Author Topic: Newly Baptised and Struggling (Read 14430 times)

Plenus Venter · « **Reply #25 on:** April 19, 2024, 05:04:17 AM »

Quote from: StrivingCatholic on April 18, 2024, 10:47:49 PM

Can I ask, what kind of community are you in, in order to stay close and tightly-knitted within the Catholic circle? Or what advice can you provide me if I am looking for one? I ask this because apart from the Sunday Mass, there isn't really much contact (at least from my observations based on my own experiences).

My best advice, SC, is to seek out a Traditional Catholic community and attend the traditional Latin Mass and whatever other devotions and instructions you can, and strive with all your might (as only a Striving Catholic can!) to attend a five day traditional Ignatian Retreat (the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). It will change your life and you will sing your praises and gratitude to God for the rest of your days, and please God for all eternity, if you are ever so blessed as to do one.

Plenus Venter · « **Reply #26 on:** April 19, 2024, 05:13:15 AM »

Quote from: StrivingCatholic on April 18, 2024, 01:37:39 AM

I am newly baptised and confirmed on the same day, as of 15th April 2024 and I am already struggling with praying fervently and reading the scriptures diligently daily. I also struggle with keeping the Lord in my mind throughout the day while tending to procrastinate spending time with him in prayer. All too often, the past couple of days I find myself having doubts eg., "See? There is no special incidents after baptism and I am making my life harder now than before, and for what?"

"When thou enterest into the service of the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation" - Eccles. 2:1
Forewarned is forearmed!

Ladislaus · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2024, 06:35:18 AM »

Quote from: StrivingCatholic on April 19, 2024, 12:23:25 AM

These days, I try not to brush aside anything that the Church approves under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. It would be terrible if the Holy Spirit abandons the Church when she is making such important acts of discernment, we would be lost then.

Before the Church was infiltrated and taken over by various forces beginning with John XXIII (Roncalli), Divine Mercy was discerned as condemned. So how do you explain that the Church since Vatican II has discerned the exact opposite of what the Church discerned prior to Vatican II, not just with regard to Divine Mercy, but with much of the "teaching" of Vatican II, the New Mass, etc.?

Soubirous · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2024, 07:53:17 AM »

Quote from: Plenus Venter on April 19, 2024, 05:04:17 AM

My best advice, SC, is to seek out a Traditional Catholic community and attend the traditional Latin Mass and whatever other devotions and instructions you can, and strive with all your might (as only a Striving Catholic can!) to attend a five day traditional Ignatian Retreat (the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius). It will change your life and you will sing your praises and gratitude to God for the rest of your days, and please God for all eternity, if you are ever so blessed as to do one.

About the Ignatian Retreat, if you do, please be absolutely sure that it is indeed a traditional retreat. Look up all the details about who and where, check carefully what is planned for those five days. If in doubt, just ask here.

Otherwise, it will probably be offered by modernist Jesuits or other groups that claim to be Catholic but are even more sketchy in their beliefs and practices. A traditional retreat will provide correct and clear guidance, a non-traditional retreat will only be misleading and confusing.

Welcome to the true Faith!

rosarytrad · « **Reply #29 on:** April 19, 2024, 01:43:46 PM »

Quote from: StrivingCatholic on April 18, 2024, 10:30:12 PM

I have added these prayers among my list of My Prayer in my Laudate app. Thank you, RosaryTrad!

You are most welcome. My priest gave me these prayers when I was first in catechism, and they continue to serve me well. These are great to pray throughout the day whenever you need them. Here's another good one to have handy:

St. Teresa's Bookmark
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing; God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God wants for nothing.
God Alone suffices.

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