Catholics Only: My Priests Advise~Feedback and Discussion Welcome

joymercy said:

Just a few words from a priest that helped me, to consider and discern if they will help you as well:

"To hate oneself is a sin against charity since we must love what God loves"

"Don't follow your feelings, follow sound principals if you want to be free"

"Learn to distrust your emotions, and most certainly, don't follow them"

"We don't control much of what happens to us-Only our virtuous reactions"

"With this in mind, it doesn't matter if its demonic or not, as long as you know how to offer it up"

"Count on my prayers"

"This will pass with prayers and time"

"Your life is in the Lords hands"

"No need to be rattled"

"Focus on your adoration of the blessed sacrament, rosary, mental prayer and living with the awareness that you are always in His loving presence"

"Don't worry about the problem, it's not yours. It belongs to the enemy, he feels it much worse."

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I needed to hear this, cos I struggle with my own sins as well. Your priest gave you good feedback brother/sister in Christ. I offer up my sins to God every night in prayer, and will have to go to confession again as well, as the last time I went was July.

joymercy said:

My response today in particular, is that if the enemy feels it much worse, then I am so thankful to God for the insane amount of medication that it takes to rescue my poor body and mind from all of this spiritual warfare, LOL! Poor devil has no meds!!

Thanks be to God for medical science!

And, Great, rock solid Priests!

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This reminds me of Sirach, so thanks be to God for medical science, as meds help me as well, cos of my ADHD disorder.

*Also, even as your response was a joke, one should never express sympathy for the devil. We can only express sympathy for our fellow humans, but never to demonic entities.

Sirach 38:1-15 (NRSV-CE): "Honor physicians for their services, for the Lord created them; for their gift of healing comes from the Most High, and they are rewarded by the king. The skill of physicians makes them distinguished, and in the presence of the great they are admired. The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and the sensible will not despise them. Was not water made sweet with a tree in order that its power might be known. And he gave skill to human beings that he might be glorified in his marvelous works. By them the physician heals and takes away pain; the pharmacist makes a mixture from them. God's works will never be finished; and from him health spreads over all the earth. My child, when you are ill, do not delay, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you. Give up your faults and direct your hands rightly, and cleanse your heart from all sin. Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of choice flour, and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford. Then give the physician his place, for the Lord created him; do not let him leave you, for you need him. There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of physicians, for they too pray to the Lord that he grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life. He who sins against his Maker, will be defiant toward the physician."