Author Topic: Consumed with rage (Read 3620 times)

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #10 on:** April 15, 2011, 09:34:33 AM »

I stopped getting roused by the NO a LONG time ago. There is no point in getting angry over every NO abuse or sacrilege since they are countless and much too frequent. I simply recommend the situation to God in my prayers.

Public acts of blasphemy I think is another matter.

TKGS · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2011, 10:20:07 AM »

Every time the blatantly heretical teachings came forth from the Conciliar church, every time we learned of a new cover up by Conciliar clergy, every time I experienced a new fad from the local priest (e.g., a puppet show at the altar or the priest wearing a Halloween mask throughout the service--yes, even during the consecration), I would become angry; sometimes to the point of shaking.

The day I finally realized that the Conciliar church is not the Catholic Church and that it is just one more Protestant denomination (albeit with many Catholic faithful trying to understand the crisis and continuing to try to live out their faith within their structures), the anger disappeared. The anger was replaced, to be sure, with pity and sorrow, but I've not felt the anger since. I can still be surprised and shocked at times, such as when Benedict used condom use by a male prostitute as a sign of moving towards God, but no longer the kind of anger you mention.

Antony · « **Reply #12 on:** April 15, 2011, 10:24:27 PM »

Go to the Latin Mass, say trad prayers, read only good Catholic literature, dont watch tv, dont buy into the media outlets and trust in Our Lord and Lady. I promise you'll lessen your nights of tossing and turning. Withdrawl from the world, in the sense of ignoring wordlings and their contraptions, and you will be find.

stevusmagnus · « **Reply #13 on:** April 17, 2011, 10:30:31 AM »

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My anger, when I was more angry, was directed at Jews, mainly.

Two other sources of anger were / are America and the SSPX.
Strangely, I have never become really angry at the Vatican II church.

This explains a lot about Raoul!

It is typical sede-ism in that it seldom concerns itself with the crisis in the church and effecting a restoration preferring instead to turn its wrath towards convincing idiot SSPX'ers of the "truth" that there is no pope.

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It's almost like they are too far gone. To be angry with someone, you have to have the goal of correcting them, of changing their minds, but those in Vatican II are like aliens to me, lots of them.

You should actually understand them quite well as you share their erroneous understanding in infalliblity.

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Anger was a self-righteous attempt to show love, in my case. I pretended I wanted to change people for the better, what I really wanted was to feed on my vainglory and rage and stand out.

This explains your "ignore" button meltdown based on a libelous pretext. It all makes sense now.

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So having experienced these severe anger problems in my life, in an almost Anti-Christ-like way where I would basically scream at people like a complete maniac, I think I have some insight into how to overcome anger. And the way to do it is to love God. The servant is not better than the Master. If Christ Himself never went into wild rages, we shouldn't either. If He was smacked and forgave the man smacking Him, we should too.

Or if this fails, just place fingers in ears, ignore opposing arguments I can't refute and personally excommunicate the messenger.

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Oh, and don't just forgive the man smacking YOU, by the way, but forgive the man smacking the Church! Don't say "I'm not defending myself, I'm defending the Church," as an excuse to feed on anger, as I did for a while. Anger is addictive, it feels good, it makes you feel powerful.

What Church? You don't even believe the true Church exists. (smatterings of sedes does not equal the Church).

stevusmagnus · « **Reply #14 on:** April 17, 2011, 10:35:03 AM »

Anger is a feeling, an emotion. It is not an action and is therefore not properly the subject of a moral judgment.

Anger is a natural God-given emotional response to an injustice.

The current state of God's Church and the fact that NO prelates and the Pope himself do NOTHING to rectify it is a legitimate and valid source of anger. If you are NOT angry about this and you are fine with people dressing immodestly to Mass, receiving in the hand, playing guitars and drums, women lectors, shaking hands, lay EM's, mistranslated words, and sacrilege then YOU are the one who is sinning and/or complely deluded.