THE MANTLE [Please send your prayer requests to pray@marianmantle.com or maryann@marianmantle.com] Marian Mantle Prayer Group Update For December 29, 2006 **************************************************
++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR ************************************************** ++MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR Hi, Everyone, I’m sure we all have blessings to count on this New Year’s Eve weekend, even if we are going through difficult times we can take comfort in knowing God and His mother are walking with us. A personal thank you to our prayer group leaders who took my request for prayers to your prayer meetings. We’ve been rejoicing that my second group of medical tests came back with good results—a 180 degree turn around in diagnosis from two weeks before! Again, I want to shout “prayer works!” The first draft of the newsletter “Silent Strength” was completed today so we should be contacting those who volunteered to get together for a mailing soon. My fervent prayer and that of the entire MMG crew is that the New Year will bring many reports of prodigals who have returned to the Faith. Our resolution here in the office is to increase our efforts to reach those who are hurting and help them turn their anxiety to peace and positive action on behalf of their prodigal loved ones. With your help and your prayers, I know this is possible! Now, I would like to share the following with you. My mom had a great devotion to the Infant of Prague. She credited the "Little Infant" as answering many prayers and sending many miracles into her life—a baby born when pregnancy seemed impossible, another baby who lived through a life-threatening illness on Christmas Eve. Mother told of miracles large and small that happened when she turned to the Infant of Prague. She truly understood His words "The More You Honor Me, the More I Will Bless You."
Her mother gave her the statue. When I was growing up we often saw a candle
burning in front of it. When Mom grew elderly, my sister gave her an electric
vigil light which she always kept lit. When she woke at night, she said the
light reminded her that Jesus was near--as if He were saying to her, "Do not be
afraid, your friend is with you." My sisters give that statue to me at her
funeral this summer because several years ago, the hands broke off when it fell
and I replaced them and restored the statue. Mom told me to remember that He
would bless me for it. At the time, I thought of St. Cyril to whom the Infant
came in a dream and asked him to restore the hands that had broken of the parish
statue during a war. When Bob and I visited the National Shrine of the Infant
of Prague in
Oklahoma while my son was still a prodigal, one thing I prayed was, “I gave you
back your hands. Please bring my son back to the Church.”
MaryAnn
Storm Novena
to the Little Infant of Prague
………………………………… [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.]
+Our Lady of
Sorrows, pray for us and for our children. |