Recent content by grace6877

Good evening, I was just diagnosed with a pituitary tumor. It is, as far as I know, not cancer. However, I'm getting my labs done on Monday, and if they come back abnormal for the second time, I may have to have neurosurgery or begin a medication that has some really serious (life changing)...

Hullo all. I'm a teenager and I have a boy that I really like. We pray the rosary together and go to mass together, and are both making a sincere effort to be people of God. My mom leaves me alone in my house until 10pm on Mondays (she has school) and today the boy came over to pick something up...

I am a young adult, and social media has become important as my friends move away in order to stay in touch. I used to use it for leisure too, but after multiple times of the internet bringing up inappropriate things when I have never looked for those things, I keep my usage streamlined. My...

Holy Thursday is a feast day, but it is part of tridium. Are we supposed to fast since it is not yet Easter, or feast in celebration of the Eucharist?

When people begin to gossip or detract someone else to you, what do you need to do so that you aren’t guilty of a sin? If I were to try to turn the conversation from the negative and say kind things about the person being detracted, am I still guilty of the sin, because I did not explicitly...

I’m overseas right now. Tomorrow is a holy day. My host family wants me to take the train after Mass to go to someone else’s house because it’s faster. Would this count as unnecessary servile labor? And if it is, what should I do in this situation? I don’t want to participate in unnecessary...

This Sunday is the vigil of Christmas. We are to fast on vigils. But it is a Sunday, which is a feast, and we ought to feast on feasts. So what are we supposed to do, feast or fast? (Naturally the following day we feast but does the Sunday outweigh the vigil? Or the other way around?)

I’ve been in therapy for a while but it dawned on me a while back that it might be a sin to talk about other people to my counselor. It has made me want to quit therapy as I’m afraid I can’t continue it without committing detraction. So is it a sin within the context of therapy?

People seem to have mixed opinions on whether or not having anxiety is a sin. However I feel as if I become very intemperate when I have panic attacks, sometimes because of scrupulosity, sometimes for other reasons. So is it a sin to have anxiety? And is it a sin to have panic attacks?

I’m an English speaker in Italy for three months on an exchange program. There’s Mass here but the priest speaks Italian so I prefer to wait until once or twice a month when I get to visit some English speaking monks on a Sunday. They offer confession for, I believe, the duration of Mass, and...

I sing at weddings sometimes and this weekend I was given a version of psalm 128 by Marty Haugen that is pretty heavily paraphrased. The end of the third verse seems to be something he just made up and isn’t anywhere in the psalm. This would be against the USCCB’s instruction to use only...

I went to a Latin Mass this weekend at another parish in my area that’s been permitted to offer the Mass in the extraordinary form. They have an altar rail (which is something we don’t yet have at the parish I usually go to) and when we received Communion everyone put their hands under a white...

I’m about to leave for three months to go abroad, and I’ve been making my way to see everyone I care about before I go since it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from home. I’m also discerning religious life, but I’d really like to see my ex-boyfriend before I go. I do still love him and I’m...

I just went to reconciliation and was thinking about receiving Communion today at Mass. I struggle with scrupulosity and I was worried I had already committed a mortal sin (I don’t think I have) so I was going to receive Communion. While I was thinking about it, I said to myself that if I was in...

I had been discerning a vocation to marriage for about six months with my boyfriend. Things were going well until I felt a deep call to pursue the religious life, which I admittedly am well suited for, so I broke up with him. I’ve been discerning religious life now for a little while and I am...