“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.”
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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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…