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Your prayers, please for Fr Michael, who is in the hospital with serious heart issues and not expected to recover.

Father Michael reposed this morning.

May his memory be eternal!
 
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Memory Eternal.

May you be comforted as well. Youve had a rough week.

Thank you! Fr Michael's funeral & burial will take place at his parish on Saturday, the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Sadly, that is also my sister's birthday. I was so hoping she would make it to then, to be born and to die on the feast, but it was not to be. :(
 
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Thank you! Fr Michael's funeral & burial will take place at his parish on Saturday, the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. Sadly, that is also my sister's birthday. I was so hoping she would make it to then, to be born and to die on the feast, but it was not to be. :(
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May their memories be eternal. Prayers continue.
 
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Prayers for my daughter (going on 17) requested. She has been going down a really dark path, open rejection of our Faith, deliberate flaunting of opinions and attitudes that challenge and deny what we believe. It seems demonic, and a lot of conflict and sadness is regularly generated by constant, open rebellion.

And for me, in general. So many evils around me, my own sins, my walk in faith is so weak, sadness and depression about the disappointments in my family life and a strong ongoing feeling of isolation, more in terms of worldview than in those of being a foreigner (though that plays into it, too). The worst thing is people who I feel I ought to count on to hold and profess right views (like, but not limited to, my priest) expressing (very subtly) challenge to them.
 
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Prayers for my daughter (going on 17) requested. She has been going down a really dark path, open rejection of our Faith, deliberate flaunting of opinions and attitudes that challenge and deny what we believe. It seems demonic, and a lot of conflict and sadness is regularly generated by constant, open rebellion.

And for me, in general. So many evils around me, my own sins, my walk in faith is so weak, sadness and depression about the disappointments in my family life and a strong ongoing feeling of isolation, more in terms of worldview than in those of being a foreigner (though that plays into it, too). The worst thing is people who I feel I ought to count on to hold and profess right views (like, but not limited to, my priest) expressing (very subtly) challenge to them.
I'm sorry to hear these things. I can maybe relate a little, as I myself mostly get through these days with only the hope that our great God has all things taken care of, in some way that I can't yet know. You're not alone here in Babylon, and our loved ones may yet come to know the Love of God, even if only in the eleventh hour.

Prayers.
 
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