SaveLiberty, I wish you & your parents the best of luck and all of God's divine grace to guide your docs & OR team during your surgery & to protect the three of you tomorrow and throughout your recovery & rehab!
I just looked up at Catholic Online for a traditional prayer & found this for any of the RC's reading this & participating in Dolly's initiative here:
Prayer Before Surgery
Loving Father, we entrust SaveLiberty to your care this day; guide with wisdom and skill the minds and hands of the medical people who minister to her in your Name, and grant that every cause of her illness be removed, she may be restored to soundness of health and learn to live in more perfect harmony with you and with those around her. Through Jesus Christ. Amen. Into your hands, I commend her body and her soul. Amen.
Is there anybody else here more fluent in RCism than I who might know who the patron saint for head/brain surgery might be? This morning I'll email my Mom ( who is... um...er, more devout than I, lol) to ask her if there's a traditional intercessor for that particular cause. Maybe it's not theologically correct, but I always just use my old childhood stand-by St. Anthony as my designated hitter/go-to-guy for extra firepower anyway. Couldn't hoit, I figure. ;-)
((((Godspeed, SaveLiberty!)))) We love ya!
(((Hugs))))
Thank you so very much, leilani! I love you all right back!
I am overwhelmed by your moving post. Thank you once again!
I don’t know who the patron saint of head surgery would be, but your prayer is beautiful!
:)
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