Posted on 09/23/2006 5:32:40 PM PDT by Hi Heels
prayers continue
Prayers for you, Zacs Mom, and for your family.
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Zacs Mom, I'm praying for you. I'm asking God for a miracle. God's protection and healing for Zacs Mom...God's comfort for her family and friends.
Blessings,
trussell
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Thanks for the ping, bitt.
Prayers continued for comfort from the Lord for your family.
Amen to your heartfelt prayer.
My prayers for you and those around you.
prayers for healing and comfort for you and yours.
Isaiah 53:5
Prayers for God's blessings on you and your family, Zacs Mom.
Very sad. Prayers sent for Joan and for Tom and the rest of her family.
My prayers are with you and all whose hearts are heavy with worry. May God remain at your side, providing comfort, peace, and strength.
Praise the Lord Jesus for his miracles. For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, now and forever, Amen.
Prayers and best wishes for ZM and Tom and their family!
Heartfelt prayers.
Excellent and wonderful news! More prayers for ZM and family.
Prayers Continuing for Joan and Tom, in our Savior's Holy Name.
This excerpt from her writings (Ad medicum Castillo: edit. L. Getino, La Patrona de America, madrid 1928, pp. 54-55) extolls the beauty of divine grace and is used in the Roman Office of Readings on her feast day, August 23.
Our Lord and Savior lifted up his voice and said with incomparable majesty: “Let all men know that grace comes after tribulation. Let them know that without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. Let them know that the gifts of grace increase as the struggles increase. Let men take care not to stray and be deceived. This is the only true stairway to paradise, and without the cross they can find no road to climb to heaven”.
When I heard these words, a strong force came upon me and seemed to place me in the middle of a street, so that I might say in a loud voice to people of every age, sex and status: “Hear, O people; hear, O nations. I am warning you about the commandment of Christ by using words that came from his own lips: We cannot obtain grace unless we suffer afflictions.
We must heap trouble upon trouble to attain a deep participation in the divine nature, the glory of the sons of God and perfect happiness of soul”.
That same force strongly urged me to proclaim the beauty of divine grace. It pressed me so that my breath came slow and forced me to sweat and pant. I felt as if my soul could no longer be kept in the prison of the body, but that it had burst its chains and was free and alone and was going very swiftly through the whole world saying:
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! Without doubt they would devote all their care and concern to winning for themselves pains and afflictions. All men throughout the world would seek trouble, infirmities and torments, instead of good fortune, in order to attain the unfathomable treasure of grace. This is the reward and the final gain of patience. No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men”.
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