Thanks. I'm not a follower of Garabandal. Frankly, watching that video of Fr. Iannuzzi gave me the creeps. But it's entirely possible that's indicative of something lacking in me. I posted it so folk could compare what he said with the official position of the Church. The two paragraphs I quoted from the TLIG website were extracts from one of the pages linked by a very troubled member of the forum. I'd be happy to put the TLIG topic to bed. The entire thing is distasteful. I hope that poor, troubled member got the help she needs.
Awwww sweetheart. *Big hugs* I'm skim reading so I'm not exactly sure what is happening but by the looks of it I'm sure it's spiritual warfare & scruples. You are a precious child of God. You are His beloved. God will pursue you, He loves you & you are His, the apple of His eye. Pls take comfort in that. I pray you feel differently as it seems you're being very hard on yourself.
I wish that I was just being hard on myself..... That it was all easily explainable that I wasn't guilty, but I thought more about the night it happened. The day before, I had heard about the sin for the first time by reading about it, and my mind went crazy. I only read about it because I wanted to do an examination of conscience for confession, and I was horrified to hear that there was an eternal sin, and I wanted to check what that was so I wasn't guilty of it... So for over a day, at that time, I was bombarded by all these terrible thoughts, and I kept trying to fight them by thrashing about or keeping saying "no". I knew I was weak. I think, if I am remembering correctly, I said to God that I feared that I would say it, and I begged for strength. But that horrible night, my relative kept asking what it was. I didn't want to say, but inside of me the terrible thoughts and all the physical exertion from trying not to say it was wearing me down. I fear now that maybe I began to believe the lies at the time, but maybe that is worry speaking. I was weak, had the beginnings of physical exhaustion, and angry and frustrated when I said it, because the relative kept asking and then said that they didn't believe in such a sin and then I snapped and blurted out that it was to say.... Please I can't say it again. Suffice it to say it was said. Did that make it out of malice instead of weakness and thus unforgivable? I know that just a few seconds after saying it, it felt as though the Holy Spirit was leaving me entirely that I could feel Him leave and I started to cry for nearly an hour and then went into a deep depression, I fear it was mostly out of self-pity. I was taken to confession the next week but said I feared it was too late. The priest gave absolution, and yet.... Every so often, this came back to mind and the worries steeped back in, and so too what it says in the Bible of Jesus saying it was unforgivable, and the same with many early saints and even one Saint quote in the catechism... 1031 The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned.604 The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. the tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come I've confessed it multiple times, but the worries and the depression keep coming back, and the last 7 months have been crippling. I go to therapy and am OK there, but otherwise, I keep searching for anything that indicates I could possibly be forgiven and avoid hell, but I'm not sure.
These are unfortunate intrusive thoughts which are obsessive compulsive symptoms which could be being brought on by demonic attack or other factors. Do you pray the Rosary every day? I can promise you that the Rosary is wonderful at restoring calm to a troubled mind. Also, just as certain things concerning the demonic realm can have a very real troubling effect in the mind, the opposite is true. Telling God that you love Him has the opposite effect. So you should allow yourself to respond to the fiery darts which the Holy Spirit sends us. Whenever you feel the urge - which will be quite frequently throughout the day if you allow it - you should say or blurt out affirmations such as "Jesus I love you." "Jesus forgive me for my sins". "Most Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You". "I love You Jesus, my love above all things". "Come Holy Spirit". Come Holy Spirit by the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved spouse". "Jesus mercy, Mary help!". Or whatever short prayers come to mind. But tell Jesus as often as possible that you love Him. "I love You Jesus, I praise You, I thank You!". And pray the Rosary every day, finishing with the Memorare - "for never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection was left unaided", followed by "Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me now and in my last agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you. Amen." You may not be freed from these sufferings immediately, but I promise you that it will happen gradually and will be successful in restoring your peace in Christ. Remember, that St. Bartololongo, Zachary King and many other satanists have been saved through the power of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Those who have been involved in serious sins against the Holy Spirit. Fr. Leon of Medjugorge prays a very strong prayer of protection against all kinds of spiritual evils the the video below starting at 12:20. Exorcist Fr Gabriel Amorth wrote: “Mary’s prophecy at Fátima reassures us that…despite rampant sin, … the finale will be good: God will have the last word on history.” “For this reason, Mary is always invoked during the exorcism. During the prayer, the priest repeatedly invokes her intercession and her powerful action. Without her, little is accomplished in the struggle against Satan. It is always God who liberates one from his influence — it is good to keep repeating it — but His ear is especially attuned to the mediation of Mary, the Mother of His Son.” “What role does the Virgin have in the liberation of the obsessed? Mary, as the Hail Mary says, is “full of grace.” She is the mediatrix of God’s every grace for all men, particularly for those who suffer much, including those who suffer from spiritual evils. The enmity between Mary and Satan — proclaimed solemnly by God in the first book of Genesis …makes her the number-one enemy of the demon. She will be the one to crush his head at the end of time.” “The help of the Virgin, however, goes beyond the exceptional situations of the demoniacs. In man’s every struggle against Satan and sin, it is always she who represents the extraordinary and the irreplaceable. The demon is terrified of her. “ “During an exorcism, Father Candido asked the devil a question: “Why are you more afraid when I invoke Mary than when I implore God Himself?”The demon responded: “I feel more humiliated being conquered by a simple creature than by God Himself.” “Mary is a creature like us, but, having been elevated to be the Mother of God, she has extraordinary power. For this reason, I ask the persons who assist me to pray the Rosary. I would add that the Rosary, being the prayer most appreciated by our Lady, is an extremely powerful arm against the devil, and I warmly recommend it to anyone suffering from spiritual evils. This prayer has, in fact, a strong power of protection and liberation from evil. One day Sister Lucia, a seer of Fátima, revealed that God has conferred a power so great on the Rosary that there is no evil — personal, family, or social — that cannot be defeated by its recitation with faith.” May God be with you and be assured of success.
I'd be careful using this app, because exorcism isn't something to be taken lightly. Saying the Rosary daily is the most effective prayer. Here's a shorter effective prayer that I usually say if in a hurry:
As we live and breathe, you can't ever believe that you are damned. To believe that is to suggest that 1. God's mercy can't prevail. 2. There is no hope. Hope is a key part of our faith so one having no hope destroys that key part of faith so can't be from God but from the devil only. Tell the devil to go back to hell and proceed to confession and acceptance of God's mercy and have the greatest of hope for the salvation of your soul. That is our faith! Faith, Hope, Love and Trust is my simple prayer I say every day. Heavenly Father, my Abba, Jesus, my Lord and my savior, Holy Spirt, my great helper, increase my faith, hope, love and trust on this day and all days and make me a saint! Help me to abandon myself and completely surrender to your will. I love you, I trust in you, have mercy on me a miserable sinner. I also love to say this in Latin throughout the day because God loves Latin and the demonic can't stand it. Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori My God have mercy on me a sinner.
The most powerful prayer or devotion we can ever do is the stations of the cross. Any of us can do this at any time. It doesn't have to be in a complete form from a book in front of the stations in a church. We can be there with the Lord in His Passion anywhere we are in life. Learn them, think on them, be with Jesus in those moments, say a few prayers and move on to the next station. A saint (who I can't remember) once said, when we do this, evil scatters. They hate the stations because the stations lead to their demise. An exorcist once said if just one person entered into a mall for example or a restaurant and meditated on the stations, all demons attached to people in that place, would scatter and leave. They detest the stations and the Mother of God more than anything in this world.
I am planning to go to Confession again tomorrow since I have fallen into sin yet again, but I ask for guidance. I know what I said that horrible night years ago, those words that have haunted me for years and have caused me so much despair even though I confessed it many times over (even though it only happened once(. I also know that Sunday is Divine Mercy Sunday. Would it be presumption or sacrilege to take the Eucharist on Sunday after confession, or should I go up for it? Please pray for me and tell me what I should do, because I don't want to commit sacrilege
I’m getting the feeling you don’t really understand how the Catholic Church works. Do you have access to a catechism? Once you are forgiven the sin is gone? Why replay it? The devil is working on you, don’t give him the time of day.
The requirements for gaining the plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday: https://www.churchpop.com/how-to-ob...dulgence-jesus-offers-on-divine-mercy-sunday/ This is the complete info. God bless you. Please go to Confession and trust in Jesus.
Everyone is a sinner and has very likely done heinous things, remember this when you go into a panic about your own sins. Keep going forward and like HH said trust in Jesus, He will likely make you work it out in struggle but he wont let you down.
I do have the catechism, and if I had any other think, I wouldn't have posted many times here over it, but someone asked me what the unforgivable sin was and I said what it was verbally, out loud, in a state of distress, and felt a horrible spiritual void after saying it. I know that God said that whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, and I have been haunted ever since by it. I truly regret saying it out loud, and I hated having similar intrusive blasphemous thoughts that leave me in a state of grief and sorrow.
My understanding of the unforgivable sin was attributing the miracles Jesus performed to satan. What Jesus said has to be taken in context, go read a few paragraphs before Jesus mentions the unforgivable sin to see what was going on. Remember that the guys coming after Jesus didn't have an interest in understanding Him, because He challenged their authority. They were just out for blood. Some might have even known and understood Jesus to have been the Son of Man and killed Him anyway.
I will tell you what my priest said to me when I would repeat again a sin in confession that I committed once. He said to ask for forgiveness again in confession of the same sin that is not repeated even if it was a mortal sin is to show distrust in Gods Merxy and Forgiveness which is a sin. instead he suggested doing acts of reparation Now repeated sins of the same should always be confessed.
You are misunderstanding what the word "unforgivable" is referring to. In the Vulgate, Matthew 12:31 uses the Latin phrase "non remittetur" in the context of the "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." It is referring to the remission of a debt. Since you are Catholic, you will know that two things occur in the Sacrament of Penance: 1. The Priest "absolves" you of the guilt of your sins by covering them with the Blood of Jesus. This re-establishes your soul in a state of "justification." But that alone does not make you a saint. 2. The Priest then gives you a penance for you to carry out that will "remit" (at least partially) the temporal debt for the sins that you confessed. This process of doing "good works" is related to your journey of sanctification. Most sinners will not be perfectly "sanctified" at the end to their earthly pilgrimage, and because of this they will need to go to Purgatory to finish the process of sanctification before being welcomed into the Heavenly beatific vision. So the whole "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost" discussion is within the context of number 2, "remitting" temporal debt related to the sin, not "absolving" the guilt of the sin. That specific sin will not prevent your "justification" or your eventual arrival in Heaven. Rather, it will delay your "sanctification," which will delay your arrival in Heaven. Jesus is saying that in the case of that specific sin, there will be no possibility of "remission" of temporal debt as it is normally understood, a "working off" of the debt using indulgences, for example. In other words, the person is stuck with that debt until Jesus's Second Coming, meaning the person who dies having committed that sin will not leave Purgatory until the very end when Jesus Himself releases everyone from their debts. Again, non "forgiveness" spoken of in that verse is not the same thing as non "absolution." If you receive the Sacrament of Penance, with the proper dispositions, you will be "absolved" of any sin, including blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. Here is how St. Thomas Aquinas explains it: https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~Matt.C12.L2.n1033 1033. One should notice that the Teacher places a distinction in the Sentences (dist. 43, book 2), and assigns six species of sin against the Holy Spirit: despair, presumption, impenitence, obstinacy, fighting against recognized truth, and envy of a brother’s grace. Hence they are said to sin against the Holy Spirit who sin against the things appropriated to the Holy Spirit. To the Father is appropriated power, to the Son wisdom, to the Holy Spirit goodness. Therefore that man is said to sin against the Father who sins out of weakness; that man is said to sin against the Son who sins out of ignorance; that man is said to sin against the Holy Spirit who sins out of malice. But one should know that to sin out of malice is when someone sins voluntarily, which is from certain malice, and this in two ways: either because he has an inclination to the sin, or because he does not have an inclination. For when a man commits many sins, there remains in him from this a habit of sinning, and thus he sins by choice. Similarly, someone may sin because that by which he was restrained from sin is removed. Now, one is withheld from sin by the hope of eternal life. Hence he who does not hope for eternal life sins out of certain malice. Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness (Eph 4:19). Hence he who sins from an inclination sins against the Holy Spirit, namely from the fact that he withdraws from that which restrains him from sin. Now, this comes about in six ways. For in God there are mercy and justice. From contempt of mercy there comes despair; from contempt of justice, presumption. Likewise on the part of aversion, because one turns himself toward some impermanent good, and from this there comes obstinacy. Likewise on the part of aversion, because one does not intend to be turned back to God, there comes impenitence. Likewise on the part of the remedy, namely on the part of hope and love, there comes about fighting against a recognized truth and envy of a brother’s love. These are the sins against the Holy Spirit. If therefore there is actual impenitence, in this way it is not forgiven; not because it is in no way forgiven, but because it is not easily forgiven, because it has no reason to be forgiven except by the sole grace of God. As when someone has a fever, such as a three day fever, he has something by which he can be healed; but if he has an ‘emitriteus’, he has nothing by which he can be healed, because he is not healed except by divine help.
