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Just getting back from class. I need to catch up with the thread! God's blessings to all. Kay and Sheila - thanks for prayers tonight.
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Oh my God I am heartly sorry for having offended you
And I detest all my sins, because of thy just punishment, but most of all because they
Offend you, my God, who art all good and worthy of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occassion of sin. Amen
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Hail Mary, Full of Grace
The Lord is with thee,
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen
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Thank you dear Jesus, for all that you have given to me in my life. Help me to serve only you and to not get caught up in the material world. Help me to discern Your will for me. I want to make you happy and I want to do your will, but I am not always sure that I am doing a good job. Help me, sweet Jesus, to be the person you want me to be. God bless all my bc sisters. amen
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Remember o most gracious virgin Mary that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you o virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee I come, before thee I stand,sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the word Incarnate despise not my petition but hear and answer me. Amen
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Thanks mkkjd60, love that one
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Lovemyfamily, Kay, sas and Theresa, thanks for prayers this evening. May God be in our hearts this weekend. Blessings to all of you, Mary
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Take my hand, o blessed Mother
Hold me firmly lest I fall.
I grow nervous while walking and
Humbly on thee call.
Guide me over every crossing
Watch me when I'm on the stairs,
Let me know that you're beside me
Listen to my fervent prayers.
Bring me to my destination
Safely along the way
Bless my every undertaking
And my duties for the day.
And when evening creeps upon me
I'll never fear to be alone
Once again, O Blessed Mother,
Take my hand and lead me home.
Missing my own precious mother tonight xo
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Lots and lots of posts! So happy to see Traci and Sandy and Michelle and all you gals posting!
Sheila, Mkkjd and Michelle and all you ladies and gent - I will take your special prayers with me when I go on retreat October 14. Our Franciscan fraternity will be retreating overnight and I'm REALLY looking forward to it. October is a special month because of St. Francis' feast day on October 4.
His Majesty (the Lord) rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. -- St. Teresa of Avila
That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works-----I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones. --St. Teresa of Avila
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. --St. Teresa of Avila
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Never heard that one, lovemyfamily. Made me cry. My mom has stage iv. I can feel your loss. It must have been such a comfort to her to have a daughter who walks with Jesus. God bless you. Mary
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Ellie - Mary - those were beautiful prayers.
Help me to serve only you and to not get caught up in the material world. Help me to discern Your will for me. I want to make you happy and I want to do your will, but I am not always sure that I am doing a good job.
Amen, Amen.
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It must be a mother night. I miss my Mom too. I've been thinking a lot of her today.
The circle is unbroken.
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Good night sisters, and God bless! I am thankful to have you!! xo
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I've Never felt more sad or desperate since moms dx. Can't imagine losing her. O Mother Mary, hold all of us in your arms as we separate from our earthly mothers. Thanks for sharing tonight Theresa. Mary
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Good night sisters. Thanks for the love and prayers. Mary
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Indeed we are so Blessed ~ there is so much love on this thread
I have all you ladies on my daily healing prayers, Sas (I have Greg on a separate prayer list). Have been praying about your little bean to "disappear". I'm glad that your attitude is solid, you are never alone and you've got all of us here. Squid, so nice to see your post
I hope you get things calmed and settled. MMM5, prayers for your husband to get a job soon. Praying for your bone scan to be clean. LMFSM, beautiful prayer. I had been thinking about my mom too, I was looking at her pictures last night and couldn't get over the fact that she's gone for 5.5 months and her grave inscription was just completed.Tinker, Sagina, Sandy105, Theresa, Kay, MKK, Barb, Noni ~ "Hi" everyone, so good to see your posts
LinkaKR - welcome to this thread.
For myself, I'd like to ask for prayers to regain my health and energy, to be able to sleep well, and to get a W-2 job with *benefits* ~ Namaste!!
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Joined Chrissyb on her traveling journey....such a blessing to meet her, and the other bco ladies that drove in. Thank you Jesus for the gift of friendships in such troubled times. You lead me to clear waters, and You lead me to ways everlasting.
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Amen Sag! xo
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SAS.. I am so sorry that you have to endure more... You will be in my daily prayers!
MM5..Good to hear from you and you will remain in my prayers as well. So glad to hear that all your tests were negative! Thank God.
All my sisters
Namaste!
you are all in my prayers!
Maria
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Hi Ladies
SO good when I can get here and read your posts. As I promised I am praying for each of you individually each day. I started with SAS, at mass today and the reading was on of my favorites of all time. The one that starts "Have anxiety about nothing" I need to look up the bible verse number on this one (theresa can you remind me) ....anyway SAS I believe that was for you as I had offered up your name today and that is what came back. I am praying for you all day today and will take up prayers for Paula (Diamond girl ) tomorrow. I know you have been looking for specific work for awhile and dealing with your grief from your Mothers Death I offer these up to the Lord that he may lead you to peace and fulfillment. I pray that you find sustainable and fufilling work in the very near future. God Bless you!
GOD Bless all of you!
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Blessings to all on this chilly night.
Sheila, was is the next plan for little bean?
you all are in my thoughts, so if I single someone out, I hope you all know my prayers include all.
Michelle, I am sending you my prayers for your family and a change for the better. I don't like to hear of my Sisters under stress. May God bring you Good News and open doors for your husband's career.
Namaste.
traci
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ALL dear ones------Little bean was dx'd the same day as my Breast bx in 2009. It was followed up at a big cancer center. Everyone agreed the best thing to do was Watchful Waiting by serial MRI's Meningiomas can be estrogen and progesterone supported. Two+ years ago after much reading I came up with this analogy.
meningioma>----------------------------- <Breast Cancer
The chicken and the egg. Only time will tell if I should have been more aggressive with the meningioma. At the time, It would have been a full crainotomy to bx it. Most resent research , Identifies two new sx's available---Available in this last decade , but unknown by my ONC and not suggested by the neurosurgeon. Only two places qualified to do them in Florida. Have no Idea why my original search didn't pull them up. May have made a different choice in 2009. It's called "Skull base surgery" One is "Eyebrow sx" It's for the front part of the base of the skull. The second approach is behind the ear for skull base tumors to the middle and back portion of the brain. Google is only as good as the search terms you put in. But my ONC had never heard of this classification of sx. Yet refers to two doc's at Moffit. One being the qualified doc , I pulled up by google. The sequence which raises questions. Jan2010-------MRI stable in size to previous MRI"S. Sept 2010----petscan---showed it to be "sclerosis of previous site of meningioma". Sclerosis means to scar------but know one would give an opinion. I decided to accept what the word meant----scar ----- Sept13th this year 2011---It grew from the Jan 2010 scan from 9.4 mm to 15 mm int he Sept 13 2011 scan. This doc was very careful to measure well b/c in one of the 2nd or 3rd scans he missed it entirely. When the ONC doc and I ask for a re-review before going to the big cancer center. It was still there. It had to to with insurance. Why send me for a consult for something that wasn't there. So, this doc that previously missed it, was more careful than usual ,cuz he had missed it before. B9 "M's are only supposed to grow at 1-2mm per year. But there are other factors that can indicate malignant----Mass effect and edema------both of which have always been absent since first dx's. But the growing so much in 1 1/2 years is the trouble spot. We have a well thought out plan, but the doctor visits will be numerous. UGH. Also, little is known about the analogy I made above. So, we deal with what we are dealt. I was willing to take on Jennifer's if it meant saving her life ------that would have been joyful and great to a beyond fufillment. But if it's just my ole plain tumor, well no I rather skip it. My priest after yesterday's Mass says I should just get a bit angry with God and ask him how much does he want me to accept. Interesting statement from a priest. He also said there is a reason ------you are suppose to accomplish something, that we don't know what that is yet.
TO ALL HERE that have prayed and responded-------TNTC (too numerous to count--medical term ). Love you all, read all your thoughts and prayers. May be this is one of those things I'm supposed to do. Say-- love each other, love your families, Fall in love again------actually pretty easy if you try. Forget the price of hamburger and make love as often as you can. Gaze into each others eyes, like you did in those first few months. Forget the hurts. Love and hug much. hold the family close. Talk allot. Pray allot. Believe. Believe there is a reason for all. We can say I don't accept the reason and I will fight it. But perhaps that is what the challenge is meant to be. Until all is said and done we don't know. I feel blessed that we had the opportunity to say the Archangels Prayers for Jennifer, I hope our prayer benefited her and I strongly feel it did. At the end of the day, I had an idea of their power, that I never had before, it got more intense each time with each reading. I have decide I will substitute my name for Jenn's in the paper copy I have. Then we have a positive response from MMM5 -----her belief that our prayer helped. So many would like to call that a placebo effect. DUH We know differently. In what I wrote about Namaste-------though the yoga community uses it differently. I prefer the Himalayan approach, Then my interpretation of their approach---------That might sound strange , boastful. I dodn't know whatever. When I read my interpretation, I am in awe-----I wrote that----no the spirit within me wrote that. It's like the Archangels. Words and meanings of words drive us , comfort us, lead us. Where do the words that we believe come from, how do we allow them to be expressed. Trouble for some reason brings out the best in each of us. After this post I will bring from the archives The namaste prayer if it is considered a prayer. I believe it is. Because when we say I SALUTE THE GOD WITHIN YOU. My approach was basically scientific.Theory----confirmation of theory --resolution. Of course there are those that would say what I have said has no basis in science what so ever. Well-----------All theories must be proved, let us prove it everyday by what the words say-----------We are all one. Namaste sheila
My new goal had been to take country dancing lessons, but not in high boots LOL.
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Jun 16, 2011 03:11 am sas-schatzi wrote:
Their is a nurse Karla on the Nurses thread who described that when she was on a trek in the Himalayas. She would observe the Sherpas greeting each other with hands as folded in prayer. Their greeting was Namaste. She asked for a translation. They told her it meant "I SALUTE THE GOD WITHIN YOU" After hearing that story, it so gripped me, within the deep soul of me. The strength of the statement in analysis goes to the heart of our belief in God. For if we believe that this statement regarding God-- being within each person. Then he is a part of our being. If that be true, then we are each joined together with him, and therfore we are each apart of each other. So, what happens to the one, happens to all. A periodic telling of the story helps my forgetful mind. Namaste Sheila
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SAS... i AM PRAYING AND SENDING YOU GREAT BIG HUGS. You are always there for everyone reaching out praying finding out information.. you are such a dear dear person. Please keep us updated on whats going on. Will be thinking and praying for you my friend!!!!
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Philippians, chapter 4
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice!
5 Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near.
6 Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.
7 Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
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Sheila - God bless you. What your priest said to you made me smile. It reminds me of St. Teresa of Avila.... who assures us that Jesus treats his friends with the heaviest crosses. That is why he has few. :-) You have a special vocation to bring God's love to others. Cancer has blossomed that vocation in you and I pray it is blossoming in me too with my discernment of teaching. My daughter told me (she's co-teaching CCD with me) that she was shocked that I was such a good teacher. Of course, it's not ME. I always pray that the Holy Spirit will guide me as to what to say and give me strength and energy to deal with young ones. By nature, I'm an introvert. Cancer woke me up to the fact that I wasn't doing enough for Him in the world. I am not a contemplative nun. I must bring God to others, in my family first, then to others. You dear sisters, planted the seed in my brain that I might have a vocation in teaching. I would NEVER have found that out unless I got cancer and found BC.org and this Catholic group of devoted and supportive women. Sheila, you too. You are a wealth of medical information for us, and a spiritual mother on these boards. You have a mission. I love what you said above. It's SOOO TRUE.
"Say-- love each other, love your families, Fall in love again------actually pretty easy if you try. Forget the price of hamburger and make love as often as you can. Gaze into each others eyes, like you did in those first few months. Forget the hurts. Love and hug much. hold the family close. Talk allot. Pray allot. Believe. Believe there is a reason for all." Amen, Amen!!
Since breast cancer, I have done things I normally would not have done. As simple as buying red, flamboyant reading glasses to diving into teaching and taking classes to be a "Master Cathecist". God works through us and many times it's through trials and suffering. If ever anyone questions why we have to suffer, look to Jesus on the Cross and Mary's many sorrows. We have the "gift" of free will, and with free will, comes sin and with sin comes calamity. Even if we've never sinned (like Mary), we are a community of brothers and sisters in this world and suffer the effects of other's sins. Who knows, maybe there's a cure for all cancer and because of someone else's greed for money, it's withheld and we all suffer for it. It's a part of life that we cannot escape from while living. BUT we can with the grace of God, bring good out of bad and that is what we are doing here on this board.
Alyssa was in class again on Sunday, as happy and cheerful as ever. She is my inspiration. She said she loved coming to CCD and gave me two hugs. It's all worth it... even the naughty boys! :-)
Two years ago this October, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had my mammogram today and am NED!!!! Praise be to God.
God love you all. Special prayers to you all who are suffering the effects of physical, mental or spiritual pain today. God knows we've all been there.
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I was thinking especially about you Michele on Sundays second readings, and finally in Philippians 4:8 Paul goes on to tell us "whatever is true,whatever is honnorable, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, then the GOD of PEACE will be with you". This is how God wants us to live our lives...not to focus our thoughts on our sorrows BUT TO KEEP OUR EYES ON HIM...how wonderful to just look outside and focus on all the blessings that are right in front of us, the leaves changing, the smell of fall in the air and all the Blessings that are all around us. Then focus on what HE has done for us and what HE has put before us...If we are for HIM nothing can come against us not even a cancer, we always come out a winner. HEBREW 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen...Grow in Faith, and how do we do that by feeding ourselves on his word and all his Promises.
God did not promise us a life without trials but He did say He would always be with us and that He would find us a way out....amazing. Michele that means that your husband is going to find a job, not in your timing, maybe, but He is faithful and He will come threw, continue Praying without seesing and what did I tell you a long time ago...you are going to be just fine, glad all your tests were good.
I appologize to some of the other ladies as I so seldom come on the boards...and this will also happen to many of you. You start realizing that you are going to be okay and cancer will no longer consume your life and if it does read what Jesus and the apostle Paul just told us to do and move on to a CHRIST FULL LIFE, FULL OF JOY AND HOPE. For my dear sisters who are facing trials today coming here is wonderful because GOD IS THE ONLY WAY.
Father hear the prayers of your people, give them HOPE and a Blessed Assurance that You are near and sheltering them under your wings. You are our protector from all the trials that we have to face in a wicked world give us the Grace to go on and the Peace that passes all understanding to go forward in our trials of life and IF IT BE YOUR WILL LET THIS CUP PASS NOT OUR WILL BUT YOUR WILL BE DONE, AMEN0 -
Yay Theresa for your clear mammogram! God is good and can bring good out of everything!
I hope all of you are having a blessed Monday!
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Yay Theresa! Go out and enjoy!! xo
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wonderful news Theresa!!!!
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