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CatholicPiligrimagePH.com | How to Overcome Being Stubborn Through This Prayer | How stubborn are you? It’s not always bad to be stubborn especially when it comes to being steadfast in our Catholic beliefs. It also pays to be stubborn in remaining faithful to our missionary state of mind and heart.
But when stubbornness gets in the ways of our prayer life and service to God, then to be stubborn is not good. It might eventually lead us down a path that will ruin us.
In those times of selfish stubbornness, we must be ready to let down our pride, recognize our faults, ask for His help, and be willing to open our hearts to Him.
Here is a short prayer adapted from the Golden Manual that lifts our hearts to God, being honest and transparent with who we are and who we want to become.
Come, O Lord, and sink into my heart. Purify and cleanse me from all sin, and sanctify my soul. Wash away its defilements, moisten its dryness, heal its wounds, subdue its stubbornness, melt its coldness, and correct its wanderings. Make me truly humble and resigned, that I may be pleasing to you, and you may abide with me for ever. Give me strength, bestow upon me a right faith, a firm hope, and a sincere and perfect charity; and grant that I may ever do your most gracious will. Amen.
via Aleteia
