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#135549 06/04/06 08:00 PM
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Armando,

Go to your priest. Ask him to get you the help you need. From what you have said, everything is going in your favor, yet you say it is not. Something far beyond what we can do is amiss. Go to your priest and get his help and have him help you find the care you need.

All we can do is direct you to your priest and pray for you.

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Armando,

Growing up is hard to do. If you are serious about amounting to something cut out the useless music. If you wish to die we can't do much about it except to encourage you not to do that. But if you are serious about amounting to something you should take a look at the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Covenant service done yearly in Methodist Church on New Year's Eve. In part:

"Christ has many services to be done.
Some are more easy and honorable,
others are more difficult and disgraceful.
Some are suitable to our inclinations and interests,
others are contrary to both.
In some we may please Christ and please ourselves.
But then there are other works where we cannot please Christ
except by denying ourselves.
It is necessary, therefore,
that we consider what it means to be a servant of Christ.
Let us, therefore, go to Christ, and pray:
Let me be your servant, under your command.
I will no longer be my own.
I will give up myself to your will in all things.
Be satisfied that Christ shall give you your place and work.
Lord, make me what you will.
I put myself fully into your hands:
put me to doing, put me to suffering,
let me be employed for you, or laid aside for you,
let me be full, let me be empty,
let me have all things, let me have nothing.
I freely and with a willing heart
give it all to your pleasure and disposal."

The Covenant Renewal can be found here. http://www.homiliesbyemail.com/Special/New_Year/covenant.html

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Dear Armando:
Some years ago I felt, in many ways, lost and forgotten by everyone I loved, especially God.
It was at a Mass when a priest spoke these words: "Nothing is so lost that it can never be found; Nothing is so broken that it can never be healed". I cried and cried for days. Today is Pentecost Sunday. I pray most fervently before the Altar of God for you. I pray that the Holy Spirit Himself will descend upon you to show you just how much God truly loves you. Don't give up!! Don't you ever give up!! You have the prayers of everyone on this Forum. You ARE loved!! God holds you to His Sacred Heart. He rocks you in His arms. Let Jesus love you. May the love and blessing of God the Father + God the Son + and God the Holy Spirit + descend upon you,
convince you that you are loved more than you can possibly fathom and give peace and healing to you!
We also pray against the Evil One who seeks to devour you. Satan will NEVER, NEVER win your soul. We commit you to the powerful intercession of Mary Most Holy, Terror of Demons and Queen of Peace +
We love you! your brother Silouan, poor monk

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Armando,

It's impossible that they have let you down. Here's a story thatt worked for me, it had me crying after I heard it.

" There was once a father who wanted to get his son a kickball, so he took him to the mall to get him one. While there he discovered that there was a sports goods store across the street, and that the mall didn't have any kickballs. So he took his son to go across the street. As they left the mall his son saw one of those paddle balls. He began to beg his father for the little paddle ball, despite the fact that it would break. He begged and begged, he screamed. He threw a huge temper tantrum. Finally he asked 'Daddy, why don't you love me?'. His father very firmly picked him up and led him out of the store, the son kicking and screaming the whole time. Finally they got into the sports store, and the father brought his son into the kickball section and told him to pick out whatever one he liked. With wide eyes the son said 'I want the OWANGE ONE!' With pride his son walked out of the store with an owange kickball when just five minutes ago he had been screaming for a paddle ball."

Armando, there is ALWAYS something. There can't not be something that God hasn't planned for you. Maye He's trying to show you that there's something so much bigger and so much more wonderful that what you're going through right now pales in comparison, and that even the joys of your life right now are rags in comparison to what He has planned. Trust Him, Armando, there's always something across the street.

Peace of Christ,
Nathan Augustine

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Dear Sir, Armando, I was a young man once, and I'm 53 now. There was two times in my life, when I was 15 and then, again in my early 20's, that I was very depressed. I was on the verge of doing something drastic, but I did not. It was tough, but somehow I held on. Now, I can see that it was God, and people He worked through (though I did not see it at the time..) who helped me. In the prayers, it says about the spiritual wolf...the Evil One... who seeks to devour souls, he is the one who instigates these kind of thoughts. The Devil wishes to destroy ALL of mankind, and if not , tries to wreck what good that God has created. Hold on, and you will see later, what good He has for you. Thank God I did, and may He be Blessed forever. Mikhail

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