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2 %u00bd\%u201cThe World%u2019s Best%u201d Religious Art with Full Color Prayers. Sold in 25 Per Pack.284 To order: Call 1-888-WHIRTEN (1-888-944-7836) %u2022 E-mail at: sales@wjhirten.comPrayer in Time of LonelinessLord Jesus Christ, I am assailed by a spell of loneliness. It is as if I am totally alone, without anyone in the world. It is a terrifying feeling, Lord; help me to overcome it. Let me realize that I am never really alone if I am united with You - for You are always with me.At the same time, remind me that I also have need of others, for I am a social being. And there are many people whom You have brought into my life to help me on my way to eternity. Teach meto see that we need one another if we are to make a go of our lives and complete the tasks You have given us.E24-733E24-733Time of LonelinessE24-728ACCEPTANCE PRAYERMy Jesus, I ask You withall my heart for Your love.Only Your love will help meto accept my sufferings andcarry my cross in such a way that I may be Your truefollower. O Lord Jesus, graciouslyaccept the sacrifice of mysufferings for the temporaland eternal salvation ofmyself and my loved ones. Jesus, my dearest Lordand God, my Teacher andmy Redeemer, have mercyon me. Most Holy Spirit, be my Consoler.-ST. JOHN NEUMANNE24-728Acceptance PrayerE24-734Message to The SickPrayer for the SickO glorious Saint Camillus, specialpatron of the sick poor, thou who forforty years, with truly heroic charity,didst devote thyself to the relief oftheir temporal and spiritual necessities, be pleased to assist them noweven more generously, since thou art blessed in heaven and they have been committed by Holy Church to thy powerful protection.Obtain for them from Almighty Godthe healing of all their maladies, or,at least, the spirit of Christianpatience and resignation that may sanctify them and comfort them inthe hour of their passing to eternity;at the same time, obtain for us the precious grace of living and dyingafter thine example in the practice of divine love. Amen.Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be tothe FatherE24-723E24-723Prayer for The SickPrayer in Time of DistressO Heavenly Father,we thank You for the graces and blessingsYou have bestowed upon mankind.In Your love You have placed us hereto work out our eternal salvation,and until life%u2019s journey is over,many vicissitudes meet us on the way.Today, poverty and want prevail,and we turn to You for help,for all things are Yoursin heaven and on earth.In these days of distress we pray Youto let Your blessing descend upon theindustries of the world, that man maylabor to obtain the means to procurethe needs and the necessities of life.O Heavenly Father,O Divine Provider, grant thatthe sufferings and the trials of the presentday may teach man to know,love, and serve You better. Amen.Henry J. O%u2019Leary,Archbishop of EdmontonE24-777E24-777Time of DistressIN TIME OF LOSSLonely is the home without you,Life to us is not the same; All the world would be like Heaven,If we could have you back again.A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is still,A place is vacant in our home, That never can be filled.May the God of Love and Mercy,Care for our loved one who is gone,And bless with consolation,those left to carry on.The happy hours we once enjoyed, How sweet their memory still, But death has left a vacant place,This world can never fill.How dearly we loved you,And prayed you might live,But Jesus just beckoned,And we had to give.God gave us strength to bear it,And courage to fight the blow,What it has meant to lose you,God alone will ever know.E24-737E24-737Time of LossE24-780Comfort for Those Who MournThe great and sad mistake of many people, among them even pious persons, is to imagine that those whom death has taken leave us. They do not leave us. They remain! - Where are they? In darkness? Oh no! It is we who are in darkness. We do not see them, but they see us. Their eyes, radiant with glory, are fixed upon our eyes full of tears. Oh infinite consolation! Though invisible to us, our dear dead are not absent.I have often reflected upon the surest comfort for those who mourn. It is this: a firm faith in the real and continual presence of our loved ones; it is the clear and penetrating conviction that death has not destroyed them, nor carried them away. They are not even absent, but living near to us, transfigured: having lost in their glorious change no delicacy of their souls, no tenderness of their hearts, nor especial preference in their affection; on the contrary, having in depth and fervor of devotion, grown larger a hundredfold. Death is for the good, a translation into light, into power, into love. Those who on earth were only ordinary Christians, become perfect; those who were beautiful become good; those who were good become sublime.E24-780Comfort for Those Who MournE24-867Soldier%u2019s PrayerE24-334Police Officer%u2019s Prayer toST. MICHAELSt. Michael, Heaven%u2019s glorious Commissioner of Police, who once so neatly and successfully cleared God%u2019spremises of all its undesirables, lookwith kindly and professional eyes on your earthly force.Give us cool heads, stout hearts, hard punches, and uncanny flair for investigation and wise judgment.Make us the terror of burglars, the friend of children and law-abiding citizens, kind to strangers, polite to bores, strict with law-breakers and impervious to temptations.You know, St. Michael, from your own experiences with the devil, that the policeman%u2019s lot on earth is not always a happy one; but your sense of duty that so pleased God, your hard knocks that so surprised the devil, and your angelic self-control give us inspiration.And when we lay down our night sticks, enroll us in your Heavenly Force, where we will be as proud to guard the throne of God as we have been to guard the city of men. Amen.E24-334Policeman%u2019s PrayerPrayer for Those in the ServiceAlmighty God, we stand before You asking for Your divine mercyand protection.Embrace with Your invincible armour our loved ones in all branches of the service.Give them the courage and strength against all enemies, both spiritualand physical, and hasten their safe journey backto their homes and families. Amen.E24-335E24-335Those in the ServiceA Prayer for Members of ChoirsAlmighty God, Who has ordained that the hearts of Your people shall be kindled by music, and their minds thereby attuned to understand Your divine mysteries: Grant, we ask you, that all who lead Your praises may know themselves to be Your ministers, and that the hearts of all who hear may be lifted up unto You; through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.St. Cecilia, Patron Saint of Musicians, Pray for us.E24-857E24-857Prayer for Church ChoirE24-467Altar Server - J. Berchmans