The strength of Prayer

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Hi 🙂 I’ve been wondering about our prayers and their varying strength :
say if we said the Rosary with venial sin on our soul compared to if we had committed mortal sin . How great is the difference in how God hears,accepts and answers our prayers?
If a person were in mortal sin and couldn’t have their confession heard immediately but prayed with all their heart and longing to have God’s grace again, how would their prayers be received? How does Our Lady respond at such a time,and the saints, holy souls when we ask their help?
Thanks in advance,Greenfields.
 
In my experience, the more I wanted it the more likely I was to get it. Provided it was in line with Good. I don’t think you’re past has any bearing on it. St. Paul says that our past has no bearing on God’s given graces.
 
I find that when I’m in a state of sin it’s harder for me to make a connection to God. If I haven’t gone to confession in a while, not only do I suffer in my everyday life, but my praying and meditations become harder… so I try to go (and bring my son) once a month.

I once read a quote from a saint that said “pray every day. And when you don’t feel like praying, pray twice as much”. So for me, based on this quote and what I experience when I haven’t gone to confession and my prayer life feels like it starts to struggle, I think it probably doesn’t really matter if you’re in a state of mortal sin because in those times, it’s harder to pray and showing perseverance to pray anyway counts for a lot. Your prayers will help you find your way back to the confessional and encourage you back onto the straight and narrow.

I could be wrong though… I’m exceptionally flawed. LoL
 
The voice of the Holy Ghost begins, therefore, by an instinct, an obscure illumination, and if one perseveres in humility and conformity to the will of God, this instinct manifests its divine origin clearly to the conscience while remaining mysterious. The first gleams will become so many lights which, like the stars, will illumine the night of our pilgrimage toward eternity; the dark night will thus become luminous and like the aurora of the life of heaven, “and night shall be my light in my pleasures.” (28)

To succeed in being docile to the Holy Ghost, we need, therefore, interior silence, habitual recollection, attention, and fidelity.

Peace
 
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