**Vanity ~ A favor: please add my friend's son to your prayer list, terminal melanoma

3-5-07

[STARWISE]

I'm punched in the gut with shock. I was just told that the 28 yr. old son, an only child, of one of my co-workers is in the ICU with terminal melanoma. One of his lungs is already filled with a tumor.

I knew something was afoot, but we never found a moment alone for her to tell me the last time I saw her (I work from home and she's at the office). She kept it very private .. until she couldn't anymore.

I would be most grateful for prayers for Mike and his family. Dear Lord, I just can't get past this is in my mind. 28 yrs. old.

Sweet Jesus, please ... if it's Your will, I pray to you for healing of this terrible affliction in Mike, bring Your comfort and help to Mike and his docs in this struggle. Please bring Your tender mercies, the shelter of Your comfort and peace to Mike and his loving family, whatever Your will. Amen

[fatima]

This prayer was written by Father Larry J.Hess .

[Wandaroos]

Mike and his family will be in my thoughts & prayers during this time.

[khnyny]

Prayers for Mike and his family. May God help them and bless them.

[GreenHornet]

Mike and his family are in my prayers this evening.

[STARWISE]

Bumping prayers for Mike .. this is not a good day.

Lord, grant him Your peace and mercy, comfort his grieving
family.

[mystery-ak]

Prayers for dear Mike and his family....I cannot imagine what they are going through.

[STARWISE]

Thank you so much, Nancy ... it's bad. I don't know how they'll get through this. He's the light of her life.

[Kitty Mittens]

We Come to You, Abba-Father, our God Who Loves and Who Cares. Our Merciful Lord, we Pray Thy Comfort will Drop Down Like Rain; Shower Mike, O God, with Thy Spirit and Thy Peace. Please Grant him Strength, my King, and Ease Any Discomfort and Pain. Our Compassionate Father, Surround and Bathe Mike in Thy Love. Wrap him in Grace, and Grant him Thy Refreshment and Rest.

We Fervently Ask for Healing, our Shepherd, in the Holy Name of Jesus, amen.

[bray]

Lord Jesus, we pray your healing touch upon this young man. We pray that you would give him strength and comfort through this. Lord we pray your comfort and strength upon his family.

In Jesus' Holy Name,
Amen

[kitkat]

Oh, I am SO sorry. What a terrible burden for his loved ones. I'm starting praying right not for Mike.

[mystery-ak]

Dear Mary, please hear the prayers from this mother who is suffering as you did...pray to your beloved Son, Jesus, for a miracle.....Amen.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for Mike & family ~Pandora~

[Grammy]

My Holy Master, by Your grace and mercy, glorify Yourself in this whole situation. You are the only One who is due honor and glory and worship. You are the only One who is Holy. You are the only One who is good. Make known Your goodness for Your name's sake oh Lord. Love Mike right up into Your presence and touch him Father. In Jesus name.

[Coleus]

Novena To  St. Peregrine
Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine, you answered the divine call with a ready spirit, and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease and all the empty honors of the world to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother.  You labored manfully for the salvation of souls. In union with Jesus crucified, you endured painful sufferings with such patience as to deserve to be healed miraculously of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand.

Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God and to fulfill His will in all the events of life. Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men.  Deliver Mike from the infirmities that afflict his body.     Obtain for Mike also a perfect resignation to the sufferings it may please God to send him, so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother, I may merit eternal glory in heaven.  St. Peregrine, pray for us and for all who invoke your aid.

St. Peregrine was born in 1260 at Forlì, Italy to an affluent family. He lived a comfortable life as a youth, and politically opposed the papacy.  After he experienced the forgiveness of St. Philip Benizi, he changed his life and joined the Servite order.  He was ordained a priest, and later returned to his home to establish a Servite community.  There he was widely known for his preaching, penances, and counsel in the confessional.  He was cured of cancer, after he received a vision of Christ on the cross reaching out His hand to touch his impaired limb.  He died in 1345 and was canonized in 1726.  He is the patron of cancer patients.

Prayer to Saint Peregrine

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called "The Mighty," "The Wonder-Worker," because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you.  For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fibre of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favoured with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady, the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you.  (Pause here and silently recall the names of the sick for whom you are praying)  Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now and for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness and mercy.  Amen.

[Atticus]

Prayerful bump. I am praying for a complete cure and for comfort to Mike and his family as they struggle with this terrible disease.