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..hi sisters!..im paulette from philippines..im 17 years old and is currently a college student..i would just like to ask for a little help. our qualifying exam is just 2 months away and im so afraid that i will fail in the exam. please help me pray to improve myself and to have enough knowledge to answer the questions correctly. i hope that my classmates and i will pass. thank you very much!take care!
Our prayers are with you, Paulette, and with your classmates.
Hey,
I stumbled upon this website after looking up information about what it is nuns do. I was wondering if you could pray for me. I am having a hard time knowing where the Lord is leading me. I am really struggling with my differences in beliefs with my mom and boyfriend. My mom does not believe in God at all. This is weighing in my heart! My boyfriend often calls me a hippie: making fun of me for believing in love. I believe that love conquers all, that we are to love others no matter their sin, and we are to have compassion for everyone (even criminals). My boyfriend is a cop and he has a hard time understanding my beliefs. If you could just pray for me and these relationships. They are really weighing on my heart!
Thank you so much for all that you do and all the prayers that you pray for the world! I truly believe that prayer is powerful!
Hi Kat, Glad you found us. We will keep you and your loved ones in our prayers. It’s a tough spot to be, but continue to be true to yourself.
Dear Sisters,
Please pray for me and my family to gave peace of mind, good health and love life and financially stable. Thank you so much.
Blessings to you and your family, Ting.
Hi Sisters,
I’m Valerie from Phoenix, Arizona. I would like for you to help me in my prayers regarding my family and my fiance. My aunts and uncles used to be so close, now they don’t talk to each other and I feel like I am in the middle of it or somewhat the cause of it, though I have no idea what .
My fiance, whom I love very much, is having difficult time in believing in himself and has acted differently due to financial situation this year. I believe in everything about love in the bible. But he can sometimes be a little too proud and arrogant. I don’t want to say that his Father may have an impact on him, but that is how I feel. I love my future in-laws as well, but now I am just so confused. I need strength and prayers to get us through this. Me, my fiance and my family- and anyone in my situation. Thank you Sisters.
I have a really tough time going through menopause. Also along with high blood presser, memory lost, low energy and mood swing. I hate being this way its feel very off ward being around family and friends. I lost interest in many things. The doctor has me on medicine but it’s seemed as if it’s doing nothing, but getting worst. I’m asking the Lord to heal and deliver me from this sickness amen .cried Phia
I’m very sick & my home is so messy & I can’t find anything. Please pray I can get the strength to clean up. Please pray my messy husband decides to change too & become neat . Pray my husband & I find get serious about saving for (car)/an emergency. Also pray I’ll know how to pray about getting well.
Phia, I hear what a difficult time it is for you. Our prayers are with you. Go gently.
A, We pray for you and for you husband and that your relationship with each other and with God will deepen and strengthen you through this rough time.
Phia, you are not alone. I, too, am having a horrible time going through menopause. It can take awhile to find a combination or the right dosage of medication to help relieve symptoms, so please continue to work with your doctor.
Sister Julie, thanks for the reminder to go gently. It’s advice that’s easily forgotten when one is trying to cope with fatigue, irritability, hot flashes and insomnia as well as others’ inconsiderate remarks or jokes about menopause.
Phia and Irene, I had very limited experience with menopause (it was medically induced while I was being treated for breast cancer) and I know how tough it is. You both mentioned all the things that come with it — and it’s tough because each thing in itself can be difficult to deal with but most of the time we are dealing with many if not all of those things. You are not “crazy”, you are not “overly sensitive” … you are dealing with a difficult experience. You are still you and can choose to be the way you want to be in this. I’m reminded of a quote I came across on Monday which keeps speaking to me: “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” (Saint John of the Cross) This reminds me that even in my toughest moments, I can choose love, to be love. Prayers are with each of you and for all women who are experiencing menopause.
My name is Ashley and I currently live in Whittier, NC.
I posted a comment on one of the previous pages of this website about myself having what I believe to be a calling to convert to Catholicism, but not knowing where to turn, who to talk to, or what to do.
I ask that you please pray for me on this.
Thank you so much.
Ashley
Can you, please, fervently pray
For URGENT DIVINE INTERVENTION FOR COMPLETE RECONCILIATION with my loved one SHULE
That SHULE DOES NOT GET INVOLVED INTO ANY NEW RELATIONSHIP, but THAT WE START AGAIN, SPEND CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR TOGETHER and officially get married!
Thank you very much. God bless you. I pray for you. Praise the Lord for He hear prayers and answer on it.
Kaca
Kaca, we will keep you and Shule in our prayers.
Ashley, we received your other comment and will be in touch by email with some suggestions on where to turn. And we will surely keep you in our prayers.
I’m not really sure how I should start this but I’m 19 and I have been pulled to becoming a Nun for about 2 years now. I wont lie I have tryed to igorn it, I’m not overly religus I rarly go to Mass but I do pray every day for around 1 hour give or take. I know God wants this for me but at the same time I’m scared, I don’t want to give up my friends or books or hobbies (I draw) So I fine my self conflicted with what God is calling me to do and what I want to do with my life.
Hi Stephanie, Thanks for writing. I encourage you to look into what it’s really like to be a nun. There are some suggestions on How to Become a Catholic Nun. Becoming a nun doesn’t mean you cut yourself off from the world or from your gifts. Also, I encourage you to join our Vocation Forum and get to know other people who are thinking about religious life and how God is calling them. And of course, we will keep you in our prayer.
I could really use prayers for patience. I signed up for a retreat with the TOR sisters in Steubenville and I’m ready to go and really ready to talk to Sister Therese but it’s not until April. Also I finally got my NET application filled out and I’m ready for my answer but the earliest I will find out is the end of February.
JMJ+
~Betsy
Totus tuus Maria! Thank God ahead of time!
Please pray for my marriage. My husband left me six months ago and we have a six year old son together who is torn between us
Betsy, Our prayers are with you … instead of “waiting” maybe try “savoring” every moment … a kind of personal Advent … savoring the coming of God in new ways in your own life!
Kim, I am so sorry to hear about the struggle in your family relationships. We will keep you in our prayers.
We have Christmas celebration for inner-city people. It is 12.21.2009. We ask that you pray that God saves, heals and renews a lot of people and that all go well.
Please pray for my son who is physically disable, he is one of the twins and he has cerebral palsy, vision impaired and has a hydrocephalus and with a shunt inserted for draining fluids in his brain. He is only 5 years old and was born with twin to twin transfusion syndrome, please i beg of you sisters and nuns to pray for his health. Thank you and god bless us all.
Please pray for the Women and Men of the military and provide them with the security and safety of the Lord. Keep them safe in their travels and wish each and every one of them a very Merry Christmas.
Eero, Blessings on your celebration today! Our prayers are with you.
Karen, We will be sure to keep your little one in our prayers. And we also pray for you and your family as you continue to care for one another.
Jodi, Amen and amen. Both Sister Maxine and I have family in the military and they are always on our hearts. We share the same prayer that you so well expressed.
pray for me to become a nun soooooooon
merry xmas
I just currently turned 19, and until recently I had given up on religion. Lately though something or someone has been telling me that this is where I need to be, that my purpose in life is to become a nun. I’m not catholic..yet, and to be completely honest I’m so confused. Please pray that I find my way.
Prayers are with you, Kirstin and Ransom. If you’d like to hang out with others who are “wondering” too, check out our Vocation Forum.
Valerie, You and your family and fiance are in our prayers. I know it can be challenging when our “rough edges” brush up against one another. There will always be things we want to “improve” or wish weren’t there in our loved ones. That’s okay. Just be sure you are able to be yourself and are loved and can love fully. We’ll keep you in prayer.
I could really use some prayers. I’m struggling with so much in my life. I struggle with my self image and have thoughts of suicide. I also will be graduating college with a bachelor’s degree in about a year and I have no clue what I will do after that. I came across your page because I thought that the religious life might be what God has called me to do. I read different articles on here about being a nun and how to be a nun. I just feel like I’m not religious and good enough to become one, but a little part of me feels like being in the workforce isn’t for me. I thought about if married life is for me, but then I think that no one could ever love me. I just feel like I’m being pulled in all sorts of directions. Thank you and God bless.
Please pray that my family will be back together soon as the new year comes. My 3 children are with their father, my ex-husband, for the hloidays. Thank you
Dear Sr.s, Please pray for my sister in law Dar who is to have a double mastectomy tomorrow due to cancer, and for my brother, Pat her husband who is ill as well. Also for my mom, Mary who is elderly and quite ill too. Also for me for health and strength and for all I hold dear in prayer. God bless all of you too, Mary
Elizabeth, Thank you for writing in. We will most certainly keep you in our prayers. It’s a tough space to be in, but hang in there. Keep an open mind and allow yourself to be surprised by God! You will find your passion, that thing that totally delights you and makes use of the gifts God has already blessed you with. No matter what you are drawn to — marriage, religious life, a career, etc. — you must first know yourself and be okay with you. God created you as a unique, beautiful person who is capable and gifted. You have a calling in this world that no one else has. Spend time getting to know yourself as loved by God. I know this is not always easy to do especially when we struggle with self image. But stick with it, Elizabeth, and trust that even if you feel you can’t do it, God is there with you helping you along, and we’re here praying with you.
Viktoria, We will keep your family in our prayers. Blessings to you.
Mary, Your sister-in-law Dar, brother Pat, and Mom are in our prayers. And we pray for you and your intentions and for all the ways that you care for your family during this time. Blessings, Mary.
May Jesus bless you, Please ask Jesus to bless every aspect of Carmen Rosa`s life and every benefactor of mine and me. Happy New Year.
Hello Dear Sister, I am a lapsed Catholic who has not been to church since the early 1990s. I lost my faith in the church because most of the people I knew who went to church were pretty nasty when I was growing up. They seemed to use the church as an excuse. But in spite of that, I have always believed that God was watching over me so I pray every night. This is how I used to keep my faith. However, I am going through a very depressed stage right now. I have no true friends and cannot hear God’s voice regarding what he wants for my life in terms of single, married or religious life. I feel like a lost sheep that has strayed to far away from God to hear me. Please pray that I find my way back to God. I would also be grateful if you could pray from my family. I am drifting away from them but need them to be safe. I feel they are all I have left in the world. Sister, please also pray that I find the right career for me. I enjoy fine art painting and writing but have yet to pluck up the courage to sell my work. Instead I do a 9 to 5 job that is killing my spirit and faith in life. Please pray that I can hear God’s wishes more clearly. Thankyou for this Website. God bless.
I stumbled upon your website because I am searching for answers. My heart is deeply troubled by life and by the many sorrows that have been laid upon me. I have reached a crossroads and cannot find any clear sense of which way to go anymore. I have lost so much and have no idea anymore why I am here. Please pray for me to find my path. I am lost.
Sisters, Please help me pray for my health and healing. I am praying that God will have mercy on me and heal my body.
Thank you for your prayers!
God Bless You!
I am 17 and I have sinned a lot.I feel really bad.I have not been the most faithful person.I want to live a more religious life and I want my famliy to also.I want to live the way GOD wants me to.Please pray for me and thank you.
Hello there, my name is Nancy.
I have been feeling such profound sadness and hoplessness since losing my best friend/pet dog to cancer. Most in my life cannot understand my grief over a “mere animal,” but I went to sleep and woke up to her for 15 years. I had to watch the cancer ravage her body for months, and then she passed away in my arms. In the same year, I was also forced to move back in with my mother due to financial reasons. Please say a prayer for me. My deepest thanks.
Nancy, I am so sorry to hear about your dear 4-legged friend. Dogs and all pets are God’s good creation and can have a profound influence on our lives. Take the space you need to grieve and know what a blessing you were to your dog. Will keep you in our prayers, Nancy.
Pleease protect me from Special Salvation.
My prayer request is for me and Andre J to have a healthy and happy relationship. Honor my prayers and bring them to past. Send unexpected blessings into my life. Let this be my year for many positive blessings and opportunities
hi there sisters!
im renzel from new zealand. i just have this feeling that i can’t tell or explain and sometimes its bugging my in my mind. actualy i already have this feeling bfore but it suddenly just fades away without noticing it. but now, i have this feeling back again and it seems like its a calling from HIM but i dont really know if it is really is but i just wanna ask for your prayers to help me figure out what i really want for my life coz at the moment, im really interested about pursuing religious life tho im still 17. I humbly ask for your prayers sisters. thank u and GOD bless u forever =)
Please pray that God heals my Grandma, Mary from all of her health problems so that she can live with me on earth for as long as possible and have the highest quality life possible. Please pray that God guides all of those involved in her health care.
I need prayers too. Our daughter entered a cloister thousands of miles away. We are not surprised or upset she entered religious life.It made me cry when the novice mistress said the sisters have to learn detachment(she was talking about family ties) as that is an important part of their vocation.I feel abandoned.
Our prayers are with each of you.
P.S. Eve … I responded to you on another post too.
Hi Sister Julie,
I would like to ask for a prayer for myself. I’m still trying to deal with life after a break-up (some 7 months ago) and am still feeling quite lost in the world. Although I wouldn’t say that I am very religious, I have enjoyed and felt inspired by reading your blog. Anything that could possibly help me in this not so happy time, would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks!!
i would like to thanks God for all the things that he ahs giving me and my family and for the ones i dont have, i need prayer so we all thank God together there is many people that are sick and dont have mant resources to survive thank you , prayer for both my sosn kevin and rudy maldonado for their protection and guidance from God.
please pray for my brother who is in the military and astray from God. Pleasepray also for my mom and dad might seperate and please pray for our health menatally, phycally, and emothinaly. most of all spritually. thanks and God Bless.
Please pray for all the people of Haiti affected by the earthquake. There are reports that children who are trapped are crying. They need our support. Could you also please squeeze in a prayer for me and my wife here in Australia?We are moving next week and it has been very stressful for us and the old couple whose house we are buying. Please pray for them that they have a smooth move into their retirement home.
Father, I pray for a share of Your healing and peace for Celia with broken ankle in hospital and recently bereaved, Fiona going for tests on her lung, George terminally ill, Judith recently bereaved.
I ask that You protect my family from the evil one, and may Your will be done in their life.amen
Father, I bring before You Vivienne and Jean, who do not know You, help them to let go and let You, soften their hearts, open their ears, and their eyes.
I ask for a way forward for myself to which church I should be attending.amen
Please pray for my husband Randy’s place of work. They needed to sell a piece of land in order to stay in business and they did and then the person backed out and now they are going to have to close or not pay the employees. My husband’s is the only income we have since I have been unable to work since I got cancer. Please pray that if it is God’s will, that we will get a financial miracle before we lose our house. We only have about a month or two of money left in our account to pay the mortgage. Thank you for your prayers.
dear prayer partners,
please pray for my mothers full recovery she has fluid on her heart and lungs and her kidneys arent working the way they suppose to.she has a blood clot in her lung and her leg and diebetes,shes 71 years old. all of her 13 children want her to recover completely and come home.we thank you for you love and your prayers weknow gods the healer.god bless you all for what you do being great servants for the lord. love yvonne mercure and family
My husband and I are in a divorce over his leaving for a younger woman that he has been living with for a year with her 3 kids . The final date is 21st of Jan. I ask that you pray this divorce is postponed.
Please pray for me and my friends– the transition from high school to college has been a lot tougher and more tearful than anticipated. I feel so incredibly lost and scared.
Thank you for your prayers.
Hi Sister Julie,
I saw your website on the IHM website. I have applied to begin the IHM Associate process, but was interrupted when I broke my leg on Christmas Eve! I return to the ortho doc on January 25. Please pray that my healing is continues, so that I can get to Monroe soon!
Thanks and God Bless
Our prayers are with each of you.
Judith, Glad to hear you are beginning the IHM Associate process. Hope your healing continues!
Hi Sister Julie,
I discovered your website earlier this month and I would want to request a prayer for myself. To help me discern my vocation if it is either a religious life being single, married, or a Sister/Nun. Thank You and God Bless!
Hi Sister Julie
I wanted to ask for you to pray for me. I am struggling alot with my spiritual life. I feel God is calling me but I don’t know what he is calling me to be. I feel very conflicted. I have been on your site a couple times now and find it to be a really good site for people who are searching. I am afraid that I will never find out what God’s Will is for me because of my own will. May God bless you and may this site bring countless souls to closer to Jesus.
Please pray for my DELIVERANCE and PROTECTION from enemies–Lord Jesus place a shield of protecion around me–destroy their lies.
pls pray for my vocation, i’m a medical doctor,
i had a civil wedding,went to catholic church, i decied to become a catholic and marry in church but we are seperated, i don’t understand what God’s want from me? but deep in me i know, but it’s so complicated story to explain, but let his will be done in my life,
pls pray for his guidance
Hello,
I found this website looking up “becoming a Nun” On google. I myself am currently dating, but question my call in life. I love my boyfriend, but i also question my faith and what my part should be in it. And I always tell my family that im meant to be a mom, so i want to get married, but that if it wouldnt work id be a nun and life that life forever. Because i dont want the single life. I want a religious life……so help! And Pray for me that i make the right choice..
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My Grandma Paula,(Paulita) recently passed away, (10-16-09) And Its been really tough on my Grandpa Joe, =( Well we just need prayer that everyone finds happiness again..I feel like my whole family is loosing focus on love.
Please pray for us..
God Bless…
Happy Birthday Sister Julie!
Offering prayers of Thanksgiving for you, today … 1/27/10.
Wishing you many blessings and surprises on this special day, celebrating your birth.
Enjoy your day.
God bless,
Kathleen
ps: looking forward to “Praying with Sisters” podcast tonight.
so sick… please, any prayer you have.
marla
Mark 5 verse 24-34.
I love u, god loves you, don’t loose hope, be yourself and accept yourself as you are, God is watching every step you come across, it is not you, but the image of God is speaking to you now, be healed, and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ.
Julia, from Botswana
We continue to pray for each one of you.
Dear Sister Julie,
I have been discerning about becoming a nun, but there have been some problems that have come up. I am not catholic, but I was interested in taking convert classes. Every time I try to go to a class it has been canceled or they have already started the session for this year. Please pray for me. I want to honestly become a nun, but small things are conveying to me that religious life may not be for me right now. I am currently back in college, and I just need some help deciding if religious life is something I can look forward to in the future.
Sincerely,
Junella
please pray for me(lisa) and my husband(tony). My husband has a mood disorder and shuts down and treats me badly emotionally. I want this marriage and i love him. Please pray God can heal our hearts and bring peace to our marriage. God Bless Lisa
pelase pray for me(ajn). i need God’s guidance right now. i’m in a very crucial point in my life where i need somethings to be fixed. but i don’t know where to start, and what to do.
please pray for my friend John in russia , for his soul cleansing and for God to restore him to the nice person her used to be , and if it be God s will for his complete and safe deliverence from the occult and from the desrtructive relationship he’s in , in russia.
this i ask in jesus name Amen
I ask that you Please pray for mom who suffers from a lot of personal torments. I have been praying for her and will continue to do so I was just looking for more prayers for her. Thank you and may God bless you!!
Please pray for me. I am a catholic priest doing Masters in theology in Paris. I need to be a saintly priest so that what I learn here be effectively conveyed to the world. A theologian, is one who theologizes on his knees, I feel. Please keep me in your prayers. I am so happy that there are Sisters like you who communicate so effectively with the modern world! God bless!
Please pray for my son James serving in Afghanistan,Please pray that I may continue my employment until I find another job and that my work will be seen favorably by my boss.
My boyfriend broke up with me a month ago and it hurts terribly and I can barely comprehend the pain. Sometimes I pray that God will bring him back to me so the pain to stop but I think that’s silly. Please pray for me for the pain to ease and also for me to learn to love myself and to be better.
Thank you
Please pray for those in Haiti, both citizens and visitors. Bless you sisters.
I have had two surgeries in the last two months and while in the hospital I contacted a parasite…. I am trying to recover from surgery and I have no peace…. Please sisters will you pray for me that God will remove this from me and my home… so I can get well. I know that Father God is able. I thank you so much for your prayers and may you be so blessed in Jesus Name
Prayer requests: We have a spiritual camp (06.11-06.13.2010). To the camp comes people who are alcoholics or drug addicts. I hope, that you praying that Jesus saves, heals and frees them. And that all will go well.
My husband and I are trying to get preganat and it has been difficult. I am a policeofficer and my husband is a fireman so we are always stressed. My dad (a deacon in our church) has told us to pray and to have patience. Please keep us in your prayers.
Thank you sisters, please pray for Paul, I believe he is hiding a physical illness from me, and needs to keep in contact with me, so I can help him. He is rejecting love and friendship, and isolating, out of fear and shame. Please pray to St. Lazarus and Jesus, to heal Paul, physically, mentally and emotionally. God bless!
Amy from Newtown, PA, USA.
Dear Sisters,
Please pray for me. I am so very lost in my life. I am seperated from my husband and headed for a divorce that I’m not sure that I want. I have so many regrets and such a heavy heart, that makes it so very hard to see that I have any future at all. I do have my faith, though. I know God wants me to go through this hard time for a reason. I ask you to please pray that my life will makes some kind of sense again. Thank you and God bless!
Hi my name is Meredith and Im having struggles in my life now with keeping afloat with money. I have been married for 7 yrs, love my husband, no children, but I do have 2 dogs and 5 cats, which are my children and we are working hard like most other folks but just need a little prayer to help us.
Please pray for my father, Thomas Sagen, who needs a shunt put in his brain at Loyola.
Joining everyone in prayer … for all involved in Vancouver Winter Olympics … athletes and families, residents in the area, all traveling to and from the area, all who planned, organized, set-up and will offer hospitality, monitor safety and security, facilitate all tasks/events and … all who will be involved in clean-up efforts afterwards.
God bless all.
They’ve been saying I’ve had mental illnesses all my life. Please, make all my mental confusion cease. I’m tired of feeling crazy, or living with the fear of becoming like my parents who they say were bad people. Please take all the poision out of my head. It’s almost unbearable and I feel like I have sense of direction or clarity. My life doesn not reflect what I want it to. Help me not be afraid to live… please. I’m in such self hating pain. I believe if you pray, God will listen to you and take pity on me… thank you so much.
Please pray that God will heal and strengthen the relationship between me and my mom and that we continue to grow in friendship and love. Please pray that God will place His grace and favor over the lives of me and my daughter.
Dear Sister Julie,
I am so happy that I stumbled across your page today, when I’m at a low point. You see, I’m going through a divorce. I’m 30 years old, and a Catholic. My husband, Jose left our marriage in August 09, he suffers from a hardened heart. Although I tried my very best to hold our marriage together, he continuously worked against mending our relationship (holding grudges, giving me the cold shoulder, leaving our home, me coming home to letters of discouragement, lies, secret credit cards, poor impulse control, and finally the divorce – all initiated by Jose). I tried so hard through prayer, Christian counseling, and support but he was so negative. A few months ago, I received the divorce papers and got myself a lawyer. To make matters worse, had me vacate our home and left me with a huge amount of credit card bills. It’s hard enough having to deal with the divorce (and the feelings that come with being abandoned), but I’m also facing a bankruptcy issue.
I can’t begin to tell you how much my relationship with the Lord has strengthen. It absolutely has, and I feel so great going to adoration and the holy hour at my parish. I have so much to give thanks for, and I do. I feel terrible, though when I hold the anger in my heart for my husband and his cowardly actions. At the same time, though I feel hope for reconciliation, which I get angry at myself for because I know he’s not a believer of our marriage, he’s so so far away from God and he listens to the enemy, and has no respect for our union in the Catholic church. There were times that I did pray for God to soften his heart, to make him see and open his eyes to what he was doing. I stopped praying for him and focusing on me. On occasion I still pray for him and for our marriage. When I pray for that, though I feel I’m setting myself up for disappointment. I’m so confused. I’m so overwhelmed. As much as I leave it to God, I feel like I don’t because I keep thinking about it, and wondering what I could have done better. I’m still in therapy, and it’s been helping me tremendously. I just wish things were so different. I don’t know what to ask for when I speak to the Lord in silent prayer. I don’t know how to accept the situation and let God take the lead. I want to let go. I want to move forward. I want to do what God has planned for me. But I’m so scared. I’m scared that I’m not going to ever have a husband who will be committed enough to stay in the marriage, or have children. I consider them blessings. I have done a lot of things in my my past (prior to marrying) that were against God. I feel though that I am working on correcting the traumas that were left behind. Overall, I need prayer. Lots and lots of it. Prayer for acceptance, forgiveness, and restoration of faith – so that I can let go completely. Please help!
Thank you
Rosie – Orange County CA
I have large fibroids that now will require surgery. I am in a lot of pain. Please pray for me to have a successful surgery and healing.
Dear Sisters,
Please pray all my children, all my grandchildren (including the one to be born soon) and my husband are healthy and always good Catholics. Please pray we are always very close and love each other very much. Please pray for our family members who are fallen away Catholics. Please pray they return to the church this year. Also, please pray for our granddaughter who has life-threatening allergies. Please pray she is healed this year when she goes to the hospital for testing. Thank you for praying for my family. Peace to all.
Prayer to provide hope, faith, guidance, wisdom and strength to obtain love, healing and grace for hurting marriage . For my children to find their way in Christ.
Oh dearest friends in prayer….
Please add my neighbours in your prayers. There was a tragic accident this morning and their TWO YEAR OLD, ERIC WHELAN was knocked down and KILLED my another neighbour driving his TRACTOR on the road. It is such a sad and tragic day today for us. He has a six years old brother Ben and a little sister who is only 18 months old. Please pray for his parents Brian and Catherine too. Catherine is expecting another child and is due in a month.
Our prayers are with each of you. Clare … so sorry to hear about little Eric. Prayers for Brian, Catherine and the little one.
A relative of mine has requested prayers for his good friend, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Prayers for this gentleman, his wife, and 2 daughters are much appreciated.
Thank you.
Peace,
Kathleen
Please pray for my God Daughter Miriam as she will be recieving her First Holy Communion on April 25th.
Please pray for my wife Jennifer as she is going through a difficult time.
I previously asked for prayers in reference to my husband and I trying to conceive. I found out last week that a procedure at my doctor that was scheduled for Mar 8 has been canceled because my insurance will not cover it. I dearly want a child. During mass this past weekend, there was a baptisim. It made me believe that there was hope out there. I ask for you to pray for me and my family that if it is God’s will, we will conceive.
Please pray for my young friend, Sam Smith (15), who will be undergoing surgery tomorrow, Tuesday 23 Feb 10. Sam was diagnosed with a rare soft cell tissue cancer at 12. He did go into remission for 1 1/2 yrs however, the cancer has returned with a vengance. Every drug or mixture of drugs they have tried is not working. It will shrink one tumor but enlarge another. The surgery tomorrow is to remove an egg size lump right at the crease of your hip and leg. It’s getting very difficult for him to walk. He has a strong faith in the Lord and his mom asked me to send out this prayer request.
We are stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lukehurst, New Jersey.
please pray for madeleine mccann to get home safely learn more at http://www.findmadeleine.com
Please pray that God will heal my Grandma, Mary from all of her health problems so she can live with me on earth for as long as possible and have the highest quality life possible. Right now, I am trying to get her to cooperate with physical therapy exercises and she’s not cooperating too well. Please also pray that she will cooperate with her exercises so she can be stronger, healthier, and happier.
I don’t know where it is I’m headed anymore. I seem not to care. Failing all my classes, leaving few in the way of accomplishments, not taking anything in the physical world very seriously. Not seeing the big picture. What is there to this life? Sometimes I try really hard to feel His presence but I get nothing. Dull, flat, empty. It has been this way all my life. Attending Mass has done nothing but widen the rift between me and “God.” I am not driven by the promises of my own material success or prestige. I feel like my life belongs to someone or something else bigger than me but I don’t know how to find my way there. Please pray for me.
Sister will will please pray for my mother, Mrs. Ida Mae. I humbly ask that Jesus will restore her body to complete health. She had a stroke on the 4th of January and is in the ICU in a vegetative state. I pray that Jesus will heal her brain. The doctors, as well as the family, are waiting for my mother to wake up. Please pray for my mother Sister. I pray that God will smile down on my mother and bestow a miracle to her in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. I LOVE YOU SISTER. Thank you and God Bless.
cu, i understand you and i will pray.
my baby dog, sleeper…….he was 14 and i had him put down yesterday. i think it was the wrong decision.
i came home thursday evening to find him stuck in the kitchen floor. usually if i boost his behind up he can get moving again, but not then. i tried twenty times, until i was exhausted. i had to call my neighbor to get him to his bed. i gave him a large dose of his meds and a few hours later i tried to encourage him to get up to go outside. he got up and into the kitchen, but fell before he could get outside.
friday morning he was panicking, trying hard to get up but not being able to. i knew i didn’t want him to be panicked for long, but i couldn’t calm him down. i called the vet. my vet was off. another said she would come. i asked for a tech i know. she was off, too.
i was too sick to get on the floor with sleeper, but i sat near him in a chair and touched him and tried to keep him calm. he didn’t cry while i stayed there, but if i left for the bathroom or to get him water he cried and yelped loudly. he was not in pain, he was panicked.
they came. they came to put him down. it was a vet i didn’t know and a tech who is not nice. as soon as sleeper saw her he started shaking violently. they carried him to the couch for me–i told them i needed to hold him a while. i needed to look into his eyes and talk to him. they wanted to go ahead and give him a sedative. they said i’d have ten minutes before he fell asleep to talk to him. i said okay.
he was asleep in less than three minutes. i wailed. my chance to talk to him, to say goodbye, to say thank you for 14 years, was lost.
they said the next drug would kill him in two minutes. after five minutes of watching him struggle they gave him a second dose. he died immediately.
i wish i were with him.
my little dog, oreo, was there, too, and is very upset, even though the vet said she needed to be there.
i’ve been hysterical ever since. he struggled so to live. i killed him. he was so happy and good and i killed him..
this is worse than my grandparents dying, worse than losing two best friends 20 years apart. i will never forgive myself. he was so scared. i should have waited until monday for our regular vet. i should have said no as soon as i saw that tech.
i loved him more than my own life and i killed him.
i would give anything to be with him.
To C U,
You are on to something– saying that you are part of something bigger. If you allow yourself to truly believe this, you don’t find it–you allow it to find you. Maybe it already has found you, but for too long you’ve been judging yourself and your “excruciating” life to let it do its work in you.
I use the word-excruciating- not in critical hyperbole, but because I’m reminded of what happened to me my freshmen year in a Catholic college. I hadn’t been able to adjust to being away from home and in my head I was feeling I likewise wasn’t relating to the physical world. But I was really relating to that physical world; I was eating those great meals, talking to people, doing well with my studies. But in my head my homesickness became an unavoidable pity party that was trying to tell me that I would have to let go of my clinging, narrow sense of “home” and find that something bigger, unprepared and without a clue as I was. NOTHING could get through to me, because I kept it all inside and just acted like everybody else.
Well, I finally went to the dorm chaplain. I had my bags packed and informed him that after two months at this place, I couldn’t go on and didn’t even know if I wanted to go through with this life which I was supposed to begin. He listened to my sufferings and my crying and said to me: “So, in other words, you find life excruciating.”
I don’t why or how he did it. But somehow it came across as humorous to me at the morose time. I’d always been overly serious and not given to humor. At that moment, call it grace or a wake-up call or whatever–I experienced myself looking at myself with “humor.” Where did “that” come from. I went back to my dorm room, unpacked my bags,, and blundered on.
You never know when a moment of light may open up a whole new vista of sunshine in this admittedly, mostly dark matter universe.
What’s coming out of you determines the flatness, estrangement, lack of meaning and all that, not that suspect physical world or the “real” world of your true place with that “something bigger and better” within you which is you. Don’t put it off–have a good laugh at yourself and me too, if you want. We’ll all join you. Get going share those gifts of yours.
Sisters – please pray for my Dad who is beginning to undergo chemotherapy for cancer of the esophagus, stomach and liver. Pray for his healing and the strength to endure the treatment that is to come. Please also pray for my Mother and brothers, and myself, as we go walk this sad and frightening time, and ask God to give us the courage we need to face the days ahead and to take good care of my Dad. Thank your for this wonderful Ministry, and for your prayers.
To Marla – I just saw your post. I understand what you are feeling – I had to put down two of my beloved older dogs a year apart, and it was the most difficult thing I have ever done – as soon as they were gone, I wanted them back, even though they were very old and sick. One of them also could not walk anymore, and that night I put him to sleep. I agonized over that, even though I knew that he was meant to be a dog and to run and play and love life – but he wasn’t loving it anymore. I was just too weak to let him go sooner. It sounds very much like your poor baby was very ready to leave this world and its sadness behind – you freed him from not being a dog anymore – and now I truly believe in my heart that he is running free in what I call the Great Meadow – free of the sick body he had and whole once again, safe in God’s loving care. I promise you – you will be able to remember him someday soon with a tear, but also with laughter and joy, knowing you freed him from his suffering – God bless and take care of yourself and your other little one – he needs you too! Be well.
Marla:
Your story really tugs at my heart strings. I have a 12-old dog with really bad hips. Sometimes it is difficult for him to get up. I have just starting giving him baby aspirin. Although I hope it helps, I know his days are numbered. I can barely imagine getting up in the morning without his little face near my lap just waiting for me to share my oatmeal with him.
You were faced with a really difficult and confusing situation from what I can tell. You didn’t even know the vet that came to your house. You can’t blame yourself for what happened. You did your best. Like Karen, I believe your Sleeper is now freed from his suffering frolicking in the grass of the Great Meadow, smelling the daisies on the way.
I can only imagine how great your loss is. But, as Karen said also, soon you will be reminiscing about the joy and happiness your wonderful pet brought you and others.
Take care and God bless.
rose
Hello Sisters I reside in Florida, USA. My husband and I are getting ready for another fertility treatment in late March. We have been trying to get pregnant for many years. I am 35 and he is 55 years old. So we are up there in age. Could you please pray for the treatment to work and have us Blessed with a healthy child of God.
to rosebud and karen:
thank you so much for getting my grief.
i keep hearing sleeper cry. i “saw” him, inside the fence at the animal hospital. i drove there, only to realize i was at the old building–they’ve been in a new one for 5 years–and it was all overgrown and unused. i was simply overcome with grief. having no sleep and no food for three days added to the problem, i’m certain. i drugged myself to sleep last night, just to stay sane.
i went to pick up sleeper’s remains yesterday. they gave them to me in a gift bag. at first, i was upset about that. but he *was* a gift. i sat in the car, clutching that bag to my chest, and i said all the things i should have been able to say before he died.
i’m still crying a lot, but i agree that he is happy and running in heaven. i long ago said to god, “if there are no dogs in heaven, i’m not going.” it seems disrespectful to some, but i think god understands.
karen, i have added your family to my daily list. you have a tough row to hoe. i pray god lifts you up and gives you all much joy together as a family.
thank you both for hearing me.
Sisters,
Please pray for Melissa. She is going through a rough time right now. Also pray for Patrick, a friend of Melissa, who is not making her time any easier.
Thank you.
Marla:
I can relate to that “If there are no dogs in heaven, I am not going.” They are such wonderful companions – full of loyalty and unconditional love. I adore them too! rose
Marla – God does understand – and I feel the same way! I fully expect to see my menagerie in heaven waiting for me. They were part of creation at the beginning and I believe they will be there at the end because they gave us such joy in this life. Each day will get a little easier but you will always miss and love him Get something to eat and get your rest – as much as Sleeper loves you, that is what he wants for you now. He knows how much you love him – don’t ever doubt that. The initial grief is awful and seems like it will never end – but it will.
Thank you for your prayers for my family – they are so appreciated. Take good care of yourself…
Hello Sisters
,
I tahnk you all sisters for your love for God and humanity and I always pray for those in consecrated life as well as for an increase in vocations.
I have come upon this website by chance, and would like to ask you if you could please keep in your prayers, my family, I am a divorced , currently not working, father of five (one in Heaven) children, Lilly is 10, Violet is 8, Ella is 6 and my son AJ is 4. We are very blessed to have a roof over our head, food on our table and money in the bank. My ex-wife and I do not get along well, and this is affecting everyone. I daily attend Mass and pray morning and night, I loose my patience when my kids who live with their mother ( she converted to Catholicism, when we were married but know does not know waht she is and calls me an extreme Catholic) I have my faults but continiue by the grace of God to keep reaching to become a better person and to draw closer with Our Lord
May you all have a Blessed and Joyful Lent !
In Christ, Anthony
Hi Julie and Maxine,
Please pray for a dear friend of mine; “D”.
“D” is my age, 47 and has had cerebral palsy her whole life.
But recently, she may also have a dual diagnosis; dystonia.
This may be good news because there is medication that can address the dystonia.
This is exciting to think that this medication may give her more motor control and speech control.
Thanks, Karen
Dear Sisters,
Please pray for me for health and new employment close to home.
Thank you
me again. i don’t mean to abuse this opportunity… i’m just sick. at 4 a.m. my temp was 104.7 and my neighbor brought me 1000 mg tylenol is down to 102.2 for now but i am in extreme pain. all the same symptoms as when i was septic in november. my face hurts, my skull, my neck and arms and back. unrelenting bone pain. i didn’t go to hospital because my little dog has never been alone and it is too soon after losing sleeper, our big dog, a week ago, to just leave her.
I need plenty more belief, plenty more power of prayer and more Holy Ghost with me. Please pray also that God gives me gifts of God’s grade.
Please pray for me and my beautiful 15 year old daughter. She has been struggling with depression and school for several years. It seems she has more anxiety and frustration than motivation and success; and it worries both of us continually. She wants to succeed but spiritually she doesn’t seem to be able to pull herself together. Please pray for her a strengthened faith, motivation, perseverance and success. Pray for my faith, patience and direction to help her most. Thank you
Please pray for my sister, Jennifer. She is having a very rough time now due to physical ailments (mainly epilepsy). Even though I am not Catholic, I often pray that she finds some spiritual, emotional, or physical comfort in her life. If you could also pray for her, I would be grateful!
My husband’s job was eliminated about ten days ago. Unlike some other large company, the company was too small to give out a generous severance package. He needs a job quickly to provide for the family of six with four dependent children.
We’re also dealing with the aftermath of a car accident two weeks ago.
We need lots & lots of prayers! Thanks
Please pray that Tommy gets help for his alcohol addiction. He is going to lose his family and I’m afraid he will die. I love him and don’t want to lose him. His son will miss him.
Jaime:
I will pray for you and your beautiful 15-year-old daughter. It breaks my heart to hear when a teen is in so much distress. I also have a 15-year-old daughter. She does not suffer from classic clinical depression and is very successful academically but her anxiety gets the best of her at times. She just started high school this year and still hasn’t found her niche socially. She sometimes says she feels terrible. I try to tell her that this is a normal part of growing up and that just about everyone deals with it to some extent even if they don’t admit it (I remember I was teased in junior high and told her the story). Sometimes, though, I do cry for her. It is so difficult to see them in pain.
Do you have your daughter going to see a therapist or support group with other teens in it? This might help her. I am by no means an expert on this, especially since I’m still going through it myself, but I find that if I listen to her just about whenever she needs it, withholding judgment, give her lots of hugs and have a monthly or so “girls day out” (for breakfast or lunch on a Saturday, shopping, going to a movie, etc.), it seems to improve her mood and help her know how loved she is.
Once again, I will pray for your daughter.
rose
Please pray that I might be healed from a brain tumor.
Please also pray that my cousin’s daughter (age: 5/6)
who has been fighting cancerous brain tumors since
the age of 2 might also be healed.
Thanks
UPDATED SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST!
Slow Recovery from the Death of Our Only Son & Other Ongoing Sorrows….
March.8,2010.
Dear Community of Prayer,
Please keep my wife and I in your daily prayers in 2010 or as long as possible?? Please pray for God’s Healing and Protecting Peace in our broken hearts,health and shattered lives!! FEEL FREE TO PASS OR E-MAIL Our Prayer Request on to Other Communities of Prayer that you know of??
Thank you for praying for us in our long dark nightmare of the soul!
Bill and Carol. ohio.usa.
Dear everyone,
I am trying to become a part of a community. It is about Servant Companion. I can live there for up to four years. I need a lot prayers so that I can do what they are asking me to do.
Sisters, I have strived to be the best person I could be, yet I am a person who makes mistakes. One mistake included a dispute with a friend whom I cared for who has chosen not to forgiven me for my reaction towards a dispute. I have tried to reconcile with him for weeks and still I pray for this dispute to end and for us to regain what was lost in this broken friendship. I beg of you and for anyone out there to please help me and my friend to regain our friendship once again. I truely am sorry and dont know what to do other than to pray and beg to everyone to please help me. Thank you for taking the time to just consider reading this prayer request. I appreciate your kindness and consideration.
Regina – maybe you need to give it some time so that your friend can cool off. Sometimes, as hard as that might be, it is the best way to then come together again and talk it out calmly without all the emotion. Sometimes for me, I just need to step away from circumstances like that for a couple of days so my thinking can clear, and then my friend or husband or whomever and I can talk it over and forgive and move on. But sometimes, that does take some time depending on the severity of what happened, and how sensitive each person might be. Stay in prayer, maybe send your friend a letter or e-mail letting him know how you feel, but also letting him have some space to contact you when he’s ready – God bless, Regina. Remember we ALL make mistakes and need forgiveness, so give yourself some room to be human too.
Sisters, I ask that you please pray that I, and the people I love can do the will of god and that we can surrender our will to His.
Thanks!
Please pray for my healing.
i just spent seven days in the hospital, my body overrun with strep for the third time since mid-october. this strep, strep bovis, led the doctors to tell me i *certainly* had either endocarditis with a need for immediate valve replacement, or colon cancer, the only two diseases in which this strep shows up. i was told to hope for the cancer, since there is no chance of my surviving open heart surgery. my heart was okay, better than expected, with good size and function. so… “knowing” what was ahead, i became calm. they did the colonoscopy. nothing. praise god for this.
and yet, i was prepared for cancer as opposed to more months of no diagnosis.
my potassium bottomed out, even after four bags were hubg iv. my hemoglobin crashed. no one knows why. my temp was 104.7, my white count 18.7 thousand. by day three, the fever and wbc were back to normal. my doctors–ten of them–fought over me, argued, agreed on nothing but my sed rate and the presence of strep, and called me a “medical mystery.” my rheumatologist is dr. suzan HOUSE, ha ha.
they gave me no antibiotics, said they need the infection to show itself again because infections are easier to find when they are active.
i’m tired.