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Theresa,
You gave me much food for thought...I am going to do a little googling before I ask you more questions
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Awe.. that was sweet.... but Laura needs no props......
.......... but you just gave me a little somethin' with your post Squidward... ((( LOVE)))0 -
Laura,
Squidward LOL...how was the Hair Show?
((LOVE)) back at ya!
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Traci, Theresa, Janet ~ thanks for your kind thoughts. Mike is doing better and will start steroid pills tomorrow for 5 days, and Zrytec for 3-4 weeks. They don't know the trigger and it could be anything (Food, environment, virus). Mike didn't eat anything out of the ordinary, no nuts (and he wasn't allergic before), no chocolate (which he's allergic to) and the only new thing we ate was a new brand of Chinese sausages (but that was 3 days ago). I will definitely make an appointment for him to get allergy tests. You're right, it was very stressful today. I was even praying in the shower!
Good night to all !
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Good night and rest well, for you and your whole family. Prayers for Mike to continue his recovery and that the source of the allergan will be identified.
Sweet Dreams...
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Thanks for asking..
the Hair Show was terrible... waste of my time.. Some days I wanna start all over... and We cannot..lol.... but.. I suppose we can change and move on from there... this sounds good..lol
You'll always be Squidward to me....
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Laura dear good luck at the hair show, but before you go can you put in the hyperlink for Foobville.
To all sometime ago we had a discussion on foobville on allergies, it was very lengthy over several pages. It explains alot that would be way difficult to repeat. I' ll pop on over there and see what pages it was on.
Paula, your son needs expert intervention over and above what he has gotten. Steroids are great , but the cause needs to be found. Exam the first swollen finger with amagnifying glass. Hope you have an excellent PCP who can refer you to the appropriate doc's.
Barb what a wonderful story, I'm so happy for you. It's quite beautiful. As to going back to church, I have since My Greg passed. I cry almost from my first steps into the church until I leave. Don't care who sees, they just flow. Since I'm new to this parrish, I have decided to introduce myself to at least one new person a week. During the handshake of peace, I introduced myself to six people and told them my name and asked their names. It shocked several. But it has always amazed me that we haven't done this because it is the intent of the action. TO better know one another. After church yesterday the woman I meet last week, we talked for 20 minutes and exchanged phone numbers. She was widowed a year ago. I told the pastor about Namaste---he said it's too bad we did think of it first.I asked him if he minded blessing the rosary I found of my moms. He was taken aback when I said it had been blessed by Pope Paul 2nd, He said "Well I can hardly top that", but he was pleased to do so.
Squid-Traci so happy your spiritual side is soaring. You certainly are keeping us soaring. Bless you .
Pat pagowens--yes it is hard to keep up with names, but after awhile it becomes easier. I think people tend to post only on a few sites when they settle in. That way it's easier on our brains befuddled by so many chemicals during surgeries and treatments. Then you read a couple of pages or more to catch up and you remember thoughts you want to respond to but forget who said what. So rather than reread all the postings, hit the main thoughts that strike you.
NamasteI Salute the God within You L&H and faith
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TO ALL----I checked Foobville and the discussion started on page 26 with a question on foob rejection, then it goes to about 29, With the perponderance of dicussion on pgs. 27 & 28. This is in regard to allergies which are an antibody/ antigen response and the other type of response to foreign bodies. N &h&L and faith Sheila
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Thank you Sheila, I will call his pediatrician in the morning (we have just transferred to his office because of new medical insurance plan). I pray that this doctor is great. And thanks for pointing me to foobville for the allergies thread, I will read it tonight.
Good nite all! Namaste.
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Good Morning Ladies
WoW just took me an hour to get caught up. So We need to start our Novenas TODAY! I had every intention of positing yesterday but spent the weekend out on Lade Powell on a house boat and decided not to bring my computer.
So yesterday on our way home my whole family said the rosary (sorrowful mysteries) and I began the novena in your names. Today I will post the prayers and the intentions. Please take time to pray the prayer and if you have time throw in a rosary or just a "decade" to start us off.
The Intentions are below and we can add to them today if I have forgotten any or you just have new to add:
The Ladies of this Catholic Thread and their specific intentions
Pat, her Grandson's well being and Courage
Prayersareanswered, success of surgery, health upon surgery, and positive prognosis of Pathology
Theresa, Peace of mind and Health, for her 4 children to return to the Faith
LMFSM, Health and Safety of her family
Paula, Return to health, relief from fatigue. For her Mother Terry's return to health, and for her Husband and children as well.
Rose, Return to Health, recover from Coma.
Marylee and MJ, Peace and financial help, health of family
Michelle, return to health, intentions for Husband Rick, and family. Support for personal spiritual project. AMG!
Laura, for her son Taylor and her friend on BCO here that needs support.
Kindone (Betty) for her Husband's return to health, successful outcome of her upcoming surgery, and friend Debbie that is dealing with brain cancer.
For all of the ladies here: Laura, Jeannine, Apple, Carol, Barb, Judy, Sheila, Jan, Janet, Traci, Nita, Betty, Nancy, Pat, PatMom,Camul,NoniJones, YATCOMW,Pure.Paula..........and prayers for an end to breast cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In Preparation for the visit of the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Each day pray the Invocation for that day, the Refrain and one Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's and a Glory be.
INVOCATION DAY 1:
Mary, Mother of Jesus, hear the prayer of the Church in America, a people rich in promise, a people much in ned of God's Mercy. As you first brought faith to these lands, be with us in the jubilee of our redemption.
Refrain: O Lady of Guadalupe, pray for the Church in America and walk with us in the new millennium of faith.
Our Father, 3 Hail Mary's and a Glory be
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I'll look for the post & be praying right there with you!
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Ladies I am humbled to be able to do this, please do not think it too late to add names and prayers.
I ask that you all join in with us today and carve out time each of the 9 days and that we all pray together on day 8 next Monday at 7am PST while I am in front of the image. I have printed all of your prayer requests and intend to leave them at the base of the image on day 8. Lets pray and pray these 8 days prior so we have peaceful hearts and souls and are spiritually uplifted that day.
Peace be with all of you today.
Michelle
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Theresa & others who have posted on this topic. When my daughter announced a couple of years ago she was going to one of the 'mega churches' with huge TV screens, etc. my heart just ached. Christians are Christians, but the Catholic faith is so beautiful and was the first coming directly from God - upon Peter I build my church (the first pope or living representative of God on earth). Several years ago I had the privilege of going to Rome. Being blessed by Pope John Paul II from his window was an amazing experience. Each person in the crowd could feel his gentleness & love. When I visited the catacombs I saw an inscription an early Christian had scrawled in the stone (dated 15-20 years AD) and thought how amazing it must have been to been living in the time of Jesus.
But no amount of my talking seemed to make a difference w.my daughter So, I decided to let God lead the way for her. Over the past year or so she has stopped going there - I think she found her own disallusionment and that 'something is missing.' I had my surgery in a Catholic hospital (by accident or divine intervention). Crosses were in each room and rolling out of recovery on the way to my room was a beautiful statue of Our Lady and baby Jesus. My daughter was with me - she never said anything, but I could tell she was really thinking. The new boyfriend is Catholic (yay!). So, we'll see. God guides each of us.
I didn't go to Catholic school (only 1 year) and there are a lot of gaps in my knowledge and have been thinking about taking the adult refresher classes they have at our parish. And those considering entering Catholic faith - this is a great time because those classes begin soon and end with Baptism just before Easter.
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a mini Rosary daily for my BC sisters... (not too hard for me to do).
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Michelle,
and all of course
Please excuse my being a novice...I have to run down the street for an time sensitive errand, I didn't quite get that intentions start now. I do have a few to send you thought, can I do this later this afternoon?
God Bless you on your most sacred journey. This is a wonderful day for all, and will continue. I do want to add Jeannine to intentions. We have not heard from her that I can see, and I am concerned. I also want to add Nita who continues to be in the hospital with complications.
Thank you so much Michelle, you and all here are such blessings.
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Michelle - I am so excited for us all. Thank you for doing this and offering it to us as a group.
Janet: I pray your daughter is enlightened by the goodness around her and comes back to the Catholic faith. Yes, it is rich on so many levels. Just reading the early church doctors lately has blown my mind. It's like they're speaking to me today andit was a thousand or more years ago. People just don't change that much. My son in law is taking the RCIA classes to become a Catholic at Easter. I hope and pray he keeps going and finds the wealth that the church has to offer. He wasn't raised as anything, pseudo Christian, but he was never baptised. My daughter, his wife, is a bit lazy about getting everyone up and going to church. I pray they both get inflamed with the Holy Spirit this year.
My husband is a convert. There are times I think he knows more about Catholicism than I do, probably because he became a Catholic as an adult. I'm a cradle Catholic, and I too didn't go to Catholic schools, maybe a few years, but all in all, in the 60s and 70s it wasn't cool to go to Church and I just wasn't educated as I should have been. I'm still making up for lost time. :-)
Paula: I'm so happy your son is getting better. An allergist is a very good idea. We're getting a pest control person to come and give our house a treatment since Lucy our dog swelled up twice. And I woke up this morning with two little bites on my foot!!
Traci: I'm at your service whenever you have a question or thought. Your asking helps ME. It gets me thinking and wondering and looking up things I don't know. I love sharing the faith and I love praying with everyone here.
Laura: I agree with Traci, thank you so much for starting the group. :-)
Pat: Yes! Your prayers for us are certainly felt and appreciated!! Your sons are awesome for walking the walk.
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Janet,
I was reading your post about your daughter. It reminded me of a bit of how I am received by my sister. She turns away from me a lot, and I don't talk to her about my spirituality because I have been made fun of too many times. I don't know, it is such a personal topic I know. I just wish she were more in touch with her soul, but she is not. So I try and respect it, but it does end in stilted conversations sometimes. We don't talk about Heaven, but she does infer that out mother is around us, and she slipped the other day and said Thank God! (now I am smiling.) So who knows what is going on? I don't push her, for fear of overwhelming. She does however honor my love of Angels, and gets me one every now and then. I just wish she was more comforted in her day to day life, and do truly understand the feelings that come from separation from Spirit. Maybe I just need to pray on it, and turn it over to God. One of the last wishes of my mom, was for me to help her. She did step up to the plate with my Cancer, and this was a huge struggle for her. So that alone is quite a positive step. It is nice to have a place to come and share here. There are so many ways to Spirit, and the hope is that our loved ones will come to it. I understand the megachurches and your concern. It feels like there is a lot of money, and almost a celebrity type of worshiping. Not for all, and so I don't want to offend anyone. This is just my take on what I have seen. I am just more drawn to humility and simplicity.
I hope that your daughter is actively searching and stretching her Spiritual muscles as I like to say. I wish the same for my sister, and for her to find some peace.
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Theresa,
Thank you so much. I did a little research last night, and I have learned a bit already. Learning Catholicism really is like a whole new language from my perspective. I didn't tell you all this, but I hope you get a chuckle. I did go to a Catholic Service when I was a teenager along with my friend's family. I do remember not being allowed to take part in communion, which I was a bit miffed at. That's not the funny part. I had an inner ear infection that I was not aware of until I tried to partake in the service. I was trying to follow the standing and kneeling, and started to get very dizzy. I ended the service out on the front lawn, after almost passing out due to vertigo. They all got a good laugh out of it
Now here is another story, and this was at a time when I was beyond depressed, needing help and I was going into Churches when I would go for a walk, and would pray for help and guidance. I met a few very nice people along the way, and one day, decided I really needed to pray and rang the bell to come into a Presbyterian Church down my street. Now I was raised Presbyterian, and was beyond upset when they told my I could NOT come in. I was out there crying, talking through a little speaker, and all I got was we don't let people come in because so many homeless people were coming in every day using this for shelter. I asked again, can someone just sit in the Chapel with me? I really really need to pray right now. No, we are sorry. I was reeling, crying, embarrassed, and ran around to the side of the Church so no one could see me weeping. My own faith had turned me away. I still walk by there, even yesterday, on my way to the SGK walk, there was a "greeter" out front, dressed up in a suit, and I saw the meetings listed on a board outside for shared prayer. It occurred to me that I need to go back someday, and talk to whoever the minister is, and share my story.
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TRACI
You can PM me your intentions and will add them today...there is no problem at all!
Ladies please read through our list of intentions and mention names as you pray.
Traci My Father was raised Presb. as well and he converted for my Mother. That whole side of the family is Presb and is also a beautiful faith. It DOES NOT matter what religion you practice..you are welcome here and if you need help with the lingo or prayers just say so we love having you here you are a gift!
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Traci: Those were good stories. Back in the day, I was the only one of my family regularly going to church, but my brother did too, especially closer to his death. He actually was looking into the priesthood. But my sisters were WAY far away from the church. No church was going to tell THEM what to do! I was a lot more rigid in my faith back then and tried very hard to steer away from talking about faith and morals and the church. We'd often get snippy. Unfortunately, it took my brother's death to bring them miraculously back to the church. They even had their children baptised. My oldest sister is very devout now and goes to weekly adoration. I think she's more traditional than me now! LOL My other sister is probably what people call a Cafeteria Catholic and does her own thing, whether it's a teaching of the church or not. All we can do is pray for our loved ones and hope they accept what the Spirit is always offering. Your sister may come around. As St. Francis says, go out and preach the gospel, but only use words when necessary. :-)
That's a shame about your experience with the Presby Church. I'm sure it could happen in any church nowadays. I noticed that our church out here in podunk city has locked doors for the rectory ... you have to ring the bell to talk to the receptionist who may or may not let you in. We've become a society where everyone is afraid of each other.
I really like the Quaker faith ... I think because of their plainness and simplicity. If Catholicism dropped off the face of the earth (Heaven forbid), then I'd become a Quaker. :-) I have a book by Catherine Whitmire called Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity, where it's filled with quotes from Quaker meetings, from George Fox in 1658 to present day. Here is a quote that speaks to me and is very St. Francis-like too:
To some the truth of God never comes closer than a logical conclusion....
To the mystic God becomes real in the same sense that
experienced beauty is real,
or the feel of spring is real,
or that summer sunlight is real....
Rufus M. Jones, 1922
Christian and I are baking cupcakes this afternoon. Halloween cupcakes. I try not to think that I'll be back at work tomorrow and traveling to Aberdeen with some co workers. I get very depressed thinking about work. But it's where God has me now and I'll walk on until He shows me another path.
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Ladies
I have added some intentions to the original prayer list ...please reprint and add the additional prayers. thanks
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mmm5,
Thanks for starting the novena...I will be doing it with you as well..
Prayers everyday as I lift you all up in my daily rosary...
Peace and love,
Tori
DE COLORES!
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Sisters - I am totally speechless. This afternoon my daughter emailed me and said that she & new BF would like to go to mass with me this weekend!! I had to read it several times before it sunk in. I JUST POSTED HER STORY TO YOU THIS MORNING and many of you responded!! I'm telling you, I have no doubt the Spirit is at work on this forum and our prayers are heard. After all this time, I find it hard to think it's just a coicidence. I just casually responded I'd find out which mass Fr. Stefan is doing because I think they will like him. Like you said Theresa - use the words sparingly. Not going to push anything and let them find their own way w/God's help. All I can say is keep praying.
Traci - don't feel bad about your vertigo and having to go outside. Growing up, our church was not air conditioned. In the heat & humidity of the summer it was stifling & used to get faint so often the ushers were ready to take me out to the front steps every Sunday with those smelling salts.
My mother was raised as a Methodist and she knew the bible a lot better than my father the Irish Catholic:) I hope ANY sister finds welcome here. One day all Christians will be reunited here on earth and in heaven.
Lord, extend your guiding hands to these sisters and their families. Amen.
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Goose bumps.....literally! I am in awe
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Hi All,
Thank you mmm5 for your work and postings. I've printed mine out so my addled chemo-brain can remember the intentions!
I went to 12 years of Catholic School...13 including kindergarten. I even went to Catholic camp every summer from age 6 to 15...we went to mass every morning, and then did the camp stuff....Camp song: At the camp, at the camp, at St. Monica's camp, through the woods, through the woods, through the woods we will tramp. From the time that the sun will rise we will work and play till the sun goes down beneath the sky...swimming, canoeing and all of that stuff! We will pray and we'll play but we'll never get rough. We'll have a lot of fun, in that great mountain sun at camp, at St. Monica's Camp." LOL!! Does senility start when you can't remember yesterday but you can remember your camp song from 40 years ago?
When I was in 8th grade Mother Superior (yes, we called the principal that) announced that it was "vocation" week and anyone who thought they had a vocation to come to the office. So, I raised my hand...because I was going to be a missionary nun. So, we chatted for a while and she said, "Yes, Patricia, I believe you have a vocation but our order will not accept you until you get your teeth fixed." OK - I was stunned. Hey, I was willing to sacrifice everything...and they couldn't cap a few teeth. LOL She did me a favor! I'm still doing missionary work in my own way and got my teeth fixed myself. And yes, they measured the hem of your uniform in high school, they supervised the dances, they did all those other crazy things that make great drama and musicals and comedies.
But, I gotta say - those women who were the nuns of my childhood were selfless, sharing, wonderful people. A lot like who I'm meeting on this thread.
Now the camp song is stuck in my head! Ciao, Pat
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Pat - thanks for the grins - camp song and the teeth!!
:) If senility starts that way, I'm already down that road.0 -
Today is october 11, 2010. Thirty years ago was my wedding day. Seven years ago we got divorced. Feeling a little melancholy in spite of the divorce being the only option. Feeing, I don't know what, but holding on to Jesus and Mary for strength. xo
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Janet in Virginia..
that is really neat!
and special prayers for you lovemyfamilysomuch (you need a nickname) on this very day.
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Ellie - even though divorce was your best option, only natural to feel some sense of loss. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to move forward. I deal with this too. We go into marriage with such high expectations and hope. Why things happen like they do, I'll never understand. Prayers and a big hug are with you tonite.
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