Health update 10/04/09 from downtown Chicago
Father Greeley still has rigorous therapy sessions three mornings a week. He is
working hard and continues to make progress in physical, speech, and occupational
therapy. His family and friends are always near-by and very hopeful. We are sure he
will continue his progress. It is often a long road to recovery. Best wishes.
Health update 04/05/09 from downtown Chicago
Father Greeley is home where he continues intensive therapy. He has been making some excellent progress. The sessions are difficult, but Fr. Greeley is tenacious. He and his family continue to appreciate your kind messages.
On May 5th Father Greeley celebrated his 55th anniversary as a priest.
More updates will be posted immediately as they become available.
Additional information:
– We would like to thank Julie Montague very much for the updates and other news.
Until further notice, we are opening this forum up to those who wish to leave a message for Father Greeley. We ask those awaiting further news to please be patient. When any news is available, it will be posted here immediately – promise!
Peace, good health, and may God bless everyone.
Updates will be posted immediately as they become available.
Thanks to everyone for the kind words and prayers!
19 users commented in " Father Greeley’s Health Update "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackFather Greeley, this Michigan woman hopes you are in good enough shape to take in the Detroit Red Wings versus the Chicago Blackhawks series, which starts tomorrow (Sunday May 17). I don’t know if you are a hockey fan. If so, I hope Chicago’s eventual and inevitable exit from the series at the hands of our Wings doesn’t set back your therapy.
Seriously, I am glad to hear you are progressing. Hang in there, keep up the good work. We miss you.
Dear Father,
I hope you will accept the prayers of a Lutheran seminarian for your speedy recovery.
May God continue to bless you and keep you.
Our prayers are with you,
Harry and Marilyn Pickett
Australia
Father Greeley,
I just heard of your accident, and please know that I will be praying for your continued improvement and well being.
I have loved reading all of your books, and always eagerly awaited the newest addition to my collection. Your theme of grace has gotten me through many tough times. Please know that I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of the great stories that I have enjoyed throughout the years. God Game is still my favorite book, and I recommend it to many of my Sci-fi loving friends, who, skeptical at first, enjoy reading it as much as I have.
Many continued prayers and blessings.
Sincerely,
Sarah Milligan Weldon
Adding my prayers for a complete and speedy recovery. I’m new to your books but am loving them and learning a lot from them.
In Love, Prayers, & GOD’s Blessings:
Dawn Denhart
Still praying for the real “fighting Irish”! God hold you close,
smp
Father Greeley, I treasure the email you have sent me in the past and I pray for your speedy recovery. You have been and still are an inspiration to me and a gift to all of us. God bless and take care. pt
As a deployed soldier Father Greeley I’d like you to know your books are like a balm and help me through the hard times while i’m so far from home… God’s bless you and keep you close best wishes and hope for your speedy and full recovery.
You are in our prayers all the time. Physical therapy is very hard, but keep on working…we need you. I’ve read so many of your books that you seem like an old friend. God grant you a speedy recovery.
Hope your recovery is going well, you’re always in our prayers.
Vince Baldwin
I am delighted to learn you are making strong progress. With your audacious attitude and prodigious work ethic, I expect you to triumph over this accident. I greatly appreciate your significant and prolific work and courageous truth-telling. I am waiting for you to speak again renewing my hope and trust that our beloved Church continues to be relevant with real work to do in healing our challenged world. I need you. I am keeping you in my prayers.
Nancy Walton-House
Snoqualmie WA
Father Greeley,
I have finally found your page to post a comment to you! I am so glad you are doing better and I hope you are enjoying the cards of the dogs and animals I have been sending you. They are really done well! I know you enjoy them. Keep yourself in good spirits and rest so we can see you back on the web soon. Your wonderful books will keep us all busy for awhile untill you are able to inspire us again and that might just be through prayer! Send you some more pictures. Love, Maureen
Father Greeley,
I too must say that you have done more to keeping me an active Catholic than anybody. You also inspired me to document my Irish ancestry and register as a foreign born Irish citizen. I have read all of your novels and some of you non-fiction works. My family knows that the latest Andrew Greeley book is always a welcome gift.
It was thus with shock that I discovered that I had missed the news of your accident until now. You have had a major impact for good in my life (and untold others). I pray that the Angels provide you comfort and support as you continue to travel God’s path for you.
Peace be with you.
John
I continue to pray for your recovery. I daresay that you might be hoping that Herself would not be working in such mysterious ways, but I’m sure that you have the strength and fortitude to persevere (not to mention the stubborn Irish factor, which is perhaps one of the most important factors in anyone’s full recovery!).
Seriously, we need you, and more folks like you, to remind us about the power of love in this fine world.
Dear Father Greeley:
I was delighted to learn that you continue to progress. Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you.
As the Irish say, God is good, and He has a good Mother.
All the best,
Tom G
HI Father,
Keep on ‘truckin. They tell me there’s a purpose to all the suffering along this bumpy road we’re on.
I enjoy all your writing but especially that which deals with Christianity and its origins.
I like your style!
Take care,
The daughter of Mary Rae Monica McGilligan
Dear Father Greeley,
You have always been an inspiration to me — a fellow sociologist. I have been praying for you ever since I learned of your accident. I continue to pray that you will recover and be back to your old self. I haven’t had a major accident but I have had cancer 2x. I know recovery is difficult — but if that’s what the Lord wants us to do, we have to do it!
Mary Cay Sengstock, Wayne State Univ, Detroit
Dear Father Greeley,
Although my Grandparents read your novels while I was growing up I really only became aware of your voice (through your editorials) just prior to the election last year. And do I miss it now. Please count on my prayers for your continued recovery.
Kindly, Teri Soricelli
Dear Father A., please be aware that you are still working 24/365/worldwide, through your books and writings. Just yesterday, I passed on one of your books, to a psychotherapist friend.
Now I can’t wait to begin your next, after I finish researching the Message of Fatima.
P.S.: Thank you so much, from me and my sons, and friends, for the IRISH… series. What a trip!
Blessings, prayers, and consider yourself hugged, j
As the Holiest of Weeks begins in 2010, know of my prayers for your continued health and progress. Your words have touched my heart and strengthened my spirit in so many ways – and I continue to reread them for encouragement and strength and Hope. Blessings to you during this new Easter Season!