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Please pray that through the the grace of God I may successfully guard my Faith from the suggestions of the devil…
Recently I have been besieged by unreasonable doubts whenever I think on matters of the Faith. When I think of Jesus, Mary, the saints, the sacraments, I feel fear and doubt instead of the joy and peace I used to experience. This even if I know very well that I believe. I resist them outright but they intermittently persist. I become restless inside. My peace is stolen as I go through with my interior struggle,but peace of mind and heart occasionally return. My heart grows heavy and weary when I do battle inside me as I struggle to believe, and the love of Christ urges me on. My only reprieve is when I meditate inwardly on how God comes to me, when I read Sacred Scripture, when I pray the Rosary, or when I receive the Holy Eucharist (it is the belief in the Holy Eucharist, which I hold very dear, that I find frequently attacked by external doubt). My only consolation is the thought that by resisting the temptation to doubt I am glorifying the Holy Trinity.
I am sure that I am not the only one suffering in this manner. With all the noise in the world, the devil has all the means to distract us from a firm belief in God. It just goes to show how frail we really are without God’s help.
Please pray for me, for us who earnestly try to guard our Faith, for all of the Faithful, that God may send His Holy Spirit to console us as we face our Cross and bid us to pray for strength and surrender to the will of God as our Lord did in the garden of Gethsemane…

Recently I have been besieged by unreasonable doubts whenever I think on matters of the Faith. When I think of Jesus, Mary, the saints, the sacraments, I feel fear and doubt instead of the joy and peace I used to experience. This even if I know very well that I believe. I resist them outright but they intermittently persist. I become restless inside. My peace is stolen as I go through with my interior struggle,but peace of mind and heart occasionally return. My heart grows heavy and weary when I do battle inside me as I struggle to believe, and the love of Christ urges me on. My only reprieve is when I meditate inwardly on how God comes to me, when I read Sacred Scripture, when I pray the Rosary, or when I receive the Holy Eucharist (it is the belief in the Holy Eucharist, which I hold very dear, that I find frequently attacked by external doubt). My only consolation is the thought that by resisting the temptation to doubt I am glorifying the Holy Trinity.
I am sure that I am not the only one suffering in this manner. With all the noise in the world, the devil has all the means to distract us from a firm belief in God. It just goes to show how frail we really are without God’s help.
Please pray for me, for us who earnestly try to guard our Faith, for all of the Faithful, that God may send His Holy Spirit to console us as we face our Cross and bid us to pray for strength and surrender to the will of God as our Lord did in the garden of Gethsemane…
