How does a person get over spiritual sloth?

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Any suggestions on this one? It’s a great stumbling block for me.
 
Mention it in Confession. You will receive specific grace to overcome it.

Find one thing (just one to start) that you can do every single day and commit to doing it. Don’t make it something you find burdensome. Make it as easy as three Hail Mary’s before bed, or the Morning Offering when you get up and the Act of Contrition at bedtime. When this is second nature to you (I’ve heard that should take 21 days), add one more thing.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The graces you receive from the little things will make you stronger to do more. When you want to see what you’re aiming for, do a search of the forum for “Seven Habits of Holy Apostolic People.”

Betsy
 
Maybe apply your spiritually more in the wide world (e.g. volunteering, or volunteering a different way) would help.
 
what is spiritual sloth? 😊
Thanks!

edited: ohhh, my bad English - it is the spiritual laziness.

From the book: The Seven Capital Sins
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We seek help in prayer and the Sacraments. We must remember the Day of Judgment, Spiritual reading will help to stir up our sluggish will; but above all, devotion to the Holy Spirit will be effective, because fear, not love, motivates sloth, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Love, the Source to whom we must go to find the antidote to sloth, namely, Divine Love. We must beg Him to pour forth love into our heart.
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It’s a problem for me too. I have great ambitions, but am lazy. So here’s my advice. Start small. Don’t say that you are going to do an hour of spiritual reading and 3 rosaries a day - you’ll just get discouraged when you don’t do them (and you won’t).

So pick a small prayer, say a morning offering when you wake up, and a closing prayer at night. Try to do them faithfully and when you feel it’s time to add more then do it.
 
As an Evangelical I use to be “on-fire” for the Lord one week, and then “spiritually dead” the next week. It was up and down for years as a Protestants.

Shortly after I converted to the Catholic faith, I experienced a short season of weariness. To get myself out of the slump, a friend encouraged me to pray the Rosary. That’s exactly what I did, even if I didn’t feel like it.

Since that time I’ve prayed the Rosary everyday and never fell back into a slump of any significance. That was over a year ago now! Praise the Lord!

Disipline yourself. Pray, Pray, Pray!

Try the Rosary and Divine Mercy if you’re not doing it already. Our spiritual life depends on a strong prayer life.

God Bless,
JB
 
Little by little through grace and perseverence. Never give up and ask the Holy Spirit to open every door to your heart and mind. Pray for strength and endurance.

Pray continuously. What I mean by this is the following:

Say a short prayer of thanksgiving and pray for a holy day the moment you wake up in the morning. Pray during every moment of transition during the day. This can mean making a quick pray of praise and thanksgiving the moment you finish breakfast, when you start your car to go to work, when you pull into the parking, when you begin your job or go on break. Obviously, quick prayers can be done all the time. We just need to focus on doing so. Such prayers are very easy and quite painless. Even though short and easy, they quickly bring us closer to God because we have now refocused our attentions. We have now made God the true focus of daily life.

Try this…I think it will make a great change in your life…it has in mine.
 
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