+PAX I am indebted to Doug Bouley for sending me this wonderful prayer for humility, so appropriate as we cover those steps in the Holy Rule now. God bless...
+PAX Please excuse my lateness today. Special prayers, please, for Sister Carol Coston, OP, who taught me in high school. She literally changed my life...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Davon, 12, sent home with terminal cancer, and for her parents and family. Davon herself was very active in the decision to stop...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Sara, found dead unexpectedly, for her husband and two small daughters, also for Greg, further biopsy on his lung needed, as first...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Evelyn, 90. She had to put her cat companion of 19 years to sleep and is so heartbroken she has lost the will to live. Prayers, too,...
+PAX As better than a foot of new snow, (which is still falling, blizzard conditions till this afternoon!) graces our front yard, a narrow ribbon of which I...
+PAX Prayers for the repose of the souls of Lillian, Jane and Bill and for Sr. Imelda Hoffman, OSB, of Holy Name Monastery, FL. She died at 87 after more than...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Agatha, who suffered a stroke yesterday, and for all her family. Prayers for a near our motherhouse in Scotland who were killed in a...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Sr. Lany Jo and her Dad. His chemo has not been effective and his cancer is progressing, prayers, too, for St. Pauls' her convent in...
+PAX THE REFLECTION WILL COME IN A SEPARATE POST TODAY, since I can't break out of one of the font types I cut and pasted. Sigh... JL Prayers for the...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Tom Grimaldi, and all his family. Tom, his wife Kasey and his Mom, and his baby daughter, Gianna are all with us this weekend for...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Deacon Anibal, beginning chemo for colon cancer, poor prognosis. Prayers of thanks and Deo gratias for Mary Jane, for whom we prayed,...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Jay, heart procedure and awaiting further cardiac surgery, and for Shirley, his wife and all his family, prayers, too, for Jane,...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Mrs. Crilly, recovering from an auto accident, also for Frances, 91, pneumonia, and for Peg, who also is hospitalized for pneumonia;...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Kathleen, 52, comatose since a stroke, for her family and her dear friend, Ellen. Kathleen's life support is being turned off today....
+PAX Prayers, please, for Loridonna, 34, terminal cancer, and for all her family. Prayers, too, for Michael, brain surgery for cancer tomorrow, his surgery may...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Dee's Mom, who may have suffered a stroke, for Dee and her husband, John, too. Prayers of thanks for Amy, who got a good job as a...
+PAX For the perfect will of God for Philip, vocational discernemnt and needing to find additional income to support himself in his search. [Non-text portions...
+PAX Prayers for the Catholic Churches and convents car-bombed in Iraq, apparently an orchestrated move to encourage emigration. Mercifully, none were killed. ...
+PAX Prayers, please, for Jodi and Scott, for their baby Elias, and for his grandparents. Elias was born premature with multiple medical problems and lived...
+PAX I ask your prayers, please, for a wonderful couple and family. Their marriage of over 50 years was recently ended by the death of one of the spouses, and...
+PAX A blessed Epiphany to all, for once the Sunday celebration falls on the traditional date. Deo gratias! Prayers, please, for a special intention of my own....
+PAX A blessed and grace-filled New year to all! Prayers, please, for the spiritual, mental and physical health of the following, for all their loved ones and...
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...
