Please Keep Philip In Your PrayersIn Caritate Non Ficta
Phil is a young man I know - a former Naval Officer and current seminarian who is fighting brain cancer.
Please remember Phil in your prayers.
I have consulted many doctors, and they recommend that I begin a treatment of three drugs that are currently being researched to treat brain cancer - Bevacizumab, Irinotecan, and Carboplatin. Two of these are harsh chemotherapy drugs with very unpleasant side effects, and there are significant risks of internal bleeding and blood clots involved when taking them. If I respond to the initial treatments, I will receive these IV injections every other week for the next year.
My bishop has released me from my original Summer parish assignment in Wilmington, and instead he has given me the "assignment" to pray for the Church and diocese while I undergo these treatments. I will likely be living at the Sacred Heart parish rectory in Dunn, NC for much of the Summer, at the kind invitation of Fr. Parkerson, to be close to my friends and family. I ask you to please pray for me as I begin these treatments, and that my health will permit me to return to the seminary in the Fall. Please be assured of my prayers for you all as well!
posted by Kevin Whiteman at
11:23 AM
3 Comments:
Many, many prayers for you, Phil.
May I ask if this is the same Philip who also req'd prayers on AQ site? If so, I have been wondering for some time now how he was doing, all the while keeping him in my prayers. Could someone pls let me know, as I have a friend who keeps asking about him, and who is also praying for him. I haven't heard anything about Philip since first reading about his brain tumor. And either way, he Philip will be in our prays.
Lord, may Your grace continually bless Phil in his trials, and those around him. We ask that You grant him good health and remission of his cancer, that You may be glorified thereby.
A propos of your blog in general, but not this post, was the lead article today on Catholic Exchange, explaining the (surprisingly vast) difference between the old old (and soon to be restored) introductory rite and the one I've been using all my life.
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