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Latest Update
Regarding Father Couture’s illness, we have received an update from one his brother priests in Canada:
“As for Father Couture, he is now doing better and back at La Maison Notre-Dame (Montgardin), recovering.
Thank you for your prayers.”
Original Message
(Posted February 19, 2022)
We received the following communication from one of Father Couture’s brother priests in Canada:
“Please pray for Fr. Couture who has contracted the coronavirus and is in hospital in France. I do not have more information at the moment but will share any news as it comes through. Thank you very much.”
This is all we know. We ask you to please offer prayers for Father Couture.
Below is the text for a simple and traditional prayer for the infirm. For those interested, HERE is a powerful [novena] prayer we can offer to the Fourteen Holy Helpers. A shorter version on a prayer card can be downloaded here.
May God reward you and our Blessed Mother keep you under Her protection.
Prayer for a Sick Person
Most merciful Jesus, Who art the consolation and salvation of all who put their trust in Thee, we humbly beseech Thee, by Thy most bitter Passion, grant the recovery of his health to Thy servant, Fr. Daniel Couture [N.], provided this be for his soul’s welfare, that with us he may praise and magnify Thy holy Name. But if it be Thy holy Will to call him out of this world, strengthen him in his last hour, grant him a peaceful death and life everlasting. Amen.
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be.
Source: Instructions and Devotions for the Sick, Dying and Deceased. Compiled from Traditional Sources. Canisius Books (Scarborough, Canada), 2002.