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<blockquote data-quote="AnonymousBosch" data-source="post: 1251154" data-attributes="member: 5255"><p>Then you most-likely need to: 1) understand that god loves you; and 2) mortification therapy, which is to mortifying your distorted impression of God. However, we can't do this for you over the internet and a forum isn't the right place. You need to work with either a Thomist Priest, or a Catholic Therapist - sometimes both - who understands the latter and can walk you through it. You cannot do it yourself, and I'm even wary of pointing you towards the books on the topic because in your current misunderstanding of God you are likely to dwell on the messages of judgement rather than hear the message of love.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet, Jesus justified St Dismas - the Good Thief - as they both died on the cross, purely because St Dismas recognised he was a sinner and was sorry for them. There's the parable of the workers in the vineyard, where even those who come late get a great reward due to the sheer goodness of the employer. You can ask for forgiveness with your last breath, and mercy will be granted. God himself says in 'The Dialogue' that you are even given one final chance to choose him after death, if you're sorry for your sin, not just sorry that you got caught.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then it's the perfect time to start practicing Catholic Meditation. You have plenty of spare time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ha! I said that to God very early in the piece with regards to my parents. I said "some sins seem too great to be forgiven" and told him I'm sure he understood, and I wouldn't know where to start to repair things, and resigned myself to it being just how things are until everyone involved was dead.</p><p></p><p>Then God took over and repaired things. Everything is forgivable, everything broken can be fixed. Every pain you suffer becomes another jewel in your crown. When I meet Jesus, I'm going to trace his scars as he has traced mine, and i expect them to be identical, as he bore all of my pains for me.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://66.media.tumblr.com/6254cfa66c741a5d25fa716023c85808/tumblr_o7r3r9MTFo1qkvbwso1_500.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>All your cracks will be filled with gold. You just haven't experienced this yet.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I remember being called back. I wrote the other day that every safety mechanism and relationship that I used to distract myself from God was removed from me, and all I had left was His Love. I realised that this makes me the richest man alive.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Demons will be whispering in your ear, telling you you're garbage, telling you you can't be loved, telling you you've 'done the crime now accept the punishment' or 'you've made your own bed, now lie in it', telling you that God can never forgive you.</p><p></p><p>Not every voice you here is your actual internal monologue. To understand this, you can look into the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, which offers 12 reliable rules to follow when you're in the Beginner, or Purgative Way so you can separate the demonic suggestions from the divine ones. That Priest I linked to above, Timothy Gallagher, also has a multiple part series on that channel discussing these rules in great detail. It might take you 8 hours to go through it all, but you have nothing better to do.</p><p></p><p>Even knowing them, I often was still tricked. I'm now very, very good at identifying them - which means they can be 'bagged and tagged' by a Deliverance Priest, and then they're completely-silenced. They accuse and love the third person.</p><p></p><p>An example. I was praying the rosary a while back - the second joyful mystery. I love the beauty of the two pregnant women rejoicing together during the Visitation. Suddenly, a grumpy thought: "If Mary had just have had an abortion, we wouldn't be in this mess."</p><p></p><p>I was dumbstruck by how *obvious* that thought was. Note the 'we'. They always describe themselves in the plural. The Priest only needs a 'tag' like that, and Jesus does the rest during deliverance. They're gone.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's forbidden under Catholicism because it opens doorways to the demonic, which could be part of the problems you're having now. You only *think* it was helping you gain control at the time.</p><p></p><p>Catholic Meditation is not the same thing - it is centred on a relationship with God - I laid this out in a lengthy post a couple of pages back describing how Meditation is abandoned very quickly in the spiritual life, and that the Mystic States of Prayer are impossible to achieve through force of effort. Once you start experiencing Consolation, you'll understand the difference, but you have to make the effort to practice it. I have a great little booklet by the Carmelites on Prayer that I also think I found online recently. Let me find it for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnonymousBosch, post: 1251154, member: 5255"] Then you most-likely need to: 1) understand that god loves you; and 2) mortification therapy, which is to mortifying your distorted impression of God. However, we can't do this for you over the internet and a forum isn't the right place. You need to work with either a Thomist Priest, or a Catholic Therapist - sometimes both - who understands the latter and can walk you through it. You cannot do it yourself, and I'm even wary of pointing you towards the books on the topic because in your current misunderstanding of God you are likely to dwell on the messages of judgement rather than hear the message of love. Yet, Jesus justified St Dismas - the Good Thief - as they both died on the cross, purely because St Dismas recognised he was a sinner and was sorry for them. There's the parable of the workers in the vineyard, where even those who come late get a great reward due to the sheer goodness of the employer. You can ask for forgiveness with your last breath, and mercy will be granted. God himself says in 'The Dialogue' that you are even given one final chance to choose him after death, if you're sorry for your sin, not just sorry that you got caught. Then it's the perfect time to start practicing Catholic Meditation. You have plenty of spare time. Ha! I said that to God very early in the piece with regards to my parents. I said "some sins seem too great to be forgiven" and told him I'm sure he understood, and I wouldn't know where to start to repair things, and resigned myself to it being just how things are until everyone involved was dead. Then God took over and repaired things. Everything is forgivable, everything broken can be fixed. Every pain you suffer becomes another jewel in your crown. When I meet Jesus, I'm going to trace his scars as he has traced mine, and i expect them to be identical, as he bore all of my pains for me. [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/6254cfa66c741a5d25fa716023c85808/tumblr_o7r3r9MTFo1qkvbwso1_500.png[/img] All your cracks will be filled with gold. You just haven't experienced this yet. I remember being called back. I wrote the other day that every safety mechanism and relationship that I used to distract myself from God was removed from me, and all I had left was His Love. I realised that this makes me the richest man alive. Demons will be whispering in your ear, telling you you're garbage, telling you you can't be loved, telling you you've 'done the crime now accept the punishment' or 'you've made your own bed, now lie in it', telling you that God can never forgive you. Not every voice you here is your actual internal monologue. To understand this, you can look into the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola, which offers 12 reliable rules to follow when you're in the Beginner, or Purgative Way so you can separate the demonic suggestions from the divine ones. That Priest I linked to above, Timothy Gallagher, also has a multiple part series on that channel discussing these rules in great detail. It might take you 8 hours to go through it all, but you have nothing better to do. Even knowing them, I often was still tricked. I'm now very, very good at identifying them - which means they can be 'bagged and tagged' by a Deliverance Priest, and then they're completely-silenced. They accuse and love the third person. An example. I was praying the rosary a while back - the second joyful mystery. I love the beauty of the two pregnant women rejoicing together during the Visitation. Suddenly, a grumpy thought: "If Mary had just have had an abortion, we wouldn't be in this mess." I was dumbstruck by how *obvious* that thought was. Note the 'we'. They always describe themselves in the plural. The Priest only needs a 'tag' like that, and Jesus does the rest during deliverance. They're gone. It's forbidden under Catholicism because it opens doorways to the demonic, which could be part of the problems you're having now. You only *think* it was helping you gain control at the time. Catholic Meditation is not the same thing - it is centred on a relationship with God - I laid this out in a lengthy post a couple of pages back describing how Meditation is abandoned very quickly in the spiritual life, and that the Mystic States of Prayer are impossible to achieve through force of effort. Once you start experiencing Consolation, you'll understand the difference, but you have to make the effort to practice it. I have a great little booklet by the Carmelites on Prayer that I also think I found online recently. Let me find it for you. [/QUOTE]
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