{"id":100115,"date":"2019-09-09T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=100115"},"modified":"2019-09-09T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:49:20","slug":"prayer-request-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/prayer-request-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Request"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">W<\/span>ould you please in your charity pray a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcatholicprayers.com\/novena-to-our-lady-of-perpetual-help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (opens in a new tab)\">novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help<\/a> in regards to the situation at our parish of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Holy Rosary (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.holyrosarytacoma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Rosary<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"650\" data-attachment-id=\"100116\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/prayer-request-2\/our-lady-of-perpetual-help\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?fit=518%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"518,650\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Our Lady of Perpetual Help\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?fit=518%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?resize=518%2C650\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?w=518&amp;ssl=1 518w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?resize=240%2C301&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">O<\/span> Mother of Perpetual Help, <\/em><br \/>grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, <br \/>the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. <br \/>Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. <br \/>Delay not, Blessed Lady, <br \/>to rescue me whenever I call on you. <br \/>In my temptations, in my needs, <br \/>I will never cease to call on you, <br \/>ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. <br \/>What a consolation, what sweetness, <br \/>what confidence fills my soul <br \/>when I utter your sacred name <br \/>or even only think of you! <br \/>I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, <br \/>so powerful, so lovely a name. <br \/>But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. <br \/>Let my love for you prompt me <br \/>ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. <br \/>Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me <br \/>and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you.<br \/><br \/><em> (Then say three Hail Marys).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you please in your charity pray a novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in regards to the situation at our parish of Holy Rosary? O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Prayer Request - an appeal from the blog","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92,90,31,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-transitions-in-tacoma","category-holy-rosary-parish-tacoma","category-mary","category-pray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help.jpg?fit=518%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-q2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109863,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/vespers-of-our-lady-of-the-holy-rosary-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":100115,"position":0},"title":"Vespers of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary","author":"Thom","date":"07 October 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"October 7 is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. 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For those of us who were once parishioners of Holy Rosary parish in Tacoma, it was our patronal feast. In years past, we could celebrate this on a Sunday. 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