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Offline gobosox91

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When you all pray, do you have feelings inside?
« on: April 06, 2014, 09:39:19 PM »
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  • I've had temptations to feel pride, as well temptations to go to the devil and call him lord, and I feel something inside my chest that pulls me there, to say and think such things. Likewise, I feel the love of God after a good time praying. Well, to be truthful, I haven't felt it in two years, since I entered this high period of scrupulosity and was convinced I was hellbound for compulsive thoughts.

    Am I alone, in having these feelings? Is it all mental? I once escaped from these thoughts before and thought of them and had the feeling, but I was able to brush it off and say no, whatever.


    Offline Frances

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    When you all pray, do you have feelings inside?
    « Reply #1 on: April 06, 2014, 10:37:23 PM »
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    Ignore feelings or lack of them.  Just pray and let God worry about your emotions.
     St. Francis Xavier threw a Crucifix into the sea, at once calming the waves.  Upon reaching the shore, the Crucifix was returned to him by a crab with a curious cross pattern on its shell.  


    Offline Cantarella

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    When you all pray, do you have feelings inside?
    « Reply #2 on: April 06, 2014, 11:31:15 PM »
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  • Once those thoughts enter your head, just ignore them and keep up praying.  The devil doesn't like to be ignored. He actually feeds on your fears. Best thing is to keep praying regardless of the uninvited feelings. The more you keep thinking on those feelings, the more power you actually give to them, until they cause you a full grown obsession.  A Hail Mary is always useful when encountering those uunwanted thoughts that fly like bugs around you.
    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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    When you all pray, do you have feelings inside?
    « Reply #3 on: April 07, 2014, 11:17:10 PM »
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  • Remember your prayer is more meritorious when you persevere through involuntary distractions.

    True Devotion to Mary as proposed by St. Louis de Montfort is wonderful for scrupulous souls.