Prayer update on LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen's daughter
Summary
A quick update on my daughter Mary Catherine, who was in the hospital for 13 days with Hashimoto's encephalitis. She has now been released, but things are still a little challenging at home. Please continue to pray for her recovery.
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Hey everyone, John Henry Weston here. I wanted to give you a quick update on my daughter Mary
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Catherine. I want to thank you first of all for your prayers. So if you want to stick around and
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. So as many of you know, my daughter Mary Catherine
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had experienced some trauma a couple weeks ago and was in hospital for 13 days and thousands
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and thousands of you prayed. And I want to say how grateful we are for all of your prayers,
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for many of your suggestions and wanted to give you an update on what's going on. So after
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going to hospital, as I mentioned before, in ambulance, almost losing her on the way,
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many, many tests and a diagnosis of Hashimoto's encephalitis. We thought she might be in hospital
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even longer. And actually the very day she came out, I taped a show saying that it looks like
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even though we thought she might be released, it looks like they're going to have to spend a few
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more days. She was in fact released that day. It was the day after all the torrents of thousands
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and thousands of prayers really ascended to our Lord to help her out. She came home and
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things are challenging at home. Mary Catherine is able to walk a little bit. She's, but she can't
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overdo it. She seems to go through convulsions and have breathing difficulties whenever she
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overdoes it. Um, here's a look at what she's experiencing.
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Deep breath. It's okay. Just hold it deep as you can.
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Do you want to spit stuff out or do you have too much saliva in your mouth or are you okay for now?
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Those things she experiences, usually about twice a day, um, they can last even as long
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as 45 minutes. As you can imagine, that's very challenging for, uh, for my wife and family
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to deal with. And so I would, uh, ask and beg you to, uh, continue your prayers for Mary Catherine.
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One of the, um, sadder things is that I've got to inform the school where she was that, uh, at least
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for this semester, she can't attend. So Mary Catherine has told me that, you know, after I spoke
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with her, she's offering up her sufferings, uh, in union with our good Lord's sacrifice on the cross
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for the Holy souls in purgatory that, uh, she realizes that she's called to this battle right
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now. And, uh, I'm going to ask you to pray for all of you. I know many of you are suffering
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as well. Um, there's a really neat, uh, story in hospital. She was next to, um, another person
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who was in with his child for a month and, uh, he had overheard talk of, of, uh, the video
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that I did going viral and a lot of people praying and, uh, he watched it and it turned
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out he too is a believer and, uh, was grateful for the shared prayers and the shared, uh, suffering.
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So may God bless all of you. I thank you sincerely for my whole family, for your continued prayers
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for Mary Catherine, for all your offerings of, um, good wishes and, um, and support. May God
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bless all of you. I, uh, I pray that, um, all of you who are sick and suffering might
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like Mary Catherine is, and, and she needs to be supported in, continue to offer up all
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of your prayers, your sacrifices, your sufferings in union with the Holy sacrifice of the mass.
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With that, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. And really the suffering souls,
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as we read from, um, St. Faustina, are the ones that keep the world in existence, are the ones
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that our Lord especially chooses to do the heavy lifting on earth. We might think that, you know,
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those who are in politics or high up, or even maybe perhaps, you know, popes or bishops or priests
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or whatever are the ones that are really the power movers and shakers, uh, in terms of the spiritual
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life. But, uh, it's not so. The suffering souls, the little ones who are suffering and offering
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their sufferings in union with Christ are the ones that are really making a difference in today's
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world. Thank you once again for all your prayers. Thank you for you suffering souls who are offering
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up all of your prayers, works, joys, sacrifices, and sufferings in union with the Holy sacrifice of the
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mass. For Life State News, this is John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.