A reader writes:<\/p>\n
Fr. Ray Ryland experienced a bad head injury today at St. Peter\u2019s Church in Steubenville Ohio. He is in the hospital, Trinity West in serious condition with a head injury. Please pray for him and his family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, thank you for this good priest and saintly man.\u00a0 Grant him complete healing in body, soul, and spirit and help him and all who love him to offer this suffering and anxiety to you in union with Christ crucified and find grace, peace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love.\u00a0 Give his caregivers grace, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, skill, and the proper technology to assist in his complete healing.\u00a0 And if it is your will to bring him Home, we ask that you would welcome him into heaven with open arms.\u00a0 Mother Mary, St. Luke and St. Peter, pray for them. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
My nan is in hospital at the moment \u2013 severely ill. Please pray for her recovery, for my mother, who\u2019s with her at the moment and is finding it very difficult, and my father, who has gone to be with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father,\u00a0grant her\u00a0complete healing in body, soul, and spirit and help her and all who love her, especially my reader\u2019s parents, to offer this suffering and anxiety to you in union with Christ crucified and find grace, peace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. Give her caregivers grace, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, skill, and the proper technology to assist in her complete healing. Mother Mary, St. Luke, pray for them. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Lisa T., who suffered a fatal stroke a few weeks ago. She was a good friend of many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, may Lisa\u2019s soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace and may all who love her find grace, peace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. Mother Mary, pray for her and all who love her.\u00a0 We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n
Finally, please pray for my Mom and all us Sheas. The cancer treatment has been discontinued, so it\u2019s just a matter of time now.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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