I pity the person who has no one to pray for for their soul.
The Church, however bleak it may be in terms of spiritual deprivation, is still the only place of refuge for the human soul, where despite human kind’s sinful nature, a person can always find there grace through the prayers and works of Her members, the Body of Christ. There the soul is saved through the Holy Mass and the other Sacraments, and deeply edified through the spiritual efforts of the priest and lay people.
This is why merely belonging to a Catholic church community is not only important, it is VITAL. A person’s soul depends on it and the life of one’s soul is the work of glorification to the Holy Trinity for it is through the soul that God’s life either indwells or cannot indwell.
The purification of the soul of course is not due to the work of man, that is the Church, but rather by merit of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Head of the Church. But by the Holy Spirit, God allows man’s good deeds and prayers to benefit the soul’s spiritual needs.
When we gather at Holy Mass or any event at our local parish in which we are praying together, no matter how inadequate the local church’s members may be in terms of spiritual gifts or grace, God nonetheless works through them because He is good, He is sooo good that even in our moral weakness, He uses us.
Let God use you. Do not insist on your weakness, but insist on trusting Him for the Holy Spirit’s mission He has planned for your life. Do not hold back for when you do this, you not only deprive yourself, but the whole Church.