need guidance..

[philipmarie]

Please answer me this but, do you think that by having certain feelings (that is, some sad feeling or some joyful, sweet feeling for example) you will see that Jesus and Mary either approve or disapprove of your decision? Becuase if you do, than drop this practice. Also drop the following bad habits if you have them. The devil will try to make you think that it is Mary speaking to you. He, will say;

-Oh, what are you doing researching on all those heresies condemned by the Church? If you love the Blessed Virgin you’ll go pray right now, not waste time on this useless rubbish!

-Oh, so are you presumptous enough to think that Mary will forgive you after commiting that atrocious sin?

'I only had an involuntary distraction! and I’m not even praying exactly, I’m working!

'-What1 you dare say that you didn’t do anythiong?! Why if you weren’t such a hypocrite, you’ll say that you did and ask forgiveness even if you didn’t do it. Thats humility! (it’s not, it’s just servile fear).

Assuming you try to find out more about love and research it
-oh you idiot! If you loved the Blessed Virgin, you’ll forget this useless research and tell her that it doesn’t matter whether She loves you or not. All you care is to spread Her glory. Who cares whether She loves you or not?!!!

The last temptation, ahem, I had alot to suffer from it. I actually believed that it does not matter whether the Blessed Virgin loves me or not. I even told the Blessed Virgin that, ‘it matters not whether you love me Mary, just as long as I spread thy glory!’ this was a very, very grave mistake and it must have hurt Mary deeply, even though I did not have the intention of hurting Her at all. I actually thought that love consisted in that but I was wrong. It isn’t enough for you to love God and Mary, They must love you. Else, if they did not love you and gave you no support, you would fall back and fall flat on your face.

 

[philipmarie]

Here’s another temptation people suffer from:

-Oh you! What are you doing? If you have confidence in Mary, you will throw yourself down this cliff and be assured that She’ll save you! What? Don’t want too? What are you doing? Then this is proof that you don’t love her at all!

-Oh really, if you loved Mary, you would run away from home and live as a hermit. Thats what the sains did and they livd in peace.
-Oh for Pete’s sake, why don’t you just forget this vocation to be a nun and instead become a tertiary to show that you are humble? Who cares if you’ll live miserably? SACRIFICE MAN! SACRIFICE!

Ahem. I don’t want to become a tertary, or a doctor, or a nurse like how my silly school wanted me to… I want to become a Priest, not a tertiary. But anyway, that is of no importance now, what is important is that I hope you understood what I wanted to say. Avoid and don’t even listen to these temptations. Temptation is not a sin, not even if you were to listen to it thinking it to be something good (of course, don’t listen to temptations which are obviously offering you soemthing bad Compare things with what the Catholic Church and the Saints teach). Just as long as you do not take pleasure in it, and just as long as you go to Mary, declaring your fidelity to Her and Her Son, you will not fall. The gates of hell will never prevail where Our Lady offers Her protection.

Er, sorry for monopolizing the thread but, I just had to lend a hand.

 

[odhiambo]

NFANT OF PRAQUE NOVENA PRAYER.
O Jesus who has said, " ask and you shall receive,seek and you shall find,
knock and it shall be open," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother
I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted.
I pray for your guidance for Monica

O Jesus who has said," all that you ask of the Father in My Name,
He will grant you," through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother,
I humbly and urgently ask Your Father in Your Name that my prayer be granted.
I pray for your guidance for Monica

O Jesus who has said," Heaven shall pass away but My Word shall not pass away"
Through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother
I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.
Amen.

 

[philipmarie]

Er, Monica, how are you? You haven’t responded and wish to know how you fared.

BLESSED IS THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

 

[odhiambo]

Remember, O most loving 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,
though burdened by my sins,
I fly to you, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother.
To you 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.

 

[reindeer]

Monica here is a prayer by Thomas Merton:
Trusting God in Decisions

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Amen

Come Holy Spirit!
Replace the tension within Monica with a holy relaxation.
Replace the churning within Monica with a sacred calm.
Replace the anxiety within Monica with a quiet confidence.
Replace the fear within Monica with a strong faith.

Lord, hear our prayer.