I have a prayer request for my newborn niece.
I just received a text from my sister, Jennifer, asking for prayers for her new baby girl, Ronin Rose, who was recently born at 28 weeks and who has been doing well but is experiencing some problems common to preemies.
My sister writes:
Will you please pray for Ronin? She has an infection, likely pneumonia, and is on antibiotics and an oscillator (the big ventilator) to help push fluid out of her lungs. Her lung x-ray was clearer than this mornings but is cloudy. I’m too exhausted to talk, but I wanted to reach out to you and ask if you’d pray for her and her doctors and nurses.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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As a relatively new father, I feel great sympathy for you and your family in this situation. I have just lifted Ronin Rose up to the Lord in prayer for her health and healing.
I will offer a prayer to Our Lady for Ronin and her family. God bless them all.
Asked for St. Monica’s intercession. A good mama knows what her child needs.