Dear God, All this I pray for my family:

+ For Jon - in his faith and good
in all things

+ For Kevin and Beth, great happiness

+ For EJ, easy breathing and health

+ For Debbie, that she may find happiness and good companionship

+ For all my nieces and nephews
and their children, good health
and much happiness

+ For the repose of the souls
of my parents, my brother Paul,
my sister Kathleen,
and all of my deceased relatives
and friends.

+ For the repose of the soul
of a great performer, Frank O'Brien

All this I pray for my living friends:

+ For Max Epstein, motivation and goals

+ For David Moser, that his new hearing aids will be a great success and open new opportunities and happiness for him

+ For Frank Dodds, that his heart problems will be happily resolved

+ For Peter Zarconi, the generous overseer of my means

+ For Frank Tobin, who assembled 200 people to celebrate my 80th birthday

+ For Alice Denney that her operation, with its artistic stitching gives her great improvement in quality of life

+ For Art Panousis, that his paralysis will fully relax

+ For Kristine Redko, that her film project may materialize in splendor

+ For Dee Sitnik's, that her chemo
will be successful

+ For Monica Lijewski, that her recovery will be blessed, and that her life can go on to new adventures and achievements

+ For Sister Diane Steele, SCL, continued confident and successful leadership of Saint Mary University

+ For the repose of the soul of Don Jalonek after his long suffering

+ For Doug Evans, after the sudden death
of his partner

+ For Vince Fuller, for a happy reunion with his son

+ For Todd Leavitt and Randy Gooch,
a change of heart

+ For a good home decision

+ For calm in the Arab world
and especially in long-troubled Afghanistan

+ For world peace

+ For the hungry in body and soul,
that they may be fed

+ For our President, and the health
of our government

+ For the Church, that it may act
with care and enlightened understanding

+ For my own faith, hope, charity, health, generosity, grace, tact, insight and wisdom

+ That my sins may be forgiven and that
I live a life of goodness

+ That I may die in peace, reconciled
to You, my God, My Creator, my Love