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One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

St. Teresa of Avila

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Precisely, when things are not going well, I offer it up, but I try to see what God is trying to tell me. Being a hardheaded child I often don't learn on the first try.

[Grateful2God]

Many saints related incidents where souls appeared to them on earth- some suffering, and asking for prayers; some serving part of their Purgatory by their souls remaining to do what they neglected to do on earth, as with Padre Pio and the Sacristan in the choir loft; some who returned to say they were with God. The Almighty works in mysterious ways indeed. St. Thomas More prayed to suffer his Purgatory on earth (see prayer on my home page).

However He chooses, let us always remember the Holy Souls, that they may soon be purged and happy in Heaven- we are the instruments of God's Mercy when we do!!!
Those who don't believe, is it worth refusing if there is the minutest possibility of a simple prayer being of assistance to one of your dear ones- or even of one of your brethren you have not met?

May we all meet one day in Heaven!
G-d ♡ bless you!
Grateful ✟ ✡