COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 174

 Hello, everyone, and thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I'm doing better, and the medication is helping. It's not a cure-all, though. I just need to keep praying, and and make a wide berth from all negativity. 

Good news: the prior from the monastery finally called back. He has been in physical pain all summer after getting treatment for a serious illness (it's not COVID-19). Please pray for him. He told me that I am actually well ahead of him in preparing for my oblation due to my reading and trying to keep a daily prayer pattern of Vespers, and sometimes Compline, Terce, and None. I am glad to continue since, while it is nice to be wanted by the Catholics, I am a Lutheran. I may use incense and use not-so-holy water when I pray at my altar, but there will be no Hail Mary's or Salve Regina's in front of a statue. Do I love and respect Mary as the mother of my Savior? Of course. Will I "cry to her" call her my "hope", or ask for her "mercy." Absolutely not. Mary did not create the Earth, or me, and she did not die for my sins. She cannot even forgive my sins. This is why I put my trust in the Three in One and One in Three: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If you truly depend on Mary, or anyone, for mercy or hope, then what place does God have in your life? 


Bad news: It looks like we may not be getting those second stimulus checks. I hope no one was putting their life stakes on them. Once again, the bipartisan politicians cannot agree on anyone. They cannot even agree on what they agree with! Oh well, TIA.


--Signing off.



(PS: TIA means This is America)

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