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Spouse Jealous of Your Faith
« on: October 12, 2013, 04:55:03 PM »
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  • Does anyone have experience dealing with a spouse who is jealous of their devotion and committment to the Catholic Faith? This would include jealous of any time and attention spent in study, conversation, and church activities.  And also critical of a committment to being a God-fearing moral person at all times (not just on Sunday).  And also jealous of admiration for the Resistance priests. And angry because you won't engage in activities that are either sinful or a near occasions of sin like you used to before repentance?  

    Just wonderin....... :confused1:


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    « Reply #1 on: October 12, 2013, 06:30:06 PM »
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  • It sounds like a cross that will require prayers. No experience but a recommendation -- Honoring an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus each day will help because of His 12 promises, two of which are:

    "I will bless the homes in which the image of My Sacred Heart shall be exposed and honored."

    "I will establish peace in their families."


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    « Reply #2 on: October 12, 2013, 06:36:05 PM »
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  • That was the case in our home growing up. I also know of a traditional Catholic woman who is living through such hardship. Her method of dealing with it is to not provoke her husband. He is already hostile, so she is sure to keep her calendar clear when he is home or not busy for time to devote to him. When he is on a business trip or otherwise occupied, she might be extra involved at her chapel on those days. She doesn't teach religion while he is home or do any of the liturgical feast things while he is there. We are talking about a truly hostile man towards religion, and so far she has kept peace in her home and he has allowed her to catechize the children without a problem.

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    « Reply #3 on: October 14, 2013, 05:54:42 PM »
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  • I would like to hear some stories of conversions of spouses hostile to the Faith.  I am going through this myself although my husband is a good husband and lets me get on with it for want of a better description but he is difficult.  I am doing the St Josephs Cloak 30 day prayer at the moment and hope again and again that something changes in him

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    Spouse Jealous of Your Faith
    « Reply #4 on: October 14, 2013, 07:48:16 PM »
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  • Put a Green Scapular under his bed. Keep praying the Holy Rosary and the novena to the Holy Ghost & the Immaculate Conception, also. Show him through your actions how the Faith makes you a better wife. Do no nag him or fight with him about it since that will push him further away from the Faith.

    It is not up to you his conversion but up to the Holy Ghost. All we can really do is pray and be examples of the Faith. Keep praying. You need supernatural grace for this.

    You will also need supernatural grace to bear your cross, if the situation does not change. If this happens, do not despair. Accept your cross and do with gracefully. God knows what is best for your soul. Offer all your sufferings to Our Lord.
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.


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    « Reply #5 on: October 14, 2013, 07:55:40 PM »
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  • Here is an advice I read somewhere:

    "Marriage may turn out to be "happy" or "unhappy", it really does not matter because happiness is not our goal in life. To be able to be content while enduring an unhappy marriage is a grace from God.

    Persevere in prayer, work at doing what is right regardless of your spouse.  God will hold you responsible for your own behavior, and your spouse will be held responsible for her/his own actions.  Our joy in life comes from following God's will, not in being happily married, or financially well off, or anything else".
    If anyone says that true and natural water is not necessary for baptism and thus twists into some metaphor the words of our Lord Jesus Christ" Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit" (Jn 3:5) let him be anathema.