Asking for prayer

[Therese]

Dear Brigid, you will be prayed for in my daily rosaries, Masses and adorations.  And remember what St. Padre Pio tells us to do "pray, hope and don't worry."  God will come through for you.  You may feel anxiety but just try and take each day as it comes in peace without worrying too much about the future.  God knows your future and in his providence will provide for you...just ask him to protect you and keep you strong in faith, hope and love today...tomorrow he will be with you helping you some more.  Peace and God bless!

[Brigid]

Dear Brigid, you will be prayed for in my daily rosaries, Masses and adorations.  And remember what St. Padre Pio tells us to do "pray, hope and don't worry."  God will come through for you.  You may feel anxiety but just try and take each day as it comes in peace without worrying too much about the future.  God knows your future and in his providence will provide for you...just ask him to protect you and keep you strong in faith, hope and love today...tomorrow he will be with you helping you some more.  Peace and God bless!

Thank you for your prayers! Yes, I know He will (intellectually, at least , but I'm thinking of praying to St. Pio. He seems one of the more recent Saints who have this "down" (besides, he's incorrupt, which doesn't hurt my smaller than a mustard seed belief).

[Therese]

Dear Brigid, you will be prayed for in my daily rosaries, Masses and adorations.  And remember what St. Padre Pio tells us to do "pray, hope and don't worry."  God will come through for you.  You may feel anxiety but just try and take each day as it comes in peace without worrying too much about the future.  God knows your future and in his providence will provide for you...just ask him to protect you and keep you strong in faith, hope and love today...tomorrow he will be with you helping you some more.  Peace and God bless!

Thank you for your prayers! Yes, I know He will (intellectually, at least , but I'm thinking of praying to St. Pio. He seems one of the more recent Saints who have this "down" (besides, he's incorrupt, which doesn't hurt my smaller than a mustard seed belief).

Yes, pray to St. Pio.  He has helped many people in their need.  Keep placing all your confidence in God's merciful love, totally surrendered to his merciful love.  Everything he permits us to suffer is for our good.

[martin]

Hi All,

I mentioned in an earlier thread about my daughter being overdue.
Just got word that she's gone to maternity with slight labor pains.

Please Pray... THANKS.

[Bailey2]

 

[Brigid]

Hi All,

I mentioned in an earlier thread about my daughter being overdue.
Just got word that she's gone to maternity with slight labor pains.

Please Pray... THANKS.

[Therese]

Hi All,

I mentioned in an earlier thread about my daughter being overdue.
Just got word that she's gone to maternity with slight labor pains.

Please Pray... THANKS.

How exiting! 

Lord, please bless Martin's daughter with a safe delivery and a healthy child to love and care for.  Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer.  Amen.

[Shin]

St. Therese ora pro nobis!

Lord bless this family, and this little child we pray and this delivery!

[Patricia]

For a safe delivery and good health of mother and child, we pray.

[Brigid]

For a safe delivery without complications, and a happy baby.

[Bailey2]

How are you doing Brigid?  How are your spirits? 
I mention you every day after I read scripture.

[martin]

Hi ALL,
Good News!!  My daughter gave birth to a baby boy at 3:15 this afternoon. Both mother and baby well. It was a long drawn out affair but thank God for all ending so well. This is the centenary year of the founding of St Columba's Church here in derry. The local Priest offered a novena of Latin Masses for all  babies who would be named Columba this year. Both parents have decided they will name the baby Columba.
Thank you so much for all your prayers ALLELULIA ALLELUIA!!!   

[Patricia]

Wonderful!! and Congratulations!
Columba , what a pretty name. Never heard of this saint. Looks like you have a good traditional priest.

[Shin]

Hi ALL,
Good News!!  My daughter gave birth to a baby boy at 3:15 this afternoon. Both mother and baby well. It was a long drawn out affair but thank God for all ending so well. This is the centenary year of the founding of St Columba's Church here in derry. The local Priest offered a novena of Latin Masses for all  babies who would be named Columba this year. Both parents have decided they will name the baby Columba.
Thank you so much for all your prayers ALLELULIA ALLELUIA!!!    

Alleliua Jesus! Wonderful! Splendid!   May angels usher the little one through his life!  

I have some quotes and readings of St. Columba! A great grand saint he is.

Here's a little from the Lives of the Saints about him!

'One day toward the end of his life, being alone with Diarmid, his minister (as the monk attached to his personal service was called), he cried out all at once, "The bell let the bell be rung instantly!" The bell of the modest monastery was nothing better than one of the little square bells made of beaten iron, which are still shewn in Irish museums, exactly similar to those which are worn by the cattle in Spain and the Jura. It was enough for the necessities of the little insular community. At its sound the monks hastened to throw themselves on their knees around their father. " Now," said he, "let us pray -- let us pray with intense fervour for our people, and for King Aidan; for at this very moment the battle has begun between them and the barbarians." When their prayers had lasted some time, he said, "Behold the barbarians flee! Aldan is victorious!"

The barbarians against whom Columba rang his bells, and called for the prayers of his monks, were the Anglo Saxons of Northumbria, who were still pagans, and whose descendants were destined to owe the inestimable blessings of Christianity to the monks of lona, and the spiritual posterity of Columba.

According to Scotch national tradition, the new King Aidan was consecrated by Columba upon a great stone, called the Stone of Fate. This stone was afterwards transferred to Dunstaffnage Castle, the ruin of which may be seen upon the coast of Argyll, not far from Iona; then to the abbey of Scone, near Perth; and was finally carried away by Edward I., the stern conqueror of Scotland, to Westminster, where it still serves as a pedestal for the throne of the kings of England on the day of their coronation.

. . . Let us listen while his biographer tells how he came to the aid of a woman in extremity . . . One day at Iona he suddenly stopped short while reading, and said with a smile to his monks, " I must go now and pray for a poor little woman who is in the pains of childbirth, and suffers like a true daughter of Eve. She is down yonder, in Ireland, and reckons upon my prayers, for she is my kinswoman, and of my mother's family." Upon this he hastened to the church, and when his prayer was ended, returned to his brethren saying, "She is delivered. The Lord Jesus Who deigned to be born of a woman has come to her aid; this time she will not die."

. . . One day while labouring in his evangelical work in the principal island of the Hebrides, the one which lies nearest to the mainland, he cried out all at once, "My sons, today you will see an ancient Pictish chief, who has kept faithfully all his life the precepts of the natural law, arrive in this island; he comes to be baptized and to die." Immediately after, a boat was seen to approach the shore with a feeble old man seated in the prow, who was recognised as the chief of one of the neighbouring tribes. Two of his companions took him up in their arms and brought him before the missionary, to whose words, as repeated by the interpreter, he listened attentively. When the discourse was ended the old man asked to be baptized; and immediately after breathed his last breath, and was buried on the very spot where he had just been brought to shore.'

- The Lives of the Saints

     

[Patricia]

Interesting!

[martin]

That is a wonderful quote. He is the patron Saint of derry and he once said concerning the Oak Grove where the church now stands, " There is an angel on every leaf."
On His feast day 9th june, there is a Eucharistic procession through the streets and every Catholic in derry wears an oak leaf.