Prayer Requests

A reader wrote yesterday (and I apologize for the delay in posting):

Would you mind praying for my father who has to go into emergency surgery today? He’s been suffering for a long time with Multiple Sclerosis, and this is just one more large straw on the camels back. Please pray for a successful surgery and that there is nothing serious that has caused his current issue. Thank you.

Father, hear our prayer for a successful surgery and swift healing for this man through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for him and all who love him. Pray as well for his caregivers that they be skilled and compassionate.

Another reader writes:

An elderly woman named Blanche, who is part of a group of seniors I belong to that meet once a month for coffee, has been found to have bone cancer. She has been struggling with cancer for the last 20 years, first with breast cancer, then lymph nodes, then in her spine, and it has now spread to her bones. And she was asking what she did to deserve all this, since she has tried to be a good person….

Father, hear our prayer that this woman be healed and that she be grace to see that she is not being punished, but is sharing in the suffering of your beloved Son. Grant her healing, strength, comfort and peace. Grant grace and consolation to all who love her and skill and compassion to her garegivers. Mother Mary, St. Luke and St. Peregrine, pray for her. We ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen.