Another New Prayer Request for 11/16/2005

My 15 year old daughter Rebecca has a friend, Jeromy a 16 yr old boy who found out today that he has cancer of the thyroid. There will be a biopsy tomorrow, but they are 99% sure already. She's very upset by this obviously. Jeromy and she have been friends for over 10 years and are very close. Anyway please keep Jeromy in your prayers. We are terrified for this boy and my heart is breaking for Rebecca. Thanks, we appreciate it and I know Rebecca will.

Beth

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Please pray for Jeromy who is now battling cancer, he is young and in need of all your prayers. And include his family and his dear friends in your prayers as they cope with this illness and pray that Jeromy will be healed and his family and friends are given the strength to cope.

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Waiting for Your Healing

The nights become so long, Father,

as I await your gift of healing.

No matter the form in which it takes,

I accept it as from Your divine heart.

I suppose the most difficult part of this task

is waiting, Father.

I am broken, and need You to mend my physical state.

Help me have purpose while I wait;

to fill the long hours with long prayer

that I otherwise would have neglected,

if health had been mine.

Let me use this time as a tool, Father,

as I offer up what You have asked of me.

Let me recognize that You consider me capable of accepting this

as well as growing with it,

or You would never have brought it into my life.

Let me be quiet and still;

aware of the sounds of day and night,

all filled with Your life.

For the time being, I must observe life;

for tomorrow, I shall live the lessons

I have learned this day,

and in this painful night.

Amen.

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Prayer to Saint Peregrine

Dear Apostle of Emilia and member of the Order of Mary,

you spread the Good News by your word

and by your life witnessed to its truth.

In union with Jesus crucified,

you endured excruciating sufferings so patiently

as to be healed miraculously of cancer in the leg.

If it is agreeable to God,

obtain relief and cure for Jeromy

and keep us all from the dread cancer of sin.

Amen.