SDC PRAYER
REQUESTS
Please add the following intentions to
your prayers:
Please pray for the speedy recovery of
Father George Wilkinson, who used to be at Sacred Heart and has been the host
for our SDC Annual Mass during the last three years, after being hit by a taxi
on 5/23. He had to have 70 stiches in his head.
He went home on 5/26 and was joking and recovering well. He is the
pastor of Holy Redeemer, is a widower and grandfather, and is a wonderful
priest.
Please pray for the speedy recovery
Father Joe Breighner, who had been scheduled to be the retreat master for this
year’s SDC Memorial Day Retreat and was recently hospitalized due to a
pulmonary embolism. He is home resting
and recovering.
Please pray that the Lord bears up
Father Vince O'Brien, the SDC Chaplain, and also pray for Fr. Vince's continued
strength in coping with the complications of Parkinson's disease.
Please pray that our Pope, Benedict
XVI, our Archbishop Donald, and all bishops and clergy are filled with the same
compassion in ministering to the separated and divorced that Our Lord felt for
the woman at the well when he founded our ministry.
Pray that
all children especially those bereaved children out there, that have suffered
the loss of a parent and also a step-parent by divorce, will heal with their
grief and their loss of love. And that all anger will release from
the biological parent not to use their children as a form of revenge to
the other parent.
Please pray that those of us who are
separated and divorced are able find the compassion necessary in our hearts to
forgive our spouses and ourselves for the rending of our homes and families.
Please pray for the children of
separated and divorced parents. May God provide these parents the wisdom
to always put the feelings of their children and their futures first.
Please pray for all young widows and
for their children. May God give them the strength to deal with the
unexpected loss of their beloved spouses and remind them of His love and
special compassion for them and their children.
Please pray especially for all of our
Service men and women overseas who are going through the added trial of
separation and divorce that the Lord may bring them comfort and that they may
find understanding and compassionate friends.
Please pray for all of the separated
and divorced who are unemployed, that they may find work that fully utilizes
their skills and justly compensates them.