Small miracles

I leave others to discourse eloquently about glorious St Patrick today; I would just comment that the Irish Catholics have surely done their country proud in their travels around the world, carrying our faith along with them and planting it all over.  I just want to mention something that happened recently in a tiny new OCDS group.  We were discussing who to choose as our patron, and one member who is thoroughly Welsh but with strong Polish connections suggested the Polish saint Raphael Kalinowski (1835-1907), engineer, soldier, exile in Siberia, translator, theologian, and Carmelite founder.  I was doubtful about this choice because he is not well known in our country, but then a wonderful Polish man turned up at the meeting and that looked very much like confirmation enough because we had been restricted to such tiny numbers for more than a year.  I love these small miracles, they bring such delight.

Intercessions:

Cancer: Brian Davis, Bernard (and wife Angela caring for him), Jacqui, Theresa K, Fr Jon Bielowski (Plymouth Diocese), Catherine, Alex (43 with five children), Sister Daranee Teapthong

Illness:  Hilary Solomon, Katy Keeling

Siena, Elara – sick children

David OCDS – housebound

Sophia – blind infant

Grace – troubling ailments, job difficulties, family (deceased mother and health of father)

Mark – brain infection

Michael – youngster with occult influences

Defence of the unborn and the elderly

RIP Connor Calleja (20 yrs old)

We are asked to pray for the Diocese of Chiang Mai and Northern Thailand, as the Northern Mission celebrates its centenary. The process of selecting a new bishop continues.