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I have a prayer request for my Aunt Jan. She was in remission but her cancer is back with a vengeance, and she is in the hospital in South Bend, due to a UTI infection that has gone into her blood. Please pray for riddance of the infection so that she can go home where she wants to be. Thank you.

UPDATE …on my Aunt Jan. My Uncle called yesterday, said he went to see her and she was sitting in a chair, said hello and asked about the weather. PRAISE GOD! He said, your prayers kicked in sweetie ! I told him it wasn’t just me…so I thank you all and ask for you to continue. He said when he left the night before, he said his goodbyes and was set to plan a funeral. I told him the power of prayer can be amazing ! and he got to witness this. She’s come a long way from being incoherent to coherent…told him bet you thought I was crazy. Once she gains her strength, she’ll decide to continue with chemo due to the spread of the cancer. Peace and a Blessed Thanksgiving to all of you.

Please Pray for my daughter Sarah Findish. She is having surgery this Wednesday November 18 to have her gall bladder removed. I know it’s not a big surgery but she is really worried and anxious about it. I pray God calms her nerves and guides the surgeons hands. Thank you

Please pray for Rose Thome at Welcome Nursing Home who will have surgery on Tuesday, and for a lack of pain and a rapid recovery.

Prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Colleen Taylor who passed away at Welcome last week. A Catholic, she was receiving the weekly bulletin, and regular visits before the pandemic.

Please include in your prayers Audrey Spiros, 90 years old and blind, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Her daughter prays that she will not endure suffering.

Please pray for my cousin, John, who needs to undergo chemotherapy.

Please pray for the Holy Spirit to guide him towards seeking, asking, and knocking towards the Kingdom of Heaven. Bring him a clear mind, and content heart in the love of Jesus. May his journey through the darkness be transformative into the light of Christ, and the will of the Father.

In Jesus name

Please pray for Clay Palmer who is an active military member recently deployed to the Middle East.

Please keep the D. family in your prayers. Don died last night leaving his wife, Norma, and many children and grandchildren to grieve this loss.

The kids are heading back to daycare and we are nervous about this and all its impact for our family.

I would appreciate prayers for a special intention.

Also prayers for my granddaughter Lisa. Her best friend since 5th grade died suddenly Thursday. Prayers that Lisa has the strength to handle her grief as she tries to help the family.

please continue prayers for our family
things continue to be very very difficult…
also J will be having a procedure on his back Wednesday and they found he has several herniated discs in his lumbar and sacral area…

Please include in your prayers Joann Jenkins, who had a heart attack recently. Thanks be to God, she’s home, but she and Dave could both use prayers now.
Please also pray for my friend who was diagnosed with a serious disease, and my classmate, who’s gone into cardiac arrest three times.
Update: my cousin’s daughter, Jenny, who woke up blind in the summer, can see, at least partially. In addition, her leukemia is now under control.
Thank you all so much.

Would you please remember my friend in your prayers. She had a colonoscopy and a sample was sent in. She is waiting for the report this week, but she beat it about20 years ago – a different place. Also, a couple of my friends who are having trouble with the depression from quarantine

Please pray for my mom she’s been having stomach issues again and we fear it might be cancer coming back after 4 years cancer free. Her numbers in testing keep going up. doctor says she’s concerned and watching the test results. thank you so very much!!!!!

Please pray for Jay, a 43-year-old, who’s having a lot of health problems, including some with his heart. Thank you.

Please pray for all residents of the Welcome Nursing Home that they may remain virus free. Also remember all management and health care professionals who are maintaining the well being of everyone there.
Please pray for resident Rose Thome who is now recovering from a bad infection (not virus), a hospital stay, and pneumonia.

Sam Steinacker’s thumb continues to improve. His medical team has hope for very good healing and recovery. Thank you gor praying, please continue.

My daughter-in-law’s Uncle Remzi has been diagnosed with a quickly-progressing form of dementia. Please pray for him and his family. They’re devastated. Also, Kaitlyn, a former foster child of my daughter and son-in-law, died of an overdose; she was 19. Thank you.

Sam Steinacker’s thumb surgery has been scheduled for Tuesday the 14th.
There was some hope it would not be neccesary, but as things have progressed, this is the latest plan.
Please pray for the surgical team, for restoration of asuch if thd thumb as possible, and for healing.

*As much of the thumb*

No surgery on Sam’s thumb, as the surgeon saw improvement and healing. Please continue prayers for healing.

Please pray for Ruth and Dan Steinacker’s son Sam, husband of Amanda who was received into the Church recently. He crushed his thumb with a table saw and will be having surgery shortly. Please lift up the entire family in your prayers.

Surgery tomorrow 7/8 . Keep praying.

In appreciation and gratitude for the life of Stuart Friebert, and deepest sympathy to his devoted and loving wife, Diane Vreuls, and their children, Sarah and Stephen. May he Rest In Peace in God’s loving arms.

Update. My cousin’s daughter, Jenny, who awoke blind a few weeks ago, is now staying with her in-laws because her husband works 6 days a week. Each night, though, Jenny’s husband takes her outside for a walk. Someone else takes her for her every-other-week blood work. Thank you for your continued prayers.

Joan Spencer requested prayers for her brother-in-law, Benny — for his psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being.

Your prayers are request for Stuart who, following shoulder surgery, has suffer from complications – including double pneumonia and heart issues.

UPDATE: As of 5:30 this afternoon, they’ll be moving Stuart to hospice. Your continued prayerful support is appreciated.

Prayers, please, for my Aunt Tiny (97), who was too anxious to get to the television to watch Sunday’s 6 a.m. Mass, and she fell. She’s bruised from head to toe. Her eyes are especially blackened. Also, her granddaughter, Jenny, woke up blind recently. Jenny, 38, was then found to have leukemia. Her sight could come back … or not. Finally, my aunt’s daughter Mary has been having a really tough time with many medical problems. Thank you so much.

Update on Francel Scott, the expectant mother who was suffering from kidney stones and other problems. Baby Olivia was delivered safely, but early. She’s now doing well, but Francel is still dealing with the stones, and her family is worried that she may slip into postpartum depression. Thank you for your continued prayers.

For Jayne, who is battling lung cancer … and for her family.

June 19 UPDATE: Jayne passed and was laid-to-rest on Tuesday, June 16th. Continued prayers for her, as well as her family, are appreciated.

Update on my friend Willard. Turns out he has “high grade” bladder cancer. His doctor is confident he removed all of it, but Willard will have to go back every 3 months for check-ups. If it comes back, he can have 2 more surgeries, then injections, maybe worse. They have great trust in God and certainly appreciate all our prayers.

Please pray for a friend who has 3 aneurisms and complications from those. She’s waiting to learn if there are additional aneurisms in her brain. She had to be flown to U.H.’s trauma surgical ICU awhile back. They kept her five days. Thank you.

Please continue to pray for Juan who is still (since November 2019) awaiting (in Mexico) his immigration hearing. I am also praying for his wife & 4 children who are missing their loved one

Requesting prayers for my cousin Paul who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Please continue to keep in your prayers Francel Scott, who’s having seriously painful complications during her pregnancy. To deal with a recently-developing infection, the doctor will deliver Baby Olivia by C-section late this coming week. Two weeks after that, God willing, another doctor can take care of her additional problems. Thanks so much.

Pray that God bless, guard and guide Leah Bratton, who is graduating from high school this month.

I ask for prayers that God bless, guide and guard the seniors who are graduating from our parish: Emma and Grace James, Noelle, Nickholas, Vincenzo and Blaise Ignagni, Tyler Wakefield, and any other grad whose name I don’t know.

Please pray for my neighbor’s son-in-law, Steve, who was sent home with a fever and cough. Thank you very much.

Please pray for Henry Miiro. He has both typhoid and malaria. He lives in Uganda and is one of the kids I sponsored through his schooling (although he is an adult now)

Please pray for my friend Willard who’s having surgery May 13th. Thanks so much.

I received this note from a good friend: Our pregnant daughter-in-law Francel is having a tough time with this time around. She’s having very bad pains that turned out to be a kidney stone which would not move. She’s been hospitalized and was having contractions as well. (Baby not due until June 11.) They did a complicated procedure to put a shunt in. They will remove the stone when she goes to have the C section done. Anyway Francel is totally miserable. Please pray for her. Thank you.

Please pray for Michael Rotsaert who is 6. He is hospitalized with high fever, rash, and pain which comes and goes. He has a medical team working to figure out what he has; COVID19 has been ruled out. Please pray also for his family as they weather this with him. Thank you.

Please pray for my cousin, Maryrose, whose illness has progressed and has now requested only comfort care.

UPDATE: Please now pray for the repose of the soul of Maryrose. May she Rest In Peace.

Please pray for my cousin Mary, who’s having a tough time with Crohn’s disease. Thanks so much.

Prayers of Thanksgiving for answered prayer intentions. Also, for The Lord Jesus always letting me know that He’s with me. Finally, for very” quick healing” for one of my daughter’s illness. I really appreciate it!

I would like to offer a prayer of thanksgiving. God has graciously answered a long term prayer of mine. My heart is full of wonder at the power of prayer.

Dear Friends,

I am asking prayers for my friend Melody Wright. Her daughter Sarah has been diagnosed with Covid-19 and is struggling with its impact. Please pray for Sarah, Melody, and the entire family. Prayers are everything!

In peace, Marla

Please put my son-in-law, Ron, on the prayer chain.  My daughter Susan just left him at the ER.  Among other things, they’re going to do a chest X-ray to see if he has a fluid build-up.  They’ll also test him for the COVID virus, but the results won’t be known for 2 days.  He’s had many serious health problems over the years so he’s very susceptible to anything going around.
Thank you.
Carrol Wilhelm

UPDATE: I wanted to let all our pray-ers know that my son-in-law’s COVID test came back early, and the results were negative. He has some other issues, but he’s feeling much better, and all of us are certainly grateful for that as well as for all the prayers.

Please pray for my son-in-law, Ron Gatts. He suffers from many health problems, and now he’s in an ER with nausea, pain, possible fluid build-up, and, of course, possibly the corona virus. He’s very susceptible to anything going around. In 2 days we’ll know the results of the virus test. Thank you so much.

Please pray for Don, who is suffering medical setbacks in the midst of a slow and arduous recovery … and who has been returned to the ICU unit. Pray also for all medical professionals who are working in the midst of this pandemic.

UPDATE: After 80+ days in the hospital and rehab (each more than once), Don returned home on Friday, May 8th.

Please pray for our whole world that Jesus will wash away the virus and heal everyone who is ill. May the Holy Spirit guide the hands of all the essential workers. Please Lord keep them all safe as they do your will.

Please pray for the safety of my daughter Sarah, a hospital physician, and all who are working on the front lines.

Please pray for my daughter Jennifer and granddaughter Michelle who are both Registered nurses and other family members in essential jobs
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Please pray for my friend, Colette Beaudroux and her husband John Andreas. She’s in serious condition in the hospital, suffering from COVID-19.

I (Deacon Tom) have been trying to touch base with parishioners via telephone since COVID19 has eliminated the “face-to-face”. In these conversations parishioners have asked for prayers for the following people. Their specific need and their last names are irrelevant. But the fact that prayer has been requested should be enough that you and I will name them as we enter into prayer… Joseph, Mark, Kevin, Vincent, Rick, Rita, Jessie.