Brian Was An Alumni Of Both North College And Holy Spirit High School And Brian Was The Most Bold And Uplifing Young Man This Writer Has Ever Met.
Brian’s Walk
This Saturday, July nine you are invited to participate in Brian’s Family Walk starting at 9:30 a.m. At the St. Thomas the Apostle Church car park. The yearly event funds grant money for local youth to attend Catholic high schools. This year $4,000 got given to four graduates of the North Middle School to attend Holy Spirit High School . Who was Brian Woods and why do we honor his memory?
Brian was a graduate of both North School and Holy Spirit High-school. Brian was the most courageous and inspiring young man this writer has ever met. Hopefully, a short recap of Brian’s amazing bravery in life will inspire others to don’t give up hope and to succeed in beating grief.
Brian beats leukemia
Brian Woods contracted leukemia at age 5. The whole community of Collings Lake led by the pastor of the Catholic church took part in the 1st Brian’s Walk about 34 years back to wish and pull in cash for the medical bills. The illness answered to treatment and went into remission. Brian’s story received much media coverage.
The killer illness returned more than a year later and treatment was reinstated. Then without human explanation, it disappeared. When the doctor re-examined Brian, he found no evidence of the illness and told the parents to stop treatment. The elders didn’t let him know they had stopped the medication months previous when they knew that a healing had taken place after Brian attended a Catholic healing service and the sympton’s disappeared.
Brian had beaten leukemia to the amazement of the medical profession. However , his body was very weakened by the illness and the treatment.
Brian defeats bacterial spinal meningitis
Brian later contracted another devastating illness, bacterial spinal meningitis. His family was called to the hospice and told he wouldn’t survive the night. Brian’s mother informed the doctor that she wouldn’t accept this. The family prayed all night long. Brian survived the night and beat the deadly illness, again defying medical explanation.
Brian then underwent a long operation to have a steel rod placed in his back.
Brian loses movement, but not hope and religion
Following graduation from Holy Spirit tragedy again struck. Brian’s body was so weakened that he lost the employment of his hands, legs and arms. There had been little more medically that might be done for Brian. The insurance company would no longer keep on providing therapy since there was neither progress nor any medical hope for recovery since the muscles had atrophied. Nonetheless the Woods family continued to live on hope and prayer.
Martin Sheen carries Brian to the top of the mountain in Medjugorje.
Brian and his extraordinarily spiritual family decided that he would go with his brother to Medjugorje in Croatia, a site of purported apparitions of the Sanctified Virgin Mary on a mountain in a remote area of the previous Yugoslavia.
Brian’s brother Dr. Lance Woods met his beloved the crippled brother plane. The 2 proceeded on the long strenuous trip to Medjugorje. At the foot of the Cross Mountain Lance heard a person talking English and asked for his help. The person was Martin Sheen. Dr. Woods and film star Sheen carried Brian up the rough mountain in a special chair. The young man who couldn’t walk had overcome another major challenge by reaching the pinnacle of the mountain with help from his brother, Martin Sheen and the requests of the family. This account of the tale was carried internationally last year on the site Spirit Daily.com and was broadcast on the radio show “As the Spirit Leads.” Following his trip to Medjugorje more miracles started to occur,writes tagza.com.
Covenant Prayer
