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Dear Friends,
On Tuesday, October 31, our Little Sisters in Nice, France, experienced a devastating blow. A car went out of control and up onto a sidewalk, striking two Sisters. One, less seriously injured, was hospitalized and has now returned home. The other, a 28-year-old Sister from India, sustained serious head injuries and doctors do not give any hope for her recovery. If this is God’s will, we accept, but we also see this as a call to arms, to pray for her healing, knowing that nothing is impossible to our loving God.
Would you please join us in praying through the intercession of Fr. Ernest Lelièvre for the healing of Sr. Isabelle Antoinette? Fr. Ernest gave his life in the service of our Congregation during its first decades of existence. Because of his holiness and missionary zeal we believe he could be a powerful role model and intercessor for the clergy of our day. With the Archbishop of Rennes, we would like to open the cause for Fr. Ernest’s canonization; we trust in the power of his intercession and this miracle would give clear evidence of it to others.
Here is the prayer:
Lord Jesus, through the life and ministry of father Ernest Lelièvre, you have given your Church a friend of the poor and a tireless missionary at the service of the elderly, in the religious family founded by Saint Jeanne Jugan. You gave him the grace of immense confidence in Saint Joseph, Spouse of Mary.
Graciously answer our prayers and grant us the grace we are requesting through his intercession: the restoration to health of Sr. Isabelle Antoinette.
We ask this of you who lives and reigns with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.
Thank you for joining us in prayer – know of our prayers for you as well.
Sr. Constance, l.s.p.
and all the Little Sisters
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