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God Bless!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           PBXVI | <a href=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.21.07 - 3:56 pm | <a href=\"#434673\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434678\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=0716e10e279972bbc7bed1d854eb5416&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Praying hard...<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Sean | <a href=\"http://www.SmallButDisorganized.com\" title=\"http://www.SmallButDisorganized.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.21.07 - 5:45 pm | <a href=\"#434678\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434679\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9b013a937a381f062ffddbae4ae3893d&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Prayers coming your way!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Moneybags | <a href=\"http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.21.07 - 6:38 pm | <a href=\"#434679\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434682\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fa0ff6309a65f17225e247386cecf7ca&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Oh, Christina, I'm so sorry.  Mary Claire is in my prayers.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Betsy | 01.21.07 - 8:15 pm | <a href=\"#434682\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434687\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f314a80b42e1b8ef22adeacc657df8a6&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Praying Christina!!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Esther | <a href=\"http://hicatholicmom.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://hicatholicmom.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.21.07 - 9:06 pm | <a href=\"#434687\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434689\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I got her in my prayers.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Peter | <a href=\"http://Http://www.fortzion.com/\" title=\"http://Http://www.fortzion.com/\">Homepage</a> | 01.21.07 - 10:14 pm | <a href=\"#434689\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434718\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=58cdfcfbebcef31a1bf4fd4e05861670&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Praying for this sweet baby...<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Cathy Ward | <a href=\"http://www.wardweb.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://www.wardweb.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.22.07 - 11:03 am | <a href=\"#434718\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434730\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Prayers don't heal cancer?  If your prayers healted cancer, you would hit the streets running with something to sell.  Leave this child alone to die in pain.  Don't heal her! I want her to be a sacrifice to my underlord! Payers do NOT heal cancer. They don't, I tell you! I know, because my short bus driver said so!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo picante | 01.22.07 - 4:44 pm | <a href=\"#434730\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434737\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b88a99ff47a1d8c196a4cb78292f97d4&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Mary Claire requests prayers. She has a very deep faith. Left alone, she will die.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Christina Martin | <a href=\"http://carmelsundae.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://carmelsundae.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.22.07 - 6:26 pm | <a href=\"#434737\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434739\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />prayers don't heal cancer....stop this nonsense!<br><br>But don't take me too terribly seriously, because I was dropped on my head as a baby.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo picante | 01.22.07 - 7:35 pm | <a href=\"#434739\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434746\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Cholo Picante, <br>  Your right, prayers don't heal cancer-- but God does.  We speak to God in our prayers asking for His help because He has told us that if we come to Him and ask of Him He will help us.  There are many real life stories of God healing people and preforming miracles because of prayers from people.  God will help us if we turn to Him.  Sometimes for the better, God chooses not to do what we requested of Him, but that will only be for a greater good.  Prayer does indeed work----hey, when was the last time you tried praying?  God Bless!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           PBXVI | <a href=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.22.07 - 10:25 pm | <a href=\"#434746\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434766\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=58cdfcfbebcef31a1bf4fd4e05861670&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I wish that if people were going to make ignorant comments, they would at least have a clue as to what they were talking about. Or at least come to my blog so that I could let them have it.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Cathy Ward | <a href=\"http://www.wardweb.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://www.wardweb.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.23.07 - 9:44 am | <a href=\"#434766\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434774\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I strongly believe that praying does not cure cancer but that prayer may be helpful to the person praying.  Thousands of children die from cancer all over the world.  If prayer worked, why are so many children still dying from cancer. Consider  writing to your Senators and Reps so that they will fund more cancer research.  Hold fund raisers and use the money to improve the quality of lives of dying children and their families.  Get active with your local cancer foundation, volunteer.  They need your help.  If everything else fails, pray and fast.<br><br>Just make sure that whatever you do, you don't pray, because Satan doesn't like that, and I want brownie points with him. <br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo picante | 01.23.07 - 11:31 am | <a href=\"#434774\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434783\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />To the fool who claims that prayers don't heal cancer;<br><br>They do, in fact, heal cancer as well as other ailments. There are many people who can attest from firsthand experience to this fact. Diseases determined by medicine and science to be incurable disappear with no plausible explanation other than divine intervention. Claiming that because not everyone is healed by miracles is like claiming that medicine is useless because it doesn't save everyone. God may choose who He wishes to intervene with and who He doesn't, and it's not up to us to judge Him for it. And if you make the common mistake of thinking that because you don't see why God would save some and not others, it's because you are not psychic and can't know what anyone, God most certainly included, is thinking unless someone tells you so. He is not required to answer to you for anything he does.<br><br>No one is forcing you to believe in God, though I will pray to Him that He shows you His way. (And if after all that, you still cling to your belief that prayers do nothing, you have nothing to worry about when I say I'll pray for you.)<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Shannon | 01.23.07 - 12:20 pm | <a href=\"#434783\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434800\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Shannon...are you gonna pray and fast for me?  I respect your blind faith and I ask that you please post the child's obit when she passes - proof that your prayers kicked cancer's butt!  What are the other ailments that prayers cure? <br><br>I also ask that you eat paint chips like I do. Take care, Cholo, Illegal Immgrants Against Good Spelling.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo picante | 01.23.07 - 2:41 pm | <a href=\"#434800\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434804\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=fa566eabb098e4c6af19073fbcc795cf&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Why non-Catholics and atheists bother to disturb and offend the faithful by visiting Catholic sites? If they dont have the Faith, why do they get so furious at people who believe? Do they expect to convince us of their emptiness and shallowness when our Faith is the biggest treasure we have on earth, which we would not change for anything? This is the same kind who supports abortion and euthanasia in the name of \"quality of life\" and \"choice\". Dont listen to them. Just keep praying!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           scg | 01.23.07 - 3:59 pm | <a href=\"#434804\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434813\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />The fact that Cholo gets so riled up when people express their faith is because those who are faithful are happy, and he is jealous that he, in his denial of the Lord, doesn't experience the same joy that we do. Atheism is simply a synonym for bitter <img src=\"http://www.haloscan.com/images/smileys/content.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" /><br /><span class=\"byline\">           Shannon | 01.23.07 - 6:48 pm | <a href=\"#434813\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"434827\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />bitter atheist!<br><br>Yeah, I am. But don't pay too much attention to me; I'm also not allowed to use pencils or other sharp things.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo picante | 01.24.07 - 12:18 am | <a href=\"#434827\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"435055\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b25a4b46aeea06bb85271683f3a898e7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Please pray for my soul.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           cholo ignorante | 01.25.07 - 2:03 pm | <a href=\"#435055\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"435120\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Cholo,  Prayers a' comin' for you too!  God Bless!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           PBXVI | <a href=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://www.catholicwarrior.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.26.07 - 11:49 pm | <a href=\"#435120\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"435190\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=01baff818a84e8f73d54273c2ae27993&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=28\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I will be praying for Mary Claire.  Even mere reason can tell you that no one make the generalization 'prayers can't work a miracle' because that would mean he had interviewed and studied every case in which a person said she was healed by cancer. One of my best friends' daughter was healed of cancer when her doctor said she had only two weeks to live. I SAW THAT HAPPEN. 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