Please, please keep me in your prayers

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I am really struggling right now.

I am working hard to be the best I can be, I work, I study hard at school and am kind to the people I meet. I pray more than ever. I am trying to be a better person all around than I used to be, a better Catholic and be there for those around me.

Despite all my efforts to be a loving person to those around me, I feel like God doesn’t answer my prayers and am so completely discouraged. On every level I feel alone and no matter how much I pray for God to increase my faith and trust, I find myself unable to feel his love or presence in my life, see the answers to my prayers or feel like he provides for me or even cares for me.

I go to adoration and even try to put it before him. I don’t know how to change this. I feel like I’m being tested with my physical health, my personal life and relationships and no matter how faithfully I pray about it, I get no answers or relief.

What do I do? How can I remain a good Catholic when God is so far away when I need him the most and have so little support in my life? I have never felt so low. I’m going to adoration tomorrow night again and I’m going to pray about it. Does anyone know a novena I could start or a bible passage to contemplate? I need something to get easier because I’m so frustrated and worn out.

I know I’m going to get through this, but I want to feel close to God and not like he exists for everyone but me.
 
What can we do in the face of suffering? What can we do but endure it? If Christ had not first prayed that the cup of the cross be spared him, only to have that prayer “not answered” as it was stated, how could we even persist as children who trust in the Father’s love? A loving father would allow his little child to endure uncomfortable medicine or medical remedy if it is for the beneficial sake of that child––even if it is impossible to explain to that child why the medicine is good. Only in figures like these can we even begin to trust that the Father who willed through His Son to accept suffering and show us the way, is acting in the interest of His children. We also cannot forget that it is a darkened, fallen, perverted, demented world in which injustice prowls and the proper order of things is wounded. What answer is there for suffering and “unanswered” prayers? I have none save for recognizing it as a mystery and that if Christ willed to accept it, there must be some value to it. As a child in the womb would be confused why he has feet––for there is no need for walking––so too do we see suffering and are confused by its presence––but perhaps there is great value for it in the next age. All I can say is I’m sorry for the difficulty you experience as a share in the cross weighs on you. May the Lord send you angelic help, and a “Simon” to help you bear these crosses, just as Christ had Simon help him carry his cross on the road to Calvary.

Our Lady, angels, and saints, pray with us. Amen.
 
I think I know a bit of what you are going through. I had the same problem when I first started to find Jesus in my own life. But what ends up happening is you try to get some kind of feeling that he is there, or that you want him to answer you literally in words. But if any of that were to be possible from the beginning of our faith, we would never get anywhere. You just need to accept that he is there and believe it. Don’t go around trying to feel his presence, because if we could feel him, why would we need faith? Believe me, the greater you accept that he is there and the more faith you have in him, the more you will begin to see hints of him in your life. “See with the eyes of faith.” Eventually you will get to a point where you will be like “How did I not see you before, you are very plainly right in front of us!” I remember Jesus saying to St. Faustina that he didn’t want people going off looking for him in the distance, because he is within us already and was always nearby in the first place. So trust in him!
 
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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.

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.

Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning is now ever shall be world without end
Amen.

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

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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.

†

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.

†
 
Praying that the Lord may grant you all necessary graces and strength for your trials. Also praying for an improvement in your health and personal life.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.
 
Thank you for the prayers. I’m keeping all of you and your intentions in my mine at adoration tonight.

If any of you can recommend a prayer, novena or scripture for me to pray on or meditate, I would really appreciate it. I’m trying hard to break though whatever moment this is and be aware of God’s presence and work in my life.

Thanks again.
 
Praying for you . Jesus hears your prayers and knows you are struggling. Keep praying and ask Him for a sign that He is with you.
…“Ask and you will receive, seek and you shalll find, knock and the door will be opened unto you.”"

God bless.
 
Holy Mother, please intercede for us.
Hold the sorrowful, strengthen the fearful,
give aid to all needing help or healing,
assist those who are sick, in pain or suffering,
be with those needing peace, console the lonely,
comfort the lost or hopeless, guard the unborn,
pray for those who are dying or who have died,
soften those with hardened hearts,
enlighten those who do not yet see truth,
help us be brave enough to let our hurt and anger go,
show us the way to do the right thing,
protect those who are in danger,
and guide us from every evil.
May all who keep your sacred commemoration
experience the might of your assistance.
Amen
 
Praying for your intentions. Don’t give up. Keep persevering at adoration. Praying for you to have help carrying your cross.
 
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