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Do not worry about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Philippians 4:6-7

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. ... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue, ... a conversation with God.

Henri Nouwen

Our connection with one another as Maryknoll Affiliates and with Maryknoll includes praying for one another, whether that be for members of your own Chapter, Maryknoll Affiliates and Missioners around the world or for friends, families and other in need. We invite you to submit any request here that you would like our Maryknoll and Maryknoll Affiliate family to include in their prayers. Click on "add" below to submit a prayer.


Date Prayer Request Name
2010-03-02

Paul D'Arcy is in intensive care  at NYU. Double pneumonia.

Mary asks for prayers

 Fred Goddard
2010-03-01
Sister Rose Anna Tobin, M.M. "went home to God" today, March 2, 2010. Please keep her, her family and the Maryknoll Sisters in your prayers.
 Fred Goddard
2010-02-22 Lynn Houston emailed me that she is in PCCU (Pulmonary Critical Care Unit) with atrial fibrillation. Her husband was flying home from Boston when she went in. Lynn expects to go home tomorrow Fred Goddard
2010-02-15 Please keep in your prayers Maryknoll Affiliate Ginny McEvoy (Long Island) and Bob Doyle (Chicago West). Ginny was in the hospital but has returned home after surgery for a deviated nasal septum. Bob had cataract surgery in one eye and will be having it in the other. Thank you. Fred Goddard
2010-02-15

Ann Coady's (Twin Cities) mother, Martha Carroll, died Wednesday morning, February 10. Jim Coady said that Ann spent most of the past two weeks at the assisted living home in Eden Prairie where her mother lived. In his words, the angels came down as Ann's mother died in Ann's arms. 

A funeral service is planned for Saturday, February 20th at Christ the King Church in South Minneapolis.

 Fred Goddard
2010-02-06
Awanda Whitworth will have open heart surgery on Friday, Feb. 12th. Along with Fr. Gerry McCrane MM I ask that you keep her in your prayers.  
 Sandy Atha
2010-01-13

ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Nearly 1,050 children die from armed conflict in 2009

Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - Armed conflict killed hundreds of children and adversely affected many others in 2009 - the deadliest year for Afghan children since 2001. This is what the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM), a Kabul-based humanitarian group, has said in a recent declaration. ARM says that from January to December 2009, nearly 1,050 children died in suicide attacks, roadside blasts, air strikes and in the cross-fire between Taliban insurgents and pro-government Afghan and foreign forces. “At least three children were killed in war-related incidents every day in 2009, and many others suffered in diverse but mostly unreported ways,” a note from ARM Director Ajmal Samadi said.

Security incidents increased 65% in the last quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, according to a report of the UN Secretary-General entitled “The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security.” In 2009, there were at least 2,080 cases of grave violations of child rights. These included the recruitment of children as suicide bombers and foot soldiers, murder, rape, forced labor, and the denial of essential services by warring parties and criminal groups. Insurgent attacks on schools, aid workers and facilities also deprived thousands of children - boys and girls - of access to education and healthcare. 

ARM has asked the Afghan government and its international supporters to increase their efforts to reduce the impact of war on children and provide adequate services for them. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 11/1/2010)

 Bob Doyle
 
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