Dear friends,
I’d like to ask you for your prayers today, specially. I’ll tell you why. I’ve met this girl back when classes started at my college (a month ago, something like that); she’s dutch, she came to Portugal as part of an academic students’ exchange program of the EU, called “Erasmus”, so she’s chosen Portugal as her destination. She’s Catholic, but she’s definitely not an orthodox Catholic, although she practices remarkable virtues, like, for example, she dresses very well, from a catholic point of view, if you know what I mean. Actually, that was one of the things that made me foccus my attention on her. She’s a good person, she’s probably just ignorant about what the Church really teaches, or doesn’t yet understands that no one can be a true Catholic by being heterodox.
We’ve talked sometimes about these religious issues, and I gave her my visions on this particular issue of orthodoxy; the problem is that she can’t “defend” herself or her opinions and points of view in english (as she’s just learning portuguese at this point, and she’s not able to have such elaborate conversations in english), but anyway, I can, and I did make sure she got an idea of how Catholic I am. I can’t help but to feel an unexplainable tenderness feeling about her; I really don’t know what it is. The thing is I can’t just stop seeing her until I’m 100% sure she’s not going to become a good, orthodox Catholic. And she, herself, has admited that she doesn’t understand how can our opinions be so different, and yet she likes me so much.
I’m seeing her tonight, we’re going to have a coffee together. I’m not going to lie and say you guys I’m totally confident about this date - I’m not. In fact, I’m all shaking inside.

So, I’d really be grateful if you, dear friends, could say some prayers for me, so that this night may go well, so that she converts fully to Catholicism and Catholic Orthodoxy, so that nothing happens between us against chastity, so that we may resist to temptation.
May God bless us all, and grant the gift of Faith to all souls on this Earth, so that one day every one shall kneel and bow to Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and His Holy Mother and Mother of God, Our Lady. Thanks in advance, and sorry for letting this all out!
DPN