Meditating Mother, Queen of heaven,
In whose hands the treasures of the King are found,
Turn your merciful eyes upon me today.
I entrust into your holy hands this knot in my life,
And all the rancor and resentment it has caused.
I ask Your forgiveness, God the Father, for my sin.
Help me now to forgive all the persons who consciously or unconsciously provoke this knot.
Grant me the grace to forgive myself for provoking this knot.
Only in this way can You undo it.
Before You, dearest Mother, and in the name of Your Son Jesus, my Savior, who has suffered so many offenses,
I lay my burdens before thee, accepting forgiveness, accepting myself,
Granted forgiveness, I forgive those individuals and myself.
Thank you, Mary, Undoer of Knots for undoing the knot of rancor in my heart.
Amen.

Yesterday was day one of fasting, a Master Cleanse engaged for the healing of the body.  I, also, purchased an elliptical machine allowing convenient exercise.  Mind, body, and spirit mortified.  Yesterday’s Gospel reading, a portion.

But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast on that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak.
If he does, its fullness pulls away,
the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the skins are ruined.
Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins”

Gospel of Mark chapter 2