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“For me to live is Christ. And if I fall at every moment, in a wholly confident faith I will be helped up by him, I know that he will forgive me, that he will cancel out everything [and] will free me from all my miseries…. And I will be holy, pure, without reproach in the Father's eyes.”
- St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Some more prophecy from Pope Pius XII, on preparing oneself for marriage and parenthood:
“It is a curious circumstance and a lamentable one, that whereas no one would dream of suddenly becoming a mechanic or an engineer, a doctor or a lawyer, without any apprenticeship or preparation, yet every day there are numbers of young men and wome…
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Looking for advice re: prayer.
A tragedy has befallen a loved one on the other side of the country. I am blessed to have a job that let me leave work to spend 4 or so hours in prayer. Which was great, but I found myself hitting a wall.
The first two hours I prayed the four rosaries, a litany, and anything relevant i found in the St Gregory prayer book. The third hour I went to Mass again to offer on his behalf. The fourth hour I prayed another rosary, read a few psalms, and did mental prayer. Bu…
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Just to really emphasize how important capacity and frequency are:
I got the bus to the hospital today (routine blood tests). There's a direct bus (the 53), that runs from outside my front door to literally outside the hospital, and it only takes 10 minutes. Or I can get any of an 86/253/256 and change onto a 41/42/43/141/142/143; this takes about 15 minutes as I have to cross the road between bus stops when changing bus.
The 53 runs every half-hour, so I generally just change buses, as the combined service on both routes is more frequent than every 5 minutes. A single return journey is £4, a day pass is £5, so it's only a quid extra and I can get any bus I like.