Today is the day that John had his stem cells returned to him to take root in his wiped clean bone marrow, and give him a new LIFE 3 years ago. John shares in his article in the Prairie Catholic that he half-heartedly prayed for faith and the next week he had brain cancer! He realized a few weeks later after having a brian biopsy and unable to control the left side of his body... I asked for this!!! He found LIFE in the Cross called cancer/healing/seminary! Today the second reading is the amazing one from I Cor 12 about the Body..."Brothers and sisters: as a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ." John felt that he had finally found his way into the body by feeling the extreme pain of being ill and then dying to self and being brought back to LIFE!
Being annointed by Fr Craig just before his biopsy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGmK8rIX8H0 We had this shared with us! Watch for the 7 minute mark... I wept a the sight of this in the midst of this beautiful sharing of how we love and adore the body of Christ! Truly John experienced the words of Christ fullfilled today in the Gospel..."The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has annointed to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord... Today this scripture passage has been fulfilled in your hearing." Luke 4
Lord, we thank and praise you for the healing of John and how You answered his prayer to know YOU by Faith! Jesus, we fall on our knees in praise and thanksgiving that he is now answering your call to consider the seminary. We know without the shadow of a doubt that you will guide and direct him down your narrow path carrying his Most Cherished Cross! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Halleluia
Bless-bless, Barb
"Your words, Lord, are Spirit and LIFE." John 6:63
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