[Magdalen] Prayers needed

[Judy Fleener]

Praying for Margaret and her family.
Judy

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Michael Canning <mjbcanning at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan