Trying to help a friend

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Hello.
I’m writing because I need advice… I have been Catholic for nine years. I have always gone to church youthgroups and things like that and I recently have been trying to deepen my faith. I also have a friend and roommate who is seriously considering becoming Catholic. She goes to Mass with me and all of those things. We had a conversation a month and a half ago in which we discussed things that we want to work on. I’m not going to disclose specifics of what it was that she said but it related to her day-to-day life. I started to pay attention with the intention of supporting her. At first, she did a really good job of sticking to what she said but slowly she has fallen back into old habits to where I don’t know that I see any effort at all. Now, I know old habits die hard and I also know that it is not my place to make judgements. I do, however, feel some sort of obligation (because I know that this was something very important to her) to address this. I want to ask her if she is still making that effort and if she wants to me to kind of keep after her… but I don’t want to come across judgemental or rude. I’m very conflicted on how to handle this situation… any advice is welcome.
Thank you and God Bless!
 
The couple things that I can think of is asking her “How are things going with you at the moment?” - she may open up and state the obvious and provide you with her own problem solving to return back to her original goals. She may or may not respond with the actual topic you want to discuss.

Dependent on the response you receive from her, your next wording could be something like … “What can I do to help you?”
 
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