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I’m in denial I’ve been through all the pains. Love. Μισος.. θυμος πολυ ομος.. neglect. Why.. and know this I can't even go church.. lie I did at my cousins. Funeral I actual wore black for a week.. a lil prayer for our voula. That was last Monday.. and I proskines over the pethameno, my heart hurts giath.. all the Why above apart from our voula passing is to do with my mum.. is there a prayer I can read I’m a mess.. I can’t go cemetery I want to kick the tomb apart.. it’s a family tomb I keep thinking it was wrong according to ashes to ashes dust to dust... mum was just dropped in an empty box cement thing
Answer to Question 552 On our journey through life we all go through various experiences that stir up our emotions causing us to feel pain, hurt, love, hate, anger and many more feelings. Our purpose in life is to try and keep all these emotions and passions under control so that they do not overtake us. The only way we can do this is through prayer. If for example someone does something to hurt us then instead of brewing up hate for them we should pray for them and in time our pain and hate will turn to love for them. One of the most difficult things to achieve is to acquire the humility to forgive others for the wrongs they have done against us whether big and serious or small and trivial. Christ says that forgiveness for our own sins is achieved through our brother. He reveals to us the shortest route by which we can receive forgiveness from God. If we show charity and love for the wrongs of our brother we receive an audience before God when we pray and ask him to forgive our own sins. This is what we pray every time we say the Lord’s Prayer: “And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us”. The fathers of the Church say that when our heart is bright with the light of reconciliation with our brethren, it receives the grace of the good things we pray for. This rule to forgive to be forgiven is probably one of the most difficult to put into practice because it is opposed by our fallen human nature which is governed by egocentricity, a self pride, a hardness of heart, the remembrance of evils and resentfulness, and a feeling of wanting justice and revenge, that is why forgiving is not an easy thing to do.
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