Please pray for a poor Irish priest who is a homosexual and is actively considering suicide. Poor, poor man.
Thanks for you prayers. It was my brother who told me about this. He lives in a quiet sea side town and the Parish Priest sudenly asked for prayers for this poor man at mass on Sunday. He told me it made quite stir in the Parish when it was announced. We think we have problems but the problems of others can awe me.
I think Pádraig we should always try to remember the intentions of Our Pope and our priests in our prayers. So very often we forget to pray for our priests and yet I am sure they are the ones that Satan taunts the most. Prayers being offered up for this Priest that the Lord gives him the strength to get through what must seem like an unbearable time for him and for people to remember to be loving and non judgemental and to offer support.
I keep forgetting to pray for just about everything , Marie-Lou. But I try to offer all things up as one big bundle as I go along. I am grateful though that the Church reminds me and calls us to prayer at the prayers of the Faithful at Mass and at the liturgy. For instance this month of Neovember there are reminders every day to pray for the Holy Souls. I love this. Yesterday the priest had just come from the bedside of a lady in her forties, Deborah a single lady who had just died of cancer. We all prayed for her. But all during mass I just could not get her out of my mind. What did she look like? Did she suffer much? Was she in heaven or purgaatory? Sorrow that I never got to meet her in her hospital bed before she died to talk....so we are all of us caught up in a web of loving prayer....
I am the same Pádraig, I have so many things on my mind I forget to mention them all. I brought my mummy to meet a well known priest who was dearly loved as she was undergoing major surgery and she wanted confession. As we waited outside the chapel people were coming and going. The priest came out and said to me, look at that young man standing at Our Lady's shrine. If ever you see that Marie-Louise pray for that young person. They are in trouble. Well I did and so did my mummy. We both prayed for that young man. A little over a year later the very priest who told us that, sadly took his own life. I think he was just overcome from all the troubles of all the members of his parish whom he gave his life to supporting. My mummy always prayed for the pope and the priests, however after that incident, I really try to remember them. As you say we think we have problems, we don't sometimes realise just how difficult life can be for others like that young woman who has died from cancer and her family. Anyhow I hope that the priest that we are praying for gets through this with prayers, love and support.
Please God, there is such a huge, huge sadness surrounding suicide. But God can turn defeat into victory and often has.
Merciful Jesus, please cover the soul of this Your Minister with Your most precious Blood. That You may cleanse, heal, restore and enlighten him as to Your unconditional love for him. And Your most Holy Will that he remain in Your service, while he awaits the Graces and Blessings stored in Your most Sacred Heart for his soul, and all the souls who need the service of his ministry. Amen Merciful Jesus, I surrender this poor Priest to you, take care of him. Amen.
