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Financial despair

Complete healing from breast cancer and peace of mind

Worrying about my husband's firm and facing another salary cut

Help to find employment

Fear of miscarriage

I don't like myself

Depressed, anxious, feeling desperately homesick and helpless. Unable to find employment. Still grieving for my dear mother, who passed away six years ago. I loved her very much, but couldn't show it easily. I was not always the good daughter she deserved to have. I sometimes feel like ending it all. Forgive me, father.

The horrors that people inflict on one another!

finacial debts.

food compulsion

Take care of my mother, heal her from paralysis, give peace to my daughter who is married as her husband troubles her, peace at my work place, help my children to study and do well in their exams.

I have upset someone who tried to help me. I have tried to put it right and have made the situation worse. Now I have to leave the church. I feel so bad i want to end my life just to stop all the pain I am in.

I love a person of a different religion for whom I have been always there but he doesn't love me. He doesn't even consider me. I am depressed because of this. I don't see any meaning in life. Oh Jesus I feel so alone. Help me out of this depression. Heal the wounds of my heart.

I want to die. Please forgive me and protect my family.

I am thankful for God reaching out to me.

Greed and lust

Please help me find a way out of my debt turmoil

Lust and pornography. I am sorry please, please help.

Please help me to overcome my laziness which I can not control anymore....

Doubting God's love for me. Please forgive me Jesus.

Please help me to find my true way in life!

I need to find a new job to give my family security.

My ex-husband's unfair treatment of my son.

To be loved

Overwhelming financial debt

Please help me get rid of my depression which has been caused by a variety of things, joblessness, loss of my father, illness and betrayal by close friends and family. I feel very isolated at present. I am lonely but not alone. Please guide and protect my family during this difficult time.

I am having great difficulty in forgiving my friends and family who betrayed me. This has caused me to be ill with depression, illness and feelings for revenge. Please help me to forgive so that I in turn may receive forgiveness for my sins.

I am afraid that this year will be extremely difficult...I am hoping that I am blest with stability and can be a productive person.

Depression, anxiety and sin of adultery

I hurt someone I love and I am truly sorry

drinking too much

Please help me love myself and others

Jesus, show me how best to follow you, give me the patience to wait if must and the courage to act if I must.

Forgive me for my many sins dear Lord.

Debt, excess weight, lifelessness

To have peace in our life.

I hate myself

I'm so sad and mad about being mistreated by my ex and its even harder to hate him to death. I can't help keep asking myself why I'm not good enough, why I feel so empty. Please help me to be restored and stronger.

I want to end the problems with my family and daughter.

I victimise myself, am defensive and hate people.

My neighbour

Anxiety about my future, career, money and being single.

Too much to do, but too little time. I am so tired. I want to find my passion back.

I'm out of work and have mounting debts, please give me the strength to turn to God for help

Dear Ultimate Parent, I am so sorry for everything. Please help me love myself as you love me. Please give me the fruit of the spirit. That I may know your peace. I so desperately want to be thin but hand over my dreams for sugar or peanut butter. I don't understand the root of my problem but I know the symptoms too well. Dear Father let your dream be my dreams.

Too many to mention. My wife's ill, we've lost a beautiful daughter, we are living hand to mouth, I hate my job, I try for other jobs for which I'm told I have a great talent which never gets recognised which other people are jealous of, but I'm not a jealous person.

My tendency to lose control, to drink to excess, to wake in the morning and think "who was I last night? What have I become?" I fear I will lose my friends. I feel foolish and lonely.

I cheated on all my girlfriends and I don't ever want to do it again.

Grief, shame, sin, doubt.

Hurting my abandoned children hurts me deeply and I don't know how to deal with it

Career

My helplessness

My laziness and dread

My guilt

Anger towards my mother & my husband & his family

My sins and weaknesses

Chains of dept and feelings of dispair, please give me the energy to stay positive and help others less fortunate

Debt

Doubt

decision

Dear Lord, please help me find a job. I find it so hard working with people who gossip and do not treat others with respect. Thank you Lord

Please pray for Louis aged 7 years old born with one kidney of which is only 60% operating. his tests have not been good recently. please pray for him M hartley

i am lonely, even though i know i am never alone. i have fallen in love with somebody who is with someone else.

Heart ache over a divorce, my sick mother and I am 52 years and living from hand to mouth, don't have savings. All these things are bothering me and I need prayer.

Guide me in my next step. I am presently just accepting because I am afraid to step out onto the water. Help me to accept my fears and to calm my anxieties. Help me to accept the present even if I feel that it is not enough. Help me to trust that you will guide me and that you always have me in your sight even when I am unable to see through the darkness. Thank you.

Fear of failure at work

Lack of faith to sustain me during the down times, the weak moments when I try to control to keep things afloat.

My two sons

Bills I can't pay

My bitterness in life and anger

Lord forgive me, I have let you down in so many ways.

I am feeling alone.

worry and fear

difficulty fitting in at work

Two people have upset me and its alienated me from them. Carry my burdens

My brother and his wife have separated and he's blaming me for throwing dirt at him. I forgive him.

too quick to anger with my children

I feel guilty for the way that I treated someone

Please forgive me of the lies that I told

He hurt me and I feel broken inside

I'm worried about my brother

Too much to do!

Fear

I have upset my parish priest and I am truly sorry for this.

Lack of compassion for others

hopelessness + jealousy...

Find it hard to forgive

Lord, help me with my difficult meeting today and I pray for a hassle free outcome

Struggle to show others compassion

hate myself

forgive me my many sins dear Lord

I sometimes hate the things I do

worry about money

I'm confused about the future

My children break my heart over and over. I do my best always I really do try. Please comfort me Lord.

I cheated on my spouse

I can't see a way forward

how to talk to alan

i'm struggling with my call to the priesthood

hate

I am so sorry for the lies I've spoken the hurt I've caused my savior

guilt

I feel guilty about having pre-marital sex

making time for the people I love and showing them how much I love them

weakness

anxiety

feeling lonely, unsupported, down in the dumps needing support

help me not to break his heart beyond healing

too quick to anger with my children

Lord, help me with my process and forgive me for all the moments I put my wishes before yours

Please help me think of others before myself

pain of loneliness, fear of tomorrow, fear of punishment please comfort me jesus

afraid of family death

homework

My husband

Worry for my parents and the happiness of my children

Please help me to truly forgive and forget.

difficulty to forgive

intemperate in eating

wanting to be understood, wanting to be liked, wanting to be loved--all pride. I should want to follow my Master but I rebel against this---pride. Who am I but a miserable sinner.

hurt, fear, helplessness, guilt all about one aspect of my life. Jesus I know you love me and it breaks my heart to think that i disappoint you over and over again. Please forgive me on this good friday and release me from this bondage

I need to develop faith in Jesua and get to know him personally; I need help in my personal life, especially finding a job and sorting out a failed relationship

I ask for forgiveness for the pain I have caused my parents. I am ashamed of my actions over 12 years ago. I feel that my burden is something that I shall carry with me always. A reminder of my weakness. Lord help me deal with my past and comfort my parents. Forgive me and help me forgive myself.

Worrying about my darling daughter. Please dear Jesus help me to save her from herself and give me strength to cope

Lord, please forgive myself and my husband for the wrong we have done. Help us to rectify those wrongs so that we can live a loving and wholesome life in the eyes of the lord. Lord, please forgive us for our sins and reunite so we can begin to rebuild our lives.

And thank you for the family and friends that you have provided me lord and help me to have faith and remember that I am blessed.

lack of trust

Finances

my relationship and my job/career

not giving my husband a chance

Mother's illness

despair and lack of interest in life

loneliness

sadness

fear of failure

feeling vulnerable

self deception

ENIMITY

HUMILATION SLOW MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

low self-esteem, judgemental, pornography

to believe in God's healing love

my family is broken and i yearn for the lord's peace and mercy, i also want to feel my faith for the lord

Lord help me to know u better and worship u alone and let me not go around to beg for food to eat and let me see your salvation in the end. Help me in my work ,protect my finances and family. Finally do not let me fail into temptation deliever me from all evil. Lord, i want to continue my education, help me to get money

Dear Jesus, please take this burden of depression from me, Please help me over come my over eating. Please help me overcome my financial problems Please help me to make better use of my time and to achieve more. Thank you.

All the mistakes and sins of my life; bad things I have done and thought. Wasting; abusing my body; being a bad mother and wife


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Prayer

Jesus, thank you for the love that you showed me in taking my burdens, and those of others here listed, through your death on the cross. Thank you for this moment of blessing and grace. Help me to encounter you now in a way that I can understand. Jesus, give me the gift of faith and an experience of your resurrection, of the new life that you have to offer. AMEN.

(You might now like to pause for a prayerful moment. Listen to God speaking to you heart-to-heart.)

Be at peace. Jesus came to show you that you don’t need to carry your burdens on your own. He submitted to death to take on the things that weigh you down – either your own sins or hurts done to you. Every day he longs for you to give them to him. Do visit again and perhaps you might want to stay a little while longer to talk to Jesus about your life… Wherever you are, he’s there.

For more about unburdening please see: http://www.life4seekers.co.uk/channelling/confession.html This link leads to a page about the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). The above burdens area is not a substitute for this 'sacrament' but attempts to provide an opportunity for visitors to encounter Jesus's love and forgiveness in and through Christ-centred prayer. Confession is an amazing spiritual channel and whatever we say to the priest during it is NEVER revealed to anyone else. It's a wonderful thing.

“Although there is no substitute for that face-to-face meeting with God in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession), through which we receive God's unconditional love and forgiveness, perhaps this resource can give you a foretaste of the joy you feel when you lay down your burdens at God’s feet and see him smiling at you full of love.”

Mgr (Father) Keith Barltrop