A reader writes:<\/p>\n
I requested prayers for my marriage and discernment about how to best help my children a few weeks ago; last week I decided to leave my home and work things out \u2014 hopefully\u2013 with my husband, but with some physical distance between us. I am currently trying to navigate the possibility that I will have to find a job and an apartment, with 4 children, 50 miles from the house they have grown up in, and school starting in less than a week. Please, please pray for healing of the individuals in my family, and our family as a whole. And that Our Lord will turn any of my mistakes to the Good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for this family.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
My father (a college professor by trade) has been out of steady work for about two years now, and the toll of rejection after job rejection (including one man who simply told him he was too old to be hired) has worn on him mentally, however much he\u2019d deny it. If you could ask your readers to pray for him and myself to find steady work, I would be extraordinarily grateful. I know my patron, St. Jude, has helped me out before, so keeping him in the loop would be appreciated as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer that he swiftly find work and join his sufferings to your Son\u2019s.\u00a0 Mother Mary, St. Joseph, St. Jude and St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for him and all who love him.\u00a0 We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
I have heard that my father, Doug Hamilton, passed away inSouth Africa. He was unchurched, but a devoted father, setting a high bar for his 3 sons. Requiescat in pace.<\/p>\n
+May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer through Jesus Christ for the repose of his soul.\u00a0 Mother Mary, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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