Saint Therese of Lisieux: A Gateway

Father Martin Nyland

Please join me and the friends of St. Therese in praying a novena to invoke her intercession for the healing of Father Martin Nyland, ordained a priest for the diocese of Peterborough in Ontario, Canada on August 15, 1992.  Father Nyland is suffering from several diseases that affect the brain and asked me to appeal for your prayers.  He made a pilgrimage to Lisieux some years ago and is asking God, through the intercession of St. Therese, for the miracle of healing.

I usually can't post prayer requests, since they would flood the site, but I am making an exception this once.  Please begin the novena on Thursday, August 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, the date on which Therese used especially to venerate the Holy Face of Jesus and on which she wrote her Act of Consecration to the Holy Face.  Please complete the novena on Friday, August 14, the vigil of the feast of the Assumption.  Please pray as the Holy Spirit leads you, and, so that we may all unite in at least a few words, close your prayer with the words Mary and Martha of Bethany sent to Jesus when Lazarus was ill:  "Lord, the one you love is sick."

in union of prayer,

Maureen