My brother in law was in hospital last week with pancreatitis due to alcoholism - but on release has continued to drink to excess. It is only a matter of days even hours before he is found dead. He has been drinking heavily for almost 4 weeks non stop and this is a slow suicide. Cearin has lost the will to live as he just cannot kick this habit. Please, please pray that a miracle will happen otherwise it will be catastrophic. Thanks Garabandal
My brother, Tim, is in similar dire straits as Cearin! As I pray for Cearin, please pray for Tim. I will pray a Chaplet of Divine Mercy for him and trust in the Hound of Heaven! Wherever two or three are gathered... Safe in the Flames of the Sacred Heart!
In Adoration in the middle of the night so many came to mind, these two as well as others. All were lifted in prayer.
Even though I haven't been posting a lot, I have been praying for these petitions and will continue to!
Keep praying everyone as your prayers are having an affect - after a month of non-stop drinking Cearin is trying to get off the drink but the DT's are the next hurdle & pray he can get trhough this over the next couple of days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens He hasn't too long left in this life if he continues to drink so he is at a definite cross-roads. Two of his friends have died in the last fortnight both in their 40s from alcoholism and their poor families are just devastated. Please pray for these families too.
Garabandal, I will pray for your brother-in-law. I had an uncle who died of alcoholism and left 5 children. My mom is still bothered about it after all these years. Hi all, sorry I've been gone a while. I see Potatosack also says she hasn't been posting a lot. I am trying to get into this alternative teaching program for the summer, and between that and visiting the grandbabies and getting things ready if I can go to the program and taking an online class, I am up to my ears and have not made time for the forum...so not like me. After this week it will be better though. This is the do-or-die week! I have a high school very close by my house that is trying to fit me into their staff for the fall, and this will satisfy the requirement that Eastern Illinois University needs to accept me in the summer program. The program has already started with an online class, but next monday starts the on-campus classes, and I will have to live there during the week (it is 4 hours away from my home). I have been praying for so long, and just before this opportunity surfaced I was resigning myself to the fact that I wasn't going to be in the program bacause I had no offers, not even any interviews! I had found 5 possibilities within 1 1/2 hours of my house, sent all the paperwork, and emails and phone calls, and not a single reply (except one Catholic school that did send me a no thanks letter). Well it was down to two weeks or never, and I took a little St. Joseph statue and put it on top of the position descriptions I had that were still available, and I began to pray another novena. On the third day a brand NEW position close to my house (literally 12 minutes away!) surfaced, but it is not exactly in my field. I had talked with this principal a year ago, so I immediately sent him an email. He called me the next day and we have been in negotiations. However, hiring me to teach technology is different than the librarian opening he has available so he has to shift things and thinking around. He is having a problem with the superintendant supporting him and if I do not have a position secured by THIS friday I cannot join the program! He is trying to work it out. Today I spoke to him and he still seems to be on board, and said he will know by Thursday whether he can take it to the board meeting or not. I know this isn't a life and death thing, but it is time-urgent. If any of you feel the inclination, please say a prayer of intercession for me to St. Joseph or to Mary on my behalf. There are still a lot of obsticles and though I believe it has already been a miracle that has gotten me this far, it will take a continued miracle to get this job in time, I'm afraid. I am praying and fasting and begging the head person at EIU to bend the rules and just let me come. But if the high school principal cannot give him at least a very strong maybe by the end of this week that the board will approve me, then I simply cannot go. I have to have a job first, it is part of the prerequisite. Thanks to any and all who pray for this intention. I will let you know what happens. And I promise to get caught up and back on the board very soon! If I get to go to EIU, I will have evenings alone and will surely have some time for the forum. If I don't get to go, well, then I will have plenty of time at home until I find a job at McDonalds...my money has basically run out. If this doesn't happen, I don't know how I will be able to continue to pursue this teaching career change I have been working on. This is where I have to now put it all in God's hands. It is hard to put all my trust in his will - I have never felt this helpless in regard to a life-change before. O Lord, help me to put all my trust in you!
I will remember your intention at mass today. Keep trusting and praying and you will get an answer even if its the 11th hour. mary
