Adventures in prayer

A while ago. Perhaps a number of years. Let me check. I started praying daily for a wife. How has that prayer been answered? Well, I don't have a wife. I don't have a girlfriend. The prayer has the line "I open my heart to you". At times praying this has helped me to realise that my heart was not open and for a while I added the line "please help me to open my heart" after the original line.

Corpus Christi. The Body of Christ

At table sat.
The twelve. Eleven later.
Preparing Passover celebrate.
Brother, Master, fate.

Bread, took blessed and ate.
Shared and said
My body
And Blood, wine drink.

A bond, new and sparkly
A love, a lesson
Fresh and darkly
Prophesied his betrayal.

The question we must answer is "if Catholicism offers a better way, why don't Catholics' lives seem any better?"

The question we must answer is "if Catholicism offers a better way, why don't Catholics' lives seem any better?"
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Happiness, Contentment, Feelings

Happiness and God.

God wants us to be happy. But perhaps we aren't. Happiness is not a feeling. Happiness, Aquinas tells us is found in knowledge of God. Perfect possession of the perfect good. Happiness as he describes it is something that satisfies one's ultimate desire.

Happiness is distinguished from satisfaction of the senses, which we might call contentment. But surely if we are happy we will also be content? Will we not.

If I am trying to follow the correct path and love God and my fellow man, then why do I not feel happy?

I wonder what Lewis has to say on this matter.

The new Jerusalem

Lewisham is my Jerusalem