Lenten Promises & Mother Teresa

"To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength that we need to keep purity as something beautiful for him." ~Blessed Mother Teresa

This lent I am joining the Angelic Warfare Confraternity which sounds a bit crazy. I have already started though. More than anything it is a prayer for chastity and for purity. I struggle with chastity and it struggles with me - I'm sure. I thought that by the time I turned 28, it would be over, but alas, I am still a man, with man-thoughts. So for lent I am going to pray with the Confraternity every morning and pray with Scripture every night and I hope and pray that the graces I receive help me in my battle toward purity. And by Scripture I mean that I will be reading the Gospel of John and the Tao te Ching.

"The unnameable is the origin of heaven and earth; named it is the mother of the ten thousand things." ~Tao 1

Oh yeah, and Momma T, why is she up there in the corner? I have found that I have let down Jesus so often with my choices that sometimes it's easy to just to say, well Jesus - I'm going to sin again. I recently have been reading a lot about Momma T and have asked her to pray for me all of this lent. Everyday at the end of praying with the Confraternity I am asking Blessed Mother Teresa to hold me in her prayers, especially when it comes to my chastity and purity. Blessed Mother Teresa, pray for us!

Shalom,
Joe