I have a Canadian friend, a devout Catholic, who suffered many terrible injustices in her work. Every day, she faced the hatred of a nasty work colleague who made her a scapegoat. It was like a scurging! This had been going on for years. Faced with the knowledge that this situation would not change, she fought courageously so as not to break down, and not to return evil for evil. On the contrary, she prayed for that person every day and kept on forgiving her.
When I told her about Don Dolindo and his famous prayer of abandonment, she decided to practice it intensely. Every day, she presented her "enemy" to the Lord, and surrendered this impossible situation into His hands, asking him to take care of it Himself. In short, she let her cause fall into God's hands, as if to say to Him: “This is YOUR problem!” Don Dolindo himself has a remarkable story, because from his own childhood he suffered terrible persecutions and numerous hardships (PS 2). How did he manage to keep his head above water and always stay happy? The Holy Spirit inspired him with this simple and incredibly effective prayer:
"Jesus, I surrender myself to You, You take care of it!". That is certainly easy to say, but for us who want to control everything, it is about letting Jesus take care of the situation without wanting to manage it by ourselves, and being less agitated about whatever is troubling us. If the situation is beyond us and completely escapes our power, God alone, through his secret Providence, holds the solution. But we must let him act! Let's take the example of a surgeon operating on a difficult case that requires a great deal of concentration. Thank God the patient is asleep! If he were agitated and giving his own advice, it would be a disaster.
Let's go back to my Canadian friend. She did everything in her power: she prayed, forgave, remained silent, offered it up… she left to the Lord’s care the essential part that was not under her control. She multiplied her acts of abandonment with the prayer of Don Dolindo, she put all her trust, faith and love into it. It didn’t take long for the result to appear: the executive board of the company asked the malevolent person to leave her position, and the replacement was an honest and sensitive woman. My friend can now successfully work with her. A wonderful air of peace began to blow over this office.
A gift to be seized… In his will, Don Dolindo declared: “When I am dead, come to me, knock on my grave 3 times, and I will answer you!” What good news! But in prayer, I pointed out to Don Dolindo that this would be difficult for people who live far away from Italy. But knowing he is very broad-minded, I suggested to him that he grant the same graces to all those who would want to benefit from this, regardless of the distance that separates them from the city of Naples. How could this happen? Very simple: they will just have to knock 3 times on a photograph of his tomb! ‘The Saint of trust’ will not be able to resist such an act of trust on the part of his distant brothers and sisters! Here is what I suggested to him, and now it is up to each person to decide what they do! |
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