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Here a little earlier today, my friends, praying for all of you. For Trust! Sas, I believe in signs and that nothing happens without the hand of God. What's happened here in the last few days has been God working thru you and our dear sisters here to form a unified bond of absolute trust in His divine will. Namaste all! Mary
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With you my beautiful sisters!! xo
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I am here also, If I do not get online... I am praying along, for Frank & all of us.
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Blessings to my sisters and brother in Christ! I'm leaving on a jet plane tomorrow morning for Seattle, keep me in your prayers please. I hate flying and I'm flying alone and have to wear that awful compression sleeve and gauntlet to prevent lymphodema, etc. etc. Yes I'm a big baby. I will walk (and fly) with my Guardian Angel. I will bring the novena prayer with me so hopefully, I won't miss a day.
Sheila- LOL, see bad memory is contagious! I miss Squid too. I wish she'd come back.
I knew today was the feast day of St. Stephen of Hungary, but didn't know it was the feast day of St. Rock! I didn't know there *was* a St. Rock! (www.universalis.com)
Invitatory psalm: Come, let us worship the Lord, for he is our God.
St Stephen of Hungary (969 - 1038)
He was the son of a pagan father and a Christian mother. He worked hard for the conversion of his country to Christianity, setting up both episcopal sees and monasteries. He was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1001.
He is the patron saint of Hungary, where his feast day, a public holiday, is celebrated on 20 August.
See also the articles in the Catholic Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia.
Other saints: St Rock (- 1378)
He was the son of the governor of Montpellier in France. At the age of 20 he went on a pilgrimage to Rome. When a plague broke out in Italy he took care of the infected and cured many. He himself caught the disease, but not wishing to be a burden to others, he went to the woods to die. There a dog brought him food and licked his sores. Later its owner found Rock and looked after him. He died around the year 1378. He is a model of those who carry out works of mercy, and is invoked in time of pestilence.Pax et bonum! May the face of God shine upon you!
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LMFSM and mnmom with you too XO sheila
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United with everyone in prayer as well.
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Much Peace and Prayer to all of you here praying today. I feel so untited to all of you as I read through your intentions each day. May our Dear Lord shine his grace upon you today and intercede on behalf of your intenions here!
GOD bless you and keep you!
Michelle
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" dreaming Laura " ???
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God bless my bc sisters. Frank, am worried about you! How are you? xo
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Where is Frank?--I haven't read from him in a while.
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Camille Frank is in Northern Ireland--his condition change was what triggered the novena. His status is unknown at this time and we don't have a contact number. You can page back to see his report on that condition change . it is serious. He was being chemo challenged when he posted. We can only continue to pray. First post in notifying on the boards I thought , I had screwed up. The post indicated it was for Frank and not for everyone, I now think , it was one of those fortutious mistakes, many that new Frank, are here b/c they thought it was just for him. They may not have come had they not have known of his condition change. Yes he needs all our prayers. L&H&P's sheila
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Sas, I did read about Frank and I've prayed for him and I wondered too what was going on with him now---T Y
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Have been on overtime at work and no time to post but quickly to say I am still praying the Novena daily and with everyone in spirit.....day 5 tonight. Frank, wherever you are, we are with you and praying so hard for the chemo to start working or any new treatment to start working. You have so many people who care about you!
And prayers for ALL of us as we continue with St Peregrine's Novena....
Cheri
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With frank and all of you sisters in the spirit of Christ tonight. Namaste, mary
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Okay getting a bit teary, Greg died 2 years ago in less than an hour from now. Was handly it well, Ds came for the weekend. But I look at the clock as tears roll down my face. It wasn't supposed to be this way. We were supposed to grow old together. I found a card in decluttering , in an unusual spot. An Anniversary card from him that had a hand written note that said "I can't imagine life without you". That stopped decluttering and put me back in bed staring at the walls for several months. Bless him he always bought the most beautiful anniversary cards. Once we could remember when our anniversary was.
I said when we got engaged if there was any fighting about any thing there would be no wedding, His mom through a snit about the dresses. Off the phone. I said "If you want to marry me, it's two weeks from today". It happened. Mom and dad had a restaurant. We had the reception there. The Jesuit did the ceremony outside in front of the chapel To Mother Mary, I passed every day. The pathway was hundred year old oak trees. Hurricane EDith in 1972 caused bad weather even in Detroit. I cried a good part of the day b/c even though we had the chapel reserved, i never went to look. I was resolved about being married right there. It stopped raining when we got in our cars to go. Brilliant light came through the trees and over the chapel. The ceremony happened. It began to rain as we left.
It took us both years to remember our anniversary day. "Two weeks from today". Most/many people imprint the day b/c much planning is involved. We finally got it pretty well straight after a number of years. He always bought these really what we called soupy cards. Wish he was here to give me another soupy card. Love you dear sweet Greg, you were kind, lovable, good, spoiled your DS beyond belief and he has survied that to become a balanced adult.You taught me in the last year what i needed to know to be on my own. I miss you immensely , but those words I just used--you taught me how to survive on my own , can't thank you enough for that. Love and Hugs and Prayers. pookie --sheila
Edit:usaully i just edit for typos ,punctuation, incoplete thoughts etc
The first person to say to me never let a day go by that you " don't say I love you" was Aunt Kay. Her husband Uncle Bern went out on a Sat. in 1965 to collect an insurance premium, so the members status wouldn't lapse. He was killed in a head on collision. He always woke her up to say bye and I love you, but that day he didn't. She said the words to me as 15 y/o. I made it a rule in my house that those words were always said upon leaving. It was the only absolute rule. Dh Greg was so in distress on his last day that i flipped into nursing mode, to better control the situation, I did, every intervention I did worked, he went into a peaceful sleep from which he never woke up. We never got to say I love you. Don't let that happen to you.
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Beautiful memories of your dh, Sas. Although things are difficult now, I know that you cherish those memories and are grateful for the time that you had together. I am praying for you in a special way tonight. Thank you for putting the Novena together. I feel blessed to be a part of it.
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Oh Sas I felt that in my heart---I loved the marry me in 2 weeks--so cute--so what if it took u a while to remember the date it was always 2 weeks from now. He sounded wonderful and he'll always be with u that's for sure. U were blessed with each other-I'm so sorry it ended to soon.
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Mary, trust and seek guidance of Mother Theresa, the time we have come together with her, brought together in prayer of novena to St. Perigrine The Patron saint of cancer and other illnesses. Mother Theresa who brought in our time, that being our present lifetime, an awareness of suffering throughout the world today. Both sufferred in different ways. He physically and all the tribulations that are attached to cancer, she by loss of Faith in watching sufferring.. What are we, each here at BCO experiencing, physical and spritual challenge. Just as both Perigrine and Thersa did. They survived on belief and trust. Let us work towards that--Belief and Trust..
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Thank you all for any thoughts about Greg and I. He and I are but a small microcosm of what is happening here. We are coming together to pray together, universally for all that suffer and are in crisis. No one person made it happen. It was many. It is the many believing that our prayers have meaning and can accomplish a change. It may be an imperceptable change, it may be a dramatic change, it may be a healing--let it be so. Please no more thanks to me , I am but a conduit. It embarasses me. The joining is what is important--not the conduit. please.
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Hi, im new here. I will start the novena. Please pray for and with me.
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Welcome BCbarbie have added you to my prayer intentions this am with the novena.
Sheila I am praying for you today that you may receive solace from MARY and a feeling deep in your soul that Greg is near. I am praying mostly for peace for all of us. Cancer does such an intense number on us, we deal with the physical issues for so long but the emotional and mental torture lives on. I am at 4 1/2 years out from my dx and while from the outside it looks as if I have moved on, there is still a dark place inside of me. For those of you that are new to this site and questioning their faith I want to share that I still have faith after so much turmoil. It is hard to find it on some days but the beauty is there and many times I find it simply in nature, children or in the compassion of others like in this thread where we all come together.
4 1/2 years ago I was 42 with 3 young boys (3, 7 and 11) I had a very influential job and was one of the few female VP's in a large fortune 500 company. I was living what I thought to be a very good life. I was dxed with BC after a simple mamogram, 4 weeks later on the eve of my first chemo appt I was praying for my life and my middle son became very ill out of the blue he was rushed to the hospital and dixed with juvenile diabetes, he was in the hospital for 6 days and I was not allowed to be with him as my white count was low. One month later my Husband lost his job and he wanted to leave the family after 20 years of marriage. (he was scared) My life changed dramatically I left my job to do a year of chemo and take care of my son who needed to be insulin dependent and we tried to recover from the nightmare. We were still alive, my husband slowly came around and today we are all still OK and struggle some with anxiety and depression but I believe in my heart that God is guiding us and we just need to continue to live by faith.
The other day I was out doing my normal walk that I don't change up much, and something pulled me to an off the beaten track trail, I actually turned around and started waliking for this trail feeling pulled. When I got into a clearing from the trees 10 hawks circled above my head for 5 minutes and the sun beat down on me and blinded me I looked over and saw a field of a thousand sunflowers and I stopped in my tracks and heard loud and clear through out me
"Cancer is over for you" move on." I was not even thinking of cancer this day but something tells me that deep down inside this small dark place there is a part of me that is so hurt by cancer that I need to shine GODS love on that spot.
After I heard those words the birds suddenly moved on and the sun went under a cloud and it felt like a moment that stood still.
Today I pray for all of you to Saint Peregrine that the healing comes in whatever form you need to that dark place within you that cancer hurt.
Love to all of you today!
Michelle
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Welcome barbie! Glad you are hear to pray with us.
Sas, prayers right now for the soul of your beloved Greg. How blessed you were to have him in your life. Namaste my friend. Mary0 -
Thank you all for pryayers for Greg --so apprectiated
Mary L&H's namaste
Michelle we all pray for miracales, then hesitate to say one occured. What an amazing moment. Let it be so. Namaste
sheila
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Michelle, your story made me cry......I pray that it truly was God speaking to you/through you and you have licked cancer for GOOD. I would like nothing more for you than that after everything you have been through......
Cheri
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Tears of sadness and joy now for all my strong and beautiful bc sisters, and Frank, even for those days when we don't feel strong or beautiful. Thanks for all SAS--you are a leader-- xo Praying for humilty, love of neighbor, poverty of spirit (freedom for material) obedience and piety. The fruits of the Joyful mysteries.
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Praying for all of us, all the time.
My local ER did a CT scan last Sunday to determine the cause (diverticulitis) of my abdominal agida. As a result, we know the tumor in the liver is still there (phooey) and the size may be roughly the same (could've been worse). The nurse at UPenn told me we don't know for sure since the local ER wasn't scanning for tumor assessment. I have more scans at UPenn scheduled for Monday, the 27th. Please pray, pray, pray!
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Oh Penny more scanning ugh---All u can do is pray it hasn't changed or got saller----but even thos they weren't scanning the liver they could still see it or they would have said anything. So that's kind of good--I'm not saying it's good u have a tumor, but it's good if it hasn't changed.
QUESTION---why is it some people with liver tumors can have the blasted out with the lasor thingy, is it where it's located?
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Penny I'll change the intention
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LMFSM Thanks sweetie. I know you won't, mind I added some of what you said to your intention.Namaste
Penny I changed your intention see if it's good Namaste
Michelle and Cherilynn when does the novena go to the shrine. I just flashed that I can add at the top or bottom that the intentions are or have been taken? Will save from recontacting all individually Could do the same for the next Novena even,that might me stretching it though.Namaste
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Intentions will go on Thursday!
Also posted them on Come pray the rosary with me, today! I said a rosary with about 140 others today and offered everyone's intentions.
God Bless all of your healing and I pray that God and our Blessed Mother here your intentions and send speedy intercession. Special prayer for you Penny today!
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