For her son to find his way to ChristMaria: 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.
Ellie: For her private intention
Traci: For surgery this week, to have excellent wound healing and to be free of infection or complications.
Anne: That her son find summer employment.
For the repose of the soul of Michael S. and comfort to his family
Paula: Prayers for smooth passage for her mother and no suffering. Peace and consolation for the family.
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 our petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.0 -
Theresa
Beautiful prayers and novena, i love the Easter Lily so powerful-
Thank you so much for taking us through this, and God Bless Michael and his Family, and all of you today.
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Hello Sweet Sisters,
May God Bless Michael and hold him gently in his loving arms. May Our Lord, Our Blessed Mother, and all the Saints bring some measure of comfort to his family.
I have been away for a few days trying to recover from my surgery but am back to say hello to all my sweet sisters. Thank you for your prayers for they have helped me so much. I am feeling better but do not yet feel as well as the docs say I should.
Thankfully, there is no specific problem like an infection or anything of this nature. Just slow going... I hope I can stay awake for prayers tonight but have been sleeping a great deal.
I have read all the posts and you are all in my prayers.
Hugs Sweet Ladies
Sandy
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I have made a thread for insomniacs under the ptsd , depression. forum
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/102/topic/767259?page=1#idx_1
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God bless Michael, his family, Paul VI community, and all of us who have been touched by this young man. I hope our prayers help his parents in some small way.
Theresa - I was thinking about when you said you didn't even feel nervous during the interview. When circumstances of life force us to dig deeper into the meaning of life and mortality, I really believe it completely changes our perspectives on many things.
We need a little prayer tonight for Sheila - so she can get some SLEEP!!!
Ellie or Michelle (I can't remember who asked and will lose the post if I go back to look) - Now that 2nd mastec. is over, I will be going back on Tamox. Other than that, I guess my "active" treatment is done. Except maybe for the seroma that developed -- I've had to have it aspirated twice this week! Dr. told me I'm doing too much - but it's hard to sit around and do nothing. Hopefully today was the end of it.
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Janet and Sandy!!! I was thinking of both of you this morning and wondering how you were doing! I was going to post today asking about you. It must be the sister thing working between us!
Don't do too much and be gentle with yourselves. I'm over a year out of surgery and STILL overdo it with my right arm and the lymph areas get sore. That soreness I had several weeks ago is all gone now and I have to remind myself to behave!
Janet - I think you're right about the circumstances in life forcing us to dig deeper into the meaning of life etc. Priorities change. Things that used to be so serious (like money and jobs!) don't seem as serious. Yes, we need to earn a living and make ends meet, but life goes on no matter what choices we make. If we make a bad choice, well, God willing, we will have time to set things straight. I still have those words of wisdom posted on my refrigerator that Tori shared with us awhile ago. It's so true. Give it to God and He will make the crooked ways straight.
Yes for prayers tonight for Sheila's insomnia and all those who suffer from insomnia!! I had some of that too this week, but I am not chronic. I wake up with hot flashes. :-/ I know this sounds awful, but when I can't sleep, I reach for my rosary and usually before it ends, I'm asleep. If that doesn't do the trick, I try to trick my body (reverse psychology), and I get up, go to the kitchen, eat a light bowl of cereal, get in my recliner with a pillow and blankie, put on something boring on TV, and I'm soon asleep. I know those tricks don't usually work for the real sufferers of insomnia, though. :-(
I wonder how Traci is doing....
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Prayers ladies please.. my huby just called and they were old that if the gov does shut down it does in fact affect his company and he is NOT to report to work.... prayers please....
Janet.. I agree things do hapen and it makes us reevaluate where we are in our life for a reason.
Prayers for Michael and his family..... apparently there was a huge number of students that called in sick today and did their own memorial for Michael... the principal sent an email out and she was not happy about this... however I pray she understands that even thought maybe their thought process was not in line with the rules it was their hearts they were thinking with.....
see you ladies at prayers tonight!
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Janet you are so right, there are so many things that seem so meaningless to me now, like some days I struggle with the mundane worries that people bring up. Especially in my very conservative catholic school/parish community.
The other day I told you all I read the prayers of the the faithful and I took them off of one of Theresas website and picked the one that spoke to be best. It included one that asked that we as a community were not participating in judgmental behavior to all races, colors, faiths and lifestyles
anyway a lady accosted me after mass and said she was reporting me for praying for homosexuals. She did too, our priest told me today, little did she know I had sent them to he and our administration for approval. I just hate that we look more at the rules on paper than the true love of Jesus.
I will miss prayers this evening as I am going to a fundraiser "70"s theme and will be out late.
I pray for all of you and have lifted your intentions up this week in mass through the prayer basket and my "illicit" prayers of the faithful LOL
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Wow, Michelle - that's pretty awful. I learned, love the sinner, hate the sin. I have a cousin who is a homosexual - love him, sorry he chose that lifestyle. So many people confuse lukewarmness with tolerance. There is a huge difference. Huge. And pettiness, yes, I think many of us who have come close to death regard it now as what it is - a waste of God's love.
There was a terrible accident on the way home from work today. Someone will not be going home to dinner tonight, or hugging their spouse, or playing with their children or pets. It's senseless... the need for speed and the need to be first. Pettiness. Take your time, take your turn, be polite, stay off the phone and stop texting.... and of course don't drink/drug and drive. All simple things. Easy yoke.
I'm listening to the evening birds. God be praised.
Maria - we (my company) are waiting for the word too since we contract with the Government. We were told to come to work anyway and work on overhead (training) until the Government opens (if they close). Politics :-(
I'll post today's Station, then "see" you all at prayers tonight... is anyone posting prayers tonight, or should I do it again? I don't mind, but if someone else wants to take a turn, that would be great too! Have fun at the "70s" night, Michelle!
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Jesus Dies on the Cross
Twelfth Station: Look at Jesus
Finally, after the long walk, after falling three times, after having the men beat him, after being nailed to the cross and suffering on the cross, Jesus bows his head and dies.
Now this part of his life is over. There is nothing left for Jesus to give or to do. Jesus has given his life for all of us.
Look at Your Heart
Did you ever feel that you wanted to make something better, or that if you only tried harder, something would change that you want to change? Or maybe you felt that you did not try hard enough at something, and something bad happened.
If you can think of a time like that, then show Jesus your heart, and let him love you. When you are ready, you can ask Jesus to help your heart be more like his heart.
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I'm gonna have to say goodnight early. Today wore me out! I will be saying prayers for each as I drift off to sleep. God bless & keep all of you.
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I am here and will post prayers in a minute.
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im here too.
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Franciscan Night Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Blessed be the Holy and undivided Trinity now and forever. AmenThanksgiving for the Day
How shall I be able to Thank you, O Lord, for all your favors? You have thought of me from all eternity; you have brought me forth from nothing; you have given your life to redeem me, and you continue still, daily, to load me with your favors. My God, what return can I make you for your benefits and in particular for the favors of this day? Join me, you blessed spirits and all the elect, in praising the God of mercies who is so bountiful to so unworthy a creature.Invocation of the Holy Spirit
O Holy Spirit, eternal source of light, give me light to know the sins I have committed this day and grant me the grace to be truly sorry for them.(Examination of conscience)
Act of Contrition
O my God,
I am heartily sorry for
having offended Thee,
and I detest all my sins,
because I dread the loss of heaven,
and the pains of hell;
but most of all because
they offend Thee, my God,
Who are all good and
deserving of all my love.
I firmly resolve,
with the help of Thy grace,
to confess my sins,
to do penance,
and to amend my life.
Amen.(Petitions of our hearts)
Let us pray:
Visit, we beseech you, O Lord, our dwelling places, and drive from them all the snares of the enemy. Let your holy Angels dwell herein to preserve us in peace, and may your blessing be upon us forever. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. AmenMay the almighty Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end.
AMEN
Ave Regina CaelorumHail, Queen of the heavens,
hail, Lady of the angels.
Root of our salvation
and our gateway to heaven,
the light of the world was born to you.
Be joyful, Virgin of glory,
most beautiful of all in heaven.
We greet you now, true beauty -
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Amen.
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Amen -- good night Maria! Where two or more are gathered in His name.... :-)
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I'm here sas
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Goodnight Theresa sleep well.
Hi Sheila!
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Hi Sheila! I prayed for your sweet slumber! :-)
I hope Ms Traci checks in soon and lets us know how she's recovering.
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Yes , yes. love you all. sleep such a consoling thing , when it won't come it's a confounding thing.
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I am here Sorry I am late. Prayers for all.
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