A reader writes:<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been a reader of your blog for a few years now and see the prayer requests that you share. I\u2019m hoping you can share one for me too. My husband has been fighting gender identity disorder for a few years now. He gave up fighting for his own sake almost 2 years ago and says he has been fighting it for my sake ever since. He told me yesterday that he can\u2019t fight it anymore and wants to live as a woman full time. I have agreed to a trial separation and will be taking our son to live with my family for the moment. I have requested that we meet and discuss whether he feels like it\u2019s worth it after a month. In the mean time I\u2019m hoping your readers can help me pray that his brain can be healed of this horrible disease that Is causing so much pain for him and the ones who love him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer for them through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Mary, Undoer of Knots, obtain the graces necessary for this man and wife and their family.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
I wonder if you might ask your readers to pray for two young co-workers of mine.\u00a0 One is battling cancer, and the other was just diagnosed with a brain tumor.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer for their complete healing in body, soul, and spirit. \u00a0Give their caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, skill, creativity, insight and the proper technology to assist in their healing and give them and all who love them grace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. \u00a0Mother Mary, St. Luke, and St. Peregrine, pray for them. \u00a0We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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