Reader Katie e-mailed me this:
I don’t know if you’ve seen on Drudge the story about the young Catholic woman with brain cancer who’s being kept alive until she can bring her baby to term. It’s being slowly picked up by different MSM outlets. Jason Torres, her husband, went to high school with me, and his mom is a friend of my family’s, so it’s personal for me. He’s had to quit his job to stay by her side. Their medical bills are about $7,500 a day and they’re looking to at least mid-July before they can deliver the baby, assuming the cancer doesn’t spread to her uterus. I was hoping maybe you could help spread the word through the blogosphere. Faith and Action have set up a fund to help with the medical costs, so it’s all tax deductible and such. If you can help, that would be wonderful.
http://www.susantorresfund.org/ is the fund site
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050616/1a_cover16.art.htm is the USA Today article.
I don’t even know what to say about this, other than that I’ll have the Torreses in my prayers. If you have some money to spare, please help out. If not, at least say a little prayer. It makes a difference.
Holy Jesus, Author and Creator of all life, have mercy on this mother and her unborn baby. May he come to a safe delivery time and live a long healthy life , giving comfort to his father on earth and glory to his Father in Heaven. Amen.
Amen, Chris.
Grow up, Cornell.
Amen, and AMEN.
I hope your life is never that boring, Cornell.
The family is in our prayers.
I am so praying for this family. Also, for some reacson trackback wont work for me so:
http://medicthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/06/pray-for-this-family.html
God, be with that woman and her unborn child.
My prayers are with the family. Thank you, Frank, for sharing that story with us.
I’ll put in a personal note too. I’ve met Jason and Susan. Jason came over to our house, usually with his brother (and blogger) Justin.
In fact, one night they came over, snuck in through a side door, and jumped my roommate in his bed just for the fun of it.
Jason is a solid Catholic fellow, and I had no doubt he’d be the type to do anything to save his baby. Before I learned about http://www.susantorresfund.org, I was trying to get something similar going.
This thread sure is drawing out some inane trolls. Cornell, if you’re that bored, go take a nap. Frank will be back with more funny later. Schmuck.
Cornell works at Merrill Lynch.
If you would like to retaliate for his insensitive comments, you can go to:
http://www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_8143_8322_13510&type=200.01
and let his supervisors know about it.
In the meantime… help these folks out financially!!!
In the age of abortion and killing our own for convenience…what a great and invigorating story….
Just ignore the trolls. I usually have a high tolerance for them, but, in this case, they’re getting deleted.
That’s great, Frank.
In this case, it’s not censorship.
Just caring and good taste.
Thank you for reporting this story. My prayers and support will be with Jason and Susan and baby. God be with this young man.
Thanks for the post. I’ve sent a link to my entire mail list. Will be keeping these folks in my prayers.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit:
Blessed and Merciful God, thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for the life of this growing child. Thank you for your love that is shaping and forming this child’s life into divine perfction. Thank you for shaping this child’s desting and writing your love upon the heart of its mother and father. Thank you for filling this childs entire being and this mother and father with the light of your grace. Thank you for showing us how to love this child even before it is born. Merciful God, remove from this father’s heart any doubt, fear, anger or resentment that could harden his heart. Strengthen him and the people who love him that can in any way keep him on this divine path you have laid before him. Thank you God, for your promise that a mother’s prayer for her child will never go unanswered. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit:
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for her.
St. Michael, Pray for her.
Holy angels of God, Pray for her.
St. Joseph, Pray for her.
St. John the Baptist, Pray for her.
St. Peter and St. Paul, Pray for her.
St. Andrew, Pray for her.
St. John, Pray for her.
St. Mary Magdalene, Pray for her.
St. Stephen, Pray for her.
St. Ignatius, Pray for her.
St. Lawrence, Pray for her.
St. Perpetua and St. Felicity, Pray for her.
St. Agnes, Pray for her.
St. Gregory, Pray for her.
St. Augustine, Pray for her.
St. Athanasius, Pray for her.
St. Basil, Pray for her.
St. Martin, Pray for her.
St. Benedict, Pray for her.
St. Francis and St. Dominic, Pray for her.
St. Francis Xavier, Pray for her.
St. John Vianney, Pray for her.
St. Catherine, Pray for her.
St. Theresa, Pray for her.
Pope John Paul the Great, Pray for her.
All you Saints of God, Pray for her.
+ Amen.
“Cornell works at Merrill Lynch …. and let his supervisors know about it”
I will & I’ll also drop a BIG hint that they give to http://www.susantorresfund.org
By what means is she being kept alive?
I am a UD alumni and am so glad that so many bloggers out there are getting the word out. It is through emails that the media first became aware of this story. I hope that Susan survives until July 11th, the date the Torres’ unborn child should be able to survive. God bless this family!
Spetiam, she’s on a respirator.