Gratitude for miracle granted
So this last couple of weeks have been from hell. So I decided to say a Novena . While I was praying, I started to smell the distict odor of roses and I got a clear impression in my mind of St. Therese. I prayed for her to intercede for me. I also prayed the chaplet of Divine Mercy for the nine days. I know that sometimes the answer to your prayers is a definite "no". You just have to be grateful and believe that there is a divine order to things. WELL, my faith was definitely tested yesterday. On top of all the other issues I was having last week, I got very bad news from the dentist about an issue I have been having with my teeth and the icing on the cake was that our car was impounded last night. Apparently yesterday in Vallejo, they had all of the major thoroughfares had "sobriety checkpoints". They were running everyone's licenses and registration. Even though I had some recent paperwork and receipts from the DMV with me, they said that it wasn't "in their computers" so they impounded the car anyway. They also ( in the hour I was there) pulled over at least twenty more cars.
But then...
I got an unexpected phone call from a friend that really saved my life last night. It wasn't the solution to everything, but he gave me the help I needed to get over some serious hurdles. He was full of love and compassion and generosity. My cup runneth over and for the first time in months I was able to sleep through the night.
BTW - yesterday was the ninth day of my novena ... Thank you Jesus, Thank you God, Thank you Holy Mother, Thank you St. Therese
http://www.sttherese.com/
Novena Prayer to St. Therese of the Child Jesus
O Little Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
please pick for me a rose from the heavenly garden
and send it to me as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God, today, to grant
the favors I now place with confidence in your hands.
Tell Him I will love Him each day more and more.
St. Thérèse, help me to always believe, as you did,
in God's great love for me, so that I might imitate
your "Little Way" each day. Amen.
(Say 24 "Glory be" prayer below... between the "Glory be", say,
"St. Therese of the Child Jesus, pray for us.")
Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Most Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I ask you thru the merits of St. Therese of the Child Jesus,
during the 24 years of her earthly life,
to obtain for me thru her intercession the grace (mention your request)
But then...
I got an unexpected phone call from a friend that really saved my life last night. It wasn't the solution to everything, but he gave me the help I needed to get over some serious hurdles. He was full of love and compassion and generosity. My cup runneth over and for the first time in months I was able to sleep through the night.
BTW - yesterday was the ninth day of my novena ... Thank you Jesus, Thank you God, Thank you Holy Mother, Thank you St. Therese
http://www.sttherese.com/
Novena Prayer to St. Therese of the Child Jesus
O Little Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
please pick for me a rose from the heavenly garden
and send it to me as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God, today, to grant
the favors I now place with confidence in your hands.
Tell Him I will love Him each day more and more.
St. Thérèse, help me to always believe, as you did,
in God's great love for me, so that I might imitate
your "Little Way" each day. Amen.
(Say 24 "Glory be" prayer below... between the "Glory be", say,
"St. Therese of the Child Jesus, pray for us.")
Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.
Most Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
I ask you thru the merits of St. Therese of the Child Jesus,
during the 24 years of her earthly life,
to obtain for me thru her intercession the grace (mention your request)