Prayer update: In thanksgiving

[Cimachol]

I posted the following prayer about 14 months ago:

Please pray for me that I may have a true conversion of heart, mind, body and soul. I am a 40-year-old man who has had the desire to become a true practitioner of the Catholic faith for my entire life, but I always seem to fall away. I prayer for purity but give in to lust. I pray for patience put give in to anger. I pray for peace but give in to depression. I pray for resolve but give in to procrastination. My good intentions return, but they quickly die away – I feel like I’m the hard ground in Jesus’ parable, where the seeds land and begin to sprout but never take root.

I am currently cut off from the sacraments, as my wife and I were married outside the Church many years ago. She does has allowed me to have our children receive the sacraments but has no apparent desire to adopt the faith herself.

I am truly afraid that if I don’t change, I will end up in hell. I may lead my family there along the way, if I do not serve as an example of faith.

Pray for me and my family, please.

Today I pray in thanksgiving that I have now had my marriage blessed, am in full Communion with the Church, and have experienced God’s grace over the last year in so many ways. I no longer feel a slave to sin, but a man free to continuing growing in love and service for God. My heart overflows with joy on this Divine Mercy Sunday.

I thank all who prayed for me. Above all I praise the Lord who answers prayers. Great is our God. Alleluia!

 

[sjays]

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good and His love knows no end!

 

[tawny]

Praying for your intentions.

 

[244Rocket]

Praise God!

 

[wild_thing]

Blessed be God!
Blessed be His Holy Name!
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man!
Blessed be the name of Jesus!
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart!
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar!
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete!
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy!
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception!
Blessed be her glorious Assumption!
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother!
Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse!
Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints!

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.