[Magdalen] Prayers needed

[Michael Canning]

Prayers for Margaret and her family as our small family wait for our
flights from Manchester NH to Chicago IL - Edmonton AB and Newark NJ -
Norfolk VA

Blessings, Peace & Strength,
Michael
On Jul 22, 2015 3:59 PM, "Susan Hutchinson" <shutchinsonca at gmail.com> wrote:

> … for my friend and former parishioner, Margaret and her family. Margaret
> is a holy woman, and I know you are not supposed to have favourite
> parishioners, but I can unabashedly say that Margaret was and is one of
> mine.
>
> When I arrived in Gaspé in early 2000, her family was in crisis. Her
> husband, Weston, was in the final stages of a long battle with lung cancer.
> All the problems of distance and language that make health care access so
> difficult in rural parts of Canada were in play. Her family's response?
> They fought it at every turn, and then, when it was done and we had buried
> Weston, they set up a community foundation to make sure that others would
> never have to go through what they did. We are not talking about educated,
> high income, powerful people here. No, hard scrabble, smart, creative and
> hard working people who run a diner and a snow ploughing business. Despite
> all this, even in face of all this, they gathered me into their family and
> trusted this newly minted deacon with their very souls. I was so honoured.
> They are family, even now, a decade after I left the parish.
>
> Margaret is the matriarch. Not the kind that makes a priest's life hell,
> but the kind who stands by you, prays for and with you, and smoothes the
> way when conflict threatens. And she feeds you -- she makes the best moose
> stew going!
>
> Margaret has heart trouble that has been getting worse over the last
> several months, the local docs are doing their best to get her up the list
> for care at the Université Laval Hospital in Quebec City (very high
> quality), but it is taking time. Her family is worried. Her daughter
> emailed me, asking for my prayers. I know things are bad when Margaret
> sends Holly (the daughter) to me for prayers. Margaret is a school for
> prayer unto herself.
>
> I've promised her the golden hammock, folks, please help!
>
> love and blessings
> Susan
>
> The Rev. Susan Hutchinson
> 604-319-7148
> shutchinsonca at gmail.com
>
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