Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Faithful Catholic Runs for Office

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John Harper and for Drew, this afternoon as we prepare to have prayers answered and hear the miracles that have happened to you as we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Here on Relevant Radio and the Relevant Radio app, taking your prayer intentions right now. Our number is 888-914-9149.

888-914-9149 for your prayer intentions. And also know this morning, actually lit a candle before 7 AM mass and my intention as I received Eucharist were for all who called today and all who couldn't get through to us at 888-914-9149 that the Lord hear your prayers and answer those prayers for you. So we could talk about the miracles that happen in your life that you have seen when we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Brooke Taylor is joining this afternoon. Hello, Brooke. How are you?

Brooke Taylor (1:06)

Hi, John. Good afternoon. Good.

John Harper (1:07)

How are you? We always meet on these occasions when I'm sitting in for Drew. And I always asked, how's everybody? How's the family? Everything going well?

Brooke Taylor (1:16)

Very good. Yes. Grateful. I actually was just telling Nick that I went wedding dress shopping with our third son, who's preparing for the Sacrament of Matrimony. Oh, his fiance. Let me specify his fiance. So that was really special today.

John Harper (1:31)

Oh, that's awesome. Did she get a dress?

Brooke Taylor (1:34)

She has a front runner. So you know, there's so many choices and it's a complicated process.

John Harper (1:39)

My cousin is one of my cousin's two daughters just got married. And she must have spent three months, not only in Austin, Texas, where she got married with priests down there, where she's a parishioner, but in New York looking for a wedding dress. Now, I guess this is the guy's perspective is saying, does it take that much to get a wedding dress? But again, those are the pictures you're going to have for life. So it better be right, right?

Brooke Taylor (2:02)

It's true. And I'm really encouraged. I think that there's always different trends, of course, through decades and generations, but there's just such an elegance, I feel like that a timelessness that seems to be in. And again, the other two now are daughters-in-law just did such a beautiful job. And this position is, I feel for me, like, I don't want to say my opinion too much, I'm just trying to be supportive. You know, it's a new stage of life, like, you want to be excited and supportive, but she looked beautiful and everything. So it's just such a happy time.

John Harper (2:35)

Triple 8, 914-9149, as we pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, do you have any special intentions today, Brooke?

Brooke Taylor (2:41)

I do, John, thank you. There's a young man named Jeremiah, and he was riding an e-bike, and he was hit by a car. Someone turned in front of him, and his helmet flew off.

He's in critical condition, and there was an immediate worry that he had a spinal issue, that he'd be paralyzed. He was in surgery for about seven hours yesterday. The report right now looks hopeful, but he lives with his grandparents, and he had a rough morning because he didn't want to go to school. So grandma and Jeremiah had some tense moments, and so I know that she's really struggling with regret because the morning didn't start off great. So I just pray for peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding for anyone who's in a situation of feeling regret, or particularly for this young man Jeremiah, for his healing. We just heard Mary as well talk about that riverboat tragedy. So I just want to pray for that situation, for first responders, and for all the souls in Purgatory.

John Harper (3:41)

And we are watching that now in our monitors here. And of course, there is video from tourists of the boat going down and the collision happening, and there are some 129 souls. And there are a number of people, as I look at the video right now, who have life vests on, who are in the water, and who are being rescued by the Coast Guard and the police in New Orleans. And that is a story that will continue to follow. I would like to pray for a priest that I got to know within the last five years, because he wanted to expand his vocation, he wanted to expand his evangelization beyond just the pulpit. And a priest in the Diocese of Bridgeport, a late vocation, after years of service in local and state government.