Is your faith increasing due to this current pandemic crisis?

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Is anyone here finding that the current pandemic crisis has actually led them to seek God even more than usual and devote more and more love and devotion to HIm?
 
Without a doubt. In my daily life, I am serving as a politician for the conservative party (Norway). As a result, I have downplayed the role that going to mass and Jesus played in my life before I was elected. In the last three weeks, I have prayed the rosary and attended online mass daily and I do feel so much happier about my self and my life. When all of this is “over” I will continue with daily mass and prayers. In some way, I feel that God meant for me to be at home so that I would find my faith again.
 
It made me realize that God is in full control.

I knew this before, but now I have further in that realization.

Also, it made me realize how much I miss the sacraments- confession and communion.
 
Driven to a monastic type lifestyle, and finding the yearning to just pray all night long more and more, with tears and prayers for the world…

Anyone else praying all night too?

Lighting candles?

HIding in His wounds?
 
One day in January, while my husband and I were preparing lunch…we were discussing the problems in the USA…the hateful Democratic politicians, the out-of-control society, the confusion of the young involving their gender, the school shootings, etc…I then stated that I felt like this can not go on any further, and that deep down, I thought that something was going to happen…well now I am in shock with all that is happening now with the virus! Yes, I use to Pray all of the time and now, I am even Praying more than ever…one night I even had a dream of Satan! Often, when I awake at night, I will Pray the “Our Father”…then I peacefully go back to sleep. My husband tells me not to worry, and I do rely on my Faith, however, I am concerned and afraid of the unknown circumstances to follow…Am I the only one who feels this way? 😨
 
Very nice to see a thread about faith increasing! I find myself giving thanks for more of the small things than usual. I think about eternity constantly. It is a challenge living in community - and by “community” I mean in much closer contact with family members who are now home and no longer working. It is also a challenge to find time to pray when the house is fuller than normal, but I shall persevere, even if the intensity or duration of my prayer is somewhat lessened.
 
This is a good thread topic. Thank you for starting it, @mary15! I’d love to know if anyone’s had corroborative feedback from lapsed Catholics in their lives.

Due to my circumstances, I already spend an inordinate amount of time in prayer or on Catholic sites, but I have a deeper than ever-before conviction in my faith now, a deeper trust that everything will eventually be ok, even if I, personally, wind up croaking, and, I now, in spite of the uncertainty of what lies ahead, know a sense of peace or calmness that I couldn’t claim in January.

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Yes, I’m using candles, but I’m a night owl, so night time praying is par for me. I am praying with a new, bone-deep urgency, but I’m not agitated or frightened. I’m more methodical now, less spontaneous, in my approach to everything.

I understand that I can’t change the external outcome of whatever happens and I’m able to accept that. Although it’s totally beyond our control, I can do what’s expected of me, and deal with each new situation as it arises, without becoming hyper about it. What will be will be. Que serra, serra.
 
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Yes, it’s experiencing a renewal. I hope that I learn to re-balance the way I use my time.
 
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Is anyone here finding that the current pandemic crisis has actually led them to seek God even more than usual and devote more and more love and devotion to HIm?
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Thanks for offering a positive thread on this time in the desert for the faithful. I think if more people just calmed themselves and experienced the quiet of this time, they may be surprised by how much closer and deeper they draw to God.
 
@po18guy We must decrease, so He can increase!

@Minks thanks for sharing minks so good to hear of this. That deep urgency is with me as well. It must be the Holy Spirits call in our soul. It’s like needing to drink water after being in the desert. I can’t get enough of this living water!
What candles are you using?

@Catholic_Guy1 so lovely to know that you’re finding that we are not in control, but God is. Has this increased your humility and increased your desire to lean on Him, to trust in Him more?

@(name removed by moderator) Can you share how it’s more purpose-driven?
 
Thank you. Your comment is so very true. Lets draw into Him, in deep prayer and worship. He is our Lord and Savior!

Take your pain and sufferings to Him now, seeking Him in all things.

Jesus is our Messiah!
 
As Peter said, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”

There isn’t any place else to go in a time of crisis like this except to the Lord.

Those of us who have already been through serious crises in our lives know this already and are likely used to just leaving things in God’s hands because things went beyond the point where we could even think about trying to do it all on our own.
 
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Said the Divine Mercy for the very first time at 3 pm

I am not yet Catholic for a year, and a priest directed me to say this at the 3 o’clock hour recently, and their guidence has been so blessed to my very soul.

Thank you, Lord Jesus for my Priest, and may you heal him of all illness, he is your kind and loving and devoted servant, please allow him to stay a while longer with us here on the 'earth.

Blessed Mother pray for us

Amen
 
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I am praying more. I have always gone to daily Mass and am continuing it with streaming online. Our church is open all day for Adoration so I’ve been going every day since I have the time. In general, I have felt a call to increasing prayer and closeness to God this entire year, for which I am grateful. Divine Mercy, the Novena to the Holy Spirit, consecration to Our Lady, the Rosary–these have been powerhouses of grace in my life.
 
Same for me. It has neither increased or decreased, but remained steady, and without despair.
 
If this crisis brings people closer to our Lord, that is a good thing … for me, I did not need a crisis like this to grow closer to our Lord … I thank the Lord for that … as it is a gift from Him and not something I can take credit for.
 
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So joyful to hear from so many!

And on another note about being driven to seek His face more due to the pandemic, I suppose that I could have been driven to seek other things instead of God due to the stress of this most urgent matter.

@po18guy But being drawn to God, well, that has to be the work of the Holy Spirit alone!

I could have gone to other places, but I just could not, and it’s a real joy to hear back from others that it was not by power and not by might but by His spirit!
 
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