[Magdalen] Two prayer requests

[Christopher Hart]

Prayers, times three!

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Prayes ascending from Whitevale.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 12/30/2014 7:48 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> Thank you...make it three, I guess:
>>
>> 3. For my dear partner, who is in utter despair over what he feels is
>> a lack of support from our parish for his monastic vocation. He met
>> with our rector about this and heard some hard-to-hear truths, and
>> he's doing a lot of projection and magnification of what he heard,
>> that he's being told he's wrong, is messed up, and so on. The truth is
>> he's harboring a lot of resentment and bitterness over not receiving
>> some specific encouragement that I don't think most parishioners
>> anywhere are aware or equipped enough to give. The "parish" isn't a
>> single-voiced monolith unanimous in not supporting him: the truth is
>> there are individual parishioners interested in his vocation,
>> interested enough to ask him about it and listen. Beyond that I don't
>> know that he can fairly expect "support" unless someone excitedly
>> steps forward to join him in being Benedictine. Anyway, I can't talk
>> with him about it (he rejects any comments I make right now).
>>
>> I'm not at liberty to pray or do much of anything right now, so I do
>> appreciate your help, friends. Lord, have mercy.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Of your charity, please pray:
>>>
>>> 1. For my aunt and uncle, Robert and Eileen Smith of Cedarburg,
>>> Wisconsin. Uncle Bob was taken to hospital a day or two ago with
>>> pneumonia, and Aunt Eileen was taken to the same hospital shortly
>>> thereafter, as a staff member in their assisted-living home couldn't
>>> wake her. My cousin says neither illness is life-threatening at this
>>> point and they're getting good treatment. But they are 88.
>>>
>>> 2. For me, that I may continue to overcome my extreme burnout on this
>>> work project that has been going seven days a week since October, with
>>> the sole exception of Christmas Day. Just got my passport, so I can
>>> travel to Ottawa Jan. 8-13 to help finish up. I would really rather be
>>> rewarded for all this sacrifice by not being required to travel to
>>> Ottawa (nothing against Ottawa, just against business travel). It'll
>>> be fine, but no trip at all would be best. Anyway, back to editing...
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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