Share Your Dreams and/or Visions

A few weeks ago, my sister visited the Shrine of Aparecida in São Paulo. She went on Friday, October 10, the day before the celebration honoring this devotion. I couldn’t go because of work.

There’s a custom among pilgrims to write letters with requests for blessings to leave at the shrine. My mother’s first cousin, who has rectal cancer that is currently under control, asked us to take a letter on her behalf — one that I wrote by hand myself.

When I read your post, it reminded me of her. Her name is Elisângela, for anyone who would like to include her in their prayers.

 

Prayers today!

 

praying tonight



What a gorgeous Basilica

 

She is included in my prayers tonight.

 

Prayers for Elisângela's recovery.

 

Praying

 

Prayers for Elisangela.

 

I will pray to Padre Pio for her. He is the patron saint of cancer sufferers, I think.

 

I think with dreams and our imaginations the devil has a certain power over them, as has our good angels and can kind of paint on them like a blank screen for his own evil interest. The devil not only tempts us to sin but wishes to hurt us. If the only thing he could do would be to put a pimple at the end of our nose then we would have a pimple there.

I notice in dreams myself sometimes he can send really depressing, sad dreams. I noticed this myself when I woke up this morning. Not only a dream of great sadness but I noticed after I woke up that he was continuing to remind me of the dream and keep me thinking about it. But it was a great help when my good angel reminded me that this was only a dream and not real.

But it did remind of a time, before my conversion when I was very young and had lost my Faith and things were really, really sad and bleak for me. As indeed it can only ever be for anyone who has no Faith. But people being attacked with sadness like this by the devil are very,very vulnerable for they will have no idea where these things are coming from.

I was listening to a young priest give a homily yesterday. He said he had been at the funerals in recent times of four different men who had committed suicide. He mentioned that one of the main reasons for this is loss of Faith.