Personal: August 2003 Archives

I just emailed one of Steve's fellow seminarians, he's been there about 4 years.

"... you take care of my bro, ok? Make sure he doesn't get his head flushed down the toilet by a transitional deacon."

Steve left for St. Charles in Philadelphia this morning. We're all delighted and happy, and even proud of him for taking the first step into a new life of service to Christ and His Church. Please keep him in your prayers.

I am really going to miss having him close via IM. That was always fun.

Would you pray for two families who got sad news about their kids this week?

L., at eight months of pregnancy, found out on Friday that her baby is stillborn: "I had a heartbeat (normal) on Monday, and on Friday I noticed that I hadn't experienced any fetal movement. Today I went in and found out the bad news." She has the delivery ahead of her.

B. writes that "God in His Providence has put a heavy cross on our shoulders to carry: His and our beloved 8 year old son P. has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. All this is happening during our job transfer, thousand of miles away from family and friends. We're begging for prayers for his cure and also for grace for all of us to cooperate with God's holy Will in these dark hours of our lives."

Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins, and for those of the whole world.
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world....

We're all in this together.