Praying to God during torture

God, God, Most Holy Mother, help me! Lord, do not abandon me—help me endure this harrowing trial.

I felt my strength slipping away, and in my despair, I cried out to God:

Help me, Lord, and preserve my sanity, lest I lose my mind like the robots who torment me. (I could not understand them.)

I realized that if I became like them, I would comprehend their cruelty. That is why I poured out the full strength of my soul, begging to be saved.

My prayer was simple and brief:

Lord, have mercy on me!
Lord, remember me!
Blessed Virgin, protect me!

These were the three prayers I repeated incessantly amid the tortures.

I feared the moment when I might lose my mind and become like my torturers. That is why, in the midst of my torment, I clung desperately to my faith, crying out:

God, do not abandon me! God, do not abandon me!

(Testimony of Tache Rodas – Testimonies from the hell of the communist prisons, by Gheorghe Andreica)