The Ride of the Valkyries—orchestral only, I’m afraid—has just played on the local classical music radio station. Prayers for Rossweisse compensated, I hope, for the missing Hojotohos! and Heiahas!
Our younger daughter Lisa begins chemotherapy for breast cancer tomorrow. Therapy - chemo-radio and hormonal will last a year. A rough year. She is in good spirits and has support from her husband and church (and, she says her dogs, cats and fish). But we cannot see her or be with her. We can only talk on the phone and pray.
So any spare prayers are most welcome!
Prayers ascending for Lisa and those who love her.
Thank you who who have prayed for me and and for others.
Hurray! In the presence of the Real Thing™ these promised notes are perhaps a bit late, but I'll put them up. Please bear in mind that I am partly deaf and may have missed something, and please nobody get their feelings hurt if not mentioned by name, as it's now a major challenge for Ross even without my poor hearing.
Here goes:
First, thanks and love to EVERYBODY.
Give my love to my AOL buddy.
Thanks to all lovers of cats, who are being good feline ministers to the sick.
Thank you, Cousin Nick!
Margaret, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks to PG for the battle-cry. Yes, it made me smile.
The orneries have gone south or something.
Thank you to Galilit and Kyzyl.
Mamacita, I'm expecting you to Mystery Worship my service when it finally happens after the pandemic allows.
I just want to be done with the pain and discomfort.
Jedi Judy, I'm being well cared for by the FMS.
LC, don't argue with me, add yourself to the list of thanks OR ELSE.
The note from Rossweisse was a ray of sunshine in the middle of the night. Or perhaps the sound of a Wagnerian trumpet. The wordless prayers are echoing back to it.
Ross, I am thinking of you all the time and even opened my internet on Shabbat!
Huge thanks to LambChopped for her sterling work!
I'll be seeing you in Not Very Long ... save me a space near you and with A Good View of the Ecclesiantical Goings On. Failing that at least somewhere quiet and secluded to which the incense wafts in clouds of heavenly fragrance when the wind is right and where we can hear the Flights of Angels singing on on their way
what can I say? Can hardly type for my tears of gratitude for all you dear folk praying, especially Rossweise!
Lisa's PICC line is (painfully) in place, first dose of chemo delivered. Lisa asleep. She has good support from husband, mother in law and (a real answer to prayer) her estranged mother.
Many thanks for all your prayers. My love to all.
Rossweisse, thank you for posting here! You are a powerful Valkyrie!
Lamb Chopped, it occurs to me that you are being an angel/Heavenly messenger in the same way Saint Sebastian did for us with Miss_Molly! God bless you real good!
I'll be seeing you in Not Very Long ... save me a space near you and with A Good View of the Ecclesiantical Goings On. Failing that at least somewhere quiet and secluded to which the incense wafts in clouds of heavenly fragrance when the wind is right and where we can hear the Flights of Angels singing on on their way
I seem to have something in my eye.
Holding you all in love and prayer, including @RockyRoger 's Lisa.
Lamb Chopped, it occurs to me that you are being an angel/Heavenly messenger in the same way Saint Sebastian did for us with Miss_Molly! God bless you real good!
Yes. That's a very lovely thought. I never knew Miss_Molly but I followed her Fields of Gold thread and still reread it from time to time.
Considering this is an internet based group where very few people have ever met anyone else who posts - some of you are totally inspiring and I'm so glad to have you in my virtual life. I don't know much about prayers any more but I am joining my love to yours who understand it better.
Rossweisse: I am grateful for your life on the Ship. I remember with admiration your epic arguments with IngoB, and how fitting your title of "High Church Valkyrie"! I thought of you as fierce and graceful, neither giving nor expecting quarter.
I am glad I got to see your face and hear your voice on the Good Friday virtual worship.
"The heavenly host" in the New Testament has always seemed to mix images of choral singers and warriors, and I never understood why, until now. I hope to see you again, and to recognize you in that great host: fierce and musical and graceful as ever.
May you have freedom from pain, and the peace that passes all understanding.
Just said you (online) Compline, Ross.
Bed time here.
I lit a small 50-shades-of-purple candle in my gorgeous wee C.15 ironwork candle holder (Italian hand-made reproduction). It has lovely ironwork embossings and a wee ring for your fore-finger and thumb so you can carry it before you.
The Office was sung by a Scots woman cleric from Edinburgh in a wee chapel in a larger church ... and it ended with the Sub tuum praesidium ... facing a lovely statue of Our Mother and her little Son in one arm. There was a smallish half-circular pricket~stand underneath with just the right number of candles lit and not too many.
You'd have loved it ... and the priest's voice too
Prayers offered from my little corner to Rosse, and Robert, and Gallilit, and all who are fighting this disease and all who support the fight. Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison. (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy.)
Rossweisse, here's hoping that somehow my best wishes make themselves known to you. Being an inspiration to others may not have been your goal in life, but it's one you're achieving anyway. Thank you for being who you are, and may the rest of your journey among us be as easy as possible. My love to you and your kitties.
Dear Rossweisse, be assured that
"As o’er each continent and island
The dawn leads on another day,"
in the Antipodes, and across the pond,
your Shipmates' prayers for you are never silent
nor does the praise for your courage fade away.
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Lighting a candle.
Rossweisse is daily in my thoughts, and I'm grateful to have had a chance to Zoom with her a few weeks ago. May her pathway be an easy one.
Thank you who who have prayed for me and and for others.
Here goes:
First, thanks and love to EVERYBODY.
Give my love to my AOL buddy.
Thanks to all lovers of cats, who are being good feline ministers to the sick.
Thank you, Cousin Nick!
Margaret, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks to PG for the battle-cry. Yes, it made me smile.
The orneries have gone south or something.
Thank you to Galilit and Kyzyl.
Mamacita, I'm expecting you to Mystery Worship my service when it finally happens after the pandemic allows.
I just want to be done with the pain and discomfort.
Jedi Judy, I'm being well cared for by the FMS.
LC, don't argue with me, add yourself to the list of thanks OR ELSE.
LC, God bless you.
Prayers continue for @Robert Armin , @Galilit , and Lisa.
#teamRossweisse
And recognition it is ok to want to be done with the pain and discomfort.
It is a privilege to read your story Rossweisse.
Thank you.
My ongoing prayers, oh Hell Host extraordinaire.
And thank you Lamb Chopped for your loving work.
Holding all here with prayers and tears this morning.
Huge thanks to LambChopped for her sterling work!
I'll be seeing you in Not Very Long ... save me a space near you and with A Good View of the Ecclesiantical Goings On. Failing that at least somewhere quiet and secluded to which the incense wafts in clouds of heavenly fragrance when the wind is right and where we can hear the Flights of Angels singing on on their way
Good to see you @Robert Armin How are you doing yourself?
Lisa's PICC line is (painfully) in place, first dose of chemo delivered. Lisa asleep. She has good support from husband, mother in law and (a real answer to prayer) her estranged mother.
Many thanks for all your prayers. My love to all.
Lamb Chopped, it occurs to me that you are being an angel/Heavenly messenger in the same way Saint Sebastian did for us with Miss_Molly! God bless you real good!
Holding you all in love and prayer, including @RockyRoger 's Lisa. Yes. That's a very lovely thought. I never knew Miss_Molly but I followed her Fields of Gold thread and still reread it from time to time.
For all else who post here 🕯
I am glad I got to see your face and hear your voice on the Good Friday virtual worship.
"The heavenly host" in the New Testament has always seemed to mix images of choral singers and warriors, and I never understood why, until now. I hope to see you again, and to recognize you in that great host: fierce and musical and graceful as ever.
May you have freedom from pain, and the peace that passes all understanding.
Bed time here.
I lit a small 50-shades-of-purple candle in my gorgeous wee C.15 ironwork candle holder (Italian hand-made reproduction). It has lovely ironwork embossings and a wee ring for your fore-finger and thumb so you can carry it before you.
The Office was sung by a Scots woman cleric from Edinburgh in a wee chapel in a larger church ... and it ended with the Sub tuum praesidium ... facing a lovely statue of Our Mother and her little Son in one arm. There was a smallish half-circular pricket~stand underneath with just the right number of candles lit and not too many.
You'd have loved it ... and the priest's voice too
Thank you, @Lamb Chopped.
Praying too for Lisa, Galilit and Robert Armin. 🕯
Galilit 🕯
Robert Armin 🕯
Rossweisse 🕯
and for Lamb Chopped, ministering🕯
"As o’er each continent and island
The dawn leads on another day,"
in the Antipodes, and across the pond,
your Shipmates' prayers for you are never silent
nor does the praise for your courage fade away.
Exactly as cgichard says.
And for Lamb Chopped’s ministry.
MMM
And for @Robert Armin be at rest.