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July 2010
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foodforthesoul ANECDOTES10 Jul 2010 09:47 am
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THE ESSENTIAL FILIPINO take two
THE GYPSY GIRL
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Author’s note.
THE ESSENTIAL FILIPINO take one DISCOVERING DREAMS,
the original, which was published March 2010, drawing a lot of Internet reactions, is also given below.
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to nomads and wanderers
the best way to fight violence
is with a calm peaceful spirit
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to nomads and wanderers
material survival is peripheral
spiritual survival is essential
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It was rush hour. I was riding a jeepney in Alabang. A young girl, about 15 years old, hopped in. She had dirty clothes and un-shamppoeed hair. She gave an envelope to each passenger, now a new trend in begging. It was better than the hard-sell stretching of a hand. When a passenger did not accept the envelope, she simply put it on his or her lap. I found that irritating and rude. To avoid getting the envelope, I waved my hand and gave a non-verbal facial expression to show my disgust. She just smiled, turned away, and finally sat behind the driver.
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She sang a strange song softly, hardly audible in the din of traffic. But I knew from the tune that she was a red-blooded sea gypsy of the Badjao tribe. I have been to their area as a journalist. They come from remote islands in Southern Palawan and the Sulu sea, the backdoor to Borneo. Extreme poverty has forced the Badjaos to the big cities hundreds of kilometers away to beg. Badjao children swim in the violent swirl of giant ships maneuvering in urban ports to dive for coins thrown by passengers.
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The driver cursed and shouted at her to get out of the jeepney. He hit the steering wheel violently in anger, and made a move as if to go down and drag her out just to scare her. The girl simply smiled, not embarrassed, and stood her ground. She was used to being treated that way in the cities. Her gentle spirit was beyond the reach of the angry driver. No one could hurt her unless she willed it. The cruel outside world was at the tips of her finger. She stopped singing out of respect for the angry driver. She had no grudge against him. The angrier the driver, the calmer she became. No one could touch her soul. The other passengers looked at her with amazement. My irritation instantly turned into awe.
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Finally she stood up. I frantically searched for a coin and found a five peso piece. I gave it to the Princess of the Sulu Sea, no envelope. She hardly looked at me and simply nodded slightly to show her thanks. Other passengers started filling up the envelope with coins. It was a big haul, if I may say. One old lady gave her a twenty peso paper bill, a jackpot for a beggar. The driver did her a big favor.
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And so it was that thoughts lingered as I walked home. I had done extensive research on Badjaos years ago. Together with the Agtas of the Cordilleras, they were the last remnants of a vanishing race of pure nomads, people who have not shed off their wanderlust. They are the Filipino’s ancient forgotten heritage. The Agtas were the nomads of the mountains. The Badjaos were the nomads of the sea. The Princes was the nomad of the city.
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I saw the glint of wanderlust in the Princess eyes. I could sense her adventure spirit. She could not have come here hundreds of kilometers from where she came from without money if she was not adventurous. Badjao children normally stow away in crowded passenger ships. In a sense, she was caught between two forces, two conflicting worlds – her spiritual world of nomadic hunter-gatherer survival and the material world of income survival she knew nothing about.
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Among the Eskimos of the Aleutian islands, the nomads of the icy tundras, survival dictated that the first to eat were the hunters right in the kill zone. They got the best part of the still-warm meat and ate it raw and bloody. Among the Badjaos of the Sulu Sea, the survival logic was the exact opposite. The hunters were the last to eat the fish catch, after the women and children had their fill. For the Princess, survival was pooling all they could beg for among her small group into an evening banquet of rice and, say, almost rotten tomatoes with salt. They live for the day. Long term meant a week and they do not even think of that. One step at a time, that was how they survived.
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The Badjaos were so peaceful that if warlike Tausugs or Samals encroached on their turf, they simply left. I saw this in the Princess when confronted by the violent driver. The Badjaos valued peace and freedom more than the land. They will not fight for it. They had no sense of territory because their ancestors were bred for eons by vast unchartered seas. Now that the world was getting crowded, they have not adopted to territory and are in crisis. They roam freely forever and become victims of crowdedness. They have no place to go, yet they like it that way, even though they have become extremely poor in a crowded world of settlers. The material world was peripheral to their spiritual survival.
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Badjaos live in makeshift houseboats. In Sitangkay, a tiny island close to Borneo, they run during a storm to the ‘safety’ of their boats rather than the safety of the land. The only time they stay on land was to bury their dead and to play basketball in the courts of the Christian settlers. The Princess, I would surmise, huddles with a small group of her kind in the empty dark sidewalks behind the big mall. I see them there sometimes.
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Once I asked a Badjao boatman how long it would take to get to our island destination. He dipped his hand into the sea, feeling how strong the current was, then pointed to the sky, something like 2 p.m. I guessed. Crude but ingenious celestial and ocean-tide navigation. Pure nomadic wisdom.
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Anthropologists have gained little headway in learning about the Badjao mystique. They are hard to educate or influence. They are not really stubborn, only different in the way they view the world. They are children of the universe.
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There are valuable lessons the Princess gives us in our extremely materialistic world of cellphones and computers, of anger and violence. The Princess is a beautiful girl inside with a radiant smile, a soft song, a peaceful spirit money cannot buy. Do not be fooled by the external, by her dirty dress or un-shampooed hair. She is a Princess. We just have to somehow understand her.
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in our superiority complex
we want to educate ancient people
about civilized society
we forget that they can educate us
in their ancient wisdom
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THE ESSENTIAL FILIPINO part one
discovering dreams (prayer31 in www.sisterraquel.com)
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you must empty your cup
so He can fill it
you must give away your riches
so He can enrich you
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a british journalist breezed into manila
with an assignment to write
about ‘the essential filipino’
he smiled confidently over his easy assignment
relishing the free tour as complementary reward
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for three days, he ran around searching
he rejected the business district of makati
which reminded him of cold and calculating london
he went to historical places in intramuros
but saw only a glimpse of the past not the present
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next he tried the native cuisine at market market
delicious yes, but nothing on the essential filipino
he was getting not only tired but also nervous
that he has not found his ‘easy’ story yet
time was running out, he had to go back in two days
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he wasted the next day on inconsequential probes
into malls, churches, monuments
on his last day, he wrote his editor saying that
no one can possibly write about the essential filipino
in so short time, he asked for an extension
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he was expecting a week, the editor was kind
but he was given only one lousy day extension
in desperation and panic, on his last day
he took a wild stab at marketplaces
in singalong, he sat on a curb too tired to think
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then he realized his mistake
he was looking for places not people
the thought hit him like a terrorist’s bomb
the essential filipino was a person not a place
how stupid could he be, he thought
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sitting on the curb in exasperation
he began looking at faces that passed by
he noticed a boy selling fishballs from a rolling cart
he had a torn shirt and was barefoot
what attracted him was not the fishballs
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the boy gyrated like michael jackson
unmindful of the noisy crowd around him
the journalist approached him
noticing the earphones he wore
he instantly realized it was loud music
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music that drowned the noise
and transported the boy into his inner garden
the journalist had to scream
in order to bring him back into the real world
the boy removed the earphones
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JOURNALIST
Hey, what are you doing?
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BOY
Fishballs, sir, wanna buy?
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JOURNALIST
Nice earphones, huh?
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THE BOY GIVES THE EARPHONES TO THE JOURNALIST, WHO PUTS THEM ON. HE INSTANTLY REMOVES IT, ALMOST FALLING FROM THE DEFEANING ROCK MUSIC. THE BOY SMILES AND PUTS THEM BACK ON.
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JOURNALIST
Hey, wait, we’re talking.
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THE BOY REMOVES THE EARPHONES AND HANDS HIM THE TINY MP3 PLAYER FROM HIS POCKET. THE JOURNALIST EXAMINES IT.
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JOURNALIST
Where did you get this? This is expensive, first-class mp3 player with first-class earphones. They don’t match your air-conditioned shirt.
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HE FLICKS THE HOLE IN HIS SHIRT.
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BOY
I saved income from selling fishballs for one whole year just to buy that. Nice huh?
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JOURNALIST
Why don’t you buy a new shirt and shoes?
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BOY
No need. Not important. Waste of hard earned money. Clothes don’t make me happy, only music.
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JOURNALIST
You kill yourself selling fishballs the whole day for a year just to buy those?
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BOY
Why not? What would you buy? What is your dream? Me, this is my dream, but it is no longer a dream. It’s real now. I don’t need shirts and shoes, just a dream of dancing to music. What is your dream anyway?
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AT FIRST, THE JOURNALIST IS AT A LOSS FOR WORDS BECAUSE HE REALLY HAS NO ‘DREAM’ IN MIND, OR PERHAPS HIS DREAM IS TO FILE A STORY, THAT IS ALL, BUT THAT IS NOT REALLY A ‘DREAM’. A DREAM MUST BE SPIRITUAL AND FOREVER, AS IMPLIED IN THE BOY’S WORDS.
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JOURNALIST
I guess I have no dream. Or yes I have a dream but it is not a good dream.
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BOY
Too bad. You must be very sad. Buy yourself an mp3.
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JOURNALIST
But that is not my dream.
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BOY
So what is your real dream. There must be something you really really like.
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JOURNALIST
I have been working so hard to survive that I forget what I really really like. My life is work work work.
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BOY
But I also work work work. You must find your true dream and go for it.
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and so the british journalist
was beginning to discern the essential filipino
he was amazed how in his dire poverty
the boy rejected the very materialism
that was gradually destroying affluent society
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the essential filipino was a free spirit
who was poor and happy all at once
perhaps it came from his insular environment
or from his distant past, his austronesian roots
of nomads in tiny boats roaming the vast seas
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the journalist took out a notebook
and started writing frantically
the boy peered into his writing, trying to read
and said aloud ‘essential filipino … free spirit
spiritual dreams … nomadic boat people …
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BOY
(Grabbing the notebook.) I know this is your dream. You just don’t know it. What you write here is your dream.
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JOURNALIST
(Stunned at the boy’s perception.) I … I … I guess so.
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BOY
It is not a guess. You know it. Once you know your dream, you must go for it, or else you will be very sad and soon you will die because you know you have no more reason to live for. You must go for a dream or die. You cannot live just to live, can you?
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JOURNALIST
Guess not. Thank you for telling me my dream.
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ALMOST IN TEARS, THE JOURNALIST HUGS THE BOY AND GIVES HIM A HUNDRED PESO BILL. THE BOY IS STUNNED.
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BOY
What for?
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JOURNALIST
Because you help me find my dream that was right in front of my nose all this while.
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BOY
Yes, you cannot see things that are too near. You have to move back to see.
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JOURNALIST
Go, buy yourself more music.
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it took thirty minutes for the journalist
to write his story at his hotel
in ten electronic milliseconds
the story was at the editor’s desk
the editor replied
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‘this is the best story yet for a long time
our staff writers write about absurd things
what you wrote is an important wisdom
for the affluent world from the impoverished world
stay there for a month and write me more’
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the journalist had a field day
his dream, like the boy, was now a reality
he would hang around with street vendors
later, he moved to the countryside
and wrote about the wisdom of farmers and fishermen
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he immersed himself in the essential filipino
poor, happy, equipped with a different kind of wisdom
unknown in the affluent world
he married a kalinga native and wrote a book
a best seller entitled ‘discovering dreams’
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it was a poorlittlerichboy
selling sticks of fishballs for six US cents each
which ignited his soul
the essential filipino whose ancient wisdom
was hard to find in civilized places he knew
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eastwind
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where goodness abounds
there also is evil lurking
to sow confusion and hatred
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where evil abounds
there also is virtue lurking
to sow harmony and peace
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the tension between good and evil is everywhere
we perpetrate one or the other
the destiny of the world is up to each of us
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mahatma gandhi’s principle of non-violence
revolves around the concept that –
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peace is a more powerful weapon than war
a smile is more powerful than a sneer
a whisper is louder than a scream
the calm is in the eye of the storm
and total darkness recedes
when a single candlelight glows
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we pedestal great men, creating semi-gods
like michael jackson and john lennon
not knowing the fame and fortune we bestow
would devour their spirits and consume them totally
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of what use is the tall pedestal
men tell us to scale
when we would grow into giants
and fall with a resounding crash
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better to be a happy unknown ant
than a sad noted giant
there is virtue in anonymity
and folly in popularity
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THE LORD REIGNS IN CYBERSPACE
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amdg
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prayer request bulletin08 Jul 2010 07:51 pm
prayer request bulletin 47 – July 09, 2010
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IF YOU PRAY FOR OTHERS TO BE HEALED, YOU ARE ALSO HEALED
JOIN THE PRAYER WARRIORS, EMAIL REQUEST TO
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ANSWERED PRAYERS
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Hello,
I just wanted to thank you all for all your prayers, I had recently requested for your prayers and I have felt so much better since last week after I have asked for your healing prayers. Please continue to pray for me as I also work in an environment that is toxic and so stressful. There is so much back stabbing going on. I pray that I may find a peaceful working environment. Thank you once again for all your prayers.
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Lela T
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Greetings everyone!
I would like to say thank you for all the people who prayed for me (I am one of the people at prayer request bulletin 40 – April 02, 2010). No I haven’t received any of my prayers yet . I still have no job nor did the case I filed at the CSC have been resolved and some creditors still send me final notices. But what I’ve been experienced and still experiencing is the emotional and financial support that our family is receiving since the day I’ve send my prayer. We’re not rich but we can get by our daily expenses especially food. My brother is doing well on his first job. All of us in the family have health concerns but amazingly we always get extra money to afford check-ups and medicine and we’re getting better gradually especially with the healing oil. I learned new skills (computer programming) while I stayed at home and I was given a chance to participate in a game show on TV. That gave my family time to be together. I didn’t won anything but having to experience joining a show with my family’s support is already considered a blessing. We all feel lucky. Our Parish Priest said last Sunday during Homily that we have to thank God even if He haven’t given our wish or not seemed to answer our prayers. Because God knows everything and Only He knows when, where and how He is going to grant our prayers. So we have to say “God thank you for thinking of my welfare. I haven’t received my wish yet because I know you have other (better) plans for me. My wants haven’t materialized yet but you always make your presence felt. When I’m scared it only last for a short time because I know as long as You are with me no one can harm me. I thrust and love you.” So no matter how long it takes for my problems to be solved. No matter how many companies who will reject me for a job or how many collecting agency who will threaten me. Bring it on! Disappointments, rejections and embarrassments no longer paralyzed me for I’m doing no wrong to others and God is always on my side. Lord thank you so much. I will always synchronize my watch with your time. Amen!
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BACILL
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THE LORD HAS ANSWERED YOUR PRAYERS. HE DID NOT GIVE YOU DIRECTLY WHAT YOU ASKED FOR. BUT PERHAPS HE GAVE YOU SOMETHING WHICH I FEEL IS BETTER ACCORDING TO HIS WAY.
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Dear Sister Racquel ad Prayer Warriors,
This is actually my second time to write an email to you. First off, I would like to share the good news. After using the healing oil for a month or two, I found out that I am 4 weeks pregnant. Because of that answered prayer, my husband and I want to donate some money. I know it is just a little amount but I believe that I will serve GREAT purpose to your ministry. By the way, how can I donate? Can I have your contact number so I can coordinate with you. Thank you for your continuous prayer for the needy people like us. God bless! Yours truly,
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Mrs. Deus-B
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WE HAVE A NEW POLICY NOT TO ACCEPT DONATIONS IN CASH OR KIND. IF YOU ARE REALLY GRATEFUL TO THE LORD, JOIN OUR MINISTRY BY BEING A PRAYER WARRIOR. JUST REQUEST BY EMAIL. BERNIE.
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PRAYER REQUESTS
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PLEASE NOTE THAT PRAYERS TRANSCEND TIME. IF PRAYERS ARE ‘LATE’ OR ‘ADVANCED’, THE LORD KNOWS IT.
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Please pray for the repose of the souls of three classmates who all died within a week, RR, Candy, and Chito H.
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bernie
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Dear Sister Raquel,
Please pray for Esther Rachel B. She is suffering from chronic renal failure and now confined at the National Kidney Institute. She may either undergo kidney dialysis for life or have kidney transplant. Please help us pray also that the Bishop will grant us permit to propagate Our Mother of the Eucharist and Grace in the Diocese of Sorsogon. Thank you so much.
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Alma Consuelo E
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Good day! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Teresita S, a new prayer warrior. Please help me pray for my apo who was born prematured last May 31.Currently he is still at the Intensive Care Unit of the Asian Hospital. I trust the Lord that He will give us Qualel as a gift to us. He really need our prayers for his immediate recovery and praying that he will be discharge from the hospital soon healthy and a normal like other babies. Please intercede for us to the Lord that our wish will be granted. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Godbless us and especially Qualel.
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Teresita
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Hi Bernie,
I ask for prayers from the ministry for financial help. I just receive my salary increase. It is half of the increase I asked for but it was back dated to Jan this year. Although my credit cards will not be fully paid by my salary differential, I have more than enough to cover the minimum payment and for my urgent debts. Again, on behalf of the ministry, please accept my endless thanks for your prayers. Thank you again and again. Please call me Fe in case you want to publish my letter.
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Fe
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Good mornig… nais ko po sanang humingi ng tulong sa inyo para sa aking ama. natstroked po sya last year 2000. Hanggang ngayon continuous p rin ang gamutan. Ang maintenance nya. Ok lng sana kung ganun lng.. pero lst 2008. dumaing n sya na masakit tuhod, hirap makalakad. At hirap n sya tumayo. kung walang aalalay sa kanya ay di nya magwang tumayo. naaawa po ako sa kalgayan nya. Kung pwede lng n maalis ko ang sakit pero pano? 65 years old n sya. Retired phil marines. Sabihin n lng natin n may konting pera. pambili ng gamot. pambili ng kailangan pero ganun naman ang nararamdaman nya parang useless lhat. Katulad kgabi, ngising po ako at gusto nyang umihi. di ko n ginising ang aking ina. ako nlng po. Hirap ko syang binangon at dun n lng sya sa may higaan nya umihi. Hirap n sya maglakad. Tuhod nya masakit daw. Pati mga daliri nya sa paa, tumtigas n rin kse parand dun sya kumukha ng pwersa para makalakad, makatayo. Masakit sa dibdib n makita ko si tatay n ganun. Alam kong hirap n hirap sya pero di lng nya to sinasabi sa amin. Kay po pls tulungan nyo po ako. Ano po ang mag paraan at gamot n pwede sa kanya. Marami p ako gusto ishare sa inyo pero limited lng time ko at may work din me ngayon. hindi rin me pwede Salamat po,
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Nora
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Dear sister Raquel, I have got to know you from You Tube and from praying the healing prayer with father Fernando. I am so amazed with you and have sent on a few requests for prayer as well. I know you must get thousands of mail and requests and now I am adding to your long list of prayer requests. I hope you do receive my email and read it personally because I feel I need to be in touch with you. Thank you in advance and I hope to hear back from you as well. God bless you for being so caring and wonderful to all us sinners. Now let me get on with my request for prayer and major healing. I don’t know how but things have gone wrong not only for myself but my entire family. We all seem to be sick including our dog, Charlie.
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Eve Marston
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DEAR EVE, WE HAVE RECEIVED YOUR PRAYER REQUEST FOR YOUR HUSBAND AND DOG PREVIOUSLY AND WE HAVE DULY POSTED IT. HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE INTRO OF YOUR LETTER. THANKS AND GOD BLESS. BERNIE.
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Dear Sister Raquel,
Greetings! I would like to beg you and the Prayer /Warriors to please help me help me pray for the healing of the tumor on my right parotid gland.This has been with me for four years already and honestly speaking I have been worrying about this everyday. Please help me Sister. In Jesus name and thru the intercession of Mama Mary I pray that I will be healed. Sincerely yours,
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Vivian
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Sister Raquel,
Please pray for my friend, Genevieve Q, who is really sick with cancer. We ask for spiritual, emotional and of course physical healing for our friend, Gen. Her cancer started from her breast and has spread to the other organs of her body. A few months ago, a tumor was detected in her brain. She has already lost 80% of her vision and is suffering from periodic seizures. She is given 6 months to live. Please pray also for her husband, Harold, for spiritual and emotional strength at this very difficult time. Her husband is also suffering from diabetes. Thank you very much for including them in your prayers. Very truly yours,
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Gerry R
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DEar Sr.Raquel and Bro. Bernie,
I am becoming sickly these past few years. Last 2006, i was diagnosed with renal failure and what is bothering me so much now is Asthma. Please pray for my physical healing and pray for all my concerns regarding my family. I will be the sole bread winner of the family coz my husband is retiring soon. Please pray for a good paying job for our eldest son, and a successful and fruitful business for our 2nd son. Spiritual guidance and protection for our 3rd child who is still studying and part time working. I am so blessed to received the healing oil, and I am very happy to tell you that I was able to share it with 3 others who are sick of cancer and also to their loved ones. I am at present sick with asthma and still have faith that with your prayers and so with the prayer warriors and of course the healing oil, I will be back to work soon. Please also pray for my brother in law who is at present in Kuwait and will undergo a heart operation. His family is very much dependent on him and because he is sick the family is financially drain. What is painful to my sister is the reason that she cant be near with her husband. God is good all the time and with Him nothing is impossible……. thanks for being with us always.
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m.a.
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May I please request for a prayer for my mother, MRS. FLORENCIA P, who was diagnosed to have a stage 4 cervical cancer. We still need her. She’s really a great mother to us all – his siblings, daughters-in-law, son-in-law and grandchildren. Please extend her life more. Thank you.
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Gie PJ
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Please pray for the total healing of mind, body and spirit of my daughter, Emily. She is under the grip of alcoholism, depression, anxiety and smoking. She is physically fighting continual back pain. She has no job and has shut herself away from life and from God. Also, please pray for my son to return to the Catholic faith and to realize his infant son must be baptized to become a member of the Catholic Church and to remove the stain of original sin. Please pray my family and I always do God’s will and watch for the signs to lead us down the path of righteousness and truth. Amen.
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ROSE H
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We will pray in agreement with your prayers, God bless you,
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Cheryle D FMI
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THANK YOU FOR LINKING US TO YOUR GROUP’S PRAYER EFFORTS. IT MAKES A LOT OF DIFFERENCE. THE POWER OF PRAYER IS COMMUNAL. THE MORE WE ARE THE MORE POWERFUL OUR PRAYERS. BERNIE
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Hi Mother,
Please ask Jesus to restore my health. I have type II Diabetes. Please also heal damaged parts caused by excess sugar in body. I do exercise, eat small meals, take walks, take medicine, and herbs and still unable to control sugar levels they keep going high. I have problems with eyes and skin rashes, eczema and ring worms and itch over lower part of body. Please respond.
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Dolly M
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Dear Sister in christ i am kindly request for your immediate miracel prayer for me to get an immediate financial help from my sponser Mr. Alawi and i am sending this e mail from Oman. Dear Sister in christ i am 47 yrs old and i am disablity person and i am struggling in my whole life and i am struggling in financially in very badly and hard time and i am having an anxiety and fear for more than 6 yrs and i am taking a medicine also and please cure me right now. Dear Sister in christ please kindly pray for me to get an immediate miracel to get a financial help from my sponser Mr. Alawi and he never talk to me about 13 yrs and please kindly pray for me to get an immediate financial help from my sponser Mr. Alawi. Thank you Sister, yours in christ, GOD BLESS YOU.
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Justin B
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Praise be Jesus & Mary, I am ma theresa married for almost 11 yrs now, and still hoping for a child, please include us in your prayers that one day god our loving father will hear us, kindly also include my adopted daughter ilona x, that she will grow up with respect to us & others, God fearing and a good person. Please include my father reynaldo who is suffering from diabetes, asthma & high blood pressure this ailment makes him masungit and magagalitin, please include him in your prayers and my mother gloria to be healthy & strong in all the problems she will be encountering everyday. PLease pray also for my husband raymund he is a policeman please include him in your prayer to please always guide & protect him in all dangers in his tour of duty. PLease also include my job I am praying for my transfer of assignment I am working far from our place for 7 yrs and i applied for a transfer near our place, please help me to pray that it will be granted. Thank you to our dear lord for giving us a people like you who give us hope & help us to whisper to HIM our prayers & request. May the lord always guide & bless you all.
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Maritess
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Please pray for Raian R and for his healing. He currently has high blood pressure, hemorrhoids, and is prone to different cancers, stroke and heart attacks. He will promise to be healthy and serve God when healed. Thank You.
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RAIAN
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Dear Prayer Family,
Please pray for Sheila B, who has breast cancer that has traveled to the bone. She is very faith filled, a beautiful person who trusts in God. We ask for a healing according to the will of the Father, in the holy name of Jesus, through the powerful intercession of the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, St. Raphael, and all the holy angels and saints!
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Please pray for Margaret W who is suffering from severe complications from pancreatic cancer. She is a dear soul who has worked so hard for the Lord. Thank you so much dear prayer family.
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Please pray for healing for Sis. Deity L wife of Bro. Robert of CFC-FFL, Work with the Poor Sis. Deity is presently in the ICU of Las Pinas Doctor’s Hospital after having suffered a seizure. Merciful Lord. We lift up to you the present situation of our sister Deity. Touch her entire being with Your healing touch. By Your Holy Spirit guide the medical team to apply the proper remedies for her condition. Restore her to the fullness of health so that she can go on serving you. We make this prayer in the name of Jesus our Savior, through the intercession of our Mother Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace. Amen.
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LAYLA
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My dear Sister Raquel, Brother Bernie and my co-prayer warriors,
Kindly pray for Maria Jo DR who is now critical after a heart attack. Thank you very much,
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Edith
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dear sister Raquel and the prayer warriors, please pray for my daughter because she has colds and cough. please pray for her… hindi po kase cya pumasok ngaung hapon kase masakit ang kanyang ulo at may singaw po sya….
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Kathryn
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Dear Sis. Raquel
Pls. pray for my Bro. Ariel T for his complete healing. (brain tumor) And also pray for his strength to face this trials in his life. thank you for the prayer.
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Gerlie
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Kindly please include me in your prayer for my healing from hypothyroid, heart valve prolapse, stomach ulcer, gallstones. I suffered from this ailments for almost more than 8 years now. I cannot go to doctors and clinic due to financial problem. I am also afraid to undergo any medical procedure because of body weakness and i am afraid I may not survive it. I also suffer from panic, anxiety attack and also suffer spiritual oppression. Your prayer for my healing and deliverance means so much to me. Thank you for your kind accommodation to my request. God bless you.
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Napoleon B
Cavite/ Philippines
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Dear Friends,
Thank you for your e-mail and prayer requests. Your intentions have been placed in our Adoration Chapel, will be prayed for round-the-clock and included on our daily intention sheet through July 5. Sending you & yours an abundance of care & prayers. Peace & All Good.
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S. Constance
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DEAR S. CONSTANCE THANKS. GOD BLESS YOU. IN A SENSE YOUR COMMUNITY AND OURS ARE PART OF A UNIVERSAL PRAYER WARRIOR GROUP WORKING TOGETHER. Bernie. In behalf of Sister Raquel and the Mother Ignacia Healing Ministry
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Pls. Pray for my friends, Gie P and for Malou R. they both had operations, one for breast cancer and the other for an unknown disease. They are both breadwinners of their families. Pls. keep them safe for the sake of their children. Thank you all dear prayer warriors, Sister Raquel and Bro. Bernie. Most of all THANK YOU LORD for helping us, the sick, the homesick, desperate patients. May they all survive the pain and the misery! It is so heart-breaking to read that so many people around the world particularly Filipinos are afflicted with very serious ailments! Thank you also for including me in your prayers. I need it very much for all my serious ailments and temporal needs. I don’t know how to solve them. I just need strength O Lord to carry on!
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Linda
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please pray for wayne he has emphysema and needs the Lord to touch and heal his lungs and heart. Dixie has diabetes and just has had a bout with MRSA and needs the Lord to touch her .Thank you for your prayers. Bless you in Jesus precious name.
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Sandy
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Good morning po. Ako po si Ann Janette K mother po ni Joshua na ngayon po ay nasa Intermediate ICU ng PCMC. Im asking for your prayers na sana po makauwi na kami and if Gods plan na matraech si Joshua mangyari nawa po. Im afraid na baka pagtumagal pa kami lalo po sa hospital kung anu ano pa pong sakita ng makuha nya. Were in the hospital since April 10, 2010. Pls pray din po sa mag batang kasama ni josh sa rm nya. 5 po sila dun sa intermidate icu, and pray also to their parents na matanggap nila ang pagkakasakit ng mga anak nila ay di parusa bagkus ay biyaya. May gusto lang iparating sa kanila si Lord. Maaaring nakakalimot na sila sa ating lumikha. Sana ang pagdarasal ay di lamang sa mga panahong nangangailangan sila kung di sa lahat ng oras ng ating buhay. Magpasalamat sa lahat ng biyayang natatangap maging ito ay maliit o malaki. Ask ko lng po yung oil po b kailangan nasa cloth or pwede po sa hand directly ilagay tpos ipahid sa part n gusto mong lagyan?
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Ann JK
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PWEDE RIN PONG DIRECT SA KAMAY, KAYA NGA LANG MAS MABILIS MAUBOS.
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Hi bernie its me jasmine from usa I just ccame out thehospital with kidney failure just wondering if you can give a copy of my picture to sister raquel or father Fernando so they may pray on my picture for me if possible also wonderin ifthe healing oil was sent out for me .can you let them know I’m type 1 diabetic with many complications also experiencing financial difficulties because in the state of condition I’m in I’m unable to work but please if you maygive them the pic so they can pray for me I really need it .I tried calling for sister to pray with me but I got through once but the lady didn’t know english bernie if sister raquel makes calls or the father please give my number for a small prayer of healing.I would really appreciate it. Thank you and GodBless you bernie for this weeks prayer request. Sorry bernie one more thing I just wanna ask that if they may pray that the cut on my finger please heal since I’m a diabetic its taking long to heal.thank you bernie
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THE OIL TAKES TIME. WE WORK IN BATCHES. JUST WAIT. DON’T REPEAT REQUEST AS THIS IS CONFUSING. YOUR PHOTO HAS BEEN SENT TO SISTER RAQUEL. CALL HER.
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Jesus, please help me in my ongoing bar review that I will not get sick and will be able to absorb everything that I’m studying, so that I will pass the September 2010 bar examinations to be held on the four Sundays of September 2010. Send your Holy Spirit and guide me that I will be able to answer the questions correctly and that our examiners in the 8 subjects will be lenient. That there will be good weather for the duration of our exams. This we ask through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Venerable Mother Ignacia Del Espiritu Santo, Amen.
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Nancy
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Hello po please pray for me im albert, 26 i often have nightmares, and recurring bad dreams… bout death of family members, funerals, even my own death, i frequently see dead people in my dreams………please help me…………pray for me, thanks, i’d like to personally see sr. raquel id like to visit her…………thank you so much, God bless you all and your ministry!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Albert
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Dear Sister Raquel, Bro. Bernie and the Prayer Warriors,
Pls. help me and the family of penelope , my cousin to pray for her fast recovery as she is undergoing dialysis three times a week now, She had a kidney transplant before but it seems the kidney is not functioning well again. With your constant prayers I hope that she will be healed of the sufferings, pains and complications that she is experiencing . Lord, I lift her up to you , In Jesus name I pray. Amen
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vivian
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Dear prayer warriors,
Medyo nagbago na ang pakiramdam ko buhat ng ipagdasal nyo ako. Ang hiling ko sana ulit e tulungan nyo akong manalangin para sa tuloy tuloy kong paggaling at sana e maka recover ako ng ganap. Sanay mabalik ang dati kong lakas at sigla at lusog ng pangangatawan. Maraming salamat sa inyong lahat. God bless
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Ernesto
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Dear Sister Raquel,
IM writing this prayer needs all the way from Malaysia, it happens 1 week back (27June 2010) where our healthy Niece Jaslene Y who is 3 years old got admitted into the hospital for Leukemia and doctor confirmed its AML. We believe in Jesus that she is going to be a Miracle baby and our whole family is praying for her. We saw your blog today, it inspired us. It made us stronger in faith again and continue to trust fully to God. Please guide us on how should we pray and what could be done. Hope to hear from your side soon. Thanks.
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Jonathan F
uncle of Jaslene Y
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FOR JONATHAN AND OTHERS, PLEASE VIEW THE YOUTUBE ON THE HEALING OF INCURABLE LEUKEMIA. JUST CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW –
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Please pray for my niece CHIAN R. She’s hearing voices that we cannot hear. And please pray for my place here in Manila Philippines if there’s some sort of spirit here, please dont harm anyone and please leave our place. – Best Regards,
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Ms. Annie N
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I got the news last Sunday from another Filipino priest who is in charge of the seamen in Antwerp, Belgium that Fr. Lorenzo is very sick. May I then request prayers for him from Sr. Raquel and the other Prayer Warriors. Even if he does not get the oil, prayers should be enough. At least he will be able to bear his pain. Two years ago he said he cannot sleep/depressed due to his sickness maybe. Thanks a lot, Sister Raquel, Bro.Bernie and all the dear Prayer Warriors who keep on praying for many sick people.
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Linda
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Dear Bro. Bernie and Sr. Raquel:
Please pray for Joseph and Clarissa for good health and a happy and long married life. Please pray for Joseph so that he will be able to land a stable job and be able to start working in July, 2010. We pray for financial abundance and stability so that in return, we will be able to help others. Thank you Lord for all the blessings that you have given us.
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Clarissa
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Pray for me and my wife grace for divine healing from hiv/aids. i tested positive for the virus on 21/12/2010. i believe that the Almighty Heavenly Father is willing to extend his healing and merciful hand to my life and family, Amen.
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Boniface
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Respected Reverend Sisters & Brothers in our Lord Jesus Christ,
I am from Mumbai, India and I request your prayers to our Lord Jesus at Adoration & Mass for the following petitions for myself, my mother and my two brothers:
1. Gift of the Holy Spirit, Divine Wisdom, Insight, Knowledge & Understanding, Confidence & courage, protection from all harm and danger and from all evil, good health, good memory, peace, tact and ability to speak well and protection of all five senses.
2. Also for the gift of the Holy Spirit & Divine Wisdom upon my boss and my colleagues and that they may become better persons.
3. Also for the gift of the Holy Spirit & Divine Wisdom upon my younger brothers boss and that he may become a better and understanding person and give my brother and all the employees their pending dues & settlements and give a good raise in their salaries.
5. For my mother – to be cured of psychosis (mental illness), hernia, gall stones, diabetes.
6. For my elder brother to be cured of leucoderma, stomach gripes & varicose veins.
7. For my younger brother to be cured of headaches, acidity.
8.. For myself to be cured of vertigo, headaches, poor eyesight, worm trouble, flatulence & constipation.
9. For a good job and a good wife for each of my two brothers and a family thereafter for each of them.
10. For promotion and a good salary in my job as soon as possible and for peace in my workplace.
11. For a 3 BHK house as soon as possible in Bandra (West) near St. Andrew’s church, as the pillars of the present house is in a very bad state and about to collapse causing much threat & fear in our lives. My friend Marie D just now telephoned me, saying her elder sister Noella is in the 3rd stage of breast cancer. To pray for a cure. I am forwarding the petition for your prayers too. Many thanks in advance for your prayers.
Thank you reverend Sisters & Brothers in advance for your prayers, In God’s love,
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Premila
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Dear Sister Raquel and the Prayer Warriors,
We are asking for your help to please do include us in your prayers. We have been married for more than a year now and we already wanted to have our very own baby. We are currently under the care of an OB Gyne and we are really hoping that everything will turn out well. Please do help us pray to our Lord Jesus Christ that we would finally receive our special blessing. Thank you so much and God bless! Sincerely Yours,
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Vincent & Sharon
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Dear Sisters,
I thank the Lord for being helping me always. May I request if you help me pray that people will have strong a faith and continue praying to God and Mama Mary. I also need to request for my 3 kids to finish their studies, Maria Fatima and Maria Cristina at Miriam college and Jose Adelio at Our Lady of Guadalupe Minor Seminary. And another request that I need is to be appointed as Finance Officer of MECO-Taiwan as soon as possible. This I promise that I can be of help more to our community if I will accepted. God bless. Thank you.
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clare v.
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