I have a factory Job where the environment and work culture keeps getting worse by the day. It seems nothing around there can ever be done right as the management jumps between making quality, quantity and safety the main focus of the job depending on which is suffering at the time.
The company I work for claims to be a family oriented company even though I have to be open to work every other Sunday if they need the work. I often wish I had a job that fits my personality where I don't have to work any Sundays and where I have the time to get to mass during the week.
I often have to go to confession because of my anger. I also pray and ask God what his will for my life is and if there is a job out there that better fits me as I am going crazy where I am now. I also feel spiritually drained to go to work and see so many people who appear to be on the road to Hell and the world only gets more depraved as time goes by.
How is God working through us Traditional Catholics during these increasingly perilous, depraved and mostly spiritually dead times?
Take heart! You shall make it!
In the meantime, I recommend to you the following gold:
Finding God's Will for You&
http://www.angeluspress.org/oscatalog/item/4092/rules-for-discerning-spirits& by the great St. Louis de Montfort:
http://www.montfort.org.uk/Writings/Cross.htmlWe traditional Catholics can continue to exercise Christian virtue, pray, and worship God in the way which gives the glory due to Him (only the traditional Mass).
Also, remember:
“The life of man upon earth is a warfare.”
-Job 7:1
“Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. “
-1 Pt. 5:8
“You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
-1 Jn. 4:4
“Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you. [8] Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye double minded. [9] Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. [10] Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.”
-James 4: 7-10
“A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them.”
-St. Dominic
“Labour as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. [4] No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself. [5] For he also that striveth for the mastery, is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
-2 Timothy 2:3-5
“Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of his power. [11] Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. [12] For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places. [13] Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. [14] Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, [15] And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: [16] In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. [17] And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God). [18] By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints.”
-Ephesians 6:10-18
All of which reminds me that you should also absorb this:
The Spiritual Combat