Author Topic: Urgent prayer request. (Read 3051 times)

Jehanne · « **on:** January 10, 2013, 02:05:01 PM »

Everyone,

My dad is dying, and in fact, he may already be dead. He is only 65 and is dying of liver failure, likely the result of drug abuse as a teenager and steroid abuse as an adult. He's in hospice right now; my mother's boyfriend left me a coarse message about that a short time ago, as apparently, my sister and own mother do not wish to talk to me. In any case, none of that is important.

What is important, at this point, is the eternal salvation of my father's immortal soul, and I would ask for everyone's prayers that he be spared eternal Hell. I did invite him to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, the last time being four months ago. He refused.

His only hope is the prayers of the Catholic faithful, and as this board is full of the righteous Faithful, your prayers are most appreciated.

Thanks & Blessings,

Don

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2013, 02:43:11 PM »

Prayers for your father.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #2 on:** January 10, 2013, 02:46:31 PM »

Prayers for your father Don.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2013, 03:20:14 PM »

Diego · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2013, 07:00:07 PM »

Perpetual prayers for your father.
And definitely—call a real priest.

Marlelar · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2013, 07:30:16 PM »

Drumshanbo · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2013, 08:10:45 PM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:05:09 PM »

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:06:18 PM »

Here is the Collect proper to the Mass for the Feast of Our Lady, Help of those in their death-agony, taken from The Roman Missal in Latin and English, Arranged for the Use of the Laity, to Which Is Added a Collection of Usual Public Prayers (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1912).

The Mass Salve, sancta Parens is taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956).

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Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:07:05 PM »

From The Missal-Vesperal with Commentary: Containing in Latin and English, with Explanatory Notes, the Masses and Vespers of All the Feasts and Ferias of the Liturgical Year and the Feasts Proper to Certain Places (Cleveland, OH: Notre Dame College & High School, 1932), here is the votive Mass for imploring the grace of a happy death.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:08:49 PM »

From the tome Kyrie Eleison: Two Hundred Litanies with Historico-Liturgical Introduction and Notes by Rev. Fr. Benjamin Francis Musser, O.F.M. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Bookshop, 1944), here is a Litany to implore the grace of a happy death.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #11 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:09:57 PM »

Here is the Collect for the infirm who are in extremis, taken from The Roman Missal in Latin and English, Arranged for the Use of the Laity, to Which Is Added a Collection of Usual Public Prayers (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1912).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:11:53 PM »

Here are some useful prayers for the dying, taken from the Rituale Clericorum Regularium Ministrantium Infirmis (Romae: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1953).

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:30:42 PM »

I Pray.

ora pro me · « **Reply #14 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:45:31 PM »

Jehanne,
Have you given your father a green scapular?

I am praying to the Holy Family for him.

Jesus, Mary and Good St. Joseph, pray for him now and at the hour of his death!