Prayer Thread -praying for the Pope

Knitting A Conundrum

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Please join me in prayer for John Paul II. I am asking that we don't bicker, just pray on this thread. God bless.

Lord, You invite all who are burdened to come to You. Allow your healing hand to heal your servant, John Paul. Touch his soul with Your compassion for others. Touch his heart with Your courage and infinite love for all. Touch his mind with Your wisdom, that his mouth may always proclaim Your praise. Most loving Heart of Jesus, bring him health in body and spirit that he may serve You with all his strength. Touch gently this life which You have created, now and forever. Amen.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on the sick and dying.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

Prayers going up!!! Please everyone, this is very serious, far moreso than the media is saying. End stage Parkinsons causes severe respiratory problems, and the cause of death is often secondary respiratory infections. Read the Vatican statement:

""The flu condition that has afflicted the Holy Father for the past three days deteriorated tonight with an acute laryngospasm. For this reason, it was decided to urgently take the Pope to the Gemelli hospital," a Vatican statement said.

Laryngospasm is a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs.

Then read this summary about Parkinson's respiratory complications:

All of the parkinsonian syndromes are associated with excess morbidity and mortality from respiratory causes, and all can produce the pattern of pulmonary function impairment consistent with neuromuscular disease. In addition, the parkinsonian syndromes can produce upper airway obstruction and abnormalities of ventilatory control, both of which can be life-threatening in those with MSA. The medications used to treat these disorders can also produce respiratory disease. A syndrome of L-dopa-induced respiratory dysfunction has been described, which may be a heterogeneic disorder of choreiform movements of the respiratory muscles, rigidity-akinesis of the respiratory muscles, or abnormal central control of ventilation, all related to the drug. In addition, the ergot-derived dopamine agonists can cause pleural and pulmonary fibrosis.

Obviously, the Pope's case of the flu is severely complicated by the respiratory effects of his Parkinsons. He needs our prayers urgently!!!

[Gerish]

Prayers offered for this loving and faithful servant.

[Judith Anne]

Informative post, thanks from all of us. I know about it from nursing end-stage Parkinson's patients; a lot of times pneumonia results from difficulties in swallowing (aspiration pneumonia) and the coughing causes laryngeal edema and sometimes spasm...I have a very sad feeling about this illness of the Holy Father, and I wonder if it is his time...

Of course, he is a strong man, even in his frailty, and he may surprise us all--that is my earnest prayer, and my fondest wish...

[socialismisinsidious]

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on the sick and dying.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired then with confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother! To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen

[AlbionGirl]

"Behold a great priest, who in his days pleased God. There was not any found like to him, who kept the law of the Most High."

Dear Lord, if it be your will, invigorate the health of Pope John Paul II. Lengthen his days yet a while, for we need him still.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

I know about it from nursing end-stage Parkinson's patients; a lot of times pneumonia results from difficulties in swallowing (aspiration pneumonia) and the coughing causes laryngeal edema and sometimes spasm...I have a very sad feeling about this illness of the Holy Father, and I wonder if it is his time...

A dear friend, an internal med doctor, saw the Pope in October. He said his breathing was already labored like end stage Parkinson's, and given his extensive experience with Parkinsons, he felt the Pope would succomb to respiratory failure or secondary infection within 6 to 12 months. I fear he was right.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Dear Friends, I am going to go to our church where there is adoration going on, where I will be praying the Divine Mercy chaplet. Please join your prayers with mine some more as I bring them to our dear Lord for his servant John Paul. Thank you for joining with me.

[Tribune7]

prayer bump

[Judith Anne]

Hail Holy Queen, mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to you do we send up our sighs, weeping and mourning in this vail of tears. Turn, then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of Mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

[B-Chan]

Dear Mother of God,

Keeping in mind your mediation at Cana between our Lord and us, His children in need, we humbly ask that you add your prayers to our own to your good Son Jesus for the recovery, good health, and long life of your humble and suffering servant our Pope John Paul II. Strengthen his faith and soothe his pains during this trial. Speed the hands of the physicians and nurses with whom you have entrusted your servant's care and make efficacious their ministrations. Dear Lady of Lourdes, please guide him and us to the bubbling Spring of healing water that is Christ our Lord; present to Him our humble repentance for our sins; and, through the superabundancee of Grace you possess as the Immaculate Conception, intercede for the eternal soul of our Pope and the souls of all human beings both now and when our appointed hour of death comes at last. In these things we affirm our heartfelt acknowledgement that the Will of thy divine Son, Jesus Christ, our King and Lord, be done. Dear Saint Joseph, Patron of the Church Universal, pray for us sinners. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Lady of Vietnam, Guadelupe and Czestochowa, pray for us sinners. We ask these things in the name of Jesus, Creator and King of the Universe, Who together with the Father and Holy Ghost is One God, now and forever.

[B-Chan]

That was sweet. Gipper. May God bless you.

[Judith Anne]

O clement, o loving, o sweet Virgin Mary, please pray for us, so that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

Dear Friends, I am going to go to our church where there is adoration going on, where I will be praying the Divine Mercy chaplet.

I'll be doing likewise at 10:00pm. Thank you for posting and guiding this thread.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=3&story_id=26208


Vatican denies pope on life-support
Posted 08:29am (Mla time) Feb 02, 2005
By
Agence France-Presse


ROME--The Vatican denied speculation early Wednesday that flu-stricken Pope John Paul II, hospitalized hours earlier, had been put on a life-support machine.

"He is not in reanimation," said papal spokesman Joaquim Navarro-Valls, adding that the 84-year-old pontiff was being cared for by his medical team in a special room on the 10th floor of Rome's Gemelli hospital.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Thank you for the ping.

I appreciate it.

God's will be done.

-G.J.P.(Jr.)