Wonderful words there. We should all just sing His praises. 'If Creation sings Your praises, so will I.' We should trust in 'The One Who never leaves the one behind.'
Thanks again john. I lit another candle today at the statue of the little flower. I hope good fruits can come from this suffering
I'm afraid of being abandoned by God and stuck in darkness forever. I keep telling God that I want to do his will and help souls in jeopardy including my own. I hope my soul is ok
I hope God and Our Lady and saint Therese can help me. I have experienced spiritual crisis in the past and and Our Lady has helped me out of it. Hopefully it will be the same now.
I have listened recently to two different priests talking about this. Fr Spitzer. Fr Ripperger most recently. It is definitely possible it is driven by the devil to get you to doubt your salvation. He says it is a method of control. They use your emotions to doubt and confuse when you must stand on your knowledge of God and His mercy using your reason and intellect. Apparently this guilt over past sins and doubting God's forgiveness is very common. It requires checking first physical causes--and then getting counseling from a good confessor who can help you let go and resist in your will. Fr Spitzer on EWTN last night talked about this. I am sure it is up on you tube Peter--Fr Spitzer's Universe. I hope you can find it and listen to it. You are not alone in this affliction. Many devout Catholics suffer this kind of false guilt. It is a natural attack from the enemy. The more your emotions tell you to doubt the more you must assert your faith in Jesus. "Jesus I trust in you."
St. Therese just sent you a big bouquet of roses through John's beautiful poem & post. She, as well as Our Lady, are with you.
Hi Peter. There’s been so much good and holy advice here so I can’t add much… other than the inspired Word of God from St Paul to Romans (8:38-39) which may address your fear…. For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nothing already in existence and nothing still to come, nor any power, nor the heights nor the depths, nor any created thing whatever, will be able to come between us and the love of God, known to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. I will be offering my communion for you, for your peace at Mass later today.
I want to be on good terms with God. I committed sins in the past but have confessed them and am sorry.
I committed a mortal sin a few years ago and something keeps reminding me of this. I confessed the nature of it yet still feel affected by it. I hope it doesn't affect my relationship with God who I want to love with all my heart and strength. I feel under attack because of it. I must trust that it is not coming from God because I want to do his will and have repented of my sins.
I feel in crisis spiritually. I'm not sure what to do. I hope our Lady and Jesus can help me through this. I want to do Gods will and help souls
you are constantly seeking God's forgiveness but I think you should always seek it by mentalizing it as a grace of God; something that God offers us infinitely above what we deserve; imagine how the heart of Peter was after having broken a promise that he made face to face before Christ; yet our Lord chose him as the head of the whole church even after that. Psalm 130:3-4 3 If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. Romans 11:6 6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
