prayers, please
photo from world youth day 2002, sunday closing mass, toronto, canada.

the pope is the only faraway superstar-type person that remains of interest to me. st. peter's square in the vatican is crowded with people, most of them praying, some of them might not even be christian, and are just there out to partake in something intuitively historic.

my friend t wouldn't want me posting this letter of hers online anywhere, but i will anyways, because she expresses a careful honesty in this particular letter that, at the moment, i can't duplicate. please join us in praying for the pope, so he'll traverse this latest passage of his life with the same victory and grace he's always shown the world.

hi, folks--

i just wanted to ask a prayer request. i guess sometime today the pope had heart failure and while he's still alive, things don't look good as he would always recover before. i know not all of you are catholic (or even christian), but there's something about you that makes me comfortable to reach out.

i know the church and the pope are not perfect, but it has a lot more to do with relationship and identity than it does with dogma. if you could take a couple seconds to keep him in your thoughts or prayers and those of us who are hurting, that would be priceless to me.

peace,
t  ¶ 4/01/2005 04:26:00 PM