I received quite a few notes about prayers from you readers for my mother in Florida. Where she is was much affected, very badly. There were multiple deaths, huge damage all around and the power is still out.
The issue was tornadoes. Many and, at least one, massive. I saw horrifying video of the one that hit her neighborhood. I saw via fakebook photos of a street two blocks from my mom’s place with water up to the mail boxes.
I got a message from her that she had gone to stay with a friend (with a generator) and they weathered the storm. There was no damage to her house. Sections of her fence were blown out.
It seems that all is otherwise intact.
Under another post there was a comment from a reader who is a meteorologist about storms and prayer. HERE The parish priest prayed and had a procession against the storm. It inexplicably split and went around the parish.
I had the exact same experience once in Wisconsin when a storm bank with tornadoes was barreling down on my exact location, as indicated on the TV coverage with radar, right down to the addresses and time stamps. I went onto the porch, put on my stole, and recited the Litany with the prayers against the storm. Back inside, I watched as a baffled weather man said that the storm had split. The really bad went to the south and to the north around me. I’ve recounted this before.
Also, just a while ago, I wrote of an Italian priest who used the older ritual against a flood and it subsided, BAM!
When I say that bishops and priests should pray with the Litany, I mean it.
Thank you for your prayers. Please keep them going, now for those with losses and for the safety of those who must deal with the aftermath.
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Your mother is in my prayers daily. I’m glad her house was saved and she was OK.
Prayers work for fires, too. The Thomas fire outside of Santa Paula, California, was a fat, intense fire. My husband and I were coming back to the city when we saw the blaze. We immediately went to a friend’s home and said one Rosary in petition and one in thanksgiving.
A couple of days later, as soon as it was safe, I dropped my husband off as far as I could drive in, and he hiked the rest of the way to our ranch. Both houses were untouched. All the livestock and the two livestock guardian dogs were alive (a miracle that will need a separate telling).
The fire had gone around Thomas Aquinas College, the Orthodox monastery between us and the college, and our two houses. It did burn down a house between us and the monastery, house on the other side of us, and houses across the creek and across the highway.
I firmly believe the two Rosaries saved our place, and the prayers of those in the college and the Orthodox nuns saved their structures.
We are now facing a wildfire here in Wyoming that threatens our home and livestock. We pray and have many others praying for containment and safety for all.
God’s will be done.
Thank you for the update Father, glad to hear this and thank you God for protecting ‘Momma Z’! LOL! Further proof of the power of prayer and that with God anything is possible. I’m still praying for everyone in the US from up here in Canada with all you’re going through in so many parts of the county.
Great news on your mom, praise God! Prayers continue for the people still dealing with the aftermath.
Thank God for the good news about your mother and her home! Seeing the news coverage and damage made me cry and pray more for all those affected. As one of your readers said yesterday, Father, we are in the midst of chastisement, and the good suffer with the bad. Powerful prayers are needed, and may those who are spiritually blind, see the truth soon!
“I got a message from her that she had gone to stay with a friend (with a generator) and they weathered the storm. There was no damage to her house. Sections of her fence were blown out.”
Deo Gratias!
So glad to hear your Mom is OK! You are both in our prayers, as well as all those devastated by Milton and Helene.
Saw this info noted just about the end of a very long Fox News story:
“Due to the overall weather pattern, which was a bit unusual for October, upper-level winds helped to broaden the hurricane’s width in the moments before landfall but also led to substantial weakening”.
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/hurricane-milton-landfall-florida-storm-surge-power-outages
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So glad to hear that your mother is doing ok, after all those tornadoes. Thank God.
I’m glad your mom fared well. If she needs anything let me know -one old LEO to another.
Our diocesan vocations director opened his home to our bishop and he also had a holy hour and exposition at the water’s edge and a benediction asking the Lord to calm the waters and Our Lady to keep us safe.
https://catholicreview.org/ahead-of-hurricane-milton-st-petersburg-priest-checks-in-with-neighbors/
Glad to hear Mom is safe.
This has been an eventful year for my family – a neighborhood fire that stopped a few yards before our property line and two tornadoes on the same day which turned just before reaching the house. With the fire I was the only one to grab the Rosary. When the tornado came my husband joined me, having learned prayer can literally move mountains.