Join Us in “Storming” Heaven for Baby Oliver and Blessed Margaret Castello
The success of this prayer effort
rests where it belongs – in the hands of our Almighty and loving God. What a
great blessing it would be, not only for Oliver, his family and our Dominican
family but the entire Catholic Church, if God used Oliver’s cure to give
birth to yet another Lay Dominican saint!
Will you, your family and friends join us in this prayer effort?
You will find the Novena and Canonization prayers and excerpts from an explanatory column from the Provincial President of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, St. Joseph Province, below.
You will find the Novena and Canonization prayers and excerpts from an explanatory column from the Provincial President of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, St. Joseph Province, below.
BLESSED MARGARET OF CASTELLO
Novena and Canonization Prayers
Novena and Canonization Prayers
For the complete cure of Baby Oliver
Novena Prayer To Obtain Blessed Margaret's Intercession:
Almighty and Eternal God, the
comfort of the afflicted, the strength of the burdened and the hope of the
unwanted; may the prayers of those who call on you in any trouble be heard by
you; so that all may rejoice to be helped by your Mercy in their need.
V. Pray for Oliver [us], Blessed Margaret.
R. That he [we] maybe made worthy of the
promises of Christ.
Let Us Pray
O God who wished Blessed Margaret
be blind from birth so that the eyes of her soul enlightened by your grace,
might more clearly see the value of spiritual realities: graciously grant that he [we] may perceive the hidden dangers
in the world of darkness and safely roach his
[our] home of eternal light. Through Christ our Lord. Amen
Canonization Prayer for Blessed Margaret of Castello:
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, glorify your
servant BL. Margaret, by granting the favor we so ardently desire:…that Oliver be completely cured of all
physical deformities and maladies. This we ask in humble submission to God's
will, for His honor and glory and the salvation of souls.
Amen.
Amen.
Say one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.
(Dominican Nuns, Summit, NJ - Nihil Obstat: Rev. William Thomas Kessler, S.T.D. Imprimatur: Most Rev. James A. Griffin, J.C.L., J.D., D.D. Bishop of Columbus)
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2014 PROVINCIAL PRAYER PROJECT
“Margaret and Oliver”
The Dominican Order rejoices in
its many Saints and Blesseds. Within the Order’s “Blessed’ listing is one who has
also been included within the Church’s group of saintly “incorruptibles”. Dwarfed, blind,
and lame, Blessed Margaret of Castello (with love, I call her “Maggie”) needs
one more miracle to be elevated to sainthood. I ask that all of our members
seek her intercession for a very special little boy.
Our Province has recently been
blessed with the arrival of Oliver, and I believe that with our united prayers, both Bl.
Margaret and Oliver will obtain great graces from God. Oliver is the son and grandson of
our LFSD family members. Oliver was born with a rare disease in which his hip and leg
did not develop in utero. What should be a thigh, leg, and foot is a small stump
protruding from his hip. Because the tissues, ligaments, and muscles also did
not develop, Oliver’s bony stump bangs on the malformed bone of his hip. For those
who have experienced “bone on bone” knee or hip degeneration, you know what
that pain is like. Oliver’s leg will not grow on its own. Ongoing surgical
implants have been the course of reconstruction treatments, but without a
miracle, Oliver will never have a leg to match his developed “normal” leg.
I
know that in accordance with God’s Will, Bl. Margaret will restore Oliver’s
leg. She of all people carried the stigma of multiple physical handicaps.
Throughout Margaret’s life (living and deceased), she restored the health and
lives of many children. Will you join me in asking her intercession on behalf
of Oliver? Will you join me in praying that Oliver’s physical deformities be
completely and miraculously cured as the final miracle needed for Margaret’s
canonization?...
On behalf of Oliver's family and the lay province, I thank you for your continued prayerful sacrifices. May God hear and answer our prayers for Margaret and Oliver!
God bless!
Ms.
Marianne Jablonski, O.P.
Provincial
President
(From the eLumen newsletter
of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic, Province of St. Joseph, USA. - Used with permission)
I have added the above prayers to my prayers.
ReplyDeleteI prayed. Thanks for posting this. Now, if God wills it, would be a really good time for Blessed Margaret to obtain a miracle. Can you imagine what this would do for the cause of life? Our little heroine speaks volumes to the world that still has no compassion for the physically handicapped children.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely correct Barb - all those who treasure the gift of life could have no better example of, or advocate for, the dignity of all life than Blessed Margaret. What a blessing and boost for pro life would her canonization be. God's will be done.
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