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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
Thank you for directing me to this thread. I will be starting the novena a little late - but I hope it is okay for me to 'jump in'. 
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
I was listening to Relevant Radio today and heard something I think the rest of you would be interested in. There is a priest currently up for beatification who seems to be a great person to pray to for unborn children. His name is Father Stanislaus and he founded the Marian Fathers order. Here's the main website dealing with his beatification: http://stanislawpapczynski.org/en/index.php
The miracle attributed to him for his beatification (recently approved by the Pope) involves an unborn child. The woman was 7-8 weeks pregnant and had several ultrasounds, at least one of which confirmed that the baby was growing normal. A day or two later, another ultrasound showed no fetal heartbeat and decreased size of the fetal sac. The doctors told her she was having a miscarriage and asked that she come back in a few days if she did not miscarry naturally. Her family (especially an uncle) prayed to Father Stanislaus for the health of the unborn child and 3 days after the ultrasound indicated the fetus had died, a subsequent ultrasound showed the fetus was growing and had a strong heartbeat. The Vatican team who investigates these things verifed this as a miracle - unexplainable by medical science. (The child is now 5 and continues to grow normally.)
Perhaps when we begin our novena for pregnant mommies we could include this holy man in our list of saints to ask for intercession. The whole idea of a potential saint for unborn babies makes me really happy with our current culture of death.
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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There is a priest currently up for beatification who seems to be a great person to pray to for unborn children. His name is Father Stanislaus and he founded the Marian Fathers order. Here's the main website dealing with his beatification: http://stanislawpapczynski.org/en/index.php
Perhaps when we begin our novena for pregnant mommies we could include this holy man in our list of saints to ask for intercession. The whole idea of a potential saint for unborn babies makes me really happy with our current culture of death.
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And don't forget St. Gianna Molla! www.saintgianna.org She not only interceded to help me conceive, but got both of us through my high-risk pregnancy with no complications, and little Gianna Elizabeth (her namesake  )was born healthy.
If you don't know her story, she was an Italian doctor who gave her life for her unborn baby by refusing chemotherapy or surgery that would have killed her baby after being diagnosed with uterine cancer during her pregnancy with her 4th child.
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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Sep 16, '07, 9:51 am
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
Finishing up this novena today!
Thanks again for starting this!!!
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Sep 16, '07, 11:49 am
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
We got a positive this morning....!!!
Please pray for us. This is our first and we're terrified! 
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Sep 16, '07, 11:56 am
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
Oh, Whiteyacht, that's wonderful!! Congratulations.
Maybe we need to start a support thread for first time parents, whether they're pregnant or adopting. I know I could use it. 
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Sep 16, '07, 11:57 am
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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We got a positive this morning....!!!
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There it is!  I have been waiting for someone to say BFP...thanks and blessings to you, your husband, and your new little miracle! 
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Sep 16, '07, 11:59 am
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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Oh, Whiteyacht, that's wonderful!! Congratulations.
Maybe we need to start a support thread for first time parents, whether they're pregnant or adopting. I know I could use it. |
That's a good idea! Start it up! I am starting a kind of different thread. I am going to make it soon. Families of two. You'll see.
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Sep 16, '07, 2:19 pm
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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We got a positive this morning....!!!
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I'd say that we have some fast results from our novena! This is great news! Blessings to the three of you!!!
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Sep 16, '07, 5:56 pm
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
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We got a positive this morning....!!!
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Wonderful news! Congratulations! Thanks be to God!
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Re: Novena for those trying to conceive & grow their families
Congratulations! You're in for a roller coaster - enjoy it. Yeah, a BFP!
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