Ray of Hope Foundation

We welcome all prayer requests, ask our visitors to pray for you and yours':

I would like to send a request to Deeni & Debbie
( We will post the original e-mail after it's reviewed. )

On Tues, Dec 2, 2003, my husband was diagnosed with Astrocytoma - Two Level 4 GBM malignant tumors in his brain. One was taken out the following morning, and the other in inoperable on the thalamus. PLEASE PLEASE pray for his remission/recovery as the progosis gave him about a year. We have been married 10 years. We are soulmates. We have 4 beautiful children ages 8, 5, 2 and 3 months old. He is an amazing husband and an even more amazing father. Please pray. Please pray for him. His name is Jeffrey Dean.

Thank you.

Monica Pica Dean

Please pray for Mary Dorsey to gain additional patience and understanding while at the end of her cancer treatments. She needs our extra encouragement. Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone! ~ Julie

Please pray for my husband, Richard Olsen. He had a few magliant melanomas in his legs. The now have metastasised in his lungs. He is now having treatment and please God it will shrink the ones on his lungs. Thank you.

Please pray for my husband and myself to give our lives to Jesus and His Blessed Mother and to raise our children to love God and His church. Thank you

Please pray for Terence Cook who sufferred a stroke 6 years ago and for all of my family.and friends .also for Matt Lupo who is paralyzed from a diving accident this summer. Thank You

Please add Sister Catharine Edward (Sister of Charity) to the list.

Please pray for John Amberg who is in the last stages of his cancer. The doctors do not expect him to live more than a few days. Louise, his wife, has not left his side since they admitted him last Saturday. As some of you know they used to come for the Rosary hoping for a cure for Louise who has spinal cord injury from a car accident. She is still in the same condition and John had been her caregiver until he got too ill to care for her. This is a terrible hard time for her. Please pray that God gives her the strength to go through this and to face what is in the future for her after he passes. Pray also for John's suffering be over soon and God takes him into his Kingdom.

Thank you,
A Good Friend

Please pray for Nettie Valerioti Mom and Nana she is having a very tough time after open heart surgery we need a miracle, and all the prayers possible.

I have been depressed lately. I would like to begin anew with a better life.

Thanks for praying,
Lisa

Please pray for my friend Rose who is a fellow member of Our Lady's Prayer Group. Her cancer is out of remission again. She is a 5 x survivor of breast cancer and they have just found inoperable tumors in her brain. She and her husband, Roy, go to Mass each day and join in the daily Rosary every evening at church.

For years, she uses all her free time when not helping her children and grandchild to make quilts for young terminal cancer children at several of the hospitals here in northern California. She finds out what they would like and proceeds to make the most amazing quilts as her gift to them. Her husband, Roy, supports her in all her efforts and has redesigned two rooms in their house to make one big enough to fit the large quilting equipment she uses.

She knows she has lived on borrowed time for many years thanks to the intercession of Mary. Please join me in our prayers for her healing if that is God's Will.

Maureen Scott

I would like to ask all of you if you would pray for Nicholas. On Friday of last week he was operated on to remove a large growth on his left ear. This was the third attempt to remove it permanently. Apparently there is something else in there,(a growth that starts base of ear and extends to an area where the sinus begins), and it is malignant. From the information I've received they will start with radiation and then try chemotherapy if it doesn't work. Last option open surgery. Nick is seventeen. If you know of additional prayer chains I would appreciate it if you would add him to it.
May the Peace of our Lord be With You

I would like to give thanks to God for his great love and mercy and for a fair and just trial. Please add Ron Dixon to pray list.

Please pray for Mary Dorsey. Mary is a young mother of 4 and has recently been diagnosed with cancer near her sinus region which spread to her neck. Ironically enough, Mary and her family are the people who originally told my family about the weeping icon and Ray in August of 2000. My older sister, Lauretta, received a major miracle from Skop prayers and Heaven only days later. I can also attest that if it wasn't for Mary first sharing the information and help, my twin sister and I would have never reconnected with our faith in such a deep level than we have. It's peculiar the way life plays out sometimes and now it's Mary's turn to receive the healing graces. She remains extremely positive and takes this cross on as a learning experience as she has seen how much good can come from suffering. Thanks and God Bless! Julie

Please pray for Roberta Maher. She has Mulltiple Sclerosis.

Thank You

Please pray for:

Dennis Conti of Wyckoff, NJ - 42 yr. old father of 2 young children who was in remission for several years and recently diagnosed with rectal cancer and is undergoing surgery today (8/1). Please remember him and his family in your prayers. Thank you.

Chuck Dixon of Bluffton, SC - will be undergoing biopsy procedure next Wednesday (8/6) for lymphoma. Please remember him and his family in your prayers. Thank you.

Mary Moran

Please pray for Antoinette Valerioti, she now faces serious problems with her heart. The doctors are asking her to consider surgery.

Please add Jonathon,age 4,cancer victim,to the list. Also Allison age 2 digestive and ear problems.

My name is Ginel Acedieu, and I have a big problem before me, it seems that my mother and my father are started to get apparted, and I try everything, but is just seem not to work well, and my mother her knee cap always hurt for some reason. Doctors told her that there was nothin wrong with her, they couldn't see any problem with her, please I need your help on praying of what i can do to help my mother with her knee cap problem, and my father and my mother that are getting separated.I need an answer as soon as possible, please help me.

Dear Ray of Hope:

Please pray for Mike Norton and Irene Semmenick. Mike has inoperable bone cancer in the face which, after treatments, has spread. Irene is suffering from bladder cancer which, after treatments, has also spread to other parts of her body. They both need our prayers for a miracle. Thanks for your time.

~ Julie

Please pray for Sylvia undergoing a hysterectomy on Monday. Please also pray for Trisha, diagnosed with autism.

Thank you so much.

God bless.

My Father is in desperate need of prayer. He is very ill and under going surgery tonight at 6 PM for an intestinal blockage. They think it might be a tumor. Please put Anthony DeChiara on the prayer chain. We just pray that he is strong enough to get thru the surgery.

Thank you
Jane Hansen

Please pray for Anthony DeChiara. He was just diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He is a good kind gentle man with a handicapped daugter that still needs him in her life. I ask for healing prayers and strength for our family to help him thru this.

Thank you
Jane

Dear Friends,

Please add infant KJ born May 23 with severe hemophilia. Please pray for him to have a good life free from excessive bleeds and pain. We also ask for prayers for his parents that they may be strong for him. We ask Mary and all the Sains and Angels in Heaven to intercede and ask Jesus to heal him and stay by his side always, protecting and guiding. Thank you all for the good deeds that you are doing.

KJ's Gramdma

Please keep Joe Policastro in your prayers. He is suffering from terminal colon cancer which has metastasized. The doctors predict he will not survive past June.
For Joan Arrigo, Joe's sister, who is debilitated with congestive heart failure and many other health complications. Also for our family caregivers.

Thank you Jesus and Mary.... We Love You!

With heartfelt gratitude to all for their prayers and know I will be praying for you.....
JFM

Please pray for Mary Ottavio

Please pray for Brad De Pasquale

Please pray for Carol Acevedo a Special Ed Teacher

Please pray for Amy Mauer

Please pray for Christopher Muniz a 2nd grader in PS #6 Jersey City. Chris needs a kidney transplant.

Please pray for Caroline Di Cioccio's niece.

Please pray for my mother Mary Ottavio who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Our family is praying very hard and would greatly appreciate your devine support. Please add her name to your prayer chain. Please pray for her restored health and wellness. My family and I Thank You for being A Ray Of Hope for us at this time of need.

I would like to request prayers for Laurie Choma, a beautiful person, who has been diagnosed with esophogeal cancer. She has great faith and has served our parish in Hamburg tirelessly for many years. May God in His Divine Mercy heal her.

Thank you,

Helene

DEAR MARIE, PLEASE INCLUDE TO YOUR PRAYER LIST, CODI DENIG, WHO IS SIX YEARS OLD AND DIAGNOSED WITH TERMINAL CANCER. THE DOCTORS SAID HE HAS 6 MONTHS TO LIVE. HE IS A VERY BRAVE BOY. HE TOLD HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER NOT TO WORRY HE WOULD PRAY FOR THEM WHEN HE GETS TO HEAVEN.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS.
TERI DUANE,
MIKE CARBONES SISTER

Please pray for my father. He has problem with his lungs that he has to have his oxygen the whole time in addition to that he has kidney problems in which the doctors said he can not be dialyzed because of his heart and lung problems and his age. Ever since the doctor told him this he has been so depressed.

Thank you.

Please add Michelle Metts(difficult pregnancy)to the prayer list.

I would like to add my niece Julia Rose, 3 years old, to the Prayer list. She is battling neuroblastoma and as she goes throught the horrendous treatments she is a source of inspiration for all of us to endure the pain she is in.

Please pray for her and her parents,
Aunt Pubba

Please pray with Kevins' family for him to find a job. Also, a special intention for a family dealing with the effects of parkinson's syndrome.

Thank you

Please pray now for a miracle for 4 year old Zachary who is imminently dying. Please also pray for his family, especially his father Bill. Please forward to your own lists and ask them to pray.

Thank you.

hello, i am praying for all of you as my sister bablee in india has aml cancer -so i know how you feel- let my lord have control for all this- jesus christ of nazreth- even he asked to have cup pass by him but not his but father's will be done - thank you and love you.

Please add Jose and his sister (bone marrow transplant),Bill Stone(cancer) and a thanksgiving prayer for getting Tom thru radiation theraphy

Please pray for my husband and myself as we wait for the baby that God means to send us.

Thank You,

James and Leigh Ann Russo

Please pray for my sister Maureen Fitzwilliams. Maureen has been suffering from advanced liver cancer for nearly 2 years now. Maureen is a single mother of my 5 year old nephew. Thank you and God Bless.

John

Please Pray for Robert Marrero, he is a member of our armed forces in Iraq.

Please pray for the vision of Baby Anthony Giacci

Hi, My name is Mary, I heard of this group from a friend last night,and was interested in having my sister prayed for, Catheryn has cancer and so far nothing is working.

Thank you for your consideration,
Mary

Please add Fred Neuhausel(cancer)to the prayer list.

Thank you

Please pray for Deepak Patel aka John Patrick (the name he selected to honor his godparents, John and Patricia, when he was baptized). Deepak has been a quadriplegic for almost 20 years due to a car accident he was in when he was in his 20's. He has been suffering from a kidney infection and serious dental problems for almost 2 months. Please pray that his doctors and dentist will find the right combination of drugs strong enough to combat these resistant infections. He is a deeply spiritual person who has joined his suffering to Christ's. Thank you for your prayerful intercessions on his behalf.

Please pray for Johnny Stroppel and his family. He is suffering from complications associated with diabetes.

Thank you,
Laura West

We would like to ask for prayers for both Mark and John. Our family is praying every day for two members of our family. Mark West our cousin was diagnosed with cancer in January and John Stroppel our brother in law has been suffering with diabetes for years and has been in hospital for the past 79 days. John lost half his foot two months ago. On Monday March 17, 2003 John will be losing most of his leg and Mark will also be undergoing a procedure to help drain the bile from his body. We ask that everyone pray for both of them and ask the Blessed Mother to put her arms around both Laura, Mark's wife and Peggy, John's wife and comfort them and give them strength.

Love you Mark and John,
Kathleen

Please flood Heaven with prayers and rosaries for Don Pyle. Don recently had a second stroke and was just diagnosed with prostate cancer and cancer in his hips. He is a very caring person with a twinkle in his eye.

Thank you,
Julie

I would also like to add Mark West to the prayer line. He is my youngest son and suffering from cancer. We believe in miracles and are praying very hard for one.

Love him very much,
his Mom
Thank you

Dear Friends,

I am asking you for an artillery of prayer for a new therapy I will be going for on March 5th in California. I will be back on the 9th. Please pass this request to others.

Stem cells taken from the cord of the placenta of a newborn will be infused in me over 3 days. The hope is that the cells will regenerate in my body thus allowing my body to maybe go into remission and then to heal itself. This process is very expensive and of course there are no promises. We spoke with an ALS patient that had it done. Although it lasted a month and a half, he did experience increased strength. He went from an unsteady walk to being able to walk with no problem, and increased upper body strength. About 10 people had it done and all had different experiences. Pray that Jesus pours his perfect blood into mine for an incredible miracle so that I can be here and raise my 3 little girls.

Thank you and
God bless
Marie

Please pray for Jerry Greco suffering from non-hodgkins lymphoma since 10/99. We received the web site from Madie West, whose son Mark West is suffering from cancer and is in your prayer line. Jerry is the uncle of Mark.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to join the prayers of many.

Fran

Please pray for Kara Schultz, Kara is having heart surgery Tuesday March 4th.

Miriam Krapp
P.S. #6, Jersey City

Please pray for Catherine Finn Murtha who is going through chemo to overcome lymphoma.

Thank you.
Her family

Please pray for Tony S., my brother, who may have mesothelioma, an untreatable cancer resulting from exposure to asbestos.

Thank you,
M.A.

Please pray for Matt O. who has lost his home, his job, his wife, and 2 young children. He inherited Huntington's disease which is medically incurable, leaving its victims confined to a wheelchair or worse. He is expected to be totally disabled by age 50. Please also pray for his sister who has also inherited the disease from their mother who has been bedridden with Huntington's for 25 years.

Thank you,
M.A.

DEAR MARIE & FRIENDS,

I ASK YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS TO PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SISTER. FANNIE HAS ACUTE MYLOID LEUKEMIA. AFTER THE CHEMO TREATMENTS; SHE IS NOT IN REMISSION. SHE WILL BEGIN EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS NEXT WEEK (TPA) IN NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.

FANNIE'S SISTER,
ROSE

Please pray for the recovery of Mark West who is suffering from gallbladder cancer at the age of 37. He is the father of two beautiful little girls. He is my youngest son.

Thank you,
his mother

Please pray for David Haggerty's mother Viola. She had a heart attack and is not doing well. This attack is one of many and the doctors don't think she will make it this time. David needs your prayers also. He has had some major problems this year and is having a hard time with this.

God Bless
Judy Gormley

Hello.

Please pray for Mark West. He is a wonderful husband and father of two beautiful girls, ages 7 and 4. He was diagnosed with gall bladder cancer in January which has spread to his liver.

Thank you.

Hi Marie,

I was wondering if you can keep my friend's son in your prayers. Thomas Joseph Kroll. He was born with a hole in his heart. Also, On March 17th, I am scheduled for surgery and I will be unable to get up to Jersey City (for March 7th's rosary) because I will be celebrating my daughter's birthday. Is it possible if I could request some oil for my self and to send to Thomas. Please keep me in your prayers, since I am Irish I hope the luck of the Irish is with me that day......

My name and address is:
Marianne Cassano

Dear Marie,

I have a dear friend named Kara Schultz who had heart surgery today, Wednesday, February 12. She is a young mother of two and I'd like to have her included in the prayer line.
Well, Marie thank you,

Take care and God bless you,
Love and Blessings
Miriam & Gregory Krapp.

Remember to pray for the souls of our astronauts and their families.

Please pray for Pat Tornillo. Thank-you

Please pray for Joe Bonocore.

Lucille

PLEASE I ASK YOU TO PUT OUR WHOLE FAMILY IN PRAYER SPECIALLY MY DAD SINCE HE FACED THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF HIS LIFE LAST NIGHT.

AS HE WAS ENTERING HIS HOUSE TWO MEN WERE EXPECTING HIM TO ROB HIM OF MORE OF WHAT THEY ALREADY HAD SEEN. THEY HIT HIM IN THE HEAD (LUCKILY WAS ONLY A SUPERFICIAL CUT) AND PUSHED HIM.

THEY TIED HIM UP AND PLACED HIM ON HIS BED AND TOOK AS MUCH AS THEY COULD.

I THANK GOD THAT HE STILL ALIVE, BUT I ASK HIM TO PROVIDE MY DAD WITH THE STRENGTH TO OVERCOME THIS NIGHTMARE SINCE HIS HEART IS NOT THAT STRONG. MOM IS VERY AFRAID AND MY DAUGHTER IS SO UPSET THAT SHE, EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS BETTER, IN SPITE OF THE EVENT ASKED WHERE WAS HE WHEN MY DAD NEEDED OF HIM AND IF HE REALLY EXISTS, BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T LET THAT HAPPENED TO HIM.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO HER? THIS IS SO HARD FOR BOTH SINCE LAST WEEK WE EXPERIENCED THE MURDER OF OUR NEIGHBOR. THERE IS no LONGER A SAFE PLACE.

PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OF US!!! LOVE YOU

JEANNINE

Please continue to pray for Trevor Bebej who is undergoing aggressive chemotherapy for neuroblastoma. He will be three years old next month. His red blood cells are not rising and he is receiving blood transfusions. He is a brave little boy who is fighting so hard to live. Please also pray for his mom and dad and grandparents.

Thank you,
Helene

Hello all--

Please pray for my dear friend, Kevin Donaway, who is will be having surgery for colon cancer in the next few weeks. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Barbara Capelonga

Please pray that my husband John's prostate cancer treatment will continue to keep the metastized cancer from spreading. Thank you and God bless you and everyone in need of any kind of healing, spiritual and physical.

Joan

Please place Terri Lyons on your hotline prayer list-she is havng a lumpectomy and lymph node dissection tomorrow-2/5/03.

Thank-you.

Please pray for Barbara Koci. She is having an operation tomorrow to try to restore some of her vision. Barbars is 50 years old and has many many problems other than being blind. She had some vision until a few months ago when she got up one morning and it was gone. She has diabetes and a brain tumor and the list goes on........................... Thanks for your prayers. Barbara is one of the nicest people I know always ready to help someone.

God Bless
Judy Gormley

Hi Marie,

I haven't spoke to you in a while. I was wondering if I could ask for you to pray for my girlfriend's son who was just born on January 5th with a hole in his heart. His name is Thomas Joseph Kroll. Is it possible that I can have some oil sent. I would like to send some to Thomas (and get one for myself) My oil has dried up (from 2 years ago). I try every month to get to Jersey City for the rosary but it just hasn't been working out. I would be happy to send you money for whatever the postage is needed. I would greatly appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Marianne Cassano

Hi All,

Spoke to Mary Jo last night and she is asking for our prayers that her arm becomes free of pain so that she would be able to use it. Her back and neck have improved. She also needs our prayers that she continues to improve quickly.

Thank you,
her friend,
kathy

Dear Marie - I would like to request prayers for the following:

My husband, Tom Moran, who began radiation treatment for agressive prostate cancer. Our good friend, Jim Therrell, who is recovering from multiple bypass surgery at St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, GA and prayers for his wife, Susan. Thank you and God bless Ray and all his followers.....

Mary Moran

James Stamateris
he is a 4 year old boy who has Cooley's Anemia

Thank you.

Please pray for my dad Enrique Bahr.

Thanks
Gil Bahr

MY DAD IS HOLDING ON WITH HIS EMPHYSEMA AND PROSTATE PROBLEMS.HE HAS LOST ALOT OF WEIGHT. PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM.

THANK YOU
GIL BAHR

Please pray for Francine who has liver cancer. I just received this request from a friend.

Thanks so much for all your kindness and your faithfulness.

God Bless
Judy Gormley

Please keep me in your prayers as I try to rebuilt my life back together again I had surgery done in oct. and it lead me into a depression.I am feeling better now. I have another issue i have to get through and that would be court on Jan 27 and Jan 30 please pray that my outcome will be a good one or dismissed that i have been praying for sometime now. thank you Debbie DeVenuta also would like to say thanks to all for praying for my dad he has received his kidney and is doing well,

thanks to all of you.

Please pray for Jordan Bornstein, a college student who has a growth in this throat. He is supposed to be seeing a surgeon today.

Thanks again for the wonderful response to all of my prayer request. I just want you to know that I keep all of your intentions in my prayers.

God Bless
JudyGormley

Please pray for Trisha.

Please pray for Wil Hennessy, who is in kindergarten. He has a tumor in his leg and the doctor's are pretty sure that it is cancer. They just don't know what kind. Hopefully it is the king of cancer that will respond to chemo. Please pray for his family as well.

Many thanks to all of you who pray for these requests

May Our Lord's peace be with you always

Judy Gormley

I would like to request a prayer for a cat I rescued from an older woman who I also help that was living in my apartment complex in conditions that were horrendous. The woman who live in the complex 30 years was always a bitter woman but capable of taking care of herself. The bitterness and anger I think destroyed her and she was living with no lights, apartment was infested with roaches and flys from her waste. I got help for her but this poor cat who is 8 years old declared and spayed needs a home. She is frighten to death from all the abuse for the last year so she is inadaptable at the time. I want to take her but I have 4 cats now and one is 17 and I live in a one bedroom and all I have been under so much stress since 9/11. I was there when the planes hit the World Trade Center and lost a friend. My mom was sick and she died 2 weeks later and my brother-in-law died. It has been a very hard year and I don't want this cat to be put to sleep, but she only has a few days but what I am most afraid of is that I will take it and the chaos it would cause in my house would just add to the my stress and I cannot handle any more. I have worked with animals saving and helping in all ways for about 8 years and had to stop as there is only so much you can do. I know this may sound unimportant but this cat has gone through so much that it need a chance to recover and have a good life. I always pray for the creatures of God.

Thank you so much.

Candace Mc Cracken

Please add Mary Barrett Scarafone and Tom Moran to the prayer list.

Dear Marie, please place Pat Del Grosso on Ray's Hot Line Prayer list.He has a very bad back and is in constant pain. He had an MRI done which did not come out well and now as a appointment with a surgeon for possible extensive back surgery next week. Update on my rose that I received on 3/1/02. It STILL has a green stems and all the leaves are green and soft. The rose is brownish pink but very soft not dry. The nodules growing off the stem are still growing but slowly. The roots are growing and are very long and abundant. Is there anyone who can advise me about planting it. I am afraid to take it out of the vase and water since it is doing so well because I DO NOT have green thumb and would not know how to start. This rose is 10 months old.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please pray for Joan Hanhauser. She has lung cancer. I don' t know any other details.

God Bless
Judy Gormley

Please continue to pray for Trisha. There is power prayer, and only prayer can help Trisha escape from the devastating disorder of autism. She has greatly improved from prayer, so please continue to pray so that Trisha can enjoy life as a child should. Please also pray for all who suffer from autism.

Thanks.
Steve

Hi, and god bless for your wounderful mission. I also pray the rosary in a prayer group in Staten Island. I am requesting prayer for a very dear friend of mine. her name is Pat Sheila , she has lung cancer with metastasis to the bone. The mother mary has already blessed her with peace. I am praying for a healing. God be with you all.

Thank You.
Carole Morgan.

Please pray for Shirley Decembrino. She has a mass on her ovaries which may well be ovarian cancer. Pray for her husband Frank as well.

Thanks
Judy Gormley

My cousin , Victor Collins, was hit by a drunken driver, New Year's Eve. He sustained extensive injuries and is not doing well.Please pray intensively for him as he needs the prayers. Thank you. Could you also put him on the prayer hot line.

Thank you and Happy New Year.

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