Prayer Requests

Prayers for my wife, Janet

By Adam Minihan | June 29, 2014

She has injured her back (not clear how) and been in *excruciating* pain for the last day.  We spent all morning at ER.  Currently she’s on pain killers and muscle relaxants and has blessedly fallen asleep, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen her in this much pain even in labor. Please pray for her!…

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Prayer Requests and a Work of Mercy for Sudan

By Adam Minihan | June 27, 2014

A reader writes: It would appear that the place where I have been living for a number of years will likely be sold by the end of summer. Therefore, I am in need of a new place to live out my eremitic vocation. What I have quickly learned is that I simply do not enjoy…

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Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 26, 2014

A reader writes: This time it is for me and for my colleagues. Yesterday, without warning, we found out that our jobs will be outsourced to a company in Seattle. When you work for a non-profit like I do you don’t expect this. At least twenty people will be losing their jobs. Everyone is stunned…

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Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 25, 2014

Could you guys please pray for a friend of mine who has been battling cancer and will be going in for brain surgery soon? Her name is Kim. Thanks! Father, hear our prayer for Kim’s complete healing in body, soul, and spirit. Give her caregivers grace, compassion, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, counsel, skill, and and the…

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Praise Report and Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 19, 2014

A reader writes: You and your readers were kind enough to pray for my daughter, Jacqueline, who was diagnosed earlier this year with Stage 4 breast cancer.  She has undergone three orthopedic surgeries, two rounds of chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. She still has two more rounds of chemotherapy plus radiation therapy.  After each of the…

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Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 16, 2014

A reader writes: After over a year of struggling with lung cancer my grandfather passed away. Please, could you pray for my grandfather and my grandmother, who helped him throughout his illness? And thank you and your readers for praying for them last year and the year before. Thank you, and God bless! Father, may…

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Prayer for the People of Iraq

By Adam Minihan | June 16, 2014

…and especially for the Christians of Iraq.  Help them, God our Father, through Jesus Christ and by the sword of St. Michael.  Mother Mary, pray for them! And prayers of reparation for the United States of America and we conservatives whose support for this foolish and criminal war led, very predictably, to this. We are…

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Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | June 15, 2014

A reader writes: I asked you and your readers to pray for my pregnant wife and I about a job. Unfortunately the job fell through and we need even more prayers now. We’re not sure what we’re going to do. Thank you and God bless. Father, hear our prayer for a safe delivery and for…

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A reader writes with a chance to do a work of mercy

By Adam Minihan | June 13, 2014

Sez he: On Saturday June 7, tragedy struck my cousin Ashley Malone and her sons when her partner Jason was suddenly killed in a drowning accident in Vermont. Jason had no life Insurance and Ashley and the boys will be left destitute after the costs of the funeral and the dramatic decrease in monthly income.…

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Prayer Requests

By Adam Minihan | June 13, 2014

A reader writes: It occurred to me at Mass today that some people who could definitely use some prayers are Bowe Bergdahl and his parents. Regardless of what he might or might not have done (I think he is entitled to a presumption of innocence at the very least), they are enduring a nation’s and…

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Mass Attire

By Adam Minihan | December 13, 2017

This post was written by a guest blogger and Council of Man member, Rich Lamm. You…

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Be a joyful man by The Catholic Man Show

By Adam Minihan | December 13, 2017

On Being a Joyful Man by The Catholic Man Show Want happiness? Eat bacon! But…

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