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Prayers for Prodigal Catholics
THE MANTLE We Join in Prayer Under the Mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary [Please send your prayer requests to pray@marianmantle.com or maryann@marianmantle.com]
++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR ++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR Hi, Everyone, Thank you for all your prayers for me when I spoke at St. John’s in Blue Springs, MO last week. This cough that continues to linger from a cold was in great form all that day. Through your prayers and God’s grace, I never had a problem all during the 45 minutes of the talk! This Sunday I ask for your prayers again when I speak at St. Joseph’s in Shawnee, KS. As always, I invite all of you to attend if you are interested. Come and say hello and let me know you are there. And please pray for me during the presentation. Without the prayers of the members of this Marian Mantle Group I would never be able to say what someone needs to hear. If you plan to be at St. Joseph’s this Sunday, the talk begins at 2pm. It will take place in the old school building which is directly South of the church. There will be a sign on the front doors directing you downstairs to the meeting room. If you need more directions, email or phone me or the church. This should probably go under the “What’s New” section, but I am so excited about it I want to tell you personally. If you have been to the web site lately, you will see that our image of Mary has changed. This is the same image of Our Lady of Sorrows that I use in my presentation. The California artist who painted the original, has graciously given me permission to use the image on the web site and to use it on a prayer card along with the prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows for the Return of Our Prodigal Catholics. When I discovered this image of Our Lady of Sorrows, I was led to realize that Mary had also watched a grown child walk straight into trouble, and through it all her trust in God stayed firm. I prayed that she would help me keep that same trust that God would care for my own child through it all. The image was with me at the first talk and travels with us to every presentation. Today it has several hundred names written on the mat surrounding it. Our Lady of Sorrows will wrap her mantle about you and your prodigal loved one, too. If you ask , she will walk with you and carry your prayer to her Son Jesus. May God bless all of us and grant us His Peace.
Peace, MaryAnn Archive Menu Top of Page PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR February 18, 2005 [Prayer intentions submitted to this group are shared only in the semi-weekly email update sent to members of the online prayer group. Please keep all of us and our prodigals in your prayers--just as we will pray for you.] We had 13 attendees [at our prayer group] last Thursday. Just amazing and true tribute our beloved Mother Mary and her blessings. We may not see blessings immediately with our prodigals however the prayers that are being lifted up by all of the beautiful voices in our rosary group bring us all such comfort. ~Kansas
Archive Menu Top of Page "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. ~Rev 1:17-18
Christ is alive. He is not the great “I was,” He is the great “I am.” He is not only a fact, but a living fact. ~excerpt from Streams in the Desert~
SILENT STRENGTH PRESENTATION “Silent Strength: Has Someone You Love Left the Church” talks are scheduled for +
February 20 at 2pm at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Shawnee, KS . (Two people
from that parish have already made plans to form a prayer group to pray for
prodigals.) Need more information? Please check the schedule on the web site for more information, http://www.marianmantle.com/schedule.htm or contact MaryAnn by email maryann@marianmantle.com or phone at 913-526-8977. If you would like help in getting this talk scheduled in your parish, please email maryann@marianmantle.com
PRAYER CARDS Prayer card with the image of Our Lady of Sorrows by artist Jay Crisafulli in color and the Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows for the return of our prodigals to the Catholic faith is available from the Marian Mantle Group. Suggested donation is $1.50. Size is approx 3”x5”. Currently, orders can be emailed to pray@marianmantle.com This will be available on the web site soon.
PRAYER GROUPS Please continue to pray for those who are working to form a new Silent Strength prayer group in Shawnee, KS.
NEWSLETTER What action are you taking to bring your prodigal back home? We welcome your input. It will help the rest of us in our own prayers. Please tell us about it. We also need articles of 200-500 words for the next issue. Please email editor@marianmantle.com Meanwhile, please keep praying. If you would be interested in helping with the newsletter in some way, please let us know by email or phone. At Marian Mantle we can always use some help somewhere.
PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORY** --If you are seeing prayers answered, we want to hear about it.**
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