Catholics

DAY 9 June 9th
The Lord will set me free and rescue me because He loves me. Prayer: Gracious Father, I will thank You each day for Your merciful goodness to me. With Your help I will ever praise Your kindness in my trouble. Please assist me now as I faithfully follow Christ, my Savior, and call upon the friendship and intercession of Saint Francis of Assisi, by granting my petition (mention your request). Amen.
Your offering today: In gratitude, be good to others today. Conclude with the Prayer for Peace (top of page)

Theresa today is the day you have worked for so long, you and your partner Skip. So happy that your Priest is excited. It's special for them too. This novena to St. Francis has been so special too. It was my first and I was amazed at our call to action, then to forgive. Tomorrows call to action is the easiest "be good to others today".

Your welcome re: getting the novena organized, but it was easy in the sense of the meaning that this is a rare occurrence. One, that we have all our wonderful family here. Two, I believe there is a special blessing on all of us being involved in your Profession.

I hope for you both, that your families come together in celebration, and that the worries of your past with the "KIDS" are dissolved, through the blessings of tomorrow. May God , Christ, Mary, Joseph, ST. Francis, and the Holy Court of Heaven shine upon you all the days of your life. Pax et Bonum and Namaste ----Love Sheila

A beautiful Novena ..! I am so happy I participated and really felt God's Hand in this last week. I pray for miracles in all of your lives and the speedy intercession of St Francis for your intentions!

God Bless you today, Nancy Now and Theresa.

Have a blessed Weekend! 

Thank you for the Novena. Do we start another one now? I am still racked with anxiety (although I do have some periods of time when I am more accepting), and saying the prayers with all of you helps bring me some peace. I am afraid I have caused my mother to be terribly concerned, and she has offered me money to help me get by these next few months. She could not even talk to me because I think she was going to break down. She just told me not to cry and then said she had to hang up. If I end up killing my mother over stress from all I'm going through I just couldn't bear it. I must be stronger so that she is not so worried.

So anyway . . . thank you, may I have another?

Everyone I have been on vacation and still am out of town, but finally had time to sit down at the hotel tonight and get on my iPad and catch up. I went back through each days prayer I missed since June 3. Thank you all for praying together for all of us. I think of all of you and how much I want us all to be happy.



Prayers for Nancy's mother, I will check in tomorrow night for an update.



Hugs to all, thank you for a wonderful novena even though I had to play catchup



Cheri

Thank you Theresa.

Gina, I hope your prayers put you to sleep so you are not restless and in pain. I just woke up and took some more pills to get myself back to sleep. I will add some manual lymph drainage and prayer and hopefully soon be in lala land.

Tink thanks and hugs. Blessings for Ali, a small step, but I think here and all over BCO, we know that anxiety can be crippling.

Theresa--Hugs and really happy for you, a major life event.

Galsal and Cherilynn,and Sagina  hugs

Frank we are with you

Dunes as Thersa said -noodle it.

Nancy----Hold on, everyones got you and Mom in their prayers.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The priest was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the 
congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs 
to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular 
organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute. 
The substitute wanted to know what to play.
 "Here's a copy of the service," he said impatiently. "But, you'll have to 
think of something to play after I make the announcement about the 
finances."
During the service, the priest paused and said, "Brothers and Sisters, we 
are in great difficulty; the roof repairs cost twice as much as we expected 
and we need $4,000 more. Any of you who can pledge $100 or more, please 
stand up."
 At that moment, the substitute organist played "The Star Spangled Banner."
 And that is how the substitute became the regular organist!

Sisters I will post later about progress in my latest regime - going well.

take care sisters

Frank

Frank excellent news, excellent. Faith and an excellent medical team.

Michelle will be praying for Jackson.!!!!!

Sas called me to ask me to let you know that she is having computer virus problems and can't post. She is still praying and send love and hugs to you all.  Namaste.

Frank that is a funny story!!!! I have sung in church choir since I was 11 so I appreciate the humor!

Dune, wow that took me back to my childhood in the 70s - I played guitar and flute in folk mass as a kid back in those days and through the 80s. I like the music but I'm so glad we moved back to traditional hymns and Latin and renaissance polyphany and Gregorian Chant. My church choir director had published the Simple English Propers that is available for all English speaking countries in the world - we were his guinea pig church and so we have been singing those for years before they were made available. I love the beauty of the traditional music and English chant and Latin - probably b/c I grew up post Vatican 2. You miss what you never had I reckon. My mother hates it, she wants the folk mass back and I was like oh God help us all NO!!!! LOL.....to each his own ;-)

Cheri 

good thoughts and blessings to all