Author Topic: Urgent: Grandmother (Read 2870 times)

Vladimir · « **on:** March 09, 2012, 07:35:30 AM »

Please pray for the soul of my grandmother, of whose name I have never tired mentioning here with affection and gratitude, - she has passed away. I don't believe she had access to the Sacraments. It was very sudden - she has been hospitalized for two weeks now, and yesterday evening was just fine.

Here baptismal name was St. Anne, after the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:20:46 AM »

I'm sorry for your loss Vlad.

I'll pray for her soul.

s2srea · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:51:50 AM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2012, 11:34:12 AM »

My deepest condolences for your loss.

Please be assured of my prayers for your late grandmother.

Here are some prayers that may be useful:

The Præmonstratensians had some of the most beautiful prayers for the faithful departed in their liturgical books. From the tome In Paradisum deducant te Angeli: Suffragia Praemonstratensia pro Defunctis (West de Pere, WI: St. Norbert College Press, 1953), here are the Latin texts of some of the prayers recited by the Præmonstratensians for their departed. The English text is a loose translation.

To Thee, O Lord, we commend the soul of Thy servant N. (or, of Thy handmaid N.) and the souls of Thy servants and handmaids and of all the faithful departed, that dead to this world they may live unto Thee; and those sins which they committed by the frailty of worldly conversation, do Thou blot out by the pardon of most merciful loving-kindness. Through Christ, our Lord. ℣. Amen.

Thy mercy, O holy Lord, Father almighty, eternal God, in the affection of kindness for others we pray, who are not sufficient to pray for our sins, yet confiding in Thy gratuitous loving-kindness and wonted benignity, we implore Thy clemency, that Thou mayest receive with compassion the soul of Thy servant N. (or, of Thy handmaid N.) and the souls of Thy servants and handmaids and of all the faithful departed returning unto Thee. May Michael the Angel of Thy Testament be with them, and by the hands of Thy holy Angels do Thou vouchsafe to place them in the bosoms of Thy Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; so that, freed from the princes of darkness and from the places of pains, they may now be confounded by no errors of primeval nativity or ignorance [original sin], or of their own iniquity or frailty; but rather, acknowledged by Thy Saints, they may joy in the repose of holy beatitude: so that, when the day of the great judgment will have come, they may, resurrected amongst Thy Saints and Elect, be perpetually satiated with the glory of Thy manifested contemplation. Through Christ, our Lord. ℣.Amen.

Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast vouchsafed to breathe unto the human body a soul according to Thy similitude; whilst dust is returned unto dust according to Thy mandate, do Thou command Thine image to be associated with Thy Saints and Elect amidst eternal thrones, and do Thou kindly and mildly receive her returning unto Thee from the parts of [the terrestrial] Egypt, and do Thou send Thy holy Angels to meet her, and do Thou show unto her the way of justice, and the gates of thy glory do Thou open. Repel from her, we pray, O Lord, all the princes of darkness, and faithfully acknowledge the deposit which is Thine. Receive, O Lord, Thy creature, not created by strange gods, but by Thee, the only living and true God; for there is no other God but Thee, O Lord, and none other according to Thy works. Do Thou gladden the soul of Thy servant N. (or, of Thy handmaid N.) and the souls of Thy servants and handmaids and of all the faithful departed, and glorify them in the multitude of Thy mercy. Be not mindful, we pray, of their ancient iniquities: for as they did sin so also they denied Thee not, but signed with the sign of faith, they faithfully adored Thee, Who all things and them amidst all things didst thou make: Who livest and reignest throughout ages of ages. ℣. Amen.

Here is a very touching Responsory that was chanted at the obsequies of the departed Præmonstratensians.

℟. Before I was born Thou didst know me, and unto Thine imagine, O Lord, didst Thou form me. * Now do I return Thee, O Creator, my soul. ℣. By my sins, O Lord, am I terrified, and before Thee I am confounded, when Thou shalt come to judge, do not Thou condemn me. * Now do I return Thee, O Creator, my soul.

Jim · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2012, 11:45:55 AM »

Vladimir · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2012, 12:07:16 PM »

Update:

When I posted this morning she was technically dead (no pulse). The doctor shortly after revived her using CPR, etc.

As of this morning, she was hooked up to a machine that had a tube go down her throat that was breathing for her. She cannot breath on her own and her blood pressure is maintained only by medicinal shots that are given at regular intervals.

She is not conscious.

I do not believe she will live long.

Please continue to pray!

jlamos · « **Reply #6 on:** March 09, 2012, 12:46:39 PM »

Adesto · « **Reply #7 on:** March 09, 2012, 01:33:06 PM »

Praying, Vladimir

Alex · « **Reply #8 on:** March 09, 2012, 03:03:49 PM »

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #9 on:** March 09, 2012, 04:04:10 PM »

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #10 on:** March 09, 2012, 06:52:36 PM »

Dear Vladimir,
The most important thing is that you try to save your Grandmother’s soul.
I do not know what state you live in.
So here is a link where you can get a valid priest to help your grandmother. They can visit her and give her the Sacraments or at least pray near her. Whatever is best. Perhaps the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
You could also ring some of the other priests on this link and ask them to say Masses for your grandmother while she is still alive.
Here is the link:

http://www.cmri.org/traditional-latin-mass-directory.shtml

Here is another link which shows the phone numbers of various CMRI priests:

http://www.cmri.org/contact-info.html

Also if you click the envelope next to their names you can email them, without even having to use your own email.

Perhaps you could email the CMRI Nuns (they are listed as CMRI Sisters, near the end of

http://www.cmri.org/contact-info.html ) and ask them to pray for your Grandmother.

I have prayed for Anne. I will do so again.

God Bless you, Vladimir.
God Bless Anne.
Yours in Jesus and Mary and Joseph,

Sede Catholic

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2012, 07:34:39 PM »

Dear Vladimir,
I forgot to mention that if you click on the home state of your Grandmother in this link,

http://www.cmri.org/traditional-latin-mass-directory.shtml

it will give you the names of CMRI Priests who are in her home state.

Whichever one of the United States Anne lives in.

So then hopefully a Priest can visit your Grandmother and give your loved one the Sacrament of Extreme Unction before she dies, or at least pray near her.

God Bless Anne and you and the rest of your Family,

Sede Catholic

Alex · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:44:33 PM »

Vladimir, there are also SSPX priests in your area that you can go to. You can find them by going to the read Mass listings on the internet.

Darcy · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:49:03 PM »

Vladimir,

I will pray for your grandmother and ask my departed grandmothers to pray for her also.

If you are near her I would go and whisper in her ear an act of contrition that she may be able to say along with you in her mind, as some in coma are not oblivious to what may be going on around them and they say that those in coma often can still hear.

She can be forgiven of any mortal sins by a sincere act of contrition and what the Lord knows to be in her heart prior to her mental death.

May Our Lord comfort you in your sorrow and take your grandmother's soul to Him in Heaven. I hope He gives you a sign that will help you.

Vladimir · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2012, 12:53:21 AM »

Update:

The doctor has confirmed that she mentally passed away this morning, around 5:00 A.M., which is shortly before I created this thread.

Today was the day that she was set to go home after battling pneumonia for two weeks in the hospital.

Early this morning she had a hemmorage (sp) in her brain. Brain activity has since reduced to absolutely nothing. The only thing keeping rigor mortis from taking over is the breathing tube and the medicines. She is dead. Perhaps as soon as tonight, what remains of her body will simply stop reacting to the medicine, and her heartbeat and blood pressure, both of which are in constant fluctuation due to their artificial nature, will continue to decline until it stops entirely.

I am sorry to say that the traditional sacraments could not be administered. Nevertheless, my grandmother lived a very Catholic life and I believe that this is one of the many cases where God may provide for a soul even if He did not grant it the grace, for whatever reasons, of learning about Tradition. She was illiterate and had many, many other tribulations to worry about. Towards the end of her life I took her back to the Latin Mass for the first time since Vatican II. She was very devoted to it, although due to the infrequency of the times we could attend, she never got the point of going exclusively.

The last two years of her life have been extremely fruitful for her spiritually. She has prayed the Rosary almost daily, and has only refrained from doing so due to illness. Before her death, I would read to her a chapter from Preparation for Death by Saint Alphonsus (her favorite book, and the only one she would listen to) almost every night.

May she rest in peace.

P.S.

There have been people praying for her all day today. The Sorrowful Mysteries have been prayed aloud for her, just in case she could hear, at least ten times today.