Novena Prayer

During this journey, Blessed Margaret of Castello found us, and we've spent considerable time learning about her and welcoming her into our family. One of our friends (who originally introduced us to her) found a novena - a set of prayers said on nine consecutive days and suggested we start a prayer network. She spearheaded an effort to obtain brochures from Blessed Margaret's national shrine and share them with our parish.  Of course her efforts exploded with the Holy Spirit - far beyond our family and friends (from all across the county) and our St Michael's community but faithful people from all over started reaching out to us.  We had friends from outside the parish let us know they were joining, acquaintances share how people they knew and prayer groups were praying, and even a few complete strangers e-mailing us to tell us that they were with us in this novena.  So many people were letting us know they heard Caroline's story and shared in our love to pray for a miracle.  We couldn't have imagined how wide this ripple effect of prayer would go.

We can't say thank you enough to everyone who walked this part of the journey with us (and continue to pray for our family and for Caroline).