I've become more and more convinced as time goes on that where we work is where the Lord Jesus calls us to become saints. I mean that it is in the marketplace in the mix of people that more grace flows, giving each Christian an opportunity ot make faith and grace real and solid in their lives. For example tonight, no sooner than I started to work than I was hit with so many temptations against purity of heart and even though I kept calling upon the Lord Jesus it seemed that they were getting more stonger. What finally kept me in touch with grace was the fact that I kept repeatin got myself that the Lord is near. Later, I was moved to anger and resentment towards some of my fellow workers. You know these kinds of temptations can get you nowhere and you have to just keep moving forward with the strong hope that Jesus will see you thru. Mary, is always so faithful at times like these. She makes you feel that each of her children is always so special. It is hard for the person who doesn't have faith to sdee these things, whcih doesn't make them less but it is according to Divine Providence that God uses all of us to strengthen the good; on the other hand, the evil tha twe have to endure can be used to strengthen his children. I'm absolutely convinced that every molecule of the universe is Divinely governed by the Most Holy Trinity and can use all of it to perfec this creatures and when I experience in myslef thes etrying times and the putting into action the grace I receiv in the sacraments it makes me feel that much more sure of it all. Nonetheless, at the end of a day when you look back over each event it makes you so much more grateful to God and thos egood people that the Lord sends your way-and the bad-well , you know, 'it all works together for the good of those who love' Our Lord. Like Augustine says, 'our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.' When we experience a little of some of that rest, what a feeling of being exalted by the Lord, just to KNOW that HE EXIST AND IS NEAR THRU IT ALL.

This make sreceiving the HOLY EUCHARIST that much more powerful a sacrament for me, and makes me long to receive Our Lord again in Holy Communion.

IP CL