For Jay's mother Alice Tyson had to be taken to hospital again today. She was in pain and barely coherent - after being fine yesterday. She really should be...
+PAX Since the 24th is First Vespers of Christmas, actually beginning the solemnity, today's antiphon is the last of the great O Antiphons. The Roman Church...
+PAX "O King of the nations [Gentiles] and Desired of all, You are the cornerstone that binds two into one: Come, and save humankind whom You formed out of...
+PAX "O Key of David and Scepter of the house of Israel: You open and none may close, You close and none may open. Come and deliver from the chains of prison...
+PAX "O Root of Jesse, You stand for an ensign of mankind; before You kings shall keep silence, and to You all nations shall have recourse. Come and save us...
+PAX PLEASE NOTE: My old aol address got copied into today's Holy Rule. It s still no good, just ignrre it, please. JL December 18 "O Adonai and Ruler of the...
+PAX A re-run, but hope it brightens your late Advent prayers! December 17 "O Wisdom, You came forth from the mouth of the Most High, and reaching from...
+PAX Prayers for all our Mexican brothers and sisters, on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, their patroness. May she bless all the Americas with her...
+PAX Owing to a nasty rain and ice storm, I have to get down the hill without a car, so will do tomorrow's Holy Rule tomorrow, instead of the night before as...
+PAX Pearl Harbor's attack, 63 years ago today, was not topped until 9/11. Now both stand out in the national US consciousness. Let us all remember, however,...
+PAX A blessed Feast of St. Nicholas to all! Prayers, please, for Jan, that she get the meds she needs quickly and for Elaine, very critically ill in ICU after...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Jan, a lot of problems, money, family, work, spiritual dryness and severe depression which immobilizes her. She REALLY needs to see a...
+PAX Prayers, please, for the grace of God to work in and through all at a Chicago prayer breakfast this morning. Also, belated prayers for Natalie on her...
+PAX Deo gratias!! Todd and Cathy, for whom we prayed some months ago because Cathy had an ovarian cyst during pregnancy have had a healthy, perfect little...
+PAX On World AIDS Day, please pray for all with HIV/AIDS, especially those poorest in Africa and other area who are dying because the cost of drugs to treat...
+PAX Please pray for Joann, who had to put her 11 1/2 year old dog to sleep, also for the repose of the souls of Susan and Robert, and the peace of Pat, their...
+PAX I am indebted to Sr. Diana, who sent me this wonderful quote. She is uncertain of its source, but thinks it may have come from a book entitled Orthodox...
+PAX Special prayers for all the Oblates of St. Leo Abbey, and continued prayers for the repose of the soul of Br. Dennis, their director. He was such a...
+PAX Prayers, please for Betty Coors on her birthday and for Richard, lapsed from his faith, for Bonnie, lots of life issues, needs God, and for vocations to...
+PAX Prayers, please, for the repose of the soul of Brother Dennis McCarthy, OSB, of Saint Leo Abbey, who died early this morning. A beloved and hard-working...
+PAX A Happy Thanksgiving to all our US readers! And may all our world-wide readers joins us today in thanking God for His many blessings! Every day is a good...
+PAX Prayers, please, for LiRee, 19, possibly paraplegic after a car accident, and for her family, prayers for Charles in Iraq, he has been granted a trip home...
+PAX Today, the Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, is traditionally a very special feast day for Oblates, rather like the day that Mary "made her...
+PAX Difficulties on the anti-virus system of the other machine, so prayer intentions and Holy Rule will come as separate posts today. JL Prayers for the happy...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Charles, stationed in a combat zone and hoping to make his final Oblation. Prayers that God may make that possible for him. Prayers,...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Siobahn and Nala, her dog. Nala is not improving....Prayers, too, for Mary [not our guesthouse Mary K.,] long-term kidney problems...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Siobahn and her injured dog, Lala. Lala has a lot of healing and surgery on her plate, plus the chance of gangrene and leg...
+PAX Prayers, please, for the spiritual, mental and physical health of the following, for all their loved ones and all who treat or care for them: Bev, slow...
+PAX A greater than usual Deo gratias today. Nala, the lost dog for whom we prayed crawled home, literally, cut up by barbed wire and with a broken leg. Heaven...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Anastasia, 14, serious, out of control mental problems, and for her parents, George and Ann Marie, also for Terri, MS, who has a mass...
