Answered Prayers for Family and Marriage

Reconciliation After Long Estrangement

Therese, Oswego · November 14, 2025

This is the sender’s own account, sent to us after their prayer was carried in. It is not a promise that the same will happen for anyone else.

Dear Fr. Marco, I wrote to you some months ago about my daughter and me. We hadn't spoken in over seven years. I asked you to carry my prayer for a softening of hearts and a chance for reconciliation. The silence felt like a wall. After you sent the photograph from St. Peter's, I just held onto it and kept praying. Last Tuesday, she called. It was sudden, out of the blue. We have spoken twice since then. The conversations are careful, but they are happening. The wall has a door in it now. Thank you for your part in carrying my hope to that holy place.

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