It is vital to continue in prayer for as long as we can, so that his invincible strength may penetrate and enable us to resist every destructive influence. And with the increase of this strength in us comes the joy of hope in final victory.
- Archimandrite Sophrony
A prayer request send by my friend rpeeze:
On Friday evening, my family was informed that another priest in our diocese, Fr. Michael Rosco was involved in a terrible car accident while he was leaving Johnstown, PA after a diocesan trustee meeting to return home to New Jersey. After swerving and bumping into another car while he was on the southbound side of Rt. 219, Fr. Michael’s car struck the barrier and flipped over. His car landed upside down on the northbound side of Rt. 219.
Fr. Michael is in stable condition, but has been in the ICU since being admitted to a hospital in the Johnstown area.
Some of the more specific details are still hazy, but at the very least Fr. Michael has a concussion (there’s a possibility that he had bleeding in his brain), a punctured lung, and multiple broken vertebrae. This morning he underwent a (successful) surgery to insert rods and screws into his back to stabilize his vertebrae. He is still in a lot of pain. Thankfully he is coherent, though he does not remember much about the accident, and is sometimes too overwhelmed with pain to speak.
His wife (my Godmother) has not left the hospital since driving out there right after hearing of the accident.
I would appreciate if your followers would keep Fr. Michael, Pani Susan, and their son Vlad Rosco in their prayers. Fr. Michael is 63, and is a loving and nurturing priest.
An Orthodox Christian friend just shared with me a prayer request, however I am not sure if he wants to stay anonymous, so I post it without mentioning his name. Please pray a lot, as miracles happen all the time…
I ask for prayers. I’m facing a difficult time right now. I am finding it exceedingly difficult to find a job, it’s left me without food, and without money for food. Through the Grace of God, a friend is moving me into his place, where I’ll have food and shelter, but I’m still gonna be stuck starving until then with no one able to help me. I’ve been praying to God for help, and he’s sending it to me, but I need some help immediately. Thank you! Χρήστος Ανεστι! Христос Воскрес! Christ is Risen!
Some days ago, I had asked for your prayers during Holy Week, as I am waiting an aswer from God at a very important issue for my life.
Please, wherever you are, stop and say a little prayer for me, that God will hear my prayers and He’ll reply…
God bless you all!
More than any other prayer, the Jesus Prayer aims at bringing us to stand in God’s presence with no other thought but the miracle of our standing there and God with us, because in the use of the Jesus Prayer there is nothing and no one except God and us.
- Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
Hello my friend,
I will keep you in my prayers, and I ask the followers of the blog to do the same. Put your trust in Him, as He’s our only hope and strength.
God bless you always.
“Could you please pray for two friends of mine who are kind of going through some rough times? Their names are Brett and Chris.”
Submitted by jedimasterkirito
… My advice is that instead of having longings, nourish your soul with prayer to God and trust in Him, without Whose will, even birds do not perish, let alone a human being. Be calm in spirit.
- Abbot Anthony of Optina Monastery
A good friend of me Lisa just sent me this <3 She made it on her own, it’s sooo beautiful! <3 <3
Thanks so much Lisa <3
It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God’s Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.
- From the book” Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica”
My beloved Saint Justin Popovic please pray for me <3
While praying, a person should not have any thoughts but rather become selfess. Even the Holy Fathers say this: ‘While at prayer, behave as though there were no one else in the wolrd, just you and God.’ When praying, we should not be preoccupied with ourselves, because in that case we are so absorbed in our own needs that we ourselves are detrimental to our prayer.
- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Many of you have asked me to pray for Catholics and for the unstable situation that has saddened so many pious believers of the Roman Church.
So, please, everyone, say a prayer for those pious and humble Catholic brothers and sisters of ours that always put in trust to God, in this difficult time. Pray that God will support them and enlighten them! May God enlighten their new leader as well.
May God bless you and keep you all. I send you all my love from inside my heart <3 <3 Blessed remain of the Lent! :)
I know some of you are tired to see me asking for prayers all the time, however I would like to ask you to pray again for me. I need your prayers so much right now…
Please pray that everything will be fine with this situation I face, and God will enlighten me to know what is correct for me and for my salvation, and what’s not. Pray that He’ll help me to trust His timing and to realize that the plan He has for me is the best, He’ll give me rest.
Even the quickest, smallest prayer means everything to me. Only to Him I can put my trust. Thank you so much, may God bless you and may His Holy Mother and all the Saints pray for you always.
Prayer is the test of everything; prayer is also the source of everything; prayer is the driving force of everything; prayer is also the director of everything. If prayer is right, everything is right. For prayer will not allow anything to go wrong.
- St. Theophan the Recluse
