|
0 members (),
190
guests, and
19
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
Forums26
Topics35,219
Posts415,295
Members5,881
| |
Most Online3,380
Dec 29th, 2019
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,217
Member
|
OP
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,217 |
In your charity, please pray for my good friend Brian Downes, who was diagnosed with advanced upper intestinal cancer just before Christmas. His surgery will be at 7:30 am on Monday January 3.
Brian is in excellent spirits and in little pain, and is actually working through Saturday night. Still, this is no simple operation and he can use all the prayers he can get.
With deep appreciation.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280
Former Moderator
|
|
Former Moderator
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280 |
O GOD, whose never-failing Providence orders all things both in heaven and earth; hear the humble prayers of Your servants, and direct the hands of the surgeons and prosper their skills to bring about a merciful and blessed outcome of Brian's surgery. Make Brian well O Lord so that he may serve You in his community and heal his from his disease. Calm his mind and heart, so that he may know that You love and care for him...and increase his faith and hope which are in You. Send him the help of his bright radiant guardian angel and may he receive comfort and strength from his presence. May Your most holy mother, the Ever-Virgin Mary be close to him and may she take away all his fear and anxieties. We ask these things through Jesus Christ our Lord, Who with You and the Holy Spirit, live and rule as One God, now and ever and unto ages of ages, Amen.
Joining you in prayer,
+Fr. Gregory
+Father Archimandrite Gregory, who asks for your holy prayers!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 5,708
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 5,708 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,225 Likes: 1
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,225 Likes: 1 |
Prayers for Brian's surgery and healing.
james
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,686 Likes: 2
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,686 Likes: 2 |
Prayers for successful surgery for Brian!
CS
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,904
Orthodox Catholic Toddler Member
|
|
Orthodox Catholic Toddler Member
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,904 |
Prayers for Brian...
May the Lord grant him restored good health, long life and happiness
And may the holy Theotokos pray for him!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,310
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,310 |
May St. Nektarios, patron saint of cancer sufferers, intercede for Brian.
Gaudior, on bended knee
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 275
Praying and asking for prayer
|
|
Praying and asking for prayer
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 275 |
Let us pray for Unity In Christ!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,084 Likes: 12
Global Moderator Member
|
|
Global Moderator Member
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,084 Likes: 12 |
Prayers for Brian, that his surgery be successful and uncomplicated, that his recovery be uneventful and swift, and that God grant him many years in good health.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280
Former Moderator
|
|
Former Moderator
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280 |
We are praying today (on the day for his surgery) for BRIAN!
A Prayer Before Surgery
God, my Father, you created Brian and Your care and love have sustained and nourished him all these years of his life. You know the very fabric of his being. Be with him now, he needs you very much, very much. Grant that he may feel Your presence as he prepares to undergo this operation. Help him to realize that he am never alone, no matter how deeply he may feel alone. Give knowledge and skill to his doctors and to the doctors who care for him. Be with him in the coming hours as You have been with him since his life first began. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus, who touched and healed those who needed and believed in him. Amen
In Prayerful remembrance,
+Fr. Gregory
+Father Archimandrite Gregory, who asks for your holy prayers!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 709
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 709 |
May the Divine Physician guide the hands that work to heal Brian, and may he rise from his bed fully recovered to glorify the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,173
Member
|
|
Member
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,173 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,217
Member
|
|
OP
Member
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,217 |
I just spoke with Brian's sister, and the surgery appears to have been successful and without any complications. He's resting as comfortably as possible.
Deepest Thanks To All Who Offered Prayers
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280
Former Moderator
|
|
Former Moderator
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,280 |
All praise and glory be to God and thanksgiving to the Most Holy Ever-Virgin Mary our mother!
Continuing to pray,
+Fr. Gregory
+Father Archimandrite Gregory, who asks for your holy prayers!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,084 Likes: 12
Global Moderator Member
|
|
Global Moderator Member
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 10,084 Likes: 12 |
Thanks be to God for His goodness to His servant Brian.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
|
|
|
|
|
