Author Topic: Feeling depressed (Read 1169 times)

Änσnymσus · « **on:** June 01, 2018, 02:55:48 PM »

Hi all,

I fell into mortal sin this week and I feel absolutely HORRID.

I feel so depressed about the many many many mortal sins I've committed in my life.

I wish I could just restart my life over and just NOT SIN.

Feel utterly hopeless.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2018, 03:12:21 PM »

I know it hurts. I've been where you're at. But the Passion of Our Lord makes the greatest sins seem nothing by comparison and blots them away into nothingness. It's the rancid Protestant mentality which imagines God holding his nose and accepting us despite our sins, whereas in the Catholic view God effectively recreates us and eliminates the sin entirely. "Behold, I make all things new." When you are forgiven in Confession, you ARE starting your life completely over. So go to Confession and keep trying. Despair is the devil's final victory. Our Lord didn't suffer all He did for your sins so that they would continue to haunt you and trouble you; He did everything He did so that you could be COMPLETELY free from them. He made them HIS sins, and died for them as if He were responsible. That's why He sweat blood in the garden, not because He was afraid of suffering and death, but due to the horror of becoming sin, and taking on the guilt for our sins. He doesn't want you feeling bad about them anymore. If someone I love offends me and seeks forgiveness, I tell them never to think about it again. So how do you think God wants you to react?

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After many years spent in Jerusalem translating the Word of God, Jerome finished his grand project just days before Christmas. To celebrate his accomplishment, Jerome decided to spend Christmas Eve in nearby Bethlehem, in one of the many grottoes that dot the countryside. According to the ancient account, sometime around midnight Jesus appeared to him, saying “Jerome, what will you give me for my birthday?”

Immediately and enthusiastically, Jerome declared, “Lord, I give you my translation of your word.” But instead of congratulating him, Jesus simply replied, “No, Jerome, that is not what I want.”

Jerome was speechless. Then he began to complain and remonstrate with Jesus, asking why he had let him go on for forty years, far from home, laboring at something other than what God most wanted from him. But Jesus remained silent. Jerome started suggesting other ways of honoring Jesus’ birthday – fasting, becoming a hermit, giving his possessions to the poor. To each of these Jesus replied, “No. Jerome. That is not what I want most.”

Finally, Jerome protested, “Then you tell me, Lord. Tell me what would give you the most joy on your birthday, and you shall have it.

“Do you promise, Jerome?”
“Yes, Lord, anything at all.”
Jesus replied, “Give me your sins…”

Our sins are all we have to give Him, since everything good that we have comes from Him anyway.

PG · « **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2018, 04:44:58 PM »

Identify(via prayer/examination/reflection) the culprit that is weakening you to the sin. Make sure the culprit is something that you can act on in the practical order(best immediately) making possible firm purpose of amendment, with the best example being a near occasion of sin, allowing you to immediately regain hope, dispel the despair, and move forward. This also aids in moving your soul beyond attrition and into contrition, which you need.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2018, 05:59:10 PM »

You are in time of desolation and discouragement. Don't despair. Sometimes when we have the thought, "I can not believe I fell into a mortal sin" it is pride in disguise. Be humble. See yourself for who you really are. Sometimes God allows us to be humbled in this way. We need Him. We should not be like the pharisee (thank God I am not like other men, especially in this day and age, I'm traditional Catholic)... but the publican... (Oh God, Have Mercy on me, a poor sinner). He went home justified. Go to confession, you'll feel much better afterward and always remember that you are capable of committing a mortal sin. We all are. God bless you and thank God for recognizing how horrid mortal sin is. When I fall into mortal sin I pray to Our Lady to intercede for me and ask Our Lord to allow me the opportunity to get to confession. This gives me consolation until my sins are forgiven, it will hopefully for you too.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2018, 06:33:05 PM »

St. Therese the Little Flower said that even if she had committed all the sins in the world, she still would not hesitate with broken heart to throw herself into the forgiving and loving arms of Jesus. Such was her confidence in His merciful love.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #5 on:** June 01, 2018, 06:34:32 PM »

The devil took a man into his armory, and showed him all the weaponry with which he besieged souls:

Lust, pride, the capital sins, etc.

Over in the corner of the room, a black chest half buried in chains caught the man's eye:

"What's in that chest," the man asked the devil.

The foul serpent formed a wry smile, and responded:

"This is my most deadly weapon, for use on those who have withstood all the rest."

"What is it?" asked the man.

"Discouragement," replied the devil. "It causes those to remove themselves from the battle which could not be forcibly conquered any other way."

Moral: Thank God for your profound contrition ("O happy fault"), and for the firm purpose of amendment which He has given you.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #6 on:** June 01, 2018, 06:44:26 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous on June 01, 2018, 02:55:48 PM

Hi all,

I fell into mortal sin this week and I feel absolutely HORRID.

I feel so depressed about the many many many mortal sins I've committed in my life.

I wish I could just restart my life over and just NOT SIN.

Feel utterly hopeless.

Then you may very well be on your way to sanctity.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2018, 08:17:22 PM »

Depression and low self esteem are ironically rooted in PRIDE. You need to try to focus less on yourself and more on God and how He was hurt by your sin. You're depressed because you feel bad about yourself, and it's selfish. Once you recognize this, you can snap out of it. St. Paul gloried in his infirmities ... because that's what he knew to be his ... realizing that anything good in him was just God's doing and not his own.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2018, 08:18:20 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous on June 01, 2018, 08:17:22 PM

Depression and low self esteem are ironically rooted in PRIDE. You need to try to focus less on yourself and more on God and how He was hurt by your sin. You're depressed because you feel bad about yourself, and it's selfish. Once you recognize this, you can snap out of it. St. Paul gloried in his infirmities ... because that's what he knew to be his ... realizing that anything good in him was just God's doing and not his own.

If I hurt my wife somehow, for example, I am saddened by her pain and not focused on myself. We need to think of God the same way; we tend to depersonalize Him.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #9 on:** June 02, 2018, 07:02:10 AM »

Read St. Francis de Sales.

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #10 on:** June 02, 2018, 07:05:46 AM »

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But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill. Matthew 9:12

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31And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance. Luke 5

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #11 on:** June 02, 2018, 07:16:13 AM »

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For myself, if for example I had a great desire not to fall into [a sin], and if, notwithstanding, I had fallen deeply into it, I would not seek to reprove my heart in this manner: ‘Art thou not miserable and abominable, that after so many resolutions thou hast suffered thyself to be carried away by [this sin]? Die of shame, raise no more thy eyes to heaven, blind, shameless that thou art, traitor and disloyal to thy God!’ and such-like things; but I would rather reprove it in a reasonable and compassionate manner: ‘Well! my poor heart, here we are, fallen into the ditch which we had made so firm a resolution to avoid; ah! let us arise and leave it for ever; let us implore the mercy of God and trust that it will help us to be more steadfast in the future, and let us place ourselves again on the path of humility; courage! henceforth let us be more on our guard, God will help us, we shall do well enough.’ St. Francis de Sales, Chapter 9, Introduction to the Devout Life

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