A priest in our diocese has gone missing.  He is one year away from retirement and had traveled to his retirement house in Mexico.  The house has been ransacked and they found some blood.  It is not looking good.  Please pray for this holy man. 

Please keep Ben’s cousin, John, in your prayers.  He deployed to Iraq a couple of weeks ago.  As a helicopter pilot, his job is one of the more dangerous ones.  And, after all, he is a Marine.  He really needs our prayers.  😉

Please pray for this little girl.

Please pray for my friend, Emily, who has lost her little one at 18 weeks.  Another little angel, Mark Alexander, is now watching over this lovely mother and her sweet family.

Margaret needs your prayers.  Please storm heaven for her and her wee one.  My husband’s great uncle, Richard, has been asleep for the past 24 hours.  He’s not yet slipped into a coma, but Ben’s Aunt Vivian feels the end is near.  Please pray for a peaceful death for this wonderful Jesuit priest who I…

Please pray for Uncle Richard.  He is Ben’s great uncle and a priest.  A few months ago, he had surgery to amputate his hand because of cancer.  They did not get it all.  It has spread throughout his body and he only has a short time left.  He has moved into hospice care and will…

Alice’s mother needs some prayers.  Please pray for Alice’s mother, Alice and her family.

My nephew, Michael, has a staph infection in his knee.  He had an allergic reaction to the first round of antibiotics.  They gave him a different kind but if he doesn’t respond to it, he will have to have IV antibiotics.  This evening he is in the hospital.  They had to lance the wound.  Please…

My friend Jennifer sends this update on her husband: Steven called at 1:10 pm today.  He is doing as well as he can.  He has significant hearing loss.  He will be starting some Combat Stress classes as he is not doing well mentally with what has happened.  There were some that lost limbs and then…