Thursday, September 22, 2005

More prayers for Rita

Thanks go out to the Curt Jester for alerting me to a post at The Anchoress' blog on praying for the people in the path of Hurricane Rita. She invites a whole list of the Communion of Saints to pray with us. This list includes:

Mary, the woman clothed with the sun
St. Michael the Archangel, patron of the first responders.
St. Raphael, the healer Archangel
St. Gabriel, the messenger Archangel
St. Joseph, the head of the Holy Family,
St. Thomas More, patron of politicians
St. Nicholas, patron of children


She is going to fast and pray more intensely for the next three days.

I do feel better knowing that not only do we have those on Earth praying and fasting in a special way for the goings on of our country and our world, but that those who now live in Heaven are joining us in prayer.

Perhaps now *is* the time to deepen our prayer life.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't it wonderful when we are blessed with immediate feedback, that we can understand, from our prayers? I haven't watched the news, but from what I heard, Rita wasn't near as bad as we thought she would be. This morning when I left karate with my dd, she was enjoying the breeze, cooling day from a hard workout. I knew that breeze was from Rita (Blessing us,while tormenting others). We stopped right there and said a prayer for the people in the path of Rita.

Staying in Balance said...

Oh, that's so cool! What a wonderful thing to share!

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