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Category Archives: Urgent Prayer Requests
ACTION ITEM! 15 August 2021 – World-wide Consecration to the Immaculate Heart by all TLM communities
This came by email and I warmly endorse it. The Holy Catholic Church is in an unprecedented world wide crisis. The only hope for the Faithful is a Divine intervention, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Two … Read More
URGENT: Prayers for Fr. Tim Finigan
May I ask your prayers for my dear friend Fr. Tim Finigan? He has the excellent blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity which for many years has provided a splendid witness to the Faith. Fr. Finigan is the best of men … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
ACTION ITEM! 200 Novena Participants
UPDATE: Keep it going! Some of you have told me what Novena you are using: St. Michael 10 St. Joseph 14 O.L. Perpetual Help 2 +1 54 day Rosary Novena for my pressing intentions – 3 St. Maximillian Kolbe 10 … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
Watching the chaos in Washington DC. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I’m watching various live feeds from Washington DC on this day when Congress is to/was to certify the Electoral College vote. Alarming still photos are now being broadcast of protesters on the floor of the Senate and security with guns … Read More
No live-stream Mass today, alas. Prayers requested.
Folks, I can’t do a live-streamed Mass today. I wouldn’t inflict it on you. Something is deeply wrong with the muscles in my upper back ever since the afternoon of Christmas Day. Yesterday, I got through Mass. Today… well… I’ll … Read More
UPDATE: Fr. John Hollowell – still battling a brain tumor
In February I posted about a priest with a brain tumor, Fr. John Hollowell. HERE Here is an an excerpt from an email update. He will have another MRI soon, 16 Dec. If the MRI does show a continued tumor, … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
VIDEO: Beirut blast hits church during Mass. Awful.
We should pray for the priest in this video. WATCH: Shockwave hits during mass in Beirut pic.twitter.com/ciRSkru8zM — BNO News (@BNONews) August 4, 2020
ACTION ITEM! A priest’s request for prayers – IMPORTANT UPDATE!
UPDATE 31 July 2020: GREAT news. I have in the past written about the Seven Sisters Apostolate. This is one of the best initiatives I know. I am grateful to them. I was contacted by some women who want to … Read More
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FOR A DYING PRIEST: Fr. Charles Briggs
My good friend Fr. Tim Finigan has, at his excellent blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity, a sad piece of news about a mutual friend, and a fine priest, Fr. Charles Briggs, P.P. of Chistlehurst. Fr. Briggs is the last days of … Read More
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YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS with an ACTION ITEM!
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
ACTION ITEM! COVID takes 13 Felician Sisters in one convent. Please pray for them.
There is an awful report about COVID and/or its complications striking a convent of Felician sisters in Livonia, Michigan. Beginning on Good Friday, 13 sisters have died. Many were infected and have recovered. It is hard to imagine what the … Read More
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YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST for a young priest diagnosed with ALS – #padresfight
I have sad news. Fr. Dana Christensen, a priest of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, who comments here frequently, has been diagnosed to be in the initial stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, or “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”. There is no … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests … Read More
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: Alphonse Matt, publisher of The Wanderer – R.I.P.
I have a prayer request. Mr. Alphonse Matt died on Sunday, 8 December. He was 88 years old. Al, whom I had known for many years and was was a fellow parishioner at St. Agnes in St. Paul, was the … Read More
