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Dear Friends,
Some of you may have heard about .Baby Catefrom other blogs. I just found out this morning that this family is local to my area and friends of many people we know. We will try to make a special Rosary for them this evening. Please pray for her today. Here is an excerpt from her Dad this morning.
I want you to pray for Baby Cate, that her lungs dry out, that her valve stop leaking, and that whatever bacteria has developed in her kidneys just be due to the catheter(sp?). Also that if they do the operation tomorrow that it be SUCESSFUL, it would start around 8:00, I will let you know. Second, I ask that you pray for Ali and I, this afternoon, I will be real honest, after I heard that she had bacteria growing in her kidneys, I felt like I got kicked in the chest, actually, you know what it felt like? Do you remember your first love? Do you remember what it felt like when that person dumped you, well, maybe some of you cool people out there never got dumped, I was chubby in high school, and that hasn't changed much, and had a really bad haircut, so I experienced these feelings first hand. So, let me put it to you another way if you haven't every been dumped, Do you remember the first time you got your heart broken? There was that pain in your chest, that physical hurt! I felt like tonight, like my heart was breaking physically. I sat in the Target parking lot with Ali, and cried, I told her that, I can't imagine going home without Cate. But, I am tired of hoping, I didn't say I was hopeless or that I am giving up hope, I said I am tired of hoping. This morning friends of ours brought us communion at the hospital. I asked if they had brought their Magnificat book with them, figuring they had, knowing the "good Catholics" they were. They had, so I asked if we could read the readings and pray before receiving communion. There was a little meditation in the book after the reading and it was entitled, "Do Not Be Afraid" and this was the last paragraph of the meditation:
It seems to me this is what courage of faith is: it comes from the Lord himself, when we welcome his Word and his sacraments as our light and our truth. It is at the same time audacious and humble, wholly concrete in its works and spiritual in its source, profoundly human, sensible and sweet, and yet resistant and hard as rock
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Yes, please join us in praying for Cate. She is the cousin of my husband's cousin, and she needs our prayers.
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I have been following their story too. Our family is praying for her every day and I fwd. her webiste to many people I know. Let's all continue to pray and spread the word about Cate.
I loved one comment about how miracles are already happening because of this little girl. People are returning to Church and returning to prayer because they are so touched by this family.
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Praying for Cate and all who love her and are touched by her and her family, Colleen.
Love,
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We have been praying for Cate and will continue to pray!
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We have, too.
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