[Mrs. Don-o]

Look at it this way: truly hateful people give us the opportunity to obey more of Christ's commandments. If we didn't have enemies, we wouldn't have the opportuity to "love our enemies."

I need to exercise that weak love muscle every day. And like all my weak feeble muscles, it quickly tends toward aches & pains when exercised. Exaudi nos, Domine.

[AnAmericanMother]

EXAUDI nos, Domine sancte, Pater omnipotens, aeterne Deus: et mittere digneris sanctum Angelum tuum de caelis, qui custodiat, foveat, protegat, visitet atque defendat omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.