I%26#039;ve been feeling really stressed out and depressed lately due to financial worries, my family moving away and having fallen for a guy who does not return my feelings. I know that God is always there for me and that He loves me but sometimes I have trouble reaching out to Him. So, my fellow Catholics, what are some prayers, books, music, scriptural passages, etc. that comfort and strengthen you? I go to Mass every week which really helps but due to my work schedule am unable to go on the weekdays. Thanks so much!
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Here%26#039;s a novean to St. Dymphna. God bless.
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Read Proverbs|||If you want something that will truly comfort and strengthen you try the book a course in miracles.
The fundies hate it because it talks about a God that loves us unconditionally.
That scares them a lot so they really say nasty things about the course.
Love and blessings Don|||The Rosary and the Bible of course. %26quot; Introduction to the Devout Life%26quot; by St. Francis de Sales, this is a book written for the laity and has some really good insights on living the Christian life in the midst of the world. As for music, I like Gregorian Chant.|||Talk to your preist.|||I%26#039;m not Catholic and I%26#039;m not going to give you a scripture but keep this in your heart, God will never put on us more than we can handle.|||I%26#039;m only a former Catholic, but wanted to give some tips for handling stress. I find having a plan helps me destress. It lets you feel like you have more control over things, no matter how out of control the situation is. Come up with a plan for handling the various issues you are facing in life.
In addition to that, I%26#039;ve found that meditation is great. Stopping and really thinking about everything that%26#039;s going on, analyzing it, then being able to put it down and retreat into a concentrated calm, bringing the whirling cyclone of life to a still point helps me. I%26#039;m sure there are even religiously inspired guided meditations out there. Try iTunes, Audible.com, or just google it.
Finally, keep your chin up. It%26#039;s just a temporary phase which will pass and soon you%26#039;ll be able to look back and smile, knowing you learned some valuable lessons, but glad it%26#039;s over.
Best wishes.|||You can%26#039;t lend advice.Edit.... look up lend in the dictionary.|||Start with the Rosary, very powerfull prayer.
And just Pray, tell God that you know that he has a plan for you, and trust in him. It can be hard, but also take time to listen. Does your Parish have addoration? If so, sign up for an hour, ours goes 24 hours, so you can sign up for an hour per week just about any time that is convient.
Holy week is coming up, we are in Lent now, Try to make the Easter Vigil Mass, it is very refereshing!
Be thankfull that you are not committed to a man that does not love and respect you! That can be a GREAT blessing, don%26#039;t look at that loss as negative, but a positive. You need to find the person that will love and respect you for ever. He is out there and is worth waiting for.
Money? We all have money problems, but just simplify your life and get on top of your bills. pay off the credit cards and live a simpler life. It is worth it, there is no peace in being in debit over buying all of the frivilous stuff that society tells us we need to be happy.
Family, that is tough having them move away, just follow your heart, endavor to keep in touch with them daily, e-mail whatever you can do.
Get involved with a group in the Church that meets when you are available, or just volunteer some time to help at the Parish, giving of your time and tallents can make your life much more clearer. As far as reading, just pick up the New Testament, or take a look through your parish library, see what jumps out at you!
Good luck and may God Bless you and your family!
Peace!|||Maybe you can try to get to Stations of the Cross on Fridays during this Lenten season. I think it will help you understand the meaning of carrying the Cross. God Bless...|||God helps those that help themselves. Get your life in order, don%26#039;t look for God or prayer to solve your problems, but more as an adjunct to solving your problems. You need to take positive action.|||I would suggest you sit down for fifteen minutes each night.
Relax your entire body and try to clear your mind of worries.
Begin your prayers but instead of just praying for help, think about how you can actively change things and focus on what you will do to fix things and pray around help with those specific tasks.
For instance, instead of %26quot;help me with my financial worries%26quot;, pray for %26quot;help me sit down tomorrow and draw up a budget to stick to, or help me look at my meal planning and decide how to streamline our menu to save money by batch cooking or using left overs, or help me with finding time to clip coupons and look for sales (or insert whatever solution addresses your financial problem).
Same with the moving: instead of help moving focus and pray on your specific actions like what you can do to keep in touch with your family. And the guy, you can focus on two things you can do that next day to start fresh looking for a new man and getting over the old one ie: I ask you for strength to open an e-harmony accout and check it once a week or I ask you to remind me how special I am and that I do not need to let his failure to recognize that bring me down.
I find that often folks pray for general problems but don%26#039;t focus on solutions. Perhaps if you sit down, take each %26quot;problem%26quot;, compose some active solutions and then pray for assistance with your positive actions to resolve them....I am positive that will help you!|||I find that praying the Rosary calms me during times of stress. Even if you find it hard to concentrate on the Mysteries, just holding a Rosary in your hand and reminding yourself that God loves you is often enough to drop the stress level quite a few notches. If all you have time to do is pray is a decade at a time, that%26#039;s fine, too.
And here are a couple of my favorite Scriptures for those times when I feel like I can%26#039;t go another step:
Phillipians 4:13 %26quot;I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.%26quot;
Isaiah 40:31 %26quot;But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.%26quot;
God bless you, and I pray that He will keep you in His perfect peace:
Isaiah 26:3 %26quot;Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.%26quot;|||Try the BIBLE for once.|||Please DO NOT read %26quot;A course in Miracles%26quot; it is new age absurdity that will only lead you astray. The woman whom wrote it, ended up suffering a horrible depression before she died.
Any book by Fr. Benedict Groeschel (seen on EWTN) is good. Here are two great ones:
http://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Blocks-S...
http://www.amazon.com/Arise-Darkness-Wha...
And this little prayer book is what first lead me to conversion:
http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Bread-Spirit...
Peace of Christ to you!|||The Holy Rosary is an extremely powerful prayer when prayed from the heart, when each Hail Mary is prayed with love and childlike simplicity. (Many will testify to this--St. John Vianney, St. Padre Pio, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, etc.)
Mary is our most powerful intercessor. Do not people ask their living friends and relatives to pray for them? How much more powerful, then, is the intercession of God%26#039;s own Mother, who loved Him perfectly during her life on earth and to whom He remains obedient in heaven. Mary knows how to pray to God more effectively than you or I ever could.
When prayers are said without love, they mean little in the Eyes of God. But each prayer said with love is pleasing to the Lord, for He has said %26quot;Ask, and you shall receive,%26quot; and %26quot;the more you ask, the more you shall receive.%26quot;
http://www.medjugorje.org/rosary.htm
http://www.rosary-center.org/howto.htm
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The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.
9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.
Our Lady has 117 titles. She selected this title at Fatima: %26quot;I am the Lady of the Rosary.%26quot;
St. Francis de Sales said the greatest method of praying IS- Pray the Rosary.
St. Thomas Aquinas preached 40 straight days in Rome, Italy on just the Hail Mary.
St. John Vianney, patron of priests, was seldom seen without a rosary in his hand.
%26quot;The rosary is the scourge of the devil%26quot; -- Pope Adrian VI
%26quot;The rosary is a treasure of graces%26quot; -- Pope Paul V
Padre Pio, the stigmatic priest, said: %26quot;The Rosary is THE WEAPON%26quot;
Pope Leo XIII wrote 9 encyclicals on the rosary.
Pope John XXIII spoke 38 times about Our Lady and the Rosary. He prayed 15 decades daily.
St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort wrote: %26quot;The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who so loves His Mother.%26quot;|||Put your trust in Jesus Christ, study the bible and pray.|||My personal recommendation is that you find a spiritual director, these people are wonderful in helping you find your spiritual self, and center it on the Gospel of Love.
Many towns have certified spiritual directors, and they are great listeners, and help guide you. Usually you can get a list of people from the diocese offices and even in the parishes.
May God bless you on this most difficult journey, I know from personal experience that God loves you so much that He will guide your way.|||definitely pray the Holy Rosary, read the book of Psalms and pray constantly for guidance. i will pray for you as well. God Bless.
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