Author Topic: Prayer request (Read 2797 times)

s2srea · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2012, 11:09:21 AM »

I will offer you up to Our Lady

jlamos · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2012, 12:37:29 PM »

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2012, 03:33:01 PM »

Adesto · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2012, 05:18:27 PM »

Just a flying visit to promise prayers and to urge you to follow your priest's advice where obedience is concerned.

With the worst scruples, it's as though we become blind. We can't see anything, nothing seems to make sense any more. We seem to be incapable of making even the most basic judgements with common sense. It's like a diabolical disorientation where down seems up and up seems down. That is why we need blind obedience to our spiritual director.

Remember that he has the grace of state to help him guide you.

It's the most direct and powerful to get over scruples; complete and utter obedience. If you think about it, obedience is the best form of sacrifice, it humbles us, it puts us under the guidance of our spiritual director. It's a direct antidote to the pride we are tempted to through scruples (even though it doesn't feel like we're trying to be proud, it feels like we're trying to be virtuous by listening to our scruples, a master stroke of the devil!). The end result of scruples is pride; the opposing virtue must therefore be humility.The devil HATES obedience and humility!

Pray to Our Lady, also I would recommend Venerable Anne de Guigne and Blessed Marie Celine of the Presentation, two patrons of our family who have worked wonders for us.

With prayers

Edit: Just remembered something else when I read this:

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I am just so afraid of that off chance that it is a sin, or that God will accuse me of deceiving myself due to my temporal interests.

A very good and wise priest told someone, while on retreat, that the fear of "accidentally" sinning and being "caught out" by God is to totally misunderstand the Mercy of God. He said "It's only by the great mercy of God that we could have the chance to get to Heaven anyway, not because we deserve Heaven by clearing our conscience a thousand times through scrupulous confessions." Then he said: "It's not like God is going to look at us and say "What a bargain!""!!!

Raoul76 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2012, 08:23:06 PM »

Thanks for the prayers, especially from those who I didn't realize were aware of my existence!

I tend to think that, unless I'm suffering in the most horrible of ways, that God doesn't love me and I'm doing something wrong. That is when I probably begin to manufacture my own crosses -- rather than just accepting the ones that are given to me.

The prayers must have helped, because the very next day after posting this, most of the fog had lifted. This was a really serious attack of the devil. It was the kind of thing that makes you want to throw yourself into debauchery just to escape the pain. Although I am too aware of how the devil works to fall for that; it was still that type of pain. The type of pain that makes you want to give up because you think the faith is too hard. That is the real danger of scruples, you put a burden on yourself that no one can bear.

I wish my priest would discuss these things with me, rather than say "Just trust me." But maybe when we talked I wasn't ready to hear it, and he could sense that. I see this whole problem as FAR more multidimensional and complex than I did just a couple days ago.