Prayer Corner: ‘At the foot of the Cross’
Saint Eugene’s Prayer Group

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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 51
December 12, 2023

As a community,

Let us pray that the Lord will welcome into His Kingdom:

  • William H. Woestman, OMI, who died December 3, 2023 in Belleville, Illinois.  Fr. Woestman (born 14 November 1929) was an outstanding and generous professor of the Faculty of Canon Law at Saint Paul University, Ottawa.  We pray for the repose of his soul.

We hold these brothers and sisters in prayer, remembering their communities, their families and those who love them and those who provide their medical care:

  • For Taryn and Evan of Kelowna, we pray for a healthy pregnancy
  • For Owen, his family, and the Kamloops University boys’ volleyball team, after a horrific car accident November 29, that left one team member dead and Owen and one other, critically injured. We pray for courage, consolation, and healing.
  • For Ashley, Kyle, and Nathan of Edmonton as they deal with severe emotional trauma and addictions. We pray for support and their return to health.
  • For our friend Bob in Nanaimo who will be undergoing cancer treatments. We pray for courage, strength and healing.

We also pray for our Oblate family:

  • For the generous ‘yes’ of men to an Oblate life and of men and women to Oblate Association.
  • In humble thanks for the many graces received and the intentions granted, including the successful medical interventions our prayers sought and our hearts praised. In gratitude, we pray for enduring faith.

We rejoice in hope on Gaudete Sunday, as we approach the Third Week of Advent with hearts full of Joy

(Is 61:1-2A, 10-11; 1 Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28)

God of joy, it is in your love that we find lasting joy. Keep us from seeking happiness in things that will not last, for we brought nothing into this world and can take nothing out of it. Teach us instead to find joy in the gift of your Son, who came into this world with nothing, yet gave us everything. May his joy bubble up in our hearts and overflow to all we meet this Advent season. Amen.

Source: Little Way Chapel

We continue to pray for our Métis, Inuit and First Nations brothers and sisters.

SUBMITTING PRAYER REQUESTS

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 is undergoing cancer treatment. We pray for the complete remission of his cancer.

Privacy and Confidentiality: All requests are confidential to the prayer group and the Members’ section of OMI Lacombe Canada’s website. To facilitate confidentiality, we ask that you use first names, (understanding that prayers are being sought for a specified person for a specific reason), and the initial of the last name, only if necessary, in your prayer requests. While prayer members protect each other’s’ privacy as normal practice, please pay special attention to respect the privacy of all those non-members for whom we pray.  Confidentiality is of utmost importance and is adhered to at all times by members, volunteers and staff in Prayer Ministry at OMI Lacombe Canada.