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Asking for Prayers for My Grandson's Baptism
The Prayer List ^ | March 5, 2009 | Bigg Red

Posted on 03/05/2009 7:27:44 AM PST by Bigg Red

My dear grandson is receiving the holy sacrament of Baptism this Sunday. I ask for your prayers for his blessing, but I ask you to also pray for his father, my son, to fully receive God's grace. Although I raised him in the faith, my son has been away from the faith since his late teens.

The act of choosing to have his first child baptized, I pray, is my son's first step in coming back to the fold rather than just a social event.


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To: Bigg Red

9 Yrs ago a I was talking to a young lady, she had nominally been raised a Catholic and had had her first son baptized but through our conversation decided to baptize her other 2 children. We ended up going through RCIA together and all 3 of her children have been altar servers, in fact, the 2 youngest just served at the ordination of our new priest.

For many baptism of their children becomes the catalyst for deepening their own faith, so he’s on the right track.

Prayers.


21 posted on 03/05/2009 5:39:19 PM PST by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: Bigg Red

May the Holy Spirit continue to do what he has always done: surprise everybody and bring to life dead bones.


22 posted on 03/05/2009 5:41:16 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Bigg Red

Praying for a wonderful Sunday for your family!


23 posted on 03/05/2009 5:59:08 PM PST by mojo114
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To: Bigg Red
Prayers offered for your grandson and your entire family -- and may you all receive God's blessings through this marvelous event!

And in a very special way, may your infant grandson help lead your son back to the faith that would enrich both of their lives so greatly.

24 posted on 03/05/2009 6:10:46 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers for HOPE for your son and grandson! God Bless.


25 posted on 03/05/2009 6:14:37 PM PST by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: Bigg Red
Prayers up for your grandson and your whole family.

Notre père, qui êtes aux cieux!
Que votre nom soit sanctificié. Que votre règne vienne.
Que votre volonté soit faite, sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donnez-nous aujourd'hui notre poindre ce jour.
Pardonnez-nous nos offenses, comme nous pardonnons aussi a ceux, qui nous ont offensés,
et ne nous soumetez pas à la tentation, mais délivrez-nous du mal.
Car c'est à toi qu'appartiènne, le régne, la puissance et la gloire, pour les siècles des siècles.
Amen.

Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâces,
le Seigneur est avec vous, vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes,
et Jésus le fruit de vos entrailles est béni.
Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu, priez pour nous pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant, et à l'heure de notre mort. Ainsi-soit-il.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

26 posted on 03/05/2009 6:31:53 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Bigg Red
Prayers up.

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27 posted on 03/05/2009 6:45:55 PM PST by tioga
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers on the way!


28 posted on 03/05/2009 11:29:51 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (May Obama go the way of my ex-governor Blagojevich.-- and soon!)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers are up.


29 posted on 03/06/2009 4:04:04 AM PST by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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To: Bigg Red

This is wonderful news (choosing to baptize the child,) Bigg Red, and I hope you take great encouragement from it.

I will pray that your son comes back to the Church, as I once did.


30 posted on 03/06/2009 4:53:37 AM PST by PhatHead
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To: Bigg Red

I will pray. When our daughter was baptized my husband held her as the water was poured. He was not Catholic. He said he actually felt something happening to him when the water was poured. He felt it was the Holy Spirit. This led him to a conversion in 1990. I will pray for the same for your son!


31 posted on 03/06/2009 4:57:34 AM PST by MomwithHope (Wake up America we are at war with militant Islam and liberalism - 2 fronts.)
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To: Bigg Red

God bless Red,

I was apostate in my early 20’s and made the journey back.

God put lots of the strangest of instruments in my way to bring this about. Sometimes I didn’t recognize God’s hand in the process until sometime later.

By the time my son was born I had come full circle. Your grandson will certainly bring your own closer to faith.

Hopefully, your daughter-in-law may be helpful throughout the process? Your son’s entire family will be the beneficiaries of his return to the Church.

The coolest thing, which I had not anticipated about becoming a father was the new insights into scripture; the reading of a son’s duty to a father in Sirach, the Prodigal Son and other scripture where the model is flipped and “you” are now the dad.

God bless the lot of you. Hope the weather holds out for a spring day.


32 posted on 03/06/2009 5:10:54 AM PST by incredulous joe
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To: Salvation

Please keep in your prayers my friend L, that she finds a good man to love her and marry her.


33 posted on 03/06/2009 6:23:49 AM PST by Infidel Heather (I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!)
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To: Bigg Red

Prayers for God’s blessings.


34 posted on 03/06/2009 7:53:38 AM PST by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Bigg Red
Prayers for your son. It's easy to forget about the Lord when your young irresponsible and believe yourself to be immortal. Something about parenthood and all that entails matures most young adults to look beyond tomorrow.
35 posted on 03/06/2009 9:25:41 AM PST by mimaw
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To: Salvation

Thank you, FRiend. My son and I had a good conversation about this on Sunday. The Baptism was wonderful.


36 posted on 03/10/2009 10:29:24 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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To: tiki

Great outcome for that family. Thank you for sharing that story and for your prayers.


37 posted on 03/10/2009 10:30:46 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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To: Bigg Red

Very happy to pray for blessings for your wonderful grandson and your son, on this very holy day.


38 posted on 03/10/2009 10:31:46 AM PDT by Judith Anne
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To: Mad Dawg

Thank you for your prayers. Loved the image.


39 posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:12 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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To: mojo114; Alberta's Child

Thank you for your prayers. The Baptism was just perfect, and I am full of hope for my son and his family.


40 posted on 03/10/2009 10:34:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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