Experiencing a small spiritual attack at the moment if you could please keep me in prayers. Medjugorje coming up this month.
We are on our way to Will's appointment with the ENT doctor. Please pray for the Holy Spirit to guide the doctor to know what to do. Will is being as brave as he can and offering everything up for his cousin to be baptized and become a Catholic.
Going through a fear of damnation again at the moment but trying to trust in God. I hope I'm not a bad person. Really struggling.
The ENT appointment went so well! The doctor said he probably just needs a broader spectrum antibiotics! He prescribed him a liquid one so there will be no stress swallowing pills. He reassured Will that he doesn't see any reason to do surgery. We are all so happy!
Thanks be to God and to Our Lady and St Joseph. Prayers for the antibiotic to knock the infection out
The darkness can be intense at times and the feeling of abandonment but trying to pray through it. I keep praying the rosary. I wonder have I done something wrong to be going through this. I'm going through a lot of suffering. I see no way out of what I'm going through. I'm sorry for posting this but I don't know how else to deal with it other than asking for prayers.
Really struggling at the moment. I hope Mary can help me. I'm worried about sins from the past but I have been to confession. Please pray for me
Let us know how you get on in Medugorje ,Peter. Such a wonderful, wonderful thing to look forward to. In my prayers. If it helps any, being under constant Spiritual attack is the place where the good Catholic should always be. If we were not we would really have something to worry about. Mary is called she who stands in the breach. Have confidence in Mary. Our Spiritual State has nothing at all to do with how we feel.
Feeling terrible is a great place for deep prayer. I have always loved the sorrowful mysteries best. Feelings are just like the Irish weather. They are only passing things. One thing has really helped me down the years and that was people on the forum asking for prayers. It really opened my eyes. Other peoples Crosses always seem so huge. Including people here who were dying and asked for prayers. They did die and it was clear they were in their final battle. It put all my own little crosses in perspective.
Going through unpleasant stuff at the moment thinking that I am damned but trying to pray through it. I'm afraid I have lost God and Jesus. Going to medjugorje next week hopefully this will help with the darkness
Yes something wonderful to look forward too! If you can when you are out there see that priest I mentioned! He is a saint and had visions of Our Lady! If he can't help you no one can. Praying tonight.
I met him a few years ago Padraig. He gave me very helpful words about the suffering I am going through.
I was in Medjugorje in early May with my husband. We went independently not part of any group as such but under the umbrella of Marian Travel. It wasn't an easy trip and I was suffering in various ways for most of the week. In fact I thought I won't go back but then accepted and offered up what was going on On our final day we went into the old church yard where there is a little shrine to Our Lady with baby Jesus. I wanted to pray the Seven Sorrows Rosary to which I have devotion. On the way there I thought I should have asked a priest for a blessing on us as a couple but I'm a bit shy on approaching a priest on the street. We were sitting within the little circular shrine hidden from view. Suddenly a priest came in and handed my husband a prayer card to Theotokos of the Inexhaustible Chalice. He was a Melkite Catholic priest who had been born in Nazareth but now ministers to Melkite community in Canada. He explained that this is an image of a very ancient Russian Icon that disappeared during the revolution. It has been repainted and the image has shed holy oil in the church in Canada. Four copies were made of the image and they also shed oil. I asked him if he would give us his blessing. He opened a case he was carrying and he had one of those four images that had shed Holy Oil. He prayed over us and blessed us with the holy image. I was blown away. I told him I had asked Our Lady that I might meet a priest to give us a blessing before leaving Medjugorje. He said it's not me it's Our Lady who has come in here and blessed you. He then left. We looked out of the shrine and he was gone and there was not one other person in the old church yard so he came in and found us. Expect the unexpected. You are saving many souls by offering up all your pain and anguish. This side of eternity you cannot see that but I bet you will have a big reception group when you arrive in Heaven.
