Our Lady Of Lourdes Podcast

Deacon Darell highlights the importance of friends who are with you through the most trying times of your life. He illustrated Plebe Year at West Point with his fellow comrades, and what a bond they developed because of that difficult year at the bottom of the totem pole. He describes his 40th reunion at West Point New York, and how they did not focus on their accomplishments over the past 40 years, but on the bond they developed during that first treacherous year of training. Pray for all souls and the strength to turn away from sin. Pray for everyone's souls so they may be worthy and perfect gifts to return to Christ what is rightfully His. We are pilgrims of Christ, who are being tested every day. Grab an arm of a stranger on the way out of church, and strike up a conversation--then ask how you can pray for them. Then, do it. Pray for God to lighten that person's cross, because we all face them every day. Make it a habit to pray for the grace to turn your likeness back to God, because we are all on this j