Prayer Request

Dear Hearts,

Please take a few minutes to offer up a prayer for a classmate, infantryman and dear friend of Jim's (Seamus the older).

Skip Clarkson needs our support. He truly believes--and is very grateful for--our prayers helped his son, Douglas, who has recovered and is doing well after a life-threatening health crisis.

In the coming weeks, Skip will undergo surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to treat colon cancer. His family is in full support mode and we have a chance to join in carrying Skip through these tough times.

Let's raise him up in prayer to help bear the burden and ease the pain of our Dear Heart. I offer this prayer through the intercession of St. Peregrine, the Patron Saint of People with Cancer:

St. Peregrine Prayer for People with Cancer

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called "The Mighty" and "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 fiber of our being, and who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more.
You were favored 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 Skip Clarkson)
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.

Thank you all.

God bless us and save us and keep us from harm.

Love, Patty