Hello to you all,

I feel so moved to tell you all about The Novena To The Divine Mercy.

The radio station I listen to (830am The Drew Mariani Show 9-12am  Los Angeles Area) has been talking about the nine day novena for the past month.  I have never been able to discipline myself enough to finish a novena but I am going to try once again.  There has been so much going on in our life. I feel called to trust in God's infinite mercy.

While listening to the show this morning and praying the novena with the host Drew Mariani, it reminded me that this was the one prayer I prayed the day Natalia was born.  We were told she would die, as many of the Trisomy babies do, but I choose to PRAY...and PRAY...and ask everyone I see to PRAY...

I remember praying this prayer over and over while with her or away from her and in my own hospital room.  I forgot about it until today.  I have prayed it many times since.  But today, I was especially thinking of my good friend, Debbie.  Her father is in the hospital fighting for his life.  I feel so moved to encourage all of you to go to this web site and join in prayer in the next nine days.   This is a powerful prayer, the The Chaplet of Mercy...I am sure God would love to hear this prayer from you what ever faith you follow...

May God Bless you again, especially during this Holy Weekend.

Jesus WE LOVE YOU!!!

Go to this web site and feel Gods healing love with this prayer.

This novena begins today, although if you get this email later, I know it will please God if you join in any time.

http://www.marian.org  

A Happy Easter to you all,

First I'd like to tell you Natalia came through her two procedures on Tuesday beautifully.  They found that she has colitis.  For now she is on more medication and hopefully we well see a change in her pain level.

Last week around Thursday, Natalia seemed so uncomfortable that at one point, I prayed to God that her pain not go unnoticed.  I asked him to let it count for someone or many.  I offered her pain up for anyone who needed it...

By Friday the web site seemed to be taking on a life of it's own.  Only discussed on Monday, I was in awe of how quickly it was up and moving, although not complete, the prayer area was up and working.  I began to wonder how it all was going to work...It sounded good, a prayer web site.  I began to think of the awesome responsibility of praying for all who might come here for strength...Did I have this gift?  Was I suppose to ask all my prayer warriors to help me when they could?  Should I ask a Prayer group or Paster, Priest or  Rabbi to help and take this site under their wing?  It became a bit much so I put it behind me and tried to focus on the weekend.

Sunday arrived and we attended evening Mass.  After the service a man approached us and almost apologetic he explained he wasn't comfortable just coming up to people he didn't know. He explained that God had been bugging him the entire Mass to come over to us with a message...At that point I realized he must have the gift of knowledge. I was getting excited as God has given us several messages since Natalia's birth.  The man was a bit confused about the message and said he didn't know what it meant but that was for me to discern. He than stated: "God wants me to tell you Natalia is praying." I knew exactly what he meant.  I began to get tears in my eyes.  I told him about the new web site and explained it began because of her but it is going to be a prayer site.  He then understood also and said, "Pray the prayers together with Natalia and lift them up to God."  Wow!!! Then this man said I should sing songs of joy and praises.  I explained that's what we do...For some reason, since her surgery, I have been singing songs out of a Music Missal.  I didn't know why some songs wouldn't leave my thoughts, so I began writing them down. We have a list of favorites.  Maybe in time I will get them on the site also.  For now, You are able to listen to one of our favorites as you browse the site.

Sunday night it occurred to me it would be great to have a song on the site. By Monday night we had e-mailed the Publishing company and requested to use the song. Tuesday morning I checked my email and it was already approved. Things are moving extremely fast...I seem to be the one who is a bit slow...I still need to get some photos of the earlier months together.

Now, all this takes me back to a Poem/Prayer someone sent me early on. I didn't understand what it meant, however with the birth of this web site it is very clear to me.  It reads:

Natalia's Prayer

 

This child is a child of God,
and born a full soul,
completely formed...
This child is guarded by
a Guardian Angel
who sees God
and intercedes directly
for the newborn life...
This child has come to sing
God's praises in ways given only to her.
You were chosen to be her family
for the gifts you bring to her.
May your family receive rich blessings
and many healings because of her.

Amen.

I do love this for I am sure it was written especially for Natalia.

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Looking through some inspirational pages my sister put together for me, I came across this darling prayer that my 8 year old niece wrote when Natalia was born.

Dear Aunt Therese here's a prayer I wrote especially for you.  Everything will be ok.  I will be praying for you.

 

A Prayer for a sick child

to:Aunt Therese

from:Kirsten

Dear God,

Help me through this hard time.

Help me feel everything will be ok,

just like my niece has told me.

I need your help now more than ever.

I want my child to be ok.

Help me so I may have a blessing from you.

You have given me wonderful blessings and

I wanted to bring one more into the world,

but I need your help to do it please help

and let my child be safe through her life

please help as she goes through her life

and watch over her.

I love you,

Amen

May you all feel a special peace during this Easter weekend., Thank you all for praying for our little angel.  I feel very blessed to have so many prayer warriors helping Natalia greet each day :)

Could you please say a special prayer for this new web site and ask all your friends and prayer groups to also pray that God's healing power will be exposed in a marvelous way through this site.

 

If you would like to put your prayer requests on this site, you can click on the prayer request on the home page. Then it goes directly to Ginny who helps put them on the web page.