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THE MANTLE [Please send your prayer requests to pray@marianmantle.com or maryann@marianmantle.com] [Prayer intentions submitted to this group are shared only in the semi-weekly email update sent to members of the online prayer group. Please keep all of us and our prodigals in your prayers--just as we will pray for you.] ************************************************** Marian Mantle Prayer Group Update For May 18, 2007 ************************************************** ++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR Hi, Everyone, Please pray for all our newly formed and currently forming prayer groups as they struggle to get organized and find their own voice in our chorus of prayer partners joining together in petition for our prodigal loved ones. On the first Saturday in May, Bob and I traveled to St. Patricks in Kansas City, Kansas to present the talk titled, Be Not Afraid: John Paul II and Those Who Pray for Prodigal Catholics, in which I share quotes from the documents of the Holy Father that influenced me as the Marian Mantle Group began, and his words as they apply to those of us who pray for prodigals, as they tell us why our prodigals behave as they do, and as they explain that God calls each of ussaint and sinner aliketo follow Him. In that talk, I also shared some of the latest reports we have received telling of prodigals who have returned to the faith. Im happy to report that we had another lovely time there. Monsignor Mullen and his people welcomed us warmly. It was great to see so many old friends and visit with a few new ones. I am always so pleased when someone trusts me enough to share their heartfelt stories about a prodigal. Each story is unique, and at the same time it is the same story that each of us tellseither it is heartache over a loved one who has left the practice of the Catholic faith, or it is joy-filled gladness over a loved one who has begun to turn around and return to it. It is almost time for the next newsletter to be printed and mailed. 1. I am in real need of articles for it. If you would like to try your hand at writing, please email me for more information. Articles need be no lengthier than 500 wordsand shorter is certainly acceptable and useful. 2. If you would like to receive your copy and have not sent me your postal address, please do so. Remember I do not share your contact information with any other organization. Your privacy is respected here! 3. If you would be interested in helping with the mailing, please let me know. May we each have the perseverance in prayer of St Monica and the unconditional love of the father of the Prodigal Son. Through the Grace of God, may the time come swiftly when we, too, will proclaim, Rejoice with me! The child for whom I have prayed has come home!
Peace, MaryAnn
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.. +Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us and for our children.
+For all those unspoken
intentions in our hearts known only to us and to God, and for all previous
intentions of this list. And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind. For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well. ~Luke 12: 29-31 .. WORDS OF HOPE
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe, and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of you? Away with such unworthy doubting! Take your stand on the power and trustworthiness of your God, and see how quickly all difficulties will vanish before a steadfast determination to believe. Trust in the dark, trust in the light, trust at night and trust in the morning, and you will find that the faith which may begin by mighty effort, will end sooner or later by becoming the easy and natural habit of the soul. ~Hannah Whitehall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life .. WISH LIST +Stamps .. FYI
+MaryAnns latest talk Be Not Afraid: John Paul II and Those Who Pray for
Prodigal Catholics will soon be available on CD and cassette tape. Suggested
donation is $5.
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