Gabriela Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 In case you haven't seen in the Prayer Board, Ash Wednesday is in need of urgent prayer. I'm going to start a novena here to Our Lady of Lourdes for her. She's one of our Mediators of Meh, so please, as members of the Phatmass community, join in praying this novena for Ash's healing. DAY ONE O Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, virgin and mother, queen of heaven, chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Eternal Word and in virtue of this title preserved from original sin, we kneel before you as did little Bernadette at Lourdes and pray with childlike trust in you that as we contemplate your glorious appearance at Lourdes, you will look with mercy on our present petition and secure for us a favorable answer to the request for which we are making this novena. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Thank you Gabriela, this made me cry. I am honestly not attention seeking, what I am going through (red skin syndrome -- consequence of topical steroids) has been the most excruciating thing in my entire life. Unfortunately I don't have a caretaker and I have to keep working, so it's just been really hard. It's a very slow and painful recovery process. And at times downright humiliating to be in public when you have a severe skin condition. I am barely functioning at times. Because of this condition, any prospect of having kids at this point is pretty bleak with my life's timeframe, so I also have that to come to terms with. My New York agent (I'm an artist/illustrator) also more or less dumped me this week, but that's another story. Life has not been kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 No problem, Ash. I know you weren't attention-seeking, but when a Phatmasser suggests she'd rather die than go on living as she is now, you know the pain has to be bad. So we'll go on, and hopefully by day 9, you will want to as well! DAY TWOBe blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest yourself shining with light, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child Saint Bernadette: "I am the Immaculate Conception!" O Mary Immaculate, inflame our hearts with one ray of the burning love of your pure heart Let them be consumed with love for Jesus and for you, in order that we may merit one day to enjoy your glorious eternity. O dispenser of His graces here below, take into your keeping and present to your Divine Son the petition for which we are making this novena. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NadaTeTurbe Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 Ash, I can send you water from Lourdes. PM if you're interested. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makarioi Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 I can't imagine how difficult this for you! Prayers to you Ash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheresaThoma Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Prayers! I will offer up Mass for you tomorrow! I remember seeing something about red skin syndrome a while back it sounds excruciating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Praying for you, ash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 DAY THREE "You are all fair, O Mary, and there is in you no stain of original sin." O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. O brilliant star of sanctity, as on that lovely day, upon a rough rock in Lourdes you spoke to the child Bernadette and a fountain broke from the plain earth and miracles happened and the great shrine of Lourdes began, so now I beseech you to hear our fervent prayer and do, we beseech you, grant us the petition we now so earnestly seek. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NadaTeTurbe Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Also people, while we must trust Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Bernadette, we had a thread about Servant of God, Venerable, and Blessed : http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/140734-servant-of-god-venerable-or-blessed-who-need-our-prayers-to-become-saints/ with intercession's prayer. So please, at the end of the novena, don't stop praying for Ash, and maybe begin to ask a future Saint ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 DAY FOUR O Immaculate Queen of Heaven, we your wayward, erring children, join our unworthy prayers of praise and thanksgiving to those of the angels and saints and your own-the One, Holy, and Undivided Trinity may be glorified in heaven and on earth. Our Lady of Lourdes, as you looked down with love and mercy upon Bernadette as she prayed her rosary in the grotto, look down now, we beseech you, with love and mercy upon us. From the abundance of graces granted you by your Divine Son, sweet Mother of God, give to each of us all that your motherly heart sees we need and at this moment look with special favor on the grace we seek in this novena. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 One thing suffering does is illuminate the soul, greatly. This is without a doubt one of the worst things I've ever been through in my entire life, but it may be part of my salvation history and a process I have to go through to save my soul and have God possess it completely. That may sound odd but the sufferings I'm offering up may very well be the only significant and meaningful thing I've ever done in my life so far, because generally I have lived my life largely only for myself. That's not a pity party, that's just the truth. We come on here or to mass, and often love to flex our muscles about what observant and active Catholics we are, but God knows and sees every corner of our being and knows who we really are, for better or worse. I have no doubt that good will come from this. The last couple of days, knowing that I have people praying for me helps me get up in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordsSouljah Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 On it!!! Prain for ya Ash. I know I don't know what you are going through but sending hugs, prayers, iced tea, tissues, a great book, hot chocolate, a karaoke lullaby, new curtains, some original fiddle tunes, or just whatever makes you feel better. God love ya! From a sister to a sister. xx I've just been thinking: I've been a bit slack this lent and what not, but I have eczema on my hands (it's not a big deal but it is tight and cracks and bleeds) and I've pretty much just complained about it but for you I offer it. I'll pray for an Easter miracle. Btw Our Lady of Lourdes feast day was the day of my 'conversion' - my first real experience of God's love for me. I'll tug her mantle for you. Like a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 3, 2016 Author Share Posted March 3, 2016 DAY FIVE O Mary Immaculate, Mother of God and our mother, from the heights of your dignity look down mercifully upon us while we, full of confidence in your unbounded goodness and confident that your Divine Son will look favorably upon any request you make of Him in our behalf, we beseech you to come to our aid and secure for us the favor we seek in this novena. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 4, 2016 Author Share Posted March 4, 2016 DAY SIX O glorious Mother of God, so powerful under your special title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the gracious Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare and for the special favor we so earnestly seek in this novena. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Lady of Bernadette, with the stars of heaven in your hair and the roses of earth at your feet, look with compassion upon us today as you did so long ago on Bernadette in the Grotto of Lourdes. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 DAY SEVEN O Almighty God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary did prepare a worthy dwelling place for your Son, we humbly beseech you that as we contemplate the apparition of Our Lady in the Grotto of Lourdes, we may be blessed with health of mind and body. O most gracious Mother Mary, beloved Mother of Our Lord and Redeemer, look with favor upon us as you did that day on Bernadette and intercede with him for us that the favor we now so earnestly seek may be granted to us. May our friend and sister Ash Wednesday be healed. O Brilliant star of purity, Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Lourdes, glorious in your assumption, triumphant in your coronation, show unto us the mercy of the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, Queen and Mother, be our comfort, hope, strength, and consolation. Amen Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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