Attacks and Problems after a Plenary Indulgence

[Soren_Itenu]

This isn’t horn-tooting, just a heads-up to all the Faithful on here.

My wife and I do a plenary indulgence nearly every Saturday at the vigil mass, saying the Rosary, going to confession, attending Mass, and taking the Eucharist.

Every time – every time – we get attacked or we have some problem to face. We think we’re being spiritually attacked so that we’ll fall back into sin immediately. It’s sometimes serious, but often it’s just something stupid, something to irritate us and provoke us into anger, or something to divide us. We’re really close. Anyway, the first time we were attacked we were totally off guard. It took two days to figure out what was going on, but we believe the Holy Spirit spoke to us and filled us in.

Since then we’ve been on our guards. We do the plenary indulgence, then dig in our heels and wait for the storm. And it came again, just like clockwork, last week. Now, this isn’t some self-fulfilling prophecy, like we’re unconsciously causing it to happen. Often the attack comes from a completely external agent. (Details withheld for privacy.)

Anyway, just wanted to share.

These experiences tell me that plenary indulgences are awesome! They’re well worth doing. And our cold and ruthless Enemy knows is, hates it, and tries everything to get us to quickly fall away.

Anybody else have this experience?

 

[Chantal25]

Oh yes, the devil don’t like the Virgin Mary. We are weak as human and it cans be easy to let our self influence to hurt others. Sometime, we are tested so we can strength our weakness.

There was a time that i made a conscious decision of never defending myself because i didn’t like that people like me because they feared me. So when i got to this new job, they didn’t know that i would be able to defend myself. I was bullied none stop you have no idea how far people would go. Only when i started to pray for them, that i started to have peace. Jesus is clear with this in the bible, it is our responsibility to pray for the one that aren’t so great with us.

Blessings!

 

[WaitingForJesus]

I haven’t had that exact experience, but something similar. Often when I go to confession, something happens almost immediately afterwards that provokes me to anger or some other sin. The coincidence is uncanny. And, I am not normally an angry person. I tend towards other sins. Recently, I mentioned it to my confessor after telling him “it has been two days since my last confession”. I said I felt like the Lord was trying to teach me something, but I wasn’t sure what. He said these things are trials to help with my purification.

 

[Bklynguy]

These experiences tell me that plenary indulgences are awesome! They’re well worth doing. And our cold and ruthless Enemy knows is, hates it, and tries everything to get us to quickly fall away.

This sums it up quite well. He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning.

Anyway, I never experienced anything exactly like this–at least that I’ve noticed. One thing I did experience (but it was only once), was when, about five years ago, I returned to the Church after about 13 years being lapsed. I was going to confession regularly, returned to Mass, started reading about and researching the faith, etc. One night, I fell asleep on the couch, and…not sure whether I was asleep and dreaming, or only half asleep…I saw a pair of red eyes moving around on the wall. They almost looked like cats eyes, but red. I then woke up, startled, and just as I was waking up, heard a very menacing laugh. Probably all a dream, but enough to make me vividly remember it after five years.