Prayables | bring back the laughter

Published: Tue, 11/03/20

Tuesday November 3, 2020

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.

Pelé

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset. Rise up and receive God's blessing today.

Hebrews 10:35-36 Don't throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, and when you have done the will of God you
will receive what is promised.

Dear God, Help me snap out of the funk I am in. Bring back the laughter and spontaneity I once had. Remind me to be ever-cheerful, to share a smile even
when I don't feel like it, and to deny bad moods when they come knocking. Thank You, God, for the hope that sustains me.

HOW ST. MALACHY BEAT THE ODDS

In fifth grade math class, the sun seeped in through the windows. Students sat 6 feet apart and wore face masks. The school hallways were quiet. Half the students were learning from home.

Inside the classroom, the students scribbled notes as the teacher wrote on the digital chalkboard.

Many of the students in this 108-year-old Catholic school in West Town don’t know that much of their education is funded by parishioners from a suburban Catholic church 25 miles away. The success and longevity of their school — St. Malachy — has been buoyed by a decadeslong partnership with the same parish.

For more than three decades, Holy Cross Parish in Deerfield has been the quiet backbone for this West Side school — purchasing school supplies, mentoring students, paying half the tuition for nearly all students and, most recently, raising more than $10,000 to provide laptops for students learning from home during the pandemic.

The financial support from Holy Cross has not only enabled kids living in some of Chicago’s more troubled neighborhoods READ MORE

FOR MY BROTHER

I pray for my brother who has schizophrenia. His apt mgr keeps threatening that he will be evicted. He doesn't clean up after himself. He can create a mess in his apt. He has behaviors that offend residents at the senior living apts he lives at e.g. he walks to the store every couple of hours and at night and early morning. I care for him and the mgr is attacking me that I don't properly care for him. I do the best I can as I also care for my elderly mother. I pray that the mgr and mgmt company soften their heart towards my brother and me. I pray they stop harassing him and me and they are blocked from doing it further. I pray that their attention be turned away from me and my brother. I pray that another apartment becomes available for my brother in a different location on the 1st. God show us your mercy and open up a door. Thank you Amen

-anonymous