For My Cousin

[OnlySunshine]

Please pray for my adopted cousin.  She just had her 3rd biological child with someone she did not know a few months ago.  Fortunately, she gave the baby up for adoption and was living in a Catholic unwed mothers' home.  I was praying to God that her attitude would change and she wouldn't continue to go on like this - sleeping with guys she barely knows (if at all) and putting herself in dangerous situations.  However, I just checked her Facebook profile and she has left the safe house and is shacking up with some other guy she just met.  I am really worried for her safety but she is over 21 and can do whatever she wants.  I think it will only be a matter of time before she gets pregnant again and the cycle has perpetuated itself.  The problem is that my aunt and uncle think they can buy her off and convince her to give her children up for adoption, so she knows that if she has a baby, she'll get money and free food.  I'd never want her to have a baby in her care because she almost killed the first one from neglect.  Fortunately, the first is thriving and happy.  It isn't all my cousin's fault though because she was born with a psychological illness - borderline personality disorder - and other problems since her biological mother was a drug addict.  Her ways have caused much heartache to the family and I pray to God that she won't contract a life-threatening illness like AIDS but it could happen.  PLEASE pray for her!  :(

 

St. Monica, pray for my cousin!

St. Rita, pray for my cousin!

St. Jude, patron of desperate cases, pray for my cousin!

Edited August 16, 2013 by MaterMisericordiae