Breaking 3/31: Pope's condition has worsened (again)

[UrbScotty]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20050331/ts_nm/pope_dc

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Dios te salve María

Dios te salve María, llena eres de gracia, el Señor es contigo, bendita tú eres entre todas las mujeres, y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús. Santa María, Madre de Dios, ruega por nosotros pecadores ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte.

Amén.

[AngryOldDem]

2. May God be with him....

...and with the world. I truly, truly fear for the world once he is gone. He has held this planet together amid all the insanity and terror.

Just heard a report on CNN that quoted a Vatican official as more or less saying it is time to pray for a miracle.

[happynewyear]

3. see ya again pope John Paul

Looks like he's on his way to eternal life.

May he go quickly and not suffer.

DTC

:kick:

[Padraig18]

4. Prayer for the Dying

Blessed Virgin Mary, who can worthily repay you with praise and thanks for having rescued a fallen world by your generous consent! Receive our gratitude, and by your prayers obtain the pardon of our sins. Take our prayers into the sanctuary of heaven and enable them to make our peace with God.

Holy Mary, help the miserable, strengthen the discouraged, comfort the sorrowful, pray for your people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all women consecrated to God. May all who venerate you feel now your help and protection. Be ready to help us when we pray, and bring back to us the answers to our prayers. Make it your continual concern to pray for the people of God, foryou were blessed by God and were made worthy to bear the Redeemer of the world, who lives and reigns forever. Amen.

---Saint Augustine of Hippo

[YellowRubberDuckie]

7. Thanks for posting that...

That is so beautiful.
:hug:
Duckie

[DemBones DemBones]

5. The article says he has high fever due to a urinary infection

and will not be taken to the hospital as he is too weak to be moved.

Here's another story saying he has lost 42 pounds in recent weeks.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050331/wl_afp/popehealthcondition_050331220312


Coupled with the earlier reports of vomiting, the urinary infection and high fever, the continued difficulty with swallowing and breathing, I think we have to assume he will soon go to God. I have started a prayer thread and hope everyone will pray there, discuss here.

Peace to you all.

DB DB

:cry:

crying a lot today, for my dead baby brother, for Terri Schiavo, and for Il Papa, Giovanni Paolo II.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I believe he wants to pass in the Vatican, which is his home...

I'm sorry for your sorrow. Just know you're not alone in it. :hug:
Duckie

[UrbScotty]

8. A lot of people woild like to pass away at home

My grandmother was one.

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Mine, too. She told me that often but

when the time came, and her sons all said she shouldn't live alone any longer,
she reconciled herself to go and live in a nice, newly built Episcopal home (she was my dear English granny.) In 1967, it was a new concept -- assisted living -- living in a room furnished with your own furniture, with maid service and meals in a dining room.

She talked brightly about it with me on the phone, keeping a stiff upper lip, seemingly fine with it when push came to shove. But I knew it was all for show. We were very close and she never fooled me. Since I was married less than three months and working full-time to support the two of us while Mr Bones finished his degree, there was nothing I could do to keep her in her own little cottage.

On Memorial Day, fully dressed and ready to go out with my mother to run some errands, Granny evidently felt ill and decided to lie down on her bed, in her own little cottage that my father built for her just before I was born and that she'd told me she never wanted to leave. She was alive when they found her, but unconscious following a sudden, massive stroke.

The family doctor, Dr. Kelly, got there before the ambulance and warned my mother as she was getting in the back of the ambulance with her that Granny wouldn't make it to the hospital. My uncle, Granny's middle son, was there, too, by then, but Mother said she didn't think he should have to ride with his mother under those circumstances. Dr. Kelly was right, of course, but Mother probably was, too.


We buried her on the very day she was to have moved in to the retirement home.


I have always smiled through my tears when I remember how Granny beat the rap.

:-) :cry: :-) :cry: :-) :cry:

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Thank you, Duckie! The last few weeks have been

very, very difficult for me, and today is the worst.

My husband was hospitalized the week before Holy Week with a possible stroke and may yet be found to have a brain abnormality that "may eventually require treatment" and I'm exhausted from having to care for him, not to mention hating this reminder that death will someday separate us temporarily. We have loved each other since 1966, almost two-thirds of our lives! Last night, I dreamt about my poor baby brother, dead ten years last All Souls' (by his own hand, God have mercy on his soul) and today Terri died, Il Papa appears to be near death -- it's enough to make the wallabies weep!