Prayer Corner: ‘At the foot of the Cross’
Saint Eugene’s Prayer Group
Members of the Saint Eugene Prayer Group commit to offering these intentions daily in their own manner of prayer. All members of OMI Lacombe Canada are highly encouraged to actively pray for the requested intentions.
Week 17
April 28, 2025
As a community, we pray
- For Blain Young of Saskatoon, Corrine Pambrun’ life partner, who had a very serious slip and fall. Blain is now recovering in the Saskatoon City Hospital until he is strong enough to return home. We pray for healing and recovery as Blain undergoes daily physio to assist him as his bone continues to heal without surgery.
- For the repose of Fr. John Greene, OMI, who died April 20, 2025 at Mount St. Joseph in Vancouver. As we pray for John’s eternal peace, we also pray for the members of his Oblate community at Pandosy Place as well as the members of his family and his many friends.
Fr. John Greene, OMI
- For the repose of Fr. Terrance McNamara, OMI, who died April 28, 2025, at Yaletown House in Vancouver. As we pray for John’s eternal peace, we also pray for the members of his Oblate community at Pandosy Place as well as the members of his family and his many friends.
Fr. Terrance McNamara, OMI
- For the repose of Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) who died April 21, 2025 in Rome. In our worldwide mourning and collective sadness as Catholics, we pray for the eternal rest of Pope Francis, whose humility, mercy, care for creation, and attention to the “peripheries” of both the Church and society will be an enduring benediction to those who follow.
- For Moses Wafula Khisa, OMI, from the Kenya Mission ordained to the Diaconate on April 25, 2025. May the Lord, through the intercession of Saint Eugene, grant Moses a joyful spirit of missionary discipleship.
A Prayer of Healing
O! Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, we ask for your intercession as the voice of the first peoples’ of our common homeland to help us protect our ecology, to care for Creation and to support each other in gratitude.
We pray that we, whether Indigenous or non-Indigenous, may draw from the example of your short faith-filled life, a profound hope in the Resurrection. May we strive for an authentic relationship of mutual respect, friendship and joy, as brothers and sisters, on a path of healing and reconciliation.
May your prayer ever be our prayer: “Jesos Konoronkwa”, Jesus, I love you.
ADD OUR VOICES TO YOUR INTENTIONS … SUBMIT YOUR PRAYER REQUEST.
EMAIL: prayers@omilacombe.ca. All emailed intentions (received by Monday noon ET) will be acknowledged and added for communal prayer for two weeks. Please consider brevity and form, as in the following example: For whom, from where, for what, other. Example: For John S, in Fort Simpson, who has begun cancer treatment. We pray for the remission of his cancer and his perseverance.
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