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He underwent 5 months of intense drug therapy that successfully reduced the
bone marrow tumors allowing the healthy cells to reproduce again. Each month
Dave has blood work done at the Moll Cancer Center and sees his oncologist, Dr.
Tim Spiro, every three months. Since completing the initial treatment Dave
has felt good but each month the malignant bone marrow tumors continue to
produce an increasing number of abnormal plasma cells. Dr. Spiro told Dave at
his last visit that he is anemic again, so along with Thalidamide, which Dave
has taken for a year and a half, he will also need to take steroids. Dave
believes he is doing well because of prayers, good food and a positive attitude.
Both Dave and I are full of gratitude for all the support and prayers the people
of St. Malachi’s Community have given us. I believe Dave can be healed of this
disease even though no one thus far has overcome it. I believe that there is
tremendous power in the combined prayer of many so I am asking anyone who is so
inclined to pray for Dave every evening at 7 p.m. I chose that time because
it is Dave’s favorite number and I asked for prayer each evening because when
we forget we still have all the other evenings left. I ask that the prayer just
last a few seconds and that it be a feeling as if someone has just told you that
Dave’s cancer is gone. I love this form of prayer. I invite all of us to use
it to feel what it would feel like to live in a peaceful world – to feel how
it would feel to have those we love and know who are ill healed. That’s it –
what a great way to pray and it all begins within our hearts. We can use the 7
p.m. time each evening to engage our emotions and feelings for a few seconds. We
can pray for Dolly Chura, Mary Englert, Mary Laubenthal and
all the others who are healing – just a simple feeling based prayer – that’s
all and that’s enough. Thank you all for your magical prayers. Much Love,
Peace, and Joy, Barbara Starre.
CSM HEALTH DEPARTMENT
– Please keep in your prayers: Anthony Ayers,
Stephanie Taylor-Ayers, Thomas Brennan, Janice Cavoli, Dolly Chura, George
Cicero, Maureen Cooney Flanagan, Dorothy Dalton, Peter Daw, Florence Dick, Megan
Dix, Bernard Domann, Ed Dvorak, Nancy Eliason, Mary Englert, Rosemary Farace,
Matthew Forkas, Virginia Genterey, Dick Giffels, Sheri Glassman, Jennifer Hoskin
Grosel, Luis Gutierrez, Fr. Tom Hagedorn, Marie Kneier, Jo Krabs, Judy Lavelle,
Jane Lenehan, Fred Leonard, Keri Majewski, Marian Malek, Barb Mayer, Jack
McDonnell, Carl Mileca, Maureen Miller, Gert Murphy, Theresa Navis, Alice Noga,
Jim Polomsky, Barb Price, Fr. Eldon Reichert, Megan Reilly Torres, William
Reiser, Kevin Rogers, Carol Rolfes, Charles Russo, Lucy Russo, Tom Schwartz,
Jacqueline Shelley, Apolonia Sierzputowski, Eva Sierzputowski, Nancy Smith,
Laura Sosnowski, Paul Steen, Dennis Stramel, Mark Tejchmann, Kathleen Thomas,
Jan vanLier, Joe Vivolo, Margaret Wolf.
CSM SPECIAL PRAYERS ROSTER
– Please keep in your prayers all the victims of
warfare, both military and civilian, as well as these young people now in
military service, and their families:
Ricky Brezinski, Daniel Bugaj, Brian Chambers, Brian Collins, Jim Curtin,
Christopher Dvorak, Edward Dvorak, Gary Faerber, Carter Gaffney, Michael Gomez,
T.J. Gordon, Danny Gwyn, Andrew Harlan, Brian McCullough, David
McLaughlin, Randy Mieskoski, Bill Nelligan, Tim Nemes, Michael O’Neill, John
Parkowski, Kate Rybarczyk, Dave Salinas, Provented P. Taylor Jr., Louis Torres,
Victor Valentine Jr.
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Future Church Special Projects Coordinator Needed
– 20 hours per week assisting the Director in coordinating two nationwide
grassroots organizing efforts, a local network of young adults interested in
building a more inclusive Catholicism and logistics for three to four local
Future Church programs each year. Resumes and more info: Christine Schenk, csj
216-228-0869 or chris@futurechurch.org.
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