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Please pray for me for emotional healing and for healing from depression and for Jesus to bring joy and healing into my life and to love my self and others.
 
Lord, please grant TrueFaithSeeker many graces, especially for the virtues of fortitude, wisdom, understanding, and joy. Lead this soul through all suffering, and enlighten this soul to the joys of residing close to your Sacred Heart. Send angels to lead this soul to heaven, now and forever, through Our Lady’s intercession. Amen.
 
St. Raphael the Archangel, please pray for TrueFaithSeeker.
St. Benedict Joseph Labre, please pray for TrueFaithSeeker.
St. Dymphna, please pray for TrueFaithSeeker.
 
TrueFaithSeeker said:
Please pray for me for emotional healing and for healing from depression and for Jesus to bring joy and healing into my life and to love my self (sic) and others.
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If you were to ask me if I thought it was cold outside when it’s 50 F, I would say no. Most in Tucson, however, would say yes. Those are different perspectives on the same reality. Who we are can magnify (but not create) a problem. The only exception would be someone complaining of being cold when it’s over 120 (which happens here). If it was your child who said he or she thought it was cold outside, and it was cold outside, would you pray for strength or would you just give him, or her, a jacket or tell them to come inside where it is warm. Dear TrueFaithSeeker, you’re increasingly asking others to ask God on your behalf for more manpower. They say insanity is when you do the same things over and over expecting different results. Perhaps, the better thing is to work for real change by figuratively putting on a jacket or coming inside. Depression is rarely a problem but rather more often a symptom of a life needing fixing (and God promises an exit to every problem in 1 Corinthians 10:13). Gideon lost himself, his family, and his country when he worshiped the idea of prayer and forgot the ideal. For a differing opinion than others here, I would hope you are not falling down that same hole. “The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know, as he ought to know.” (1 Corinthians 8:2)

If I feel poorly and blame others while greatly worrying about what is going to happen, I am doing less than nothing (and harming myself). If I take a systematic approach, however, to considering what type of problems I am having to rationally decide what type of professional help I need and use prayer to confirm that, say, I don’t understand my condition well enough in order to decide that I should seek someone for advice (and whom to see), I am using prayer as a tool and using it as part of a healthy process. The famous story of a man on his roof as the flood waters rose who prayed to God for salvation while ignoring the people God sent to save him reminds us that prayer alone will often not provide salvation or solutions to our problems.

How would you like to be going to the moon and have the navigation system shut down for 20 minutes, because the first astronauts had to suffer through exactly that more than a half dozen times during each flight. This was because the 4k of memory in the computer was not big enough for all of the navigation requirements and it took 20 minute to boot the next code segment (yes, computer hardware back then was so slow it took 20 minutes to load 4,000 characters!). NASA could have spent their money (and capsule space) on more memory but instead installed three computers so that when any one system disagreed with the other two it could be shut down or rebooted. This was because the wrong answer scared them more than no answer! Too often we forget to properly fear the wrong answer.

God provides three sources of truth (or computers) through His Word, the experiences from a direct relationship along with our own intelligence, and community within the body. Many people have heard silly things from God, misinterpreted the Bible, or gotten bad advice from a friend, but most could have gotten quickly straighten out if they had only looked harder at the other two for confirmation. Isaiah 30:21 says, “Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.” Thus, God will speak, and you can hear His voice, but you must be careful that you objectively confirm that you are following the Holy Spirit and not another voice. “Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14) and “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed” (Matthew 18:16).
 
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

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Eternal God , in whom mercy is endless,
and the treasury of compassion inexhastible ,
look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us ,
that in difficult moments we might not despair
nor become despondent , but with great confidence ,
submit ourselves to Your Holy Will ,
which is love and mercy itself . Amen

Memorare (Prayer to Our Lady)
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you do I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen
 
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