Prayer ping !
Your will be done, Oh Lord. Bless the Holy Father and keep him comfortable.
Here's to you, Pope John Paul.
Love,
A Lutheran.:)
I pray for the health of the Pope, for the Catholics he leads and for the hand of God in the selection of the new Pope if it comes to that.
This Pope has been a terrific leader for this church, he fought communism, humanism and against moral relativism.
He is the right Pope for the times he has served and I pray we get him for a bit longer time.
This is my favorite prayer from the Mass, and is helpful in times of uncertainty:
Deliver us, Lord, from every evil and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on the faithful.
For he knows how we are formed, remembers that we are dust.
Our days are like the grass; like flowers of the field we blossom.
The wind sweeps over us and we are gone; our place knows us no more.
But the LORD'S kindness is forever, toward the faithful from age to age. He favors the children's children
of those who keep his covenant, who take care to fulfill its precepts.
Psalm 103:13-18
In your kindness, O Lord, visit the sick,
and in your mercy, heal the afflicted.
Grant wholeness of body and soul
to all who suffer from illness and grief,
and seek compassion and mercy from you.
Praise be to you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
now and forever. Amen.
Prayers for our Holy Father
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The Holy Father has my prayers.
I'm not a Catholic, but will pray for the Pope, in the name of Jesus.
Words written by John Paul II on the sick:
"Doctors, nurses, chaplains and all other hospital staff:
yours is a noble vocation.
Remember it is Christ to whom you minister in the sufferings
of your brothers and sisters....
May God bless and comfort all who are sick.
May Jesus Christ, the savior of the world and healer of the sick,
make His light shine through human weakness
as a beacon for us all."
Pope John Paul II
""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!!!
Prayers offered for this loving and faithful servant.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.