Suddenly, it seems that almost everyone I know, or come into contact with, is struggling with heavy burdens.
On the Metanoia mailing list, there are many requests for prayers for seriously ill family members.
In our own family, we have one member on a 9 month waiting-list for a quadruple coronary by-pass operation, one person seriously injured in a deliberate arson attack on the nursing home where he lived, another member with serious lung disease caused by his occupation, a friend on dialysis who is on the kidney transplant list, another family member in hospital, a friend ill in hospital.........May Our Lord God bless, preserve and heal His suffering servants !
All reminders of how transitory our earthly life is, and how little time I may have left to turn away from my sin and repent. It is no good putting it off till I feel better, or have more energy, or more time. I need to start living a Christian life now, not a nominally Christian life.
Lord, have mercy ................
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Elizabeth, please tell us more about the Metanoia mailing list. Is it just for prayer intentions? Who may join? and how? Thank you. I will keep all of your ill family members in my prayers...
Hi Alethea!
Your prayers will be greatly appreciated.
The Metanoia list is a yahoo mailing list group.
It deals with all sorts of questions, problems etc that those of us who come from convert backgrounds may face in our Orthodox lives, and also serves to answer questions that non-Orthodox inquirers may have about the Faith.There are thankfully cradle Orthodox on the list, including Orthodox priests who help us greatly.
We do get a lot of Orthodox folk posting prayer requests on this list.........
go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orthodox-convert/
If you already have a yahoo account, you can sign up for membership and if you don`t, it is a simple procedure to set an account up.
Hope this helps ! If you get stuck, let me know :-)
Elizabeth
Sian,
I'm sorry to hear about the troubles in your parish. It's funny though -- I just had exactly the same thought about the metanoia list. In today's list of e-mail was a prayer request in a friend's family for prayers for a mother who needs hospitalization, a father recently diagnosed with lung cancer and children who are having problems. I am writing down names so I don't forget at prayer time.
It seems that things come in cycles. We laugh together, we cry together, and always, we pray together.
Grace
This connectivity and sense of community is one of the things I love about Orthodoxy. We are very aware that we are all members, one of another. We share our joys and sadnesses.
It`s all part of loving one`s neighbour as one`s self, I suppose.
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