Intercession

This post is from Kate.

Tonight we are asking you to cover me in prayer at 8pm CST. Brothers and sisters, I am at a point where I am in desperate need of prayer. We cannot start chemo, which is, at this point, my first line of defense against these rapidly growing tumors, until I am at a much higher level of functionality. Being hospitalized and all, we can see that I am not ready for the rigorous demands of chemo.  How do we get me there?  Eating, walking, pain relief.  We already have one procedure scheduled for tomorrow that will begin to offer some relief.  Here's the kicker - I have developed another kink in my bowels due to the fact that one of the tumors is applying pressure on it, and I am at a point where I am not eating again.

My brothers and sisters, our God asks us to be bold in prayer. With desperation and boldness we unashamedly ask for a miracle of the complete healing of my body from cancer. Why not?  

We were introduced to Venerable Father Antonio Margil de Jesus through our friend, Elizabeth. He was one of the first Franciscan friars who came to the New World in 1863.  For over thirty years he spread the word of God and brought thousands of souls into the Light of Christ through the Sacraments.  He arrived in Texas at the age of fifty-eight.

There is a spring in Lanana Creek in Nacadoches, Texas that is attributed to him. This water has provided healing for others who have asked for his intercession consumed it. I have been consuming this water in hope of a miracle.

Here is the prayer for his intercession: 

Heavenly Father, who planted in the heart of your servant Father Antonio Margil, an intense preoccupation to save souls, grant us the grace of his intercession (For the complete healing of Katie’s body so that she is free of cancer) so that we may encounter the admirable work that you started in him, and so that we may be lifted with Christ to bring Salvation to our fellow brothers.  Amen.

Tonight, we are asking you to reach the highest point in heaven with clamoring prayer for God’s will to be done in my life, for His glory.  And we pray that His will is to heal my body of all cancer.  

We are also asking the intercession of Matt Coles and Paul Coakley - two incredible men who lost their battles to cancer.

Thank you for your prayers.  We love you, and may God bless you.