Another uncle...another prayer request
My uncle Donald, the man who is married to my mother's twin sister, has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. I hear that the cancer is also in his lymph nodes. They are giving him two years. He's flying down to Texas today to start seven weeks of chemo.
This is the same side of family that just lost my uncle Jerry.
I serve a God who heals and raises the dead, but He's also a God that used suffering and death to save the world. I leave this in His hands. May He used the inevitable trials of this life conform us to the image of Christ.
So, if you pray for Donald. Pray for healing, comfort and peace...but above all pray for God's will and for whatever is best for his soul and the souls of us, his family.
"We know that there is one physician:
Both flesh and spirit
uncreated, yet born
God in man
True life in death
From both Mary and From God
Subject to suffering and then impassible
Jesus Christ our Lord!"
(from the Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians)
A Prayer To Christ the Great Physician
We ask O Great Physician, for spiritual, physical, and emotional healing, especially my intention of Donald.
You of both flesh and spirit
May we spend all of our days in your healing presence
You the eternal Son born for us
Grant us the healing benefits of your Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection
You who are true God and true man
Grant us your true life in the midst of our death
You, the true life in death
Grant us to follow your example and that of your Blessed Mother
You, from both Mary and from God
May our suffering be to our growth; free us, we pray, from that which we cannot bear
We ask You, O God the Word who became man to suffer
We ask you to grant us this healing if it brings us closer to you,
Jesus Christ our Lord!
Amen.
This is the same side of family that just lost my uncle Jerry.
I serve a God who heals and raises the dead, but He's also a God that used suffering and death to save the world. I leave this in His hands. May He used the inevitable trials of this life conform us to the image of Christ.
So, if you pray for Donald. Pray for healing, comfort and peace...but above all pray for God's will and for whatever is best for his soul and the souls of us, his family.
"We know that there is one physician:
Both flesh and spirit
uncreated, yet born
God in man
True life in death
From both Mary and From God
Subject to suffering and then impassible
Jesus Christ our Lord!"
(from the Letter of Ignatius to the Ephesians)
A Prayer To Christ the Great Physician
We ask O Great Physician, for spiritual, physical, and emotional healing, especially my intention of Donald.
You of both flesh and spirit
May we spend all of our days in your healing presence
You the eternal Son born for us
Grant us the healing benefits of your Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection
You who are true God and true man
Grant us your true life in the midst of our death
You, the true life in death
Grant us to follow your example and that of your Blessed Mother
You, from both Mary and from God
May our suffering be to our growth; free us, we pray, from that which we cannot bear
We ask You, O God the Word who became man to suffer
We ask you to grant us this healing if it brings us closer to you,
Jesus Christ our Lord!
Amen.