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Thanks for the article. Welcome to the Catholic faith! I am also a Catholic Police Officer. I have found the Sacraments and Sacramentals very helpful in the journey. Namely daily Mass, receiving the Eucharist, and frequent Confession, because they are all about healing our brokeness. Christ knew this is what we needed. It opens us up to receive God’s grace. Praying the daily Rosary started me on this path, after losing a friend and fellow officer to suicide. The Rosary is a powerful weapon against evil. I too pray to St. Michael daily for all of our safety and protection. I also have a daughter who is a Police Officer. The brown Scapular and St. Benedict medals also help. I look at my work as my path to holiness, and offer up a lot of the small irritations (and some not so small) as mortifications. Thanks for mentioning gossip because that to is a constant struggle on our job. In Christ PAX
God bless and keep you! You are an inspiration.
I found your article very interesting. I am Catholic and also a Probation Officer. I can relate to so many things in this article. I have not been to church in sometime. I think this may have been the catalyst that I’ve needed to start going back. Thank you………
Dear Paul, you indeed are a good man. Just keep up the good work and prayer
I too am a Catholic police office and I really liked this article! One thing that is difficult for me to deal with are two other forms of temptation I deal with. I am on a specialty unit and I serve a lot of search warrants and make large gang related drug arrests. I have also participated in a good amount of prostitution raids. I do get tempted (in my mind) sometimes when I see the way some women are dressed and I have to pray in order not to look more than necessary. It also makes it more difficult because everyone I work around likes to make inappropriate comments and talk about what is going on more than necessary. A second temptation I deal with is failing to realize that these people are children of God. When you deal with a drug dealer and he has guns, or a pimp of a 15 year old missing girl, sometimes you can start to think of these people as the scum of the earth and think terrible thoughts about them. I try to pray a Hail Mary for these people in my mind when I catch myself thinking these angry thoughts. The best thing I can do is pray to the Blessed Virgin, and try to stay close to her, and to pray to St. Michael constantly. I also invoke the Precious Blood of Jesus quite frequently.