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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 June 1, 2007 ************************************************** ++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR Hi, Everyone, How are you doing in your efforts to help your loved one(s) return to the practice of the Faith? Believe me, I understand that some of you feel as if you have been praying forever, I understand that you are sometimes tempted to believe nothing will ever change, I understand that things may even seem to be getting worse instead of better. I do understand. And so do many of those in this group who are praying together with you for your loved ones and for theirs. When these feelings and thoughts arise, that is the time for us to fight against them. How do we do that? Where will we ever get the strength? Lets think back to the time after the Ascension. What did the apostles do after Jesus left them? They, too, were tired and afraid. So scared that they hid from the world. But, then the Holy Spirit came and they flung open the doors, ran into the streets and proclaimed the Word to anyone who was close enough to hear their voices! Wow! If we could just get the Holy Spirit the way the apostles did! Well, guess what! You already have! The spirit of the Lord came upon you the moment you were baptized. When you were confirmed you received those gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of these gifts, They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations. We CAN renew our commitment to persevere in prayer. We HAVE what you need. All we have to do is ask the Spirit to help us follow through. Lets add one little prayer to our daily words: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in us the fire of Your Love. Let me know what happens. 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 prodigal 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 our prodigals to find the truth and return to the Lord and His church. "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation." ~Isaiah 12: 2 .. WORDS OF HOPE
I commend to Mary "Queen of the family" all the world's families, especially those that are encountering serious difficulties, and I invoke her motherly protection upon them. ~John Paul II, Papal Message, the Angelus, Dec 29, 1996 .. WISH LIST +Stamps .. FYI + It is almost time for the next newsletter to be printed and mailed. --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. --If you would like to receive the printed newsletter and have not sent me your postal address, please do so. --If you would like to help with the newsletter mailing, email me. +If you are looking for
help in improving your intercessory prayer for prodigals, the recording Has
Anyone Seen My Hula Hoop?, available on the Marian Mantle Website may be
helpful.
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