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California Wildfires: Join a National Novena to Pray for Victims This Friday

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Friends of victims ask for prayers, as well as donations for the deceased, the homeless and the firefighters.

Two women in Southern California are starting what they hope will become a national novena for the victims of the wildfires there, including seven families at their Catholic school who have lost their homes.

The novena, which is available at the “Pray More Novenas” website, begins Friday, Jan. 24 and ends Sunday, Feb. 2, on Candlemas.

The women are also making a pitch for donations for the families, many of whom are staying with friends and relatives or at Airbnb dwellings and have been told it may be three to four years before they can rebuild their homes.

“We just wanted to be able to have a Catholic response to these wildfires and, in corporal works of mercy, to be able to help these Catholic families,” said Kendra Tierney Norton, 48, who operates the “Catholic All Year” blog.

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Hey @Michie the next time you have a Novena like this with a cause, for example, on pro-life issues or another area where you want me to pray, or some other prayer, for example, the Officium Defunctorum for someone who has reposed in the Lord or the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a Byzantine Rite Akathist or Paraklesis (also known as a Moleben) send me a PM please. I frequently engage in Western Rite prayers as well as those of the various Eastern liturgies. I also maintain lists of people to pray for by their Christian name.

I was very ill at the time you posted this. I want you and @RileyG and @chevyontheriver and my other Roman Catholic friends to know how much I appreciate your prayers.
 
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Hey @Michie the next time you have a Novena like this with a cause, for example, on pro-life issues or another area where you want me to pray, or some other prayer, for example, the Officium Defunctorum for someone who has reposed in the Lord or the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a Byzantine Rite Akathist or Paraklesis (also known as a Moleben) send me a PM please. I frequently engage in Western Rite prayers as well as those of the various Eastern liturgies. I also maintain lists of people to pray for by their Christian name.

I was very ill at the time you posted this. I want you and @RileyG and @chevyontheriver and my other Roman Catholic friends to know how much I appreciate your prayers.
I will definitely do so. Continued prayers for your health! :praying:
 
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