Just Keep Praying

Are you praying for healing and have not yet been healed?
Are you praying to be set free from something that holds you bound and have not yet been set free?
Are you praying for the healing of your marriage and you still struggle as a couple?
Are you praying for the salvation of a loved one and they are still far from God?
If you are, then keep on praying.
  Jesus told the parable of the persistent widow (Luke 18:1-8), and the man knocking at the door in the middle of the night looking for bread (Luke 11:5-13) as examples of persistent prayer.
  St. Augustine's mother, St. Monica, prayed for many, many years for her wayward son before he was finally converted (and look how God used him after that!).
  We don't know why some prayers are answered immediately, some in a short time and others not for years and years. What we do know is that God hears and answers all our prayers--none are wasted. So keep on praying.

Feed Your Spirit!

"If you wish to explore the Holy Scripture, and you overcome your laziness and apply yourself, thirsting for the knowledge, then every good thing will be yours. You will fill your mind with the divine light. Then, when you apply that light to the doctrines of the Church, you will very easily recognize everything that is true and unadulterated, and lay it up in the hidden treasures of your soul."  St. Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, d.444 AD


  Many years ago I thought that the Bible was God's Word, but the teachings of the Catholic Church were the teachings of men. But then, as I learned more about Catholic doctrines and dogmas, I found that most were based on Scripture! This helped me immensely! I could then rest assured that those doctrines and dogmas were God's Word to me and helped me apply God's Word in the Bible to my daily living.