For A Friend With A Severe Illness, And For My Work

[beatitude]

I have a friend who has been suffering from a severe illness for several years now. She's bedbound and in terrible pain most of the time, too weak to sit up, unable to get out of bed even to use the toilet. For the past two years her only trips outside her bedroom have been to hospital in the ambulance, or to the nursing home in order to give her husband some respite from 24 hour care. She's normally very patient but right now she feels so upset and down. Could you please make her recovery a special intention during Lent?

 

Secondly, please pray for me. I've got four months left to gather data for my PhD, I need people to be cooperative, and most of all I need to work very, very hard.