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Dear Jesus,
Please help my son in his needs and send ministering Holy Angels to work on his behalf
and help him in his conversion in his heart and mind.
Please direct me by Your Spirit, in my life, family, ministry and reveal to me where
you desire that I relocate. My life, family and ministry I surrender totally to the Blessed
Trinity through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I rejoice in You and I thank you always for hearing and answering my prayer.
Your little lamb,
Lee Anne
Dear Lee Anne, We will lift up your prayer intention at Mass tommorrow. May His loving peace and guiding hand be with you and your whole family.
Fr. Isaac Francis
Over and over again I feel rejected by others. I also feel constantly judged. I know I am a daughter of the King of Kings, but when I experience this rejection (or perceived rejection), I feel devastated, and I question my value. It puts me in a state of turmoil. I greatly desire healing; I feel it is played out not only in how I perceive that others view me, but how others perceive I view them. Others experience rejection by me when I don’t intend it. Please pray for my healing. Thank you!
Dear Amber,
One thing you can do is ask our Heavenly Father to reveal to you His love and acceptance of you. When we experience how much value He places on us just as we are then we feel less overwhelmed by the rejections of others. You can also as a Baptized Christian renounce in the name of Jesus Christ and the power of His blood shed on Calvary the evil spirit of rejection. Remember you are depending on the power of Christ to drive out what may be distorted thoughts and feelings which may come from evil spirits. Ask the Lord to fill you with His Spirit of unconditional love. We will offer your intention at Mass tommorrow.
Peace in Christ,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Amber,
Hello again. I hope you are doing better. I want to ask you a question. How was the relationship with your parents? Usually one continues to constantly feel rejected when there is a deep wound of rejection from the past that has not been healed. I am praying for you today that if there is such a deep inner wound, that Jesus will come to you with His healing love. The path to healing is a path that leads to a deep knowing that you are truly lovable. This is the truth because you have been created by God and He doesn´t make mistakes, but often we need to experience that love. This is my prayer that you may have that experience.
Shalom,
Fr. Isaac
Please pray for me, a lot of attack against me, calumny, slander, division, dissension
in relationships, lack of finances/vocation, lost and wandering in my mind and heart.
I am calling out to Abba, my Father, St. Joseph, my Mama Mary, Jesus and the Holy
Spirit and telling them, I Love them. A lot of moral/spiritual pain and suffering in my life.
Pray for me to experience the Father’s love and for Him to reveal Himself to me, but I’m
confused how He will do this? Thru St. Joseph, Jesus, Holy Spirit? Pray for my husband J.
he has “arrested development” b/c his father did not love him correctly, almost rejected him and no closure when he died suddenly. Me too, my father died suddenly without any closure when I was 12y/o.
God Bless you all,
A.
Dear A,
Your heavenly Father truly loves you dearly, but He is pure Spirit and so we have to begin by desiring him to visit us which, as you indicate in your comments, you are doing. Ask Him every day to accompany you and to reveal His love for you personally and then keep watchfull. We have to quiet our minds and hearts and reflect on our day to see how He has been active. We may see His loving face in the face of a stanger, and elderly man on the corner in the sudden knowledge of what we should do when we feel unsure. We can also sense His presence when danger comes yet we feel safe and secure. One of the greatest ways to get to know the Father is through Jesus (indeed the best way). He reveals constantly the love of the Father which we see as we read the Gospels. We can say He incarnates the love of the Father for us who would go to the Cross to save us and lead us to true peace and happiness. I will lift up your intention in Mass tommorrow which is a special day here in Peru. The feast of the “Lord of the Miracles” is a celebration which boasts the largest procession in the world. May our “Lord of the Miracles” grant you a special miracle this day.
I wish you peace in Christ´s love,
Fr. Isaac
God Bless you Fr. Issac, and keep praying for me and my husband, J.,
for the “Lord of the Miracles” to reveal and embrace us, to come into our lives (and families) suddenly, miraculously in power!!
The peace and protection of all the Angels and Saints through Jesus Christ our Lord be with you always!
Happy All Saints/Souls Day!!
A.
pls. pray for my family. my wife and i are particularly struggling. i am asking for prayers for their reversion and that i may be a better example. i have been struggling with bipolar for most of my life and i want to be a more stable presence in their lives. thank you and God bless ypu.
Dear Mike,
Varios members of my family have suffered with being bipolar. I too was diagnosed with bipolar and told to take medication for basically the rest of my life. I, however, went to the DSM-IV (the encyclopedia of mental disorders) and read up on the topic. I don´t know how much you yourself have researched the issue. What I have learned is that there two basic sources of bipolarity. One is chemical and thus treatable with medicine which gives good results where the person is more or less able to feel normal when the right dosage is found. The second is more relational and is treated by healing the deep psychological wounds and making changes in lifestyle that affect our psychology. For example if the person is working 7 days a week and is stressed out, if the person has no spiritual life (not seeking to know the God who loves us), and/or not eating well, sleeping enough, or excersizing, etc. then the person needs to change his lifestyle. Medicines cannot heal an unbalanced life. Many (legitimate) psychologists and counselors get frustrated becouse people come and waste money recieving counseling when they never put in practise the advice given to them.
My problem was that I am a perfectionist and was in a new job situation where I was not having success. Instead of being patient with myself and my defects and giving myself time to grow into the new job, I got down on myself and tried to “pick myself up by my bootstraps”, the result was depression. The cure was accepting myself as I was and getting up every day with the desire to please God by doing my best. With God´s help, with the understanding of good friends and counselors I came out of the depression. I pray that you will find the root of your bipolarity and that God will heal you in His infinite love.
Shalom,
P. Isaac
Hello to Fr. Phillip, brothers and sisters! Please pray for my husband Roger who is now disabled due to a psychiatric condition. We now live in a area where there is not a lot of charismatic groups and much less people experienced in healing/deliverence prayer.
Thanks,
Lisette
Dear Lisette,
We will lift up Roger at Mass tommorrow. Have you thought about starting your own prayer group? A small prayer group in the home can be a very powerfull experience. May God give you a warm embrace today and may this bring you His deep abiding peace.
Fr. Isaac
Please pray for all my children for their vocation in life. Also , for harmony in our family with
my 2nd oldest son. Also, for my friend who had been ill a long time she is a victim soul. The
Lord has chosen her to suffer for others. Please, pray for her that the Lord will give her strenghth when she tempted. Thank you, Adriana
We will pray for your intentions. Do you have holy water in your house and do you bless the house and invite other members of the family to pray with you (a simple Our Father) for the family? Sometimes the simplest acts can begin changes in the atmosphere. God bless you and your family with ever growing love in Christ.
Fr. Isaac
I have been a follower of Christ since I was a small child, even though my parents never went to church. I have been through many trials and have suffered much in this lifetime, but the Lord has been faithful. At 57 years old now and a single mother since 1977, I have been searching for work since Sept 2009 and unless the Lord provides miraculously I will be homeless and living in my car for the first time in my life. I worked at St Joseph Hospital Tampa Florida in administrative positions for 23 years, yet still no employers will give me a chance to make even minimum wage.
I have lead a holy, righteous lifestyle and have very high moral standards. I am afraid to go to a homeless shelter where drug addicts and other unsafe people abide. Please pray for wisdom and strength as I have many health issues as well and have no money or health insurance. The only Christians in my family have gone home to be with the Lord and the only family members left refuse to help me as they do not feel “comfortable” around me as I am a Christ follower. They would rather see me homeless than to be near a Christian.
I know that the Lord will not abandon me, but I have to admit, I am human and afraid of the future. Thank you so much for your prayers.
Dear Liz,
I will lift up your cause in prayer at Mass tommorrow. I will especially pray for the intercession of St. Joseph who was the foster father of the Son of God and made sure he was properly housed and fed. While the Holy Family went through hard times (Jesus being born in a stable, the flight into Egypt, etc.), St. Joseph had to live by faith that the heavenly Father would provide what was necessary. Helplessness and desperation were not a part of thier lives while suffering was. I will try to think if I no anywhere in Tampa where you can find housing. I believe you can find good health support at the Judeo-Christian clinic which we went to when we were living in Tampa. May God give you His peace and confidence that He will provide for His beloved daughter who has been faithfull to Him.
Shalom,
P. Isaac
Dear Fr. Isacc,
I enjoyed seeing the photo of your Thanksgiving dinner. May God bless all of you and keep you in the palm of His hand.
I do not live in Tampa anymore. I am living in Western North Carolina just south of Asheville, NC. Thank you for your prayers as the Lord leads me to complete His will in my life. Tell Fr Philip hello for me.
Pax et bonum,
Liz Myron
Dear family pray for me I have fell in love with a man who not cathloic
though he is a luthern. we want to marry he does not feel cathloic is for him
we have all ready crossed the line. so we feel preasure and guilt
Best friends for 3 years involved for 6 months we deeply in love
what is God or is it God . I am divorced from a man who was very abusive ,
no annulment can not afford one .
Sarinia
Dear Sarinia,
Blessings of grace and peace to you. I would like to tell you first off that you can ask the marriage tribunal in your diocese to lower the cost of an annulment according to your means. Many diocese are very understanding of one´s means (they all should be). Second, I would recommend that you both begin to pray together if you are not already doing so. Grace in Christian relationships cannot grow as they should without prayer. Third, if you have crossed the line, simply step back over and re-establish healthy boundaries (i.e. wait until you can marry). Prayer and chaste love which can wait until marriage are two sure steps to bring clarity to your situation. If your beloved friend has specific issues with the Catholic faith based on doctrine, I would recommend visiting the web site of catholic answers.
P. Isaac
Hope all of you had a blessed Christmas day as I did. I am dog sitting at an oceanfront home in Nags Head in the Outer Banks of NC. I enjoyed watching the dolphins play. Praying for employment in 2012 as I have been seeking employment since September 2009. God Bless you all for your prayers!
I am writing to ask your prayers for my brother in law David. He has been in the ICU since early last week and has undergone several major surgeries. It is the first year of his marriage to my sister and their first Christmas. Please pray that he may recover from his ailment and that this trial strengthen their marriage. This past week has been very difficult for everyone involved.
Merry Christmas to you and your friends in Peru.
Dear Michael,
Sorry I have delayed in responding to your request. I will lift up David at Mass tommorrow that he will recover and this will strengthen his marriage and his relationship with the Lord which is the most important. Also, if he is still in danger and is Catholic, I would recommend that he recieve the Sacrament of the Annointing of the Sick. It strengthens the soul to come out victorious in the struggles of sickness. In the case that the Lord is calling the person home (to heaven) it helps them in the final struggle at the moment of death to choose Christ and to reject Satan and his works. In the other case it helps the body to heal. I just ran into a man this past week who began to cry when he saw me because he was on the virge of death and after recieving the Holy Oils and confessing his sins, he was miraculously healed and is doing fine. Many don´t think these days of the need for this blessed gift from God for the sick. God bless you and the whole family.
Fr. Isaac
Please pray for my daughter Johanna OD from herion Tuesday December 27
she is alive but the same night 3 girls age 19 died from OD of herione.
Johanna would have been the 4th.
Her 21 birthday is Jan 2
she struggles with a eating disorder , drugs
Dear Maureen,
Yes, I will lift up your daughter in prayer at Mass tommorrow and offer up my rosary for her today which is her birthday. May the infinite mercy our Lord free her from such a terrible bondage and also give eternal rest to the other three girls who died. There is a wonderful community which you might consider for your daughter called the Cenáculo which was founded by a nun, Sor Elvira. You can google thier website and they have a community in St. Augustine Florida for women. It is an awesome community with fantastic results for young adults who struggle with addictions. May God also give you peace strenght and hope.
Fr. Isaac
JMJTPJBA I am a widow with 7 children, My husband was miraculously converted on the feast of St Maximillan Kolbe, Aug 14, 1997, He made the life offering on the feast of St Pius the X on Aug 21, 1997, He died on the feast of St Augustine on Aug 28, 1997. The problem, he was an evil man who had a demon cast out from him by Father Carmen a Franciscan. I am very happy that all this good happened. However, we are living with the results of his bad behavior and infestation by evil. It is not just me and my family, but many. Almost every woman I know has or had an abusive marriage. One in particular was married 43 years before she left, now no matter how much we pray and talk is stuck thinking that she is a bad person and that no one loves her and even her children don’t love her, which by their actions seems true. She is a kind loving woman. Her husband was in the cult of the worldwide church of God. They are still married and she wonders if divorce is a sin. She has even been raped by him in the past. Nothing seems to help her. Would you please pray for deliverence and healing for all of us women who have been abused, not just by our husbands but as children by family members. It seems that we attrack abuse, that we were rasised to be quiet and to take all that hit us to be “good Christians” and ladies. May God heal us all. Yours in Christ through Mary. I can only use the internet at the library, so it may be a while before I get back to you, Marie
Dear Marie,
My heart goes out to all you women and men who have been abused physically or sexually. It is a terrible violation of trust and respect for the dignity of the human person. It is a sin that cries out to heaven for justice and is certainly often influenced by demonic influences which always try to dehumanize us.
The good news is there is hope for healing and strengthening. Spiritually there are two main types of prayers that can help immensly in such cases. One is to offer up a Mass (or series of Masses) for our ancestors who are in Purgatory and who have passed on to us the affects of thier sinfull lifestyles. The Sacred Scriptures tell us that we are not morally culpable for the sins of our ancestors (Ezekiel 18) but that we sure do suffer the consequences of thier sinfullness (Ex 20:5). We can have tendencies to depression, suicide, addictions, poor self-confidence, indifference, anger issues, etc. One of the worst affects of parents with scandelously sinfull behavior is that it is difficult to develope a trusting, affective relationship with God. What one does to prepare for a Mass for the family is to make a family tree including parents, grandparents and great grandparents. One can also include aunts and uncles as well. On the paper with the tree one also puts significant behaviors or events that could affect me (such as divorces, infidelity, perverse behavior, involvement in cults, new age, atheism, cursing, violence, abortions, witchcraft, being orphaned or abandoned, unloved, loneliness, etc). During the Mass we put them all on the altar (When I conduct these Masses I put the sheets of the family trees on the altar) and plead that precious blood of the sacrifice of Jesus over them all granting them mercy and also praying for all the other people who have been hurt by them that they too find healing and the loving presence of God in thier lives. We also give thanks for thier lives becouse in the end God used them to bring us into exhistence, He loves them too, and we have also inherited good aspects from them as well (could be intelligence, or skill in a craft or music, etc) It is a prayer of solidarity where we pray that our whole family will be blessed by God´s mercifull healing and freeing love through Jesus.
The second type of powerfull prayer that I would recommend is the healing of memories. In this prayer one asks God to bless our bodies, feelings, emotions, memories, imagination and intellect and will. Then we ask the Holy Spirit to bring up a memory that He would like to heal. When a memory comes to mind, such as physical or sexual abuse, we put ourselves in the memory as if we were re-living it, but this time we ask Jesus (and Mary) to come to us and help us, to console us, and to help us not to be afraid. We can ask them what they think of us, because we can feel much shame or disgust in what we have experienced or perhaps we even blame ourselves instead of the adult or other person who is truly at fault. It is amazing to me what Jesus and Mary say and do in these cases. Our past is literally changed. It becomes filled with the love from heaven. The prayer using immagination has this power because with God past, present and future are all in the present. He can heal the past by taking away the negative emotions that are trapped deep within and which constantly haunt us. One may do this prayer alone but I find many people need help to enter into this type of prayer. For More information on this topic one can google Healing of Memories (Fr. DiGrandis is a good author on this and Healing the Family Tree).
The third recommendation is the groups of ALANON and the literature. They deal with the emmotional sickness that can infect us when we have lived with an extremely unhealthy person. Many who have not actually lived with an addict attend these meetings because they find it is a solid and practical path to finding emotional peace. I finish by leaving you with the serenity prayer which is extemely simple as it is powerfull.
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change,
Courage to change the things that I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.
God bless you,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Father Philip, Brothers and Sisters,
I have just seen Father Philip on “Women of Grace” and I have been truly touched by his testimony of Faith. A true example of total Abandoment to the Will of God.
My prayer intention i:
For a group of friends facing a spiritual battle to fight for the truth. For their project, their inner peace and protection. For their family and loved ones, for peace in Mexico and for a long-distance relationship.
Lord have mercy.
Keeping your Ministry and all of you in my prayers
Dear Monique,
I know we have taken a long time in getting to your prayer request, but I will take you intention before the Blessed Sacrament right now. To fight for the truth is so important in todays age of relativism. For those who do not know. Relativism is that what may be truth for you may not be truth to me. This makes everything subjective, or relative. Nothing can be said to be concretely, indisputably, TRUE. We neeeed truth! The world neeeeds truth desperately but chooses opinion and thus few people feel obliged to commit to anything that calls for sacrifice. Not to family life, not to true living of a religious commitment, not to political integrity, nor to true friendship.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the Truth, and the Life.” I want something to live and to die for, and that something better be true.
Part of the big problem is that people have grown up with parents who lie and go to schools where relativism is taught as the only truth. That is to say that the only truth is that reality is all relative to ones personal experience. How sad. I must say, however, that this does not diminish the value of personal experience. Reflecting on our personal experience and those of others helps us to come to an encounter with the truth. The problem is when we don´t look for the deeper universal truths that are revealed in our experiences (good and bad, successes and failures) and in those of others (especially those given by revelation in the Holy Scriptures). May we of this lost generation find the Truth that really matters, that gives us something to live and die for, something that is noble, true, just, and eternal. May we find more of Jesus who leads us to the Father who lives in an eternal relationship of perfect loving trust which is an eternal unchangeable truth and to which we poor creatures are wonderously/mysteriously invited.
Shalom,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Father,
Please pray for ourFamily. We are under siege and you know what I mean, Father. We are trying to fight this through prayer, sacrifice, deliverance, Mass, Rosary, Penance, etc. Especially for granddaughter who is 22 years and in a terrible relationship…met at “college” and so a virtuous girl went down into the pits. TWO BABIES SO FAR, LIVING IN SIN, First baby is an enencephalic, lived 11 hours and was baptized, a little st. This year she had a second baby named Hailey Maria (Yes, Hail Mary) who is a healthy 8 month old. Her father is a drugggie, baptized by mom at birth. Mom is in nursing for RN and doing okay. Stays with guy. She is from devout family. of 12 kids. Please pray for the us. Our daughter is a Dominican Sister. We are trying really hard Father. Thank you. Susan
Dear Susan,
It is so difficult to see a beloved family member fall away and turn to sin. You are doing all the right things. Keep up the good prayers and sacrifices. Love is stronger than evil and stronger than death. True lasting love will conquer her heart in the end. Jesus will triumph as He has triumphed. The only obstacle is if she does not want to open her heart to grace. I pray God will help her be open to all the wonderful love you all are pouring out on her.
Shalom,
Fr. Isaac
Please pray with me and for me as we lift up to Our Father the petitions of our family: especially my husband Peter who is suffering great painful memories and fears– obsessions; low self-esteem, a dark night, unable to release the distorted messages of the past to the point he doesn’t know who he is anymore. Sweet Jesus, go with him to these places that need healing or insight and give him peace of mind, acceptance in Your Love, no matter what. I praise,love and thank You!
Dear Mrs. M,
Yes we will pray for Peter. When one suffers such, one needs to pray that the root wound (or wounds) may be recognized. They usually come from early childhood. Once recognized, one needs to help him bring it to the Lord and invite Him into that memory to heal it with His loving presence. One can also help by blessing the house and especially his bed with holy water and saying prayers of protection. Being a baptized person, you have the power and authority (in the name of Jesus) to bind any evil spirits (such as of distorted thinking, low self-esteem, fear, hatred, shame, obessive-compulsive behavior, etc.). You can find prayers of protection on Catholic websites entering “Prayer of Protection, Catholic, Precious Blood of Jesus” These key words on a web search should give you some good sites. Also I recommend having a Mass said for him and for all his family members (or other persons) that could have contributed to his condition. Prayers said at Mass for healing and forgiveness for ourselves and for those who have hurt us are especially powerfull in the process of healing.
Peace to your heart.
Fr. Isaac
I recently watched recorded episodes of Fr Philip Scott on the EWTN show Women of Grace on the topic of ‘healing the father wound’. It really spoke to me.
Please pray for my father as his behaviour is very hurtful. Please pray for my mother who is hurting tremendously and is unhappy in her marriage to him. Please pray for my brother and two sisters who do not know the true love of God the Father yet, that they may grow in relationship with God so that the void our earthly father has left in their lives may be filled by the love of God the Father (you could pray this for me also, as even though I have a relationship with my Father in Heaven, I’m sure my earthy father has left me some wounds). And please pray particularly for one of my sisters as she has suffered from various mental illnesses and an abusive relationship, part of which I believe stems from the fact that she was not affirmed growing up.
Thank you, God bless you all, and I will keep you all in my prayers!
Dear Steph,
Yes, Fr. Philip has been given a great gift in revealing the love of God the Father to this generation and open us up to a personal healing relationship with Him. I have been very blessed to live with Fr. Philip and to begin growing in a loving relationship with God the Father who is also healing the voids in my own life as my father too was not very emotionally present or affirming in the faith or in my personal gifts even though I know he loves me deeply. He simply was never tought how to open his heart up and show his love or recieve the love of God.
I would recommend to your family a wonderful speaker, Susan Baars, who promotes the books of her father, Conrad Baars. His specialty was in “Healing the Unaffirmed.” (which is a title of one of his books. Another is “Healing and Feeling Your Emotions”. Look for Father Philip´s book which should be out soon on the father wound. I will lift your family up at Mass tommorrow.
Fr. Isaac
Father,
I am in need of prayers. My wife of 12 years and I are growing apart from one another. Our intimacy is gone and respect for one another is a challenge every day. Talking with one another without bringing up the past is extremely difficult. I have not been the best husband for her and she keeps this a fuel for our arguments. I find myself not forgiving her and she definitely does not forgive me for 12 years of suffering. We are changing and not for the better. I’m not quite sure how to pursue our relationship to become friends and lovers once again. We need spiritual guidance and prayers.
Any suggestions?
Dear Marc,
I send you my blessing and a word of hope. First, you show that you have a desire that what has been lost can be regained. Second, you see that what is needed is spiritual guidance, which is definately the case. Thirdly, you see that problem centers on forgiveness. The human soul has been created by God “for — giveness”. Love in its essence is people giving themselves to one-another. Love, as God reveals it, always is a call to go deeper. God so loved the world that He sent His only son not to condem the world, but to save it. He saves us by offering to us the grace of forgiveness for our sins. We must, however, want to change our bad habits and choices in order to recieve that grace. We must also learn to forgive and grow with others on the slow path to holiness (which is really good loving — good self-giving). To develope or to save a relationship of whatever sort, requires that the persons involved desire to grow together in becomming better and to help one another with thier faults. A lack of forgiveness is probably the major factor that is ruining your marriage. In Matthew´s Gospel, Jesus comments on the prayer of the “Our Father” (the only prayer Jesus taught in the Bible), He says that the Father will not forgive somebody who will not forgive others.
Heaven will never recieve a soul that refuses to forgive. This would make heaven a bitter place. Here are a few other recommendation I would like to share.
1. St. Thomas Aquinas says that love is desiring the good for another person. That is a great place to start. If you can both come to a place where there is a desire for the good of the other, despite the wounds of the past, you will be well disposed to God´s graces in your relationship.
2. To better a relationship the AA and ALANON motto of “It begins with me” is very important. I am the one who needs to change if I want to have better relationships and to make the world a better place. If my happiness and serenity depends on the other person changing first, I am likely to wait until the worms are eating me in the casket. In a marriage, if both are making efforts to change for the good of the other, success is just around the corner.
3. Prayer: Begin praying together. This is probably the most crucial advice I can give. “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in thier mist.”(Matthew 18:29) With God, all good things are possible.(Phillipians 4:13) Faith is the key. Faith that the Father is faithfull and that you can overcome all obstacles with His grace. Men have forgotten how to be leaders in prayer in family life. It will be awkward at first, but it is well worth the discomfort. You can say, “Why don´t we pray that God will help us in our relationship. I want you to be happy and that we will be well together. Let´s pray an Our Father asking His guidance and healing.” A father´s blessing gives firm roots to the family (Sirac 3:9)
4. The healing you both need probably begins with your childhood experiences. Spouses often over-react and punish one another due to wounds that have never been worked through from thier youth. For example, if my father was super-critical and I never had a voice in the relationship I could reap my vengence (unconsciously)by being very critical of my spouse. One would need to go through healing and forgiveness from this old wound and then one might se greater advances in the relationship.
There is so much more. I would recommend checking out the website http://www.foryourmarriage.org and other websites such as that of Focus on the Family or http://www.Retrouvaille.org or marriage911online.com
Finally I will lift your marriage up at Mass tommorrow and I wish for you and all couples in crisis what Mary, the mother of Jesus wished for the couple at the wedding feast of Cana (Gospel of John, chapter 2). She told Jesus that “they have no wine”. May your lives find the ever new wine of Jesus´ grace and wisdom. The new wine of a deeper love that will exceed the love of the past. There is no case to difficult for Him. Finally, I would like to say that LOVE IS A CHOICE OF THE HEART, and not always an explosion of good feelings. Jesus on the Cross was loving us even though we weren´t very lovable to Him at that moment. He loves you and wants to help. May He be praised and blessed forever and may He be glorified in your relationship with your wife.
Fr. Isaac
Please pray for my husband who has been diagnosed with a heart condition and is suffering from a father wound. Also please pray for each of my children, Joseph ( alcoholic, ragaholic, father of 4), Tim, jr., is living with someone and not married to her, also is supporting those who are against the Church, Teresa, lived life of drugs, alcohol and suffers from OCD and scrupulosity, Peter who at one time prayed to satan and now has much suffering.
Dear Kathy,
I wish you peace amidst the great storms of life which you face every day. My heart goes out to you and I lifted up your intention at Mass today. I would really recommend that you read some of the previous advice given on this blog especially finding a prayer of protection on the web and to have masses said for your family with the intention of healing the family from all the consequences of sins of our ancestors. Take great courage. You mentioned a son who prayed to Satan. There was a man who was a satanic priest who had such a strong conversion that he is recognized by the Church as a saint. Keep praying without losing hope as did Saint Monica for her husband and her son (St. Augustine) who were both very difficult. The power of prayer is so powerfull. May Our Lady intercede with St. Joseph for your intention to our merciful Lord.
Peace to your Heart,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Father,
Please have your community pray for my family. My daughter got married over 5 years ago to a godless man and 3 months ago he just abandoned her and their 2 boys, ages 3 and 5 and got engaged to younger girl a month later. Now they are involved in a bitter divorce and child custody. This man is presently harassing my daughter and is demanding the boys on a daily basis, he is cruel to my daugher and has not been involved with nurturing and bonding with the boys since birth, but now he is with this other woman he wants to take the boys. Please pray for Letisha, Lucas and Logan that God will turn away all negative and evil energy from them and help them to feel protected and comforted. I ask that God gives me the strength to get through this too. Thank you.
Dear GEK,
Yes, we will pray for your intention. May the Lord send His holy angels to protect your daughter and her children and may He also grant the blessed grace of conversion for ex-husband. The greatest challenge that may be faced here is to love the enemy. God wants to be in His Will which is always the conversion of poor miserable sinners (of which I am on the list). A man such as this has deep wounds and hurts which Satan uses to manipulate him in hurting others and himself. What a great work of grace if he should be healed and repent for his hurtfull actions. Oh Lord, hear our prayer. May all who have hurt us be converted and be with us one day in heaven. Help us to forgive and protect us from all evil. May your victory be realized in the poor needy life of our families. Thank you Father for all your gifts.
Fr. Isaac
Could you please pray for the families of Campbellsport, WI who were affected by a serious car accident that involved 9 local teen girls? Three of the girls died (Catilin Scannell, Sabrina Stahl, and Katie Berg). The other six girls are at various stages of healing either in the hospital or at home. Most especially please lift up the driver of the car, Carley Ottery who is under suicide watch. We pray that this entire community will embrace her and fill her with the love and mercy of Jesus. Papa, these are your children have mercy! Thank you Papa that you hear the cry of your poor. Keep us close to you!
Dear Karen,
We will pray for your intention at Mass Tommorrow. Tragedies such as this do deeply affect a community and can be trials that tempt us to give up on life. I pray that somebody will help Carley to trust in the infinite mercy of God. Jesus wants to always give us life. The other day I was in the hospital with a young girl who was in a terrible motorcycle accident. Her boyfriend died and she was in traction waiting an operation. I asked her to visualize herself at the accident which she did and to ask that Jesus and Mary come to her help. They did and throughout her ordeal and even after the operation, she told me that Jesus and Mary never left her side and that Jesus helped in curing her head injury and that Mary was helping her with the injury in her leg which was broken in three places. She is out of the hospital now and doing well. Having faith and inviting our Lord and our Lady to be at our side is so important. What would it have been like for this young girl to face such a tragedy without them. I don´t know if I could take it. Karen, please let me know if Carley would be open to recieving a phone call. May God bless you and all your prayer intentions.
Fr. Isaac
Fr. Isaac;
Glory and praise to God! Oh, Papa! You are so good to us! Thank you for offering HOLY MASS for our community and for the offer to call Carley! I am not real close to her family, but I did speak with her father at one of the girl’s funeral. She is only allowing very close family and friends to visit her. I’m not sure when she would be allowed to attend school again, but I image that will be very difficult for her. It appears that the community will embrace Carley to help her on her way, but there is always the threat of insensitive comments, whether intended or not. I will speak to one of her parents to see how she might feel to receive this grace from the hand of God. Oh, thank you for the offer!
I’ll be sure to tell them of your wonderful ministry in Peru, and of course all the stories of Father Philip! I’ll share my experiences at three of his retreats and let them know that he will be just 8 hours south of us in April at Our Sorrowful Mother’s Ministry. I can’t wait to see him! Really, I’m not a creeper (as my 6 children tell me)! His story of God’s Fatherly love for us, His children really hits home for me.
I never in my wildest dreams expected your love and compassioned filled offer of a phone call to Carley. All praise and glory to God our Father forever and ever!!
Thank you!
Papa, continue to bless everyone of you, most especially His poor whom you minister to.
Karen
Father,
I most humbly ask for prayers for my three daughters. The 2 oldest are in their 20’s and the youngest is 17. I raised all of them in the Catholic faith and none of them practice it. The oldest is a gentle, lovely girl but living with her boyfriend , the middle daughter is bipolar, very angry, used drugs excessively and only contacts me when she needs something/money and my youngest goes to Catholic high school and has been in trouble with the law and drugs. I am heartbroken as I look back and wonder “where I went wrong?” Their father and I are divorced for many years. This was not my choice but I tried to make the best of it. I pray and witness about Jesus and His love for all to my children. I will not give up on them. I believe we must love our children as the Father loves us, no matter what we say or do. I daily surrender them to the Father in prayer, giving Him everything. Please, Father, a prayer or Mass offered would be a most beautiful gift . Thank you.
Dear Susan,
Yes, I will offer up Mass tommorrow for your intention for your three daughters. I can´t even imagine the heart-ache you must feel in seeing your daughters suffering so much and caught up in sinful lifestyles. There are a few things that would be helpful to your situation. First, all divorces wound deeply the hearts of the children whether they would admit it or not. The tendency is to find ways to survive the emotional trauma. Some dive into TV and become less and less in contact with their emotions. Others become rebelious and others turn to sex and drugs or overeating, etc. to drown out the terrible pain they feel. To overcome the drugs, rebellion, etc. they first need to be healed from the original wounds of thier childhood when they sensed the problems with you an thier father. I have written earlier about the benefits of Healing of Memories prayer where one begins to ask Jesus into these painful memories. The second thing that can help is to pray with them for the good of thier father (if you are not already doing so). It does not matter how old they are or how hard they may appear to be. I know of few children who would refuse to pray a simple Our Father prayer for the good of thier father. If you often become overwhelmed with all that is going on and lack peace in your daily life, I would recommend ALANON which is on the internet and where one can find a great support group which has wonderful materials to help find serenity amidst a chaotic family situation. May our Blessed Mother wrap you and your girls in her motherly mantle and bring you in to the safe harber of the Heart of Jesus. May your children be able to find thier true selves in a relationship with God the Father and be able thereby to find true loving relationships.
Shalom,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Susan,
Blessings to you. You indeed have a heavy cross to bear, but with Jesus He has promised to make it easy and the burden light. Your constant prayers for him will all have thier effect in God´s perfect timing. Please know that homosexuality and psychopathology comes from deep woundedness often from a very early age. I imagine his homelife was a disaster, but thier is where one can pray very effectively for the healing of all those familial wounds. I highly recommend that you offer up masses for him and for his ancestors to four generations (see Ex 20:1–5). Thier are priests that offer up special masses for healing the family tree (Fr. Hampsch for example). He does need lots of prayer and to come in contact with his deep woundedness and loneliness. Thier are groups especially formed to help homosexuals live a holy and faithfull life (the group is called Courage and has an internet site). May God give you strength to continue loving him and getting to know the reality of his illness. Thier are two good books on this topic “The Truth About Homosexuality” and “Beyond Gay” By Fr. John Harvey and David Morrison.
The reality of marrying a homosexual person is grounds for an anulment in the sense that the person is simply not able to make the commitment of thier whole self in life-giving and exclusive heterosexual love. I will lift up your situation tommorrow in our celebration of the Eucharist.
Wishing God´s pure love and truth,
Fr. Isaac
Dear Tierney, I will lift up Mr. Cunningham in prayers at Mass tommorrow. May God bless you and all your intentions.
Fr. Isaac