Burned by Religious Communities

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Trying to erase the double posting but they won’t go away. Sorry.
 
Hey Po18guy,
Can you please tell me the source of this Fourth of Mercy? Is it from a monastic rule?
 
CTUCK:
Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts.
All community’s ordained members must have a basic proficiency to love others as first goal by having developed spiritual virtues, such as patience, long suffering, hope, charity, faith in the Lord, gentleness of heart, meekness and above all, love.
It’s said Padre Pio could be a grump at times, but he also endured constant battles and attacks by Satan, even from the time he was a kid sitting under this one tree in the pastures around Pietrelcina.
Have you read his story? How about Blessed Solanus Casey who could only be ordained a simplex priest? He’s a great role model.
We all would be disingenuous if we said, as followers, we don’t have longing for father figure. It’s a grace propelling us to seek our birthright through Jesus to be sons of the Most High.
Don’t be discouraged, just continue to detach from the passions of this life we conquer through grace. In all you do seek the Lord, and “pray, hope, and don’t worry.” St Pio of Pietrelcina
 
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Could you please list all of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
Also, is this a Catholic teaching or do other protestant churches teach
about the works or mercy?
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Answer by Fr.Stephen F. Torraco on 9/17/2001: 


The corporal works of mercy, based on Matthew 25:31-36, are:
  1. feed the hungry
  2. give drink to the thirsty
  3. clothe the naked
  4. shelter the homeless
  5. visit the imprisoned
  6. care for the sick
  7. bury the dead.
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The spiritual works of mercy, commanded or encouraged in many places Scripture, are:
  1. admonish the sinner
  2. instruct the ignorant
  3. advise the perplexed
  4. comfort the unhappy
  5. bear wrongs patiently
  6. forgive all injuries
  7. pray for the living and dead.The spiritual and corporal works of mercy hold a venerable place in Catholic moral tradition.
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I have heard of communities putting pressure on prospective candidates. The would tell the young man, “it is Gods will that you enter”. That is very wrong, I believe. No one can know that for sure. I have heard of many priest who had an idea someone has a vocation. They wait until the candidate says they are think of joining. The priest says something like I have been praying for that. God wants each of us to be happy. That doesn’t mean there is no pain and suffering. I say if the situation does not bring joy move on.
 
I don’t think it is a matter of hostility but rather of saying that a more objective person might have a different assessment of the situation.
 
When you said; “Why are you being so hostile to me? My original post was not asking anyone to assess anything beyond my asking if there were others who’ve gone through similar experiences. If that doesn’t suit you, I’m sorry, but please go somewhere else”
I don’t think the person you are responding to had a hostile intent. .
 
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