Take All Bitterness Away

A quote from Catherine McAuley:

Pray fervently to God to take all bitterness from me.

Sometime we think that saints had it easy, that they did not have to deal with life as we do. But this is not the case. Saints had to live out their mundane, difficult, crisis-ridden lives just as we do, one day at a time and sometimes one hour or one minute at a time. It's how they did it that makes them the saints they are. We too can do the same thing, living out our lives one day at a time.

In our hard times it's great to have a support system..., group..., friends..., whom we can count on to help us through the difficult times. Catherine had such a group, her sisters. They were in it together and felt the privations and difficulties of their leader. She relied on them for prayer and support as well. Today can still do the same.

How often do we say to someone, "I'll be praying for you"? or whom do we ask to pray for us? In parishes there are prayer chains, in most convents there is a intention book for whom the sisters pray. There are those wonderful people called grandmothers and great-grandmothers who still pray for their children and grandchildren. There are the shut-ins in a parish who have a ministry of prayer. If you need prayer today, connect with them. If you are on-line here are two Mercy places to request prayers: www.sistersofmercy.org and www.mercycr.org.