The Power of Prayer

Everyone in the family is very present to our father and thank all of you for your prayers. We have a daily goal each day to balance his medications, his comfort level, and his ability to be able to communicate with all of us. He continually speaks of love and how much he loves all of us and you. We respond with words of love and let him know it is okay to let go. Our mother has been a true saint in all these moments, patiently feeding him what he is still able to eat and celebrating with him their 55 years of marriage. We have prayed to Blessed Kateri Tekawitha throughout these days placing a relic of her on his bedside and praying the prayer for her canonization. We ask Blessed Kateri for a complete miracle for dad and if not, a very peaceful death filled with visions of the angels and saints. Our father has spoken several times that he knows that our brother, Albert, who died of leukemia, is waiting for him on the other side of life. We are blessed that we can continue to have some very beautiful communication with dad and we are aware that this may soon end. It teaches us to value life one moment at a time and it is a lesson to all of us what is most important about life: the gift to love. To love and to be loved, that is why we have each come to the planet. We thank our father for giving this gift to us! Father Alexander