Prayer Requests

A reader writes:

I asked for prayers a few days go regarding a financial problem. The problem just got worse as I lost my part- time job. I’m asking for prayers to find a new job very quickly and to find a way out of the hole I am in.

Thank you.

Father, hear our prayer for your complete provision for this person.  Let this lead to a new and better job and to the praise of your Name through Christ our Lord.  Amen. Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for her.

Another reader writes:

My dear prayer warriors,
I have a young man from Kenya that I have been corresponding with over the past 3 years and we sort of adopted each other. His name is Sammy Kariuki Ngari (you can find him on Facebook as Sammy Kariuki Kariuki). He has completed seminary school and he desires to be ordained in the Seattle Archdiocese.

We have spoken to the Vicar, Fr. Bryan, about what he needs to do to complete this task. His first task is to live here for 2 years before the Archdiocese will even consider him. As explained by Fr. Bryan, they want all foreign seminarians to live in the area for 2 years so they can have time to adjust culturally. Which makes sense. Sammy has asked him for assistance on how to obtain a work visa, where to live and where to work. Most of the information he got back was a bit vague in nature and he is ready to move from square 1.

I have spoken to our priest, Fr. David, and he would consider helping Sammy, whether it is part time at our church, living in the guest room at the rectory, or spiritual support. Fr. David lovingly seeks the Holy Spirit to guide him.

There are 2 things that I ask.

First is to join Sammy and I to pray a novena. Any novena you wish, with the special intention of guidance of the Holy spirit for Sammy. He is starting his novena tomorrow, 12/9 and will end it on 12/17.

The second is for help. The only Kenyan embassy is in New York. Does anyone have contacts? Have you assisted with a foreign seminarian before? Do you know anyone who has? Does anyone still keep in contact with Fr. Dean? I understand he is at a parish in N. Vancouver. Do you have leads for a job for this young man? housing?

He lost his mother on November 8th to cancer. She had been battling it for a year and half. Her dying wish was for her son to achieve his goal of being a priest in the US. I am sure she is praying for him in heaven.

Thank you for your help.

Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ. Mother Mary and St. Jean Vianney, pray for him!

Another reader writes:

Some months ago, I believe you posted a prayer request for Jonny Wade (Facebook: Project Team Jonny), a little boy out in the midwest suffering from brain cancer. I’ve been following his story ever since then. According to his page, he is now on hospice and it seems he doesn’t have long. Can you please ask your readers to pray for a healing miracle, and, if that is not in God’s plan, for his peace and the peace of his family, especially his twin?

Father, grant Jonny the grace of a miraculous healing or, if that is not your will, the grace of a happy death through Christ our Lord.  Mother Mary, St.  Luke, and St. Peregrine, pray for him, his caregivers, and all who love him.

Another reader writes:

Hello, Mark. Could I ask you to please post a prayer request for my father? After several years of declining health, including just recently being placed on kidney dialysis, he had a heart attack last night. He’s on a respirator, but he is now brain dead and not breathing on his own. He is gone, but I believe my mother will have a difficult time removing him from the respirator — which, from my understanding of Catholic moral teaching is a morally licit choice. He suffered abuse as a child and sinned greatly as an adult, but thankfully, he went to confession recently and received last rites the day he died.

Prayers for my family and I during this time would be appreciated as well because there are many logistical details that my sister and I are trying to work through. My father and mother have been living in a different country for the last few years, and we’re now scrambling to get to my mom to help her with what she needs and to make arrangements to transport my father’s body back to the States for his funeral.

Father, grant this man eternal rest and pour out your abundant grace, peace, consolation, and strength on all who love him, especially his widow and children.  Provide the means for the funeral, Father.  Mother Mary, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.  We ask all this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Another reader writes:

Fr. Thomas Weise (46), a priest of the Diocese of Juneau, remains hospitalized and in critical condition in a San Luis Obispo, California hospital following a series of life-threatening cardiac events that he suffered beginning on November 25th while visiting family. He is currently pastor of St. Rose of Lima parish in Wrangell and St. Catherine of Siena parish in Petersburg.

A friend writes: “Fr. Thomas Weise is one of my heroes. A healthy life-giving priest who kayaks to his parishes in Southeast Alaska. A man who has dedicated his life to ministry in Alaska where few are willing to serve.”

When I asked if there was a particular saint we should address, my friend responded: “St. Therese of Lisieux is an intercessor for Alaska and for the Diocese of Juneau and for missionaries, and Fr. Thomas I know was drawn to AK because of the beauty of the shrine dedicated to her.”

St,. Therese, Little Flower, please pray for Fr. Thomas!!

Father, hear our prayer for your holy priest’s complete recovery in body, soul, and spirit. Give his caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, skill, creativity, insight and the proper technology to assist in that healing and give him and all who love him grace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. Mother Mary, St. Luke, and St. Therese, pray for them. We ask all this through Jesus Christ our Lord.