St. Peregrine, Pray For Us.

The docs think it's mantle cell lymphoma.

I won't be turning my blog into a cancer diary, but I will share what is happening from time to time since cancer is now going to be a part of my daily life. I also beg your prayers.

I'll have a bone marrow biopsy and a PET scan Monday morning, then I'll go into the hospital on Tuesday for more tests and to begin treatment. I'll be in the hospital for 5 or 6 days while things get started, then back and forth from home to hospital for awhile for chemo.

I am blessed to have lots of love and support from family and friends.

And Ron has found me a Saint for the situation, St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer patients.

Novena To St. Peregrine

Glorious wonder-worker, St. Peregrine,

you answered the divine call with a ready spirit,

and forsook all the comforts of a life of ease

and all the empty honors of the world

to dedicate yourself to God in the Order of His holy Mother.

You labored manfully for the salvation of souls.

In union with Jesus crucified,

you endured painful sufferings with such patience

as to deserve to be healed miraculously

of an incurable cancer in your leg by a touch of His divine hand.

Obtain for me the grace to answer every call of God

and to fulfill His will in all the events of life.

Enkindle in my heart a consuming zeal for the salvation of all men.
Deliver me from the infirmities that afflict my body

(especially from mantle cell lymphoma).

Obtain for me also a perfect resignation

to the sufferings it may please God to send me,

so that, imitating our crucified Savior and His sorrowful Mother,

I may merit eternal glory in heaven.

St. Peregrine, pray for me and for all who invoke your aid.

Amen