Prayer Request
A friend of mine writes in with this prayer request:
Could you please share this prayer request on your journal? Super Typhoon Neoguri is bearing down on the Ryukyu Archipelago where my friends, coworkers, and many kindly island folk live. It’s already battering Okinawa and is predicted to strengthen to a Category 5 as it moves north to strike the other islands in the next day or so. Please pray that we all make it through safely. It may strike mainland Kyushu afterwards, but there’s a chance it will veer off into the Pacific and away from civilization.
Let us pray:
Saint Medard, patron saint for protection against bad storms, we ask you to intercede for us during the storms of our lives as well as the storms in nature. Protect our families and our homes.
We pray for assistance for the victims of snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, especially for the upcoming snowstorm that is headed our way tonight.
Loving God, send in more helpers, and multiply resources and supplies for the aid of those in need.
You calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee; deliver us from the storms that are raging around us now.
Saint Medard, pray for us.
Amen.
NOTE: Saint Medard, sixth-century bishop, preacher, and missionary, whose feast is observed on June 8, is the patron saint for protection from bad storms. As a child, so the legend goes, he was once sheltered from the rain by an eagle hovering over him.
Calling on Saint Medard:
Saint Medard, sixth-century bishop, preacher, and missionary, whose feast is observed on June 8, is the patron saint for protection from bad storms. As a child, so the legend goes, he was once sheltered from the rain by an eagle hovering over him.
– See more at: http://www.catholicreview.org/blogs/god-is-in-the-clouds/2014/02/12/praying-to-saint-medard-the-patron-saint-of-bad-storms#sthash.z5hRyR03.dpuf
Calling on Saint Medard:
Saint Medard, sixth-century bishop, preacher, and missionary, whose feast is observed on June 8, is the patron saint for protection from bad storms. As a child, so the legend goes, he was once sheltered from the rain by an eagle hovering over him.
– See more at: http://www.catholicreview.org/blogs/god-is-in-the-clouds/2014/02/12/praying-to-saint-medard-the-patron-saint-of-bad-storms#sthash.z5hRyR03.dpuf
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
