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Bunches left this prayer request in the Spurgeon chapel today: "Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:06:25 PM · 2 of 3 bunches to alpha-8-25-02 I respectfully request prayers from my Freeper friends. I have breast cancer and am undergoing a mastectomy tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. (Arizona time). I believe it is Stage II but it is also in the aggressive category. I read FreeRepublic daily and think the world of all the folks I have met here. If you could think of me tomorrow morning and say a prayer, I would be most grateful. Bunches." Please hold our dear bunches up...

December 16, 2009                               Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25 I am the LORD, there is no other;I form the light, and create the darkness,I make well-being and create woe;I, the LORD, do all these things.Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above,like gentle rain let the skies drop it down.Let the earth open and salvation bud forth;let justice also spring up!I, the LORD, have created this. For thus says the LORD,The creator of the heavens,who is God,The designer and maker of the earthwho established it,Not creating it...

The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. James 5:16 [amp]

The Rev. Oral Roberts, the internationally known television evangelist and faith healer who founded Oral Roberts University, died Monday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was ­91. According to a release, his son, Richard, and daughter, Roberta, were at his side. Funeral services are pending. The often-controversial charismatic minister built Oral Roberts University, the now-closed City of Faith Medical and Research Center and the University Village Retirement Center in Tulsa.

Please remember my Aunt Mary in your prayers. She is 82 and has been wheelchair bound and in increasingly frail health for several years with respiratory problems. Two days ago she fell and broke her sternum and took a turn for the worse, and is in the hospital, refusing to take any food because she doesn't want to go on this way anymore. Three of her four children have been able to visit her to say goodbye, but the fourth, who lives in Atlanta, had her flight grounded yesterday and is going to drive all the way to the Chicago...

My niece Hilary, age 35, is undergoing surgery this coming Thursday to remove a tumor from below her clavicle (collar bone). The good part is that the tumor is benign -- thank God -- but it will be tricky for the surgeon because of the potential for damage to surrounding nerve tissue. Please pray for Our Lord to guide the hands of Hilary's doctors. My brother Ed also needs our prayers. He uderwent surgery about 6 weeks ago for a torn rotator cuff and some other damage resulting from an auto accident. He appears to have nerve damage that has...