I posted this on Facebook a couple days ago: I was reading something on Patheos that was linked on a Facebook post today. I made the mistake of looking up my daughter’s Patheos blog while I was there. Please pray for her. She is really, severely messed up. In a very dark way. This story just popped into my memory today. I think it is relevant: I had a heart attack and bypass at 42. About two years later I was having what I thought was pain from gall stones below my right rib, so I went to the ER. They did an ultrasound of the liver and gallbladder and I could tell by the look on the ultrasound tech’s face and how long it took that something was wrong. When the results came back, the ER doctor said I had a softball sized tumor on my liver and it was likely cancerous, so they were admitting me over night for an MRI in the morning. I didn’t sleep at all that night. I just prayed, probably the most intense night of prayer of my whole life, and told God if it was His Will I’d be fine with this, but that I’d really prefer to stick around to raise my family. And that in exchange I’d be willing to accept a cross to carry forward so that none of my family would be lost. The next day they didn’t get me into the MRI till just before noon, then I waited for hours for a result. Finally around 3:30 a nurse came in and said I was being discharged. A little disoriented, I asked, “What about the MRI results?!?” She simply replied, “Oh, there wasn’t anything on the MRI, so you’re free to go.” I do know that night they were sending radiology test images to a doctor in New Zealand, who read the digital images and sent back a report. Maybe my ultrasound images got crossed up in the intercontinental ether. Maybe not. Lots of demonic attacks these days. I’ve never experienced one like this. I’ve always felt in prayer that if I willingly carry this cross of separation and isolation from my wife (who abandoned me 7 months after I had 4 strokes) and children, God would be merciful and we would all be reunited in the next life. But a doubt has been thrusting itself into the back of my mind that the situation with my daughter is SO severe, even this cross I offer up daily for my family might not matter in her case. Then I just got the impression to, as our old spiritual director would always tell us, “Be at peace, man. Be at peace.” And repeat, “Jesus I trust in you.” Please, folks, pray for my daughter Marie.
I'm praying for her. We all have children we are worried about. I read a story earlier this week about a man from Dublin who met Mother Theresa on a transatlantic flight. She gave him a rosary beads and requested he pray a rosary daily for the Holy Souls and that they would obtain help for him. Many miracles have happened for him since then. I have started doing this and requesting the Holy Souls to pray for my daughter. I will include your daughter also in my request. No matter how bad things look your prayers will be answered in God's time.
Prayers Brian for your daughter and yourself. You have come through many tumultuous trials may you persevere through this. O Blood and water gushing forth from Jesus who is the living font of Divine Mercy we trust in you!
We will pray for Marie, and for you Brian. The enemy always seems to know right where to pry. He is a liar and a relentless accuser of the Saints. Be at peace, and do not worry.
I too will offer todays prayers for you and for you daughter Marie. May Our Lady place Marie under her mantle.
You are not alone, BrianK. You have our prayers, as do so many other parents here. Maryrose had a wonderful suggestion about directing your prayers to the Holy Souls. They are so grateful for your assistance that they will not cease to bring your plight to God's throne. A dear friend calls the Holy Souls that she freed from Purgatory her "heavenly hostages".
May God give you the strength to carry on and may he be merciful with your daughter and draw her close to his love.
Brian - I have no doubts on your behalf that if you offer your silent suffering out of love for your daughter God will honour that in a miraculous way at the hour of his choosing. Graft all the suffering you have to the cross of Christ. Psalm 57:2 states, “I cry out to God Most High, to God, who vindicates me.”
Prayers Brian. I have always had really good health and never had children, so I really can't imagine. But prayers today. I hope I have time to get up for a Holy Hour today, so I'll be offering it up there for you if I do. They say your Health is your Wealth. But I am sure it is your Spiritual Health is your real wealth and I am sure you are fine there.
“ A dear friend calls the Holy Souls that she freed from Purgatory her "heavenly hostages". I love this.... yes, the holy souls are a great source of spiritual value. If our prayers release souls, they would indeed intercede on our behalf...we need only ask.
Now in the demonic propaganda of a liberal feminist witch like FUS’ former professor Rebecca Brattan-Weiss, a father is “abusive” and misogynistic for being a pro life traditional homeschooling Catholic. Please, again I beg, pray for this poor brainwashed girl, my daughter Marie, in the link below. She is a very troubled soul in a very dark place. She and her mother both suffer from a manic reaction to cymbalta, a nasty SNRI antidepressant. As a direct result of this common reaction to that medication, combined with the demonic propaganda of my daughter’s former FUS professor, a close knit family has been destroyed. By the way, this same “abusive” father (by Brattan-Weiss’ and her star student Marie’s definition) is also the father of a son in his fifth year of formation with the Norbertines at St. Michaels Abbey in Silverado CA. He is my oldest son, frater Silvan, the thurifer in this photo from their recent ordinations. Would an “abusive” family situation foster such a vocation? Strangely enough, despite all this, I’m at peace right now. I’ve cut off all communication with my family and I’m living a prayerful life, and life is much easier, simpler and calmer as a result. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thesh...g-out-as-queer-catholic-and-a-whole-lot-else/
You're wonderful Brian an inspiration. Prayers. I'm not quite sure what to say to raise you up a little. It's a pretty terrible situation. But... well the Holy Spirit seems to be doing the job for me. Think of Poor Cardinal Pell in Australia, that might cheer you up a bit, his situation is just dire.
Brian I am so so sorry for all of this the devil is putting you through for it is ultimately the devil. It is so devastating, so ugly and so unfair. I am praying a Rosary tonight for you. I have been praying for Marie right along but I can see my prayers must be for you tonight. Thank God He is giving you peace.
Thank you. Austin Ruse posted my daughter’s recent Patheos blog entry over on Facebook. Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen this. Honestly I haven’t really read it, except skimming a couple sentences. I just can’t bring myself to do so and frankly it would be self abuse at this point to read it in it’s entirety.
