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Topic: illness
Prayer
Prayer for those facing a major surgery
Creator God, healer of all ills,
I place my health into your hands.
Guide the hand of my surgeon.
Prayer
Place yourself gently
Provident God, grant me the confidence in your love and care that Saint Mother Theodore had, so I too ‘may not give way to uneasiness about the future’ but ‘place myself gently into the hands of Providence,’ as I embrace present and future as evolving mystery. …
Quote
“Oh! I would wish to suffer for you or at least alleviate your affliction. Be assured I do share it.”
Quote
“We were all very sick. When one was feeling a little better, she went to aid another, to hold the head of one who was a little sicker than herself. You never saw such a comedy.”
Prayer
A Blessing on Our Homes
O Provident God, we ask that you bless and protect our homes and all who come and go from them. May our homes be filled with welcome for family and…
Prayer
At a Time of Illness
We pray for wellness, but we accept the reality of illness. In so doing, we come to a deeper understanding of suffering in our lives and a greater sensitivity to…
Prayer
Prayer for Freedom from Addictions
Drugs, alcohol and other addictions are tearing apart families, just as they tear apart our larger society. We ask that those we love see the way to their own liberation.…
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Entrusting Myself to the Hands of Jesus
I’ve come to think that the only, the supreme, prayerwe can offer up, during these hourswhen the road before us is shrouded in darkness,is that of our master on the…
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