Since yesterday today i accomplished my first fastings and abstinense of animal foods as orthodox tradition requires to do so on Thursdays and Fridays, no doubt i feel enriched and acomplished to know i'm able to do this, please pray so that Christ bestow's his grace to my efforts so that i may be conducted towards the right path of discpline and spiritual growth.

Brothers, i am in serious need of your prayers. Now i have just recently outed to my mother, who is a devoted Egyptian Sunni Muslim, that i was an orthodox Christian. Now say what you will about Islam, but I tell you from the bottom of my heart, my mother has an immense and radiant heart of gold. And her prayer life rivals that of some Christians, even me. She is extremely heartbroken and wishes to try and help my unbelief. And she is so deathly scared for my sake and my soul that she is losing her sanity. And whenever I try to explain myself and why I believe, I sat there loss for words. And I look from the outside that this is all "just a phase"

I ask of all of you, please send prayers to her that the wounds in her heart my heal. That her sorrows be cast out. I absolutely hate seeing her in despair for her only son.

I will certainly pray. May God help your mother realize the True Faith!

Update: She insists that I go talk to an Imam about Islam, thinking this whole ordeal started because my grasp of religion was weak and that I should talk to someone to get DA TROOF of Islam. (Obviously my conversion was not based on merely retoric, but by faith which God revealed to me through his Holy Spirit)

For the sake of her sanity, I agreed to go talk with him. The appointment is tomorrow March 1st, at 5pm est. I am still determined to walk out of those doors as a die hard Christian, but I must confess that I am terrible at explaining theology and my experience with the Holy Spirit.

Please pray that God will open my mind and losen my jaw that I may speak truth to power. Especially ask for the intersession of St. John of Damascus, my patron saint.

Of course. Don't think about what you will say. God will give you the words. And even if your arguments cannot match those of the Imam, know that you have the truth.

Just spent £150,000. I just hope for guidance in my future endeavour.

What did you spend it on?

Hope it's a new house for an expexting family

It is.

My wife and I have purchased a 3 bedroom home in a nice area, close to a few schools so we can raise our expected children well.

Three bedroom house for £150,000?

Crikey

For God's sake, please shield your children from public education

Not really an option unfortunately.

There are still some very good reactionary schools out there.

Whereabouts do you live, @Wychwood , if I may ask?

Yorkshire England

East or west?

West

That seems like a decent place to raise your kids.

Assuming you're not in Bradford.

Oh my dear lord could you imagine.

Bradford is the embarrassment of our country. Second only to London maybe.

I live in west London, I don't have to imagine, unfortunately.

I would say London > Bradford

We're hoping to live here for a while and move to York sometime.

It'd be nice they've got such a lovely cathedral there

Never in my life have I felt so small.

There's an Oratory in formation in York.

If they open up a school, it would be the ideal place to send your children.

Alas, we're expecting in the next year or so so I don't think we'll have much of a chance.

The schools around here are predominantly white so fingers crossed it'll all work out.

Turns out they do

https://stwilfridsprimaryyork.co.uk/

I think I might have to move back west eventually.

Really? Oxford seems sound.

Need some prayers for the mother of my teacher, and the grandmother of one of my friends, she's terminal and my friend is very broken, pray that God grant him strenght and growth through this tribulation, and for my teacher to be strong before God's will, she is catholic and i really don't want her to lose faith being one of the few teachers that at least believe in God. Thanks in advance.

I got a driving test coming up on Friday and I really, really need to pass. already failed once... I've done my homework, I just don't handle tests very well and do stupid mistakes out of anxiety. pray for me lads

For Sebastian, suffering from severe pneumonia

@GodFearingEnglishman Oxford's nice, apart from the one area that looks like Somalia/North Africa.

But apart from that, housing is ungodly expensive and small. Not exactly prime family raisin conditions unless you're particularly well-off.

I need your prayers, fellas. My fiancé has blocked my number and I'm clueless as to why.