''My name is Xann Ramirez and this is a brief story about my son Andres Rosalio. My husband Rene and I waited some time before we decided to have children so that we would be able to provide good things for whomever we brought into the world. The time came when we decided to try for a child and we had a hard time concieving We both prayed very hard and constantly and before we knew it, we were going to be parents Andres came into the world on Mother's Day 2002 making us deliriously happy. Everything was going so well until he reached about 5 months of age when I noticed a small knot on his right side. I didn't think much of it until it grew the size of a 1/2 dollar and was protruding. In December he was scheduled for surgery. The surgeon saw him and put it off until January. He had the January surgery, the mass removed, and 6 week later came back Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Soft tissue, it was an extremely rare and terminal cancer. More scans were immediately done revealing strange formations in his abdomens the thought was the cancer was in his gut. This whole time. Andres was growing on target, happy, and what appeared to be as thriving. Surgery was scheduled for the following week to hopefully remove and identify further this abnormality. That night in desperation I called looking for Fr. Ralph hoping someone would take my call out of what I figured was just one of hundreds in a day with hopeless cases just like my family's. I ended up on the other line with Aldona who was a complete God-send that prayed withs me for the longest time, reassured me, and gave me strength when I had none of my own. My son's name was placed on Fr. Ralph's alter and prayed for. The next morning the surgery took place and absolutely nothing was found at all. I never in my life thanked Jesus so much for taking care of my baby. In the months after that, my son would get very ill once, pull through that, and then have a third surgery to go back to the original site of the tumor removed to do a deep tissue excision to see if here were any cancer cells active. The results came back negative. He had no cancer cells and his CAT scan looked good. My son was given the best news possible and hope for the future. I truely feel that I owe this to Fr. Ralph delivering the healing power of GOD to my son thousands of miles away. We are still having him remain under a very watchful eye of the doctors but I just keep my prayers going that GOD continues to provide a future for my son and give the doctors positive guidance to help us through this. We are very happy and forever praise this miracle, because that is all my son is...a miracle."