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My brothers surgery went well. They removed a beign mass from his hear and actually they were not concerned about that at all. My sil saw him for a few last night of course he was out. I am grateful he came through the surgery and hope to have more info today
Thank you all for your prayers!
LOve Maria
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Teresa thank Skip for me! and if you chance right now, look at the weather radar for San Antonio! We are about to make up for the last six months of drought, I think!
Thank you Jesus for the nourshing rain you are sending, please keep us all safe.
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Wow!!!!!! The power of prayer!!!! Praise be to God!
Gina - wonderful rain! I'll let Skip know. :-)
Maria - thanks be to God for your brother!
Anne - happy day, 2 jobs in one day!!
Betty - thank you for taking our intentions! Enjoy your vacation.
I heard from Traci - she's been very busy at work and will have more time free after Monday. She will try to log into the Friday night prayers. She appreciates that we're concerned and will write soon! :-)
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Laura - Beagles - we are with you during this stressful time. I was so anxious before getting chemo!!!! I asked my doc to give me something to take some of the edge off, and she did. I went off of it soon after it was all over. Chemo became predictable and almost routine, and it's easier to live with the known than the unknown.
Pax.
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Tink so happy about your brother. What benign mass did they take off from where? How's your daughters leg?L&H&P sheila
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Sheila...thanks!.. he is in alot of pain to say the least.... They actually found a benign cyst like mass on his heart. They removed it and said it wasnt anything to worry about... they are still sendingit out though.
Her ;eg is better than it was still red and little yucky but better than it was the new antibiotic is hopefully working... he wanted to give it afew more days.
hugs to all my sisters
Maria
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Sweet Sisters,
Please remember the family of Phyllis Sneed in your prayers. She has gone to be with Our Lord. Her services are Monday in Columbus, OH. Jerry and I fly there Sunday and will return Mon. evening or Tues. She leaves her husband, 2 college age children, and so many friends and family. She died of complications from lupus.
I need to ask you, my sweet sisters, to also remember me in your prayers. My right breast is just not healing correctly and at 8 weeks post-op tomorrow, I still have a great deal of throbbing and aching pain which in nonrelenting. I fear I will need a revision if things do not change soon.
Hugs and Prayers Sweet Sisters, Sandy
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praying for you and your friend, Sandy..we are covered under the blood of our Lord, and by his stripes, we were healed.
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Sandy I'll C&P your friend to the intentions page if you already haven't done it. Try and see your doc asap after getting back.
Tink we talked by pm. I second what I said re: your daughter.
Hi VIV welcome again we start the novena to OUR LADY of FATIMA tomorrow. Theresa posted the hx above. She always starts us out with historical information to kind of set the mood so to speak. The prayers will be on the prayer page and the intentions are on the intentions page.
Theresa if you could hyperlink the prayers to the intentions page and Kay if you could also thanks.
Kay thanks so much for helping Theresa out with the prayer postings. Namaste sheila
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Sandy - I am sorry for your loss of your friend. Yes to prayers for her soul and her family's healing. I'm sorry you haven't physically healed yet. I'm sure Sheila will have some helpful advice for you. You will certainly be in our prayers.
VIV - welcome!
Sheila - I think everything is hyperlinked now. And yes, Kay, thank you for posting the meditations!!
Gina - Skip is just thrilled that you have rain after posting the rain prayer from his farmer's prayer book. :-)
Have a blessed evening to all of my sisters in Christ!
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Praying for all intentions tonight, and thanking the Lord for all our blessings. God is good all the time.
Theresa the rain was AWESOME! At nine this morning the sky grew black as night and the street lights turned on, it hailed briefly and small enough not to do any damage then came the steady rain for about two hours. It was just enough - as we tend to have flash flooding here often - we can go from drought to 9 inches of rain in just one day - so today was perfect.
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Anne womb to tomb me too.
Sagina we need to get that prayer to the thread !!! Hope it happens every day until the earth has drank it's fill without taking more than it needs, so, there is no flooding Amen
Theresa I C&P'd the rainprayer to the prayer page Namaste sheila
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Meditation
Day 1
Mary, you appeared to the children of Fatima to deliver an urgent message about our troubled world. Soon after, the entire world was at war, resulting in terrible sorrow and destruction. Today, as violence has erupted again, in distant lands and even in our own home. The prayers and sacrifice you pleaded for are needed as much as ever. Some parts of the world are torn by fighting disguised as religious zeal, and even our own neighborhoods are divided by racial tension. Charity begins at home; if we fail to love the neighbor at our doorstep, how will we spread the Gospel of love beyond?
Mary, today I hear your words and I call upon your Son to come to our aid and end the suffering that we cause one another. I pray for an end to all wars throughout the world. Help us, Jesus, to sow love in the place of hatred.
Recite the prayers
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Sandy I am so sorry for your loss and will be praying. I will also be praying for your contnued healing and hope that your pain gets resolved very soon! please keep me posted!!! hugs
Sheila... yes thank you !
Namaste Sisters
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Thank you Jesus for all the women You have brought into my life on this discussion. Your grace and love are enough for me always, but the friendships You help forge remind me that I never walk a day alone. I am inspired by Your amazing love, and humbled by how much You love me.
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To all of my Catholic breast cancer sisters:
Many of you may remember I posted a few weeks back about my mother, who has ovarian cancer. Well, our prayers were answered! We have had what I can only refer to as a miracle in my mother's case. She had her 'debulking' surgery, and they removed a softball size tumor. However, the surgeon came out afterward and told us that there was much more cancer than they had thought. She had two other large tumors, both of which had attached themselves to the colon. He said to remove either, would mean removing the entire colon, which would have left her with a colostomy the rest of her life, and it was his opinion that it would not extend her life expectancy at this time. He also said she could go back on chemo whenever the onc thought it was ok to do so. Yesterday, we went to see her onc. She's two weeks out from this surgery. Oh, and they could not do the hysterectomy at all because one of the two tumors had involved her uterus as well. So, we had heard nothing on her results. Went to onc yesterday to find out, the tumor they removed was SO necrotic, that there weren't even enough cells left to test to find out if it had been uterine or ovarian cancer. If that tumor was that necrotic, then most likely the other two are also. He told her they would check her in a month, and do blood tests and see how she was then. And if it flares back up,t hey would put her back on chemo. As he left he said "Enjoy your remission"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!! I even called my daughter because she was in on the conversation with the surgeon after the surgery and heard every word he said. She was as astounded as I was.
So, ladies, thank you so much for your prayers. And thanks be to God. We hope for a good long remission period, and if it does come back, we will deal with it then. She is considered Stage 4.
Thanks again. You are all wonderful.
Gracie
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Gracie - that is very amazing and wonderful news! Praise be to God for hearing your and our prayers!!
Please stay with us as we start our Our Lady of Fatima novena today.
Gina - lovely prayer ... I am grateful for all my sisters too!
Is someone leading prayer tonight? If not, I can find something.
"As sailors are guided by a star to the port, so Christians are guided to heaven
by Mary."St. Thomas Aquinas
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Gracie..that is amazing....God Bless
Im here sisters
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Gracie...such wonderful news...Praise be to God!
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I'm back ... we can start in about 5 minutes. I have some prayers and meditations ready.
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Our Lady of Fatima Novena
Meditation for Day 1 on page 222 (Kay posted)
Fatima Prayer: Most Holy Virgin, who has deigned to come to Fatima to reveal to the three little shepherds the treasures of graces hidden in the recitation of the Rosary, inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, so that by meditating on the mysteries of our redemption that are recalled in it, we may gather the fruits and obtain the conversion of sinners, the conversion of Russia, and this favor that I so earnestly seek (state your prayer intention here) which I ask of you in this novena, for the greater glory of God, for your own honor, and for the good of all people. Amen
Next Recite
3 Our Fathers...
3 Hail Marys...
3 Glory Be...
Link to Intentions:
http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/38/topic/760131?page=5#idx_122
From a sermon by Saint Ephrem, deacon
The cross of Christ gives life to the human raceDeath trampled our Lord underfoot, but he in his turn treated death as a highroad for his own feet. He submitted to it, enduring it willingly, because by this means he would be able to destroy death in spite of itself. Death had its own way when our Lord went out from Jerusalem carrying his cross; but when by a loud cry from that cross he summoned the dead from the underworld, death was powerless to prevent it.
Death slew him by means of the body which he had assumed, but that same body proved to be the weapon with which he conquered death. Concealed beneath the cloak of his manhood, his godhead engaged death in combat; but in slaying our Lord, death itself was slain. It was able to kill natural human life, but was itself killed by the life that is above the nature of man.
Death could not devour our Lord unless he possessed a body, neither could hell swallow him up unless he bore our flesh; and so he came in search of a chariot in which to ride to the underworld. This chariot was the body which he received from the Virgin; in it he invaded death's fortress, broke open its strong-room and scattered all its treasure.
At length he came upon Eve, the mother of all the living. She was that vineyard whose enclosure her own hands had enabled death to violate, so that she could taste its fruit; thus the mother of all the living became the source of death for every living creature. But in her stead Mary grew up, a new vine in place of the old. Christ, the new life, dwelt within her. When death, with its customary impudence, came foraging for her mortal fruit, it encountered its own destruction in the hidden life that fruit contained. All unsuspecting, it swallowed him up, and in so doing released life itself and set free a multitude of men.
He who was also the carpenter's glorious son set up his cross above death's all-consuming jaws, and led the human race into the dwelling place of life. Since a tree had brought about the downfall of mankind, it was upon a tree that mankind crossed over to the realm of life. Bitter was the branch that had once been grafted upon that ancient tree, but sweet the young shoot that has now been grafted in, the shoot in which we are meant to recognise the Lord whom no creature can resist.
We give glory to you, Lord, who raised up your cross to span the jaws of death like a bridge by which souls might pass from the region of the dead to the land of the living. We give glory to you who put on the body of a single mortal man and made it the source of life for every other mortal man. You are incontestably alive. Your murderers sowed your living body in the earth as farmers sow grain, but it sprang up and yielded an abundant harvest of men raised from the dead.
Come then, my brothers and sisters, let us offer our Lord the great and all-embracing sacrifice of our love, pouring out our treasury of hymns and prayers before him who offered his cross in sacrifice to God for the enrichment of us all.Responsory
Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, but let us thank God for giving us victory over sin through our Lord Jesus Christ, alleluia.
We have the spirit of faith, and we believe that he who raised the Lord Jesus to life will raise us with Jesus in our turn; but let us thank God for giving us victory over sin through our Lord Jesus Christ, alleluia.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let us pray.
Almighty God,
we have come to know the grace of our Lord's resurrection.
Grant that through the love of your Spirit
we may rise to new life.
[We make our prayer] through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God for ever and ever.
Amen.
May the almighty Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end.
Amen--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Regina CaeliQueen of Heaven, be joyful,
Alleluia.
You who were worthy to bear him.
Alleluia.
He has risen, as he promised.
Alleluia.
Pray for us to God.
Alleluia.Regina caeli laetare, Alleluia,
Quia quem meruisti portare, Alleluia,
Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum. Alleluia.0 -
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psalms 30:5)”
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Amen!
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Amen! Good night sisters.
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Amen, amen...again I say AMEN!
Good night sisters...sleep well!
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So wonderful to hear your good news Gracie! The power of prayer is wonderful. God bless your mother.
Glad to hear your brother and daughter are improved Tink. Keep praying everyone!
Namaste.
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Amen!
Wonderful news Gracie!
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Day 2
Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta were very young and yet, Mary, you chose them to be to be your messengers to the world. In doing so, you reminded us that, as followers of Jesus, we must be like little children - trusting and loving. Let us pray that we too may be like children, choosing to offer love and trust where we would be tempted to choose hatred and suspicion.
Mary, I trust your Son completely. But sometimes, I live in fear. I want to love unconditionally, but I am too afraid to let go of my anxieties, too afraid to admit that I cannot control everything. I want to be your Son's instrument to accomplish God's will. Today, through your intercession, Mary, I ask Jesus to help me be like a little child holding His hand, trusting all to Him.
Recite the prayers
Fatima Prayer: Most Holy Virgin, who has deigned to come to Fatima to reveal to the three little shepherds the treasures of graces hidden in the recitation of the Rosary, inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, so that by meditating on the mysteries of our redemption that are recalled in it, we may gather the fruits and obtain the conversion of sinners, the conversion of Russia, and this favor that I so earnestly seek (state your prayer intention here) which I ask of you in this novena, for the greater glory of God, for your own honor, and for the good of all people. Amen
Next Recite
3 Our Father...
3 Hail Marys...
3 Glory Be...
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Thank you for praying sisters.. It is good to catch up on this thread. I particularly pray for rain for Theresa.
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it's relief to see fellow catholics here...please pray for my mom, Sally S. Pelingon, who passed away on 12 April 2011 at the age of 67 due to her breast CA. As of her death, she was Chairman of the Basic Ecclessial Community (BEC) and of the village's catholic Pastoral Council (BPC) here in Fatima, Tobias Fornier, Antique, Philippines. She has done so many great things as such, especially the rebuilding of the Our Lady of fatima Chapel in our barrio. she is loved by the people here. Her biography is at the Stage IV Cancer Forum...God bless you
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