Well, I´ll admit I ignored the rosary for quite some time. I dont know how it happened. Maybe I just became spiritually lazy to the point that I didnt have a roasry any more. I tried as much as possible to go to church every sunday but at times I overslept or was late for mass most of the time. Heck, I think I became a heretic, questioning every and anything around me and behaving the way I saw fit.
Well to cut a long story short, I´ve been having a problem for some months now and realised my everyday one-lined prayer was not going to suffice. I stumbled on a website with several prayers and novenas 3 months ago and started doing some prayers. I wanted to also do some novenas but according to me, doing a novena was too long. That was too much praying IMHO.lol !!! But when the problem persisted(it seemed like everything went against me) I said doing a novena was not a bad idea afterall. I started doing some novenas and when I do novenas, I like to read testimonies of other people about how the novenas worked for them.
As I started searching for testimonies on the St Rita novena, I stumbled on a website talking about a man who receives an appartition of a cross every year during lent on his wall. Wow, I was very impressed! On the website, there´s also a section where one could submit prayer request. I clicked on it and it led me to a St. Mary´s church. I got irritated( looking at it now, I dont understand the reason for my irritation) and closed the page. I then went on to listen to some podcast about the owner of the site( the guy who sees the cross) and he explained how he became close to Jesus and how after praying the 54 day Rosary novena, Mary appeared to him and cured him from some heart complications. It then clicked in head! Maybe St Rita or Mary was leading me to pray the rosary?? I had never heard of the 54 day rosary novena before. I always had several rosaries with me but to my astonishement, I couldnt even find one! I went to my priest and asked if I could buy a rosary together with a miraculous medal. He not only offered me a rosary blessed by the pope, but also 2 miraculous medals, one in silver and the other in gold.
I´m still doing the 54 day novena and sometimes certain “coincidences” happen which make me wonder if that´s a signal grace. 2 days ago for e.g I wrote to my sister asking her if she knew St Dymphna and encouraging her to do the novena since she sometimes suffer from emotional issues. Can you believe that she also learnt about St Dymphna just 3 months ago and tried doing the novena only last week but stopped after 5 days because she came back from work and was too tired to continue?It was such a coincidence!!
When I started doing the novena, I started seeing things differently. It seems as if I´ve become more conscious of things I do/did wrong. I used to feel some kind of unhappiness and lonliness but with praying the rosary and attending the holy mass as much as I can this past month, I´m not only succeeding in taking control of my problem emotionally but also in staying calm.
The answer to my problem is due for next and I really hope our mother Mary comes through for me. Please keep me in ur prayers.
ps: sorry for the lengthy story, sometimes I jus love to rant.
