A crack in the facade

Opening the doors to Mary and being overwhelmed by the spirit of her love

I recently posted an article titled Grief, Trauma and Mary. See below. This is an update. If you haven’t read the original article, please read it before reading this. Otherwise, this article will make very little sense.

That article, posted on Jan 3, 2024, was actually written at the beginning of December 2023. During the last month and over the holidays, I stuck to my plans¹ to read my scriptures, fast, and pray about the realizations and inspiration that I had obtained. My fasting was pretty stringent. I fast every day, only eating from 4 pm to 7 pm as part of an intermittent fasting routine. I would normally take a break on weekends, but I decided to add a fast from Saturday evening until after Liturgy on Sunday and dedicate the fasting in prayer.

I had very little expectation of getting any sort of answer to my prayers or “breakthroughs” any time soon. I figured that it would take a long time since the issue required me to effect an inner change in attitude and perspective, and honestly, I’m still not quite sure how to go about that. I spoke to my therapist, but her answer wasn’t really helpful in terms of something I felt I could put into action.

Feeling like I was groping blindly in the dark, I decided that I should add a couple of additional things on top of the scripture reading, prayers, and fasting.²