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 "...