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A reader writes:<\/p>\n

Could you please ask your readers to pray for a friend of mine who\u2019s been diagnosed with ALS? She has three children, two 11 year olds, and a 14 year old. Pray for her and her family, they really need it. <\/span><\/p>\n
Could you pray especially for her spiritual healing too? They are not particularly religious, but they do believe in God, or at least they did before all this. More than anything I really want them to know the peace that can only come from Christ.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer for this woman\u2019s complete healing in body, soul, and spirit, and the complete healing of her family,\u00a0through Christ our Lord to the glory of your Name.\u00a0 Mother Mary, St. Luke\u00a0and G.K. Chesterton, pray for them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A reader writes: Could you please ask your readers to pray for a friend of mine who\u2019s been diagnosed with ALS? She has three children, two 11 year olds, and a 14 year old. Pray for her and her family, they really need it. Could you pray especially for her spiritual healing too? They are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-52907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prayer-requests"],"yoast_head":"\nPrayer Request<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A reader writes: Could you please ask your readers to pray for a friend of mine who's been diagnosed with ALS? 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