Am I Doomed to Sin?

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I am walking around anxious today. I am eager to meet with the priest this morning and be reconciled to the Catholic Church after having been gone for 15 years. My heart is very grateful but I’m scared. I am more than willing to confess my sins and start a new life back where I belong. I have my appointment today and it’s exciting.

I spend an hour a day in adoration of the blessed sacrament and I pray the rosary. I feel that if I don’t do this everyday I just don’t “feel right”. I was very optimistic but today I’m feeling overwhelmed. I have so much weakness in my life when it comes to sexual sins and I’m really wanting to change this area of my life. At the same time I am really blowing this up in my mind and I’m trying to stop myself. I don’t want to be the same person I was. I know I’ll have occasions to sin but I don’t want to keep sliding into the sewer of sexual sin over and over. I want to find ways to cope with my desires and urges so that I don’t feel like a walking time bomb.

I even do this head trip where I sit and say, OK both fornication and masturbation are mortal sins so I might as well go and hook up with a guy then and get the “most sin for my money”…see how sick that is? I DO NOT want to think that way but I have that inclination in my mind and I WANT to overcome it.

I don’t want to keep confessing the same **** over and over and over. Obviously I will confess mortal sins right away but I don’t want it to become, “Forgive me Father for I have sinned. Three of the “usual” this week.” Am I doomed to be evil? What do you do when you have that “frisky” feeling? I really need to sort this out and it’s so embarrassing to talk to my priest but I’m going to have to because I need to get control of this panic and focus on what I need to be doing. I act like some passive victim that’s just being “run over” by my feelings but that is what I’m feeling.

I appreciate everyone’s prayers as I go through reconciliation and begin fresh on a new path.

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Irishgal49
 
You are in our prayers.

The path of perfection that is demanded of us is indeed IMPOSSIBLE to achieve–if we try to do it on our own. We need God’s grace given to us in the sacraments. Confession will not only absolve you from your sins, allowing you to start afresh, but it is also a vehicle for God’s grace to change you, to change who you are and therefore whether you give into sin as easily or not. The grace that you will receive by taking the body of Christ into your body in the Eucharist can also work miracles.

It may be a gradual process. But stay in the sacraments, and you will see your desire to sin decrease, and your ability to resist temptation increase.

Without the sacraments, yes, you would be doomed to sin. Praise God that he has not left us to the fate we deserve, but in his great mercy has instead opened to us the way of Christ.
 
Thank you for your wonderful response. Just prayed and asked God to remove this desire so that I can do His will and it’s gone! Sometimes I overlook the most obvious things in my anxiety. This doesn’t need to be a big deal, this needs to be something I surrender to God and continue to surrender as these temptations arise.

Thanks,

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No one is doomed to sin.it really depends on what legnth a person will go to to stop sinning.Most of us find ourselves in a position where it just costs us too much to stop what we are doing.we may find ourselves in a job where we have to steal or cheat a little to make enough money to support our growing family.To quit the job or to stop stealing is to us too high a price to pay to stop sinning.We really do ourselves a favor if we do do these things but we’re afraid to trust in God because logically we know we’re going to have to suffer.also we don’t believe that God can really help us.
 
Irishgal49,

We have a loving, forgiving God. You aren’t doomed. We’re all sinners. I will remember you in my prayers, especially at my hour in the Adoration Chapel tonight.

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Only when we love God more than ourselves will we stop sinning.

Only then will any of us be willing to do the things required to prove our love to God, to suffer through temptation without giving in, because satisfying ourselves becomes less important than satisfying God.

-Tim-
 
You are doomed to receive the Divine Mercy of Our Lord! I believe that as long as you keep trying to live a holy life, Our Lord will recognize this and respond to us in His merciful way. After all, we’re only human.
 
I am sitting at the church waiting on the priest, I am on my work computer while he is in a meeting and a verse came to mind, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me." I can keep asking God to “take it all away” but God may very well not just wave a magic wand. Rather, He is glorified and receives “the credit” each time I must rely on His grace to endure these temptations.

I am his servant as our Blessed Mother modeled, I too pray, “Be it to me according to your word.”
 
You are like most of us: imperfect human being.

Listen to your confessor, and pray to God.
 
Hi,

don’t despair… as long as you are repentant and keep trying, you won’t be lost in sin. Eventually, there would be a change. I’m a convert and I had to struggle with this also and often still struggle.

Remember that repentance includes not wanting to do the sins anymore… some people do think “oh I’ll just do this sin and then confess it” - but that is another mortal sin, the sin of presumption. We can’t presume on God’s forgiveness. We just always need to be repentant.

ANY sin that you have can be forgiven if you repent.

God bless 🙂
 
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