A very bad day for my family. I could use some prayers.

[尼古拉前执事]

Dear in Christ,

Today is a great day.

1. My brother, Eric, is back to 100% and has completwely healed what ended up being diagnosed as West Nile Virus. Please, everyone make sure your insect repellant has DEET in it so this does not happen to your loved ones.

2. My step-father, Bradley, went back to work today. He still has some serious scrapes on his face, elbows, and knees, but he is healing VERY fast! He gets the 40+ stitches out of his deeper wounds on his face on Thursday.

3. My wallet was returned! Of course all the money is gone from it, but someone fropped it in a postal box and apparently the post office will try to deliver it with postage due when someone does this. I took the card they left in my postal box to the post office today and paid the postage and found all of out Social Security cards, my birth certificate card and drivers license all shoved back in to the wallet. What a blessing this was!

Since I am currently without a priest here, may I ask others that read this to back a Panouropita for my sake since I prayed, asking Saint Phanorious for assistance in it being returned?

For those who do not know the tradition, I post it below:

It's a pious Eastern Orthodox custom that if you lost something, try baking Panouropita (cake for St. Phanourios - pron. Phanouropita). St. Phanourios, the patron saint of lost articles, helps people find anything from a missing piece of jewelry to good health and happiness. "Phanourios" comes from the Greek word, "phanerono" (I reveal). When asking St. Phanourios for help, a cake is baked for the forgiveness of his mother, a troubled woman (whose was a harlot and her name is unknown). The cake can be brought to the Church and placed to be blessed by the parish priest. Afterwards the holy blessed bread Panouropita is shared by those at the Church.

Phanouropita

1 cup of sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups orange juice
3/4 cup light or dark raisins
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups flour

Beat sugar and oil together until creamy yellow. Dissolve baking soda in orange juice and pour slowly into sugar mixture. Add other ingredients and pour into a 9" x 13" greased pan. Bake at 350 F for 45 - 50 minutes or until an inserted toothpick pulls out cleanly. Cut into squares for serving after it's blessed at the Church by the parish priest. Ask the parish priest to remember in memory St. Phanourios mother.

Holy Great Martyr Phanourios,
Pray Unto God, For Us!

Again thank you all for your prayers!

[Sean]

Glory to God that your prayers have been answered, Father! Pray for me, a sinner.

[elleagwire]

We all have our bad days.

Just a few days ago my mother was also sent to the hospital due to diabetic related sickness. After a couple of tests still she wasn't fine. Until the doctor discovered that she was running out of potasium and needed to be supplemented right away. Financially, the whole family was drained.

But God is good in all days. I started to pray and asked for his light to shine upon me and the whole family. So it's true, he never misses a day solving your problems in every impossible and miraculous ways. He showed himself from another person and provided a certain amount of money for my mother's sake.

So bad days can turn into good days after all. And only prayers can do such.

Elle Mayson

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