A Holy Week Appeal of Prayer for Maricris

“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering 

away from me. Yet I want your will, not mine.” (Luke 22:42)

Six months ago, I have posted Ms. Maricris, A Cancer Patient, as Ms. Maricris Ugay personally appeals for financial assistance and prayer in battling her breast cancer.

Today, in behalf of his husband, son and friends, please help us in lifting our heartfelt and urgent prayer for Maricris whose breast cancer is at its terminal stage,  please help us in our prayer that may she withstand the physical pain and sufferings that she is undergoing right now; and  may she experience the peace of Christ and His healing love on the forthcoming Resurrection of Christ the LORD.

A Prayer for Maricris Ugay,  A Cancer Patient

Merciful Father,

My friend Maricris' is suffering from breast cancer and is now its terminal stage which we have feared. I am afraid. I am lonely. Questions seem to crowd my mind: Will she be cured? Will she find comfort from the pain? How long will she live? How will her family handle this? I ask with all my heart that she be healed. But, if her healing is not in Your great plan, I trust You to be with her through it all. 

I trust You to give her peace, to let her live with hope, to relieve any pain, and to let her know Your presence. I trust You to bring her loved ones and friends close to her during her illness, that we might support each other, and that Your great hands might support us all we pray that from now on, whether sick or well, we will live each day as if it were eternal, and trust our eternity to You as we await the resurrection of your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. 


We also invite you and your friends in our mission to gather more people for a collective Healing Prayer for Maricris Ugay which was launched by his husband in the internet through Facebook. You may please click on the image below to visit the site.

"I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD." (Psalms 118:17)

Holy Week Reflection

The Almighty LORD will teach me what to say, 

so I will know how to encourage weary people. 

Morning after morning 

He will wake me to listen 

like a student. 

(Isaiah 50:4)

Today, we enter the last week of the Lent - the Holy Week, an opprtunity for contemplation, cleansing, and renewal for our heart and soul as we spend the next seven days accompanying Jesus, the man - the God, whose human journey begins as we approach him closely to feel Him close enough to feel His breath, touch His wounds and stand at the foot of the Cross.

May this final week of our Lenten journey draws us to the teachings of Jesus on love and forgiveness, charity and service for others as we look into the flight of our distressed OFWs languishing in jails in foreign soil, the countless number of Domestic Helpers who were abused, and assaulted by their employers and our kababayan who were victims of illegal recruitments and human trafficing. 

May Christ passion and death on the Cross open our hearts and minds towards genuine act of charity - of sharing our talents, time and wealth to the poor and the needy.

Let us spend the next seven days with our eyes on Him from riding through the crowds in Jerusalem to rising from the dead. Ask ourselves some hard questions about where we are in our spiritual walk and where we would like to be. 

In the observance of Holy Week, I will be in solitude holding in prayer as we enter the mysteries of coming days. 

A blessed Holy Week to all of you.