{"id":55244,"date":"2014-10-06T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=55244"},"modified":"2014-12-28T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:44:28","slug":"prayer-requests-and-works-of-mercy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/10\/prayer-requests-and-works-of-mercy-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Requests and Works of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Some of you have already chipped in, but in case you didn\u2019t see it- <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchinbox.com\/widget\/widget.swf?id=3959307114\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one of my husband\u2019s college students needs a laptop<\/a>. 10-15 of us could make this happen easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Can you help?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Lord, hear our prayer and provide the funding for this person through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Amen!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Another reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">A former music teacher of mine has been diagnosed with cancer.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how severe it is, but he seems fairly optimistic even though he has to have chemo once a week for the foreseeable future.\u00a0 Prayers to St. Peregrine and St. Cecilia would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Father, hear our prayer for his complete healing, in body, soul, and spirit. Give his caregivers grace, wisdom, knowledge, counsel, understanding, compassion, skill, insight, creativity and the proper technology to assist in his complete healing. \u00a0Give him and all who love him grace, peace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. \u00a0Mother Mary, Sts. Peregrine and Cecilia, pray for them. \u00a0We ask this through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Another reader asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pray for me this week. See the consultant Thursday &amp; hopefully he\u2019ll let me start driving again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ. Mother Mary and St. John Vianney, pray for him!<\/p>\n<p>Another reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone I know has a friend who is scheduled to have a second trimester abortion later this week. Her name is Melissa. Maybe you could ask your followers to pray for her.  <\/p>\n<p>By the way, my friend Maria that you prayed for (above conversation) is doing great, and so is her daughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Father hear our prayer that Melissa make the choice to spare her child\u2019s life.  And thank you for hearing our prayer for Maria and her daughter.  Mother Mary, pray for them.  We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader writes: Some of you have already chipped in, but in case you didn\u2019t see it- one of my husband\u2019s college students needs a laptop. 10-15 of us could make this happen easy. Can you help? Lord, hear our prayer and provide the funding for this person through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Amen! 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