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therese12345
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Hello,
I was wondering if I could get some advice. I am a wife and mom and a convert to the Faith. I have been a Catholic since 1998 and have always been very active in the life of the Church. I am in a Third Order and find this to be very helpful in my prayer life. I have sort of a problem and it has gotten steadily bigger and more distressing over the years. I do tend to suffer from scruples and overdoing things. When I was a new convert, I joined many confraternities and pious unions as well as prayer groups and did not use proper discernment and I think I had kind of an addiction to trying new things. **Am I still held to ****these commitments? **Needless to say, I wandered greatly in my spiritual life for many years because of this and made almost no progress at all. Since I have been getting spiritual direction for the last 3 years, I have stopped going from devotion to devotion and am now in just a few groups that I know are right for me. However, the temptation keeps coming back --like a compulsion to join more and more things. **Would God really want me to join 15 or 16 different groups? It doesn’t make sense! Is this the devil trying to tempt me back into my old undisciplined spiritual life? I am very frustrated. I **would appreciate any advice because I am deeply distressed over this. I feel torn between doing what my confessor approves and doing my own will in this regard. Please help! Thanks!
I was wondering if I could get some advice. I am a wife and mom and a convert to the Faith. I have been a Catholic since 1998 and have always been very active in the life of the Church. I am in a Third Order and find this to be very helpful in my prayer life. I have sort of a problem and it has gotten steadily bigger and more distressing over the years. I do tend to suffer from scruples and overdoing things. When I was a new convert, I joined many confraternities and pious unions as well as prayer groups and did not use proper discernment and I think I had kind of an addiction to trying new things. **Am I still held to ****these commitments? **Needless to say, I wandered greatly in my spiritual life for many years because of this and made almost no progress at all. Since I have been getting spiritual direction for the last 3 years, I have stopped going from devotion to devotion and am now in just a few groups that I know are right for me. However, the temptation keeps coming back --like a compulsion to join more and more things. **Would God really want me to join 15 or 16 different groups? It doesn’t make sense! Is this the devil trying to tempt me back into my old undisciplined spiritual life? I am very frustrated. I **would appreciate any advice because I am deeply distressed over this. I feel torn between doing what my confessor approves and doing my own will in this regard. Please help! Thanks!
