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I need prayers: my husband and I have been together since 1979. He cheated on me during my cancer treatment, left her, we bought a home and he deserted me just days later. He is an alcoholic, she is too, they are quitting together. Our family is almost destroyed. I pray, I also pray the rosary. It is getting worse. Can this be God’s will? - TL, Santa Rosa, CA
Dear Sisters, I would like you to add my brother, Gene, to the SSMI prayer list. In the last three years, he has had two colon cancer surgeries and now the cancer has spread to both his lungs. He will be starting chemo therapy again on July 20th. He is 59 years old. God bless. I’m very grateful. - Sr. LP, Calgary, AB, July 9, 2010.
Sisters, please keep Sr. Georgina in your prayers, for the healing of her shoulder from surgery, still mending from a year ago. - SSMI, Ancaster, ON, July 8, 2010.
Sisters, please keep Sr. Andrea in prayer, as she has her hip surgery today, that all go well, that God guide the surgeon’s hands, and that she be up and around in no time. - Sr. T.S., Toronto, ON, July 6, 2010. Update Sr.Andrea’s surgery went very well. She will recouperate in hospital for a few days, and then return home. Offer prayers of thanksgiving, and for continued healing.
Sisters, my sister Mary’s youngest son, Gerald, was diagnosed with a tumor in his stomach area. On Monday, they opened him up and found he was full of cancer, so they just closed him up again; otherwise, they would have had to take out all his inner organs. I am praying to Bl. Josaphata for a miracle. This is an impossible case, so if Gerald were to recover, it would indeed be a miracle. Please do pray for him. - Sr. A.S., Toronto, ON, June 6, 2010.
Please remember in prayer the soul of Lourdette, who died on Sunday, June 27, 2010, of an inoperable brain tumor. She had no close surviving family. - SSMI Ancaster, June 29, 2010.
Sisters, please pray for Melinda, a mother of seven children, from 10 months to grade 10. She is scheduled for an operation this week, to remove an aggressive cancer tumor from her left kidney. She also has spots on the lung, aorta and lymph system. Please pray that God spares this young family and bring her to full health. - CF, Calgary, AB, June 15, 2010.
Please pray for God’s continued protection for the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, and the rector. - AS, Calgary, AB, June 12, 2010.
Please pray for Joanne, who has just been diagnosed with Leukemia. - LV, W Australia, May 20, 2010.
Sisters, I would be very grateful for your prayers for the health of Pauline and Arthur. Thank you so much. - MPS, Windsor, ON, May 8, 2010.
Please pray for Zirka, Anna, Greg, Evhenia, Joe, Eva, and Anastasia for their various intentions. - LV, Australia, April 29, 2010.
Dear Friends, please say a prayer for a single mother and her daughter. They are going through a difficult time. May God show them how to make strong relationships with each other and with God which will make their lives based on Him. Thank you - with love and unity. - Windsor, ON, April 27, 2010.
Sisters, please also keep in prayer Sr. Adrianne, as she undergoes hip surgery on Monday, April 19, and Sr. Andronica, who will have cataracts removed on Thursday, April 22. Thank you! - SSMI, Winnipeg, ON, April 16, 2010. Update After some complications, Sr. Adrianne is doing much better. The completion of her hip surgery had been delayed and is still pending. Do keep her in prayer.
Dear Sisters Servants, I ask for prayers for my friend, Richard, who underwent major malignant lung surgery this morning. His sister wrote to me this afternoon with the outcome of the surgery as well as details of the difficulty and severity of the procedure. Please pray for him, as there is a lot of healing that needs to transpire. I know his family will be immensely grateful, as I am, for your prayers. - MPS, Toronto, ON, April 14, 2010.
Please pray for my young neighbour, Pat, who has just entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. He is 22 years old. This is also his first time living away from home so the emotional challenges will be great as well. He is a fine young man trying to save his life and go on to a productive future. Your prayers will be sincerely appreciated. - A.K., Ottawa, ON, April 12, 2010.
Dear Sisters, please pray to Mary Immaculate and Saint Joseph to obtain for me the grace to be fully restored to health, the grace to know my vocation in life and to prosper in that field, to be anointed by the Holy Spirit. - X.A.C, April 3, 2010.
Прошу помолитись за хворого племінника, 18–річного Володимира, в Україні. (Please pray for my sick nephew, 18-year-old Volodymyr, in Ukraine.) - Sr.TH, Edmonton, AB, March 26, 2010.
Прошу помолитись про Божу опіку і здоров’я для батька поважно хворого на рак шлунку. (Please pray for God’s tender care and for health for our father, who is seriously ill with cancer of the stomach.) - сс. ОГ і КГ, Україна, (Srs. OH and KH, Ukraine,) March 26, 2010.
Sisters, please pray for my sister, Pat, who has just been diagnosed with lymphoma, that she be given the strength to endure and respond well to treatment, if not spared it altogether by God’s merciful healing. - EG, Toronto, ON, March 16, 2010.
Sisters, please keep Sandra in prayer. She has just been diagnosed with a rare, agressive form of breast cancer, and will have a mastectomy in mid-April. Please pray that she get an earlier date for surgery, and that she respond well to treatment. - CD, Hamilton, ON, March 11, 2010.
Also keep in prayer Sr. Irene, who was seriously injured in a fall, and Sr. Dominica, for her health. - Sr. MZ, Mundare, AB, February 27, 2010.
Please keep in prayer the soul of the late Russell S., and the comforting of Millie and her family in their grief. - Sr. VK, Mundare, AB, February 27, 2010.
Dear Sisters Servants of Mary Immcaulate, please place these intentions in prayer: for powerful conversions, transformations and the end of abortion; for the Souls in Purgatory, for Priests, Religious and Consecrated. Thank you for placing all these intentions at the foot of The Blessed Virgin Mary and in the Sacred and Eucharistic Heart of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Be assured also of my prayers for you. May God bless you, your works and ministry abundantly. In Jesus and Immaculate Mother Mary always. - A.C. February 26, 2010.
Dear Sisters and Readers, with the above intentions, A.C. has offered prayers to express these intentions. Please join your voice with his on our Shared Prayers page.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of my nephew, Russell, of Calgary, Alberta, who died suddenly in his late ’40’s. Pray also for strength and consolation of his grieving parents Bill and Betty, his brother, Bill Jr. and wife and children, and our entire family. Our Dearest Russell, we love you as we miss you but we also know you are at peace with Jesus our Saviour. - Sr. DS, Mundare, Alberta, Feb. 16, 2010.
Please keep in prayer my mother, Katherine M., who was taken to emergency today. - Sr. TM, Winnipeg, MB, Feb 11, 2010. Update My mother thanks all the Sisters who prayed for her, especially during her critical few weeks. She is slowly getting back to painting, her favorite past time. Though much weakened she has some "spunk" back and awaits a follow up endoscopic proceedure June 3, to determine the cause of her bleeding. Family is also very grateful.
Please pray for the Lord to deliver me from a terrible situation. Please pray that the bank does not pursue any further action against my wife and I. Please pray that the Lord will deliver us from a terrible situation that was created by an ignorant mistake on my part, not my wife’s. Please pray that the Lord protects me and my family. Please pray that he will move the hearts of those involved to let us live in peace. Please give thanks and praise on our behalf. Thank you. - SD, Feb 6, 2010.
Please pray for Susan, for peace and reconciliation in her personal life, and her return to the Church. - WS, London, ON, Jan 29, 2010.
Please pray for Thais who is recovering from major surgery and treatment for a rare cancer. - A.G., Ottawa, ON, Jan. 20, 2010.
Please also pray for Julie, who is leaving for Haiti to co-ordinate food relief for the victims, and for her husband and baby to find comfort while she is serving on her mission. - A.G., Ottawa, ON, Jan. 20, 2010.
Please pray for Franc that God may grant him financial blessings which he urgently and seriously needs. - F.A., Dec. 27, 2009.
Please pray for my mother, Christine, 66 years old, suffering from severe colon cancer, quickly spreading to other areas. - C.H., Unity, SK, Dec 11, 2009.
Please pray for Debbie who has cancer of the throat, and has difficulty swallowing. - Sr. G., Dec. 2, 2009.
Прошу помолитись за мою родину, за здоров’я Ганни, Євгена, Наталі, Анни, Назарія, і за здоров’я Ігора. (Please pray for my family, for the health of Hanna, Eugene, Natalia, Anna, Nazarij, and for the health of Ihor.) - EK, Nov. 21, 2009
Dear Sisters, please pray for my sister, Lynn, so that she would be able to stand up to injustice in her workplace. Thanks, and God bless you all. - CM, Nov. 15, 2009
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On the decade portion of a regular rosary, the following chaplet to Blessed Josaphata may be recited:
At the medallion, to start: Blessed Josaphata, who throughout your life on earth brought help to the sick, the weak, the desperate and spiritually abandoned, hear us who pray to you.
On the small beads: Blessed Josaphata, pray for us.
On the large beads: Blessed Josaphata, who are crowned in heaven with the praise of the blessed, intercede for us before God for the grace that we so ardently plead, for the greater glory of God, honour to Mary and peace in all the world.
At the end: O blessed Josaphata, you who lived heroically your consecration as a Sister Servant of Mary Immaculate, teach us by your example to place our complete trust in God. Hear our prayer and intercede with the Most Holy Trinity to grant us the grace for which we so ardently plead, for the greater glory of God.
Blessed Josaphata, pray for us. Glory be...Amen.