ever since i found out about St. Rita, i have not been able to shake her from my mind. I lost my faith in God many years ago, I haven’t been religious in very long. i am 23 yrs old now. I have spent the past 4 years in a ring of bad relationships with two men. I never left them because i had endless patience and hope in them. I have forgiven one of their cheating, turned the other cheek, one of their drug addiction, However, they treated me awfully and blamed the failure of the relationships on me. they also led me to do bad things, including an abortion in my last relationship. I haven’t been able to forgive myself for it, even though i got rid of it because the father didn’t want it.
I have prayed through difficult times, often the rosary. But when I have felt extremely hopeless i ask St Rita to help me. recently in the past month, my ex bf refused to speak to me, refuses to talk to me, refused to forgive me, although i have forgiven him. told me awful things, even tho i continually told him not to …that i loved him…that he was hurting me…he continued his abuse. today….he finally spoke with me on the phone, and was extremely evil to me.
i was in so much despair, and i fell upon st rita once more. this is the second time ive asked her to help me. i asked for a prayer on a forum for st rita. not even an hour later, my ex bf had written me back an email…telling me he appreciated the last email i sent him asking him for forgiveness….he said he hoped he could forgive me someday…but that time wouldnt be soon. he said he wished me the best in my school, life and love and family.
i believe it was a miracle because he hadnt been respectful to me since we’d been together.
do you think so?
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I am resently single from a relationship that I would like to see go farther. Is it selfish of me to pray for it? I trust God and want it to be done by His will, why do I feel guilty when I ask? I know there are so many more people in need of prayer than I.
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I was "saved" or I thought I was saved perhaps 8 months ago. I really felt I gave my life to Jesus. The church said, "If you pray this prayer and you mean it…you’re saved." Well, I prayed it and meant it. Apparently I’m not saved because I’m a more bitter and angrier person than ever before, although I STILL LOVE JESUS.
Things got better/the same for me after I became "saved" and professed my new-found faith to the congregation. After 4 months, I stopped going to Church. I started drinking profusely. I started visiting prostitutes profusely. I started working as a bouncer in a nude, filthy strip club. I became angry. I started lashing out. I started cursing, getting a tattoo. I started being treated for depression. I dropped out of college. I’ve been dumped by 4 girlfriends who I was sleeping with and they all developed hatred for me while I was nice to them. All my friends stopped associating with me. I stopped reading the Bible. I stopped praying. All I’ve done is tell people "I’m a Christian. I love Jesus" and wearing a huge, gold cross around my neck.
Do you think it’s possible/probable that God is allowing me to suffer miserably and making me search out things like whures and hookers and dumb girlfriends that are immoral. Do you think God has taken it up on himself to allow me to reach the low in my life where I want to jump off the Brooklyn bridge due to my misery?
Could he be trying to show me that no matter how many girls I sleep with; no matter how fancy my clothes are; how good-looking I think I am. That no matter how many film festivals my movies make, that’s not gonna help me. Could he be preventing me from having any happiness to FORCE ME TO GO BACK TO THE CHURCH AND THE LORD?
IS GOD CURSING ME SO THAT I LOVE JESUS MORE?
Don’t they say that the devil goes after you even harder after you become a Christian? Maybe the devil turned it up a notch against me?
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Can we get a prayer going for us… Things just went from bad to worse. Our relationship ended today. Neither of us cheated, nor argued. We did not even have a fight. It was other people causing us problems that made my man walk out. His ex would not leave him alone. It became an issue that could not be resolved. Seems stupid. I do not know if it can be patched up… but a prayer would sure be nice. Thanks
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Prayer is the central theme of one story we’re doing for the Christmas Special here at FOX called, Miracles: Fact, Fiction or Faith. Down in Florida, cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall supposedly brought a man, who had died of a massive heart attack in the emergency room, back to life by prayer. The story seemed amazing to me because I first heard mention of the story after Dr. Crandall, an evangelical Christian, gave a presentation to a group of doctors (also Christians) explaining what had happened. He used medical records and charts to prove his claims.
After interviewing Dr. Crandall, the patient and the patient’s family, I found it very hard not to believe something miraculous happened in that ER. We’re told that after 30 or 40 minutes of electric paddles and other methods of trying to resuscitate the patient, the hospital called Dr. Crandall down to the Emergency Room to give a final say of whether to give up efforts. Crandall arrived to find the patient not breathing and unresponsive to the electric volts. His extremities were black, indicating no blood was flowing through his body. Dr. Crandall said, "OK, let’s call it," which means to tell the morgue to get ready for another guest.
As Dr. Crandall left the room he said he heard God’s voice telling him to go back and pray for that man. He did. He prayed "in the name of Jesus…" He told the staff to give one more shot of the paddles. They did. Immediately, the man’s heart began to beat. His hands began to move, and he once again began to breath.
You’ll hear more details during the Christmas Special, and they are compelling. But did prayer bring that man back? Or was it simply something that has an unknown, medical explanation?
Lauren Green serves as a religion correspondent for the FOX News Channel. Prior to this, Green served as a news anchor for “Fox and Friends,” where she provided daily news updates and covered arts for the network.
This is something that I found interesting and have copied and pasted for your thoughts.
For skeptics its a medically documented case.
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