3 PM Prayers for the Crew of Columbia, their families, and the USA - ALL INVITED TO PRAY

divinemercy ^ | J+M+J the First of February A.D. 2003 | Siobhan O'Halloran

[Siobhan]

Calling all praying Freepers. Today at 3 PM let's all offer special prayers for the crew of Columbia, their families and friends, the NASA staff, our President, and for the USA.

As a Roman Catholic, 3 pm is known as the Hour of Divine Mercy, the hour at which Our Lord Jesus Christ died on the Cross for the salvation of the world. We have a special form of prayer called the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. This form of devotional prayer can be found on the internet HERE

Whatever your particular background, let's join in prayer at 3 pm in whatever manner you wish to pray.

[tiki]

bttt

[ysoitanly]

I just signed up today, after years of lurking, and I can't think of a better time. What a horrible tragedy, and what's worse - I am already hearing the politicizing of this - 'budget was cut', etc. I guess there's no end to the sickening liberal power plays. I hope I'm wrong, and that we can all pull this together and pray for the victims instead of using this as another 'wellstone' moment for the Dems. Anyway, I made the plunge today to join; I feel i know a lot of you already. Hope I can join in these lively discussions and contribute. A sad day for all. Added sympathy points for me - I'm in California! ;)

Regards,

[drstevej]

I join you in prayer.

Also...

***Guide those whose eternal destiny is in Your hands....all of us.***

Great Calvinistic prayer! I note that Arminians when they pray often become more Calvinistic!

:0)

[ysoitanly]

I just signed up today, after years of lurking, and I can't think of a better time. What a horrible tragedy, and what's worse - I am already hearing the politicizing of this - 'budget was cut', etc. I guess there's no end to the sickening liberal power plays. I hope I'm wrong, and that we can all pull this together and pray for the victims instead of using this as another 'wellstone' moment for the Dems. Anyway, I made the plunge today to join; I feel i know a lot of you already. Hope I can join in these lively discussions and contribute. A sad day for all. Added sympathy points for me - I'm in California! ;)

Regards,

[The South Park Republican]

May God Bless the brave men and women of the space shuttle. And may God give us all the strength to move onward and upward in their memory. Great acheivements happen only after taking great risks.

[Desdemona]

The loss of Columbia may end up being due to an "act of God" such as meteor or space debries damage, something that could not have been prevented, but the shuttles are getting long in the tooth. NASA needed to have the STS replacement in the pipeline after Challenger.

The shuttles were built with 100 flights in mind. Columbia was on 26. It wasn't age exactly.

I asked my dad, a retired aerospace loads engineer (static, not dynamic) and he said, yes, the vibrations and flutter, especially at 207,000 feet, with a small crack not detected in inspection, could potentially do it. But who knows. They're talking insulation and tire pressure, but they won't figure it out until all the data is put together.

[xzins]

OP, I think, told me that absolute foreknowledge is arguably absolutely predestinarian. (OP - correct me if I'm misunderstanding you.)

Let me say this....my NC cousin is prouder of me than before.

[ysoitanly]

It was especially saddening to see the interviews with the crew only a short time ago. Prayers to all.

[Bobby777]

it's amazing they fly as often as they do, since they undergo tremendous stress loads ... I've heard there was something on liftoff (possible icing damage) ... I've also heard there was no EVA to inspect the vehicle ... I would hope this isn't true ...

[TrueBeliever9]

Lord God, guide those who search the cause of this disaster. Guide those who minister to families and friends. Guide those who dream of the stars. Guide those whose eternal destiny is in Your hands....all of us. In Christ's name we pray, Amen.

Agree with your prayer and ask the LORD God of Israel to bring forth TRUTH; everything done in darkness be revealed in the LIGHT. And, LORD keep these precious families with Your tender mercies and touch each one as only YOU The Comforter can do. In The Living Name of Y'shua. Amen.

[Ff--150]

Pastor, it blew up right over us. I was outside and momentarily the sky got brighter and thought what a bright morning it was, not noting anything as my back was to the shuttle.

I came indoors and was working on a switch when the massive explosion hit rattling the windows, followed with a bizarre rumbling, again shaking the walls and windows. This was 5 after eight according to my clock. (Oddly, that switch started working, no joking!)

Wondering about my wife I called her and she hadn't heard anything, so I finished the repair and began listening for sirens to give me a clue what happened and where.

Forty-five minutes later I clicked on the internet then to Free Republic and read where this had happened and thought this was a perverted thread on here, but in reading where and what time, I was aghast!

Mercy upon their souls and families--and this nation and Israel. Obviously I'm writing from the Dallas area, and three of the crew was from Texas, with a real irony being that they are finding debris not too far from where the lady from India graduated from college. God bless us all on this day.

Ff

[xzins]

Such a sad thing, Ff.

I wonder why the loud explosion if there was no fuel on board? I thought they jettisoned that once they hit glide path before reentry?

How loud was the explosion you heard?

Our prayers are with you and your counties as you sort this out.

X

[ELS]

Eternal rest grant unto them, O, Lord
And let eternal light shine upon them.
May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed,
Through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

[zx2dragon]

Valete, liberi,
Diebus fatalibus.

[aBootes]

Prayer bump. Good idea.

[reagandemocrat]

Welcome.

RD

[Brimack34]

While there add a prayer for the soldiers lost in the Blackhawk crash. I hope our military gets this much coverage and finds out why we have so much trouble with our military equiptment also.

[CalvaryJohn]

Here's my tribute. I've had this song going in my head for at least a month, now, I suspect, prophetically. It's the theme song from the new Enterprise, "Faith of the Heart".http://scifi.myrealm.co.uk/audio/enterprise2.mp3

[Ff--150]

There was some fuel aboard, the media is saying. Being ex-military, IMHO, this was a loud explosion, not a sonic boom, as the shuttles fly over our home and I've never heard any sonic booms. The sound shook our walls and windows, and was "deep," if that makes sense.

The rumbling, or roaring as someone on tv described it was prolonged, maybe for two seconds. That, too, shook things. Nor did the rumbling taper, as when one hears thunder; it just quit.

My perspective is that this literaly happened just in front of my front porch, had I been watching.