How to forgive yourself?

[flower_lady]

All of my life I have for some reason thought that I was so bad and am so conscious of every little sin I commit. I have always feared that God thinks that I am a bad person because I have commited so many sins in my life. Even when I go to confession I never feel relaxed about it. The guilt I feel is horrible. Is there a prayer or some way I can better learn to forgive myself. I think it is Satan that wants me to think that I will never be as good as I should be. I wonder why I am so hard on myself. I love God and pray all the time through out the day. I pray my rosary, and ask God constantly to forgive me for my sins. Whatelse can I do? I go to confession often and try and get to mass every sunday.

 

[edwest2]

All of my life I have for some reason thought that I was so bad and am so conscious of every little sin I commit. I have always feared that God thinks that I am a bad person because I have commited so many sins in my life. Even when I go to confession I never feel relaxed about it. The guilt I feel is horrible. Is there a prayer or some way I can better learn to forgive myself. I think it is Satan that wants me to think that I will never be as good as I should be. I wonder why I am so hard on myself. I love God and pray all the time through out the day. I pray my rosary, and ask God constantly to forgive me for my sins. Whatelse can I do? I go to confession often and try and get to mass every sunday.

My advice would be to sit down with a priest and talk about your feelings. All of us are more sinful in some ways and less in others.

God bless,

Ed

 

[Emily2014]

Dear Flower Lady,
I read your public profile and admire you very much for all that you are achieving despite your disability. When you feel so worried about ‘sins’, doesn’t it help to know that Our Blessed Lord loves you with an all-embracing love. You are His beloved child - unique and cherished by Him. He doesn’t expect us to be saints. It must surely give Him great joy that you lead such a devout, prayerful life - a perfect example for the grandchildren you love and whose company you so much enjoy.

May God bless you and give you peace.

 

[josh987654321]

Hi flower lady

All of my life I have for some reason thought that I was so bad and am so conscious of every little sin I commit.

"A Pharisee and a Tax Collector:

Luke 18:9-14

9 Jesus told a story to some people who thought they were better than others and who looked down on everyone else:

10 Two men went into the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood over by himself and prayed, “God, I thank you that I am not greedy, dishonest, and unfaithful in marriage like other people. And I am really glad that I am not like that tax collector over there. 12 I go without eating for two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all I earn.”

13 The tax collector stood off at a distance and did not think he was good enough even to look up toward heaven. He was so sorry for what he had done that he pounded his chest and prayed, “God, have pity on me! I am such a sinner.”

14 Then Jesus said, “When the two men went home, it was the tax collector and not the Pharisee who was pleasing to God. If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored.”

I have always feared that God thinks that I am a bad person because I have commited so many sins in my life. Even when I go to confession I never feel relaxed about it. The guilt I feel is horrible. Is there a prayer or some way I can better learn to forgive myself. I think it is Satan that wants me to think that I will never be as good as I should be. I wonder why I am so hard on myself. I love God and pray all the time through out the day. I pray my rosary, and ask God constantly to forgive me for my sins. Whatelse can I do? I go to confession often and try and get to mass every sunday.

‘Jesus I Trust in You’ (St Faustina)

Jesus to St. Faustina -

"O, how much I am hurt by a soul’s distrust! Such a soul professes that I am Holy and Just, but does not believe that I am Mercy and does not trust in my Goodness. Even the devils glorify My Justice but do not believe in My Goodness." (Diary, 300).

"My child, all your sins have not wounded My Heart as painfully as your present lack of trust does — that after so many efforts of My love and mercy, you should still doubt My goodness." (1486).

**“My Heart is sorrowful, Jesus said, because even chosen souls do not understand the greatness of My mercy. Their relationship [with Me] is, in certain ways, imbued with mistrust. Oh, how much that wounds My Heart! Remember My Passion, and if you do not believe My words, at least believe My wounds.” **(Diary, 379).
Jesus to Catalina:

The Passion - loveandmercy.org/Eng-TP-Reg.pdf

**Contemplate My wounds and see if there is anyone who has suffered as much as I, to show their love…

Contemplate for a moment these bloodstained hands and feet… This naked body, covered with wounds, with urine, and blood. Dirty… This head punctured by sharp thorns, soaked in sweat, full of dust, and covered in Blood…

Contemplate your Jesus, hanging on the Cross, without being able to make the slightest movement… naked, without fame, without honor, without liberty…

Contemplate Me in the image of the Christ that weeps and bleeds. There and in this way the world has Me.**

http://s24.postimg.org/s91lh9u91/Crucifixion.jpg

33 When the soldiers came to the place called “The Skull,” they nailed Jesus to a cross. They also nailed the two criminals to crosses, one on each side of Jesus. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive these people! They don’t know what they’re doing.” - Luke 23:33-34
Jesus to Catalina:

I Have Given My Life for You - loveandmercy.org/Eng-IHG-Reg.pdf

**To redeem all of mankind, a child’s cry, a moan, a single tear of Mine would have been enough… Would you have understood My Love in the same way? If with so many great proofs you still take so long to accept it, what would have caused you to believe in My Love, if I had limited Myself to what seemed paltry? …

It is because of all this that you must believe in Love, principally, in My Love …

Only by going beyond the limit of “what is necessary” would many eyes be opened to My Love.**

Divine Mercy Image - St. Faustina

http://s8.postimg.org/422f1cyxh/Christ_9.jpg

Jesus to St Faustina

"These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross." (Diary, 299)

"My Heart overflows with great mercy for souls, and especially for poor sinners. If only they could understand that I am the best of Fathers to them and that it is for them that the Blood and Water flowed from My Heart as from a fount overflowing with mercy. For them I dwell in the tabernacle as King of Mercy. I desire to bestow My graces upon souls, but they do not want to accept them. You, at least, come to Me as often as possible and take these graces they do not want to accept. In this way you will console My Heart. Oh, how indifferent are souls to so much goodness, to so many proofs of love! My heart drinks only of the ingratitude and forgetfulness of souls living in the world. They have time for everything, but they have no time to come to Me for graces." (Diary, 367).

"Tell sinful souls not to be afraid to approach Me; speak to them of My great mercy" (Diary, 1396).

"I never reject a contrite heart." (Diary, 1485).

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[josh987654321]

"…when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I myself act in your soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of mercy. Souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity. The torrents of grace inundate humble souls." (Diary, 1603).

The Message

How to Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy

http://s28.postimg.org/6bvy5pai5/Prodigal_Son.jpg
Jesus to Catalina:

The Passion - loveandmercy.org/Eng-TP-Reg.pdf

I want to teach sinners that because they have sinned, they should not distance themselves from Me thinking that they no longer have recourse and that they will never be loved as before they sinned. Poor souls! These are not the feelings of a God who has shed all His Blood for you. Come to Me all of you and fear not, because I love you. I will cleanse you with My Blood and you will be as white as snow. I will drown your sins in the water of My Mercy and nothing will be able to snatch from My Heart the Love that I have for you.

Jesus to Catalina:

The Passion - loveandmercy.org/Eng-TP-Reg.pdf

13) My children, poor sinners! Do not distance yourselves from Me. I wait for you night and day at the Tabernacle. I will not reproach you for your crimes; I will not throw your sins in your face. What I will do is to wash you with the Blood of My wounds. Do not be afraid; come to Me. You do not know how much I love you.

Jesus to Catalina:

The Great Crusade of Mercy - loveandmercy.org/Eng-CM-Reg.pdf

**I want to talk to you about My Mercy; I want to teach you Mercy; I want you to preach My Mercy. But in order to speak of it, you need to feel love because a person who does not love, cannot know Mercy.

1. If you love, it is because I loved you first; just as I am Love. Whoever knows how to love remains in Me and I in him. My Father did not send Me as an offering for you to love Me, but because My Father is Love and I am one with My Father. Therefore, understand that nothing is sweeter than love, for it proceeds from the One who is the Creator of everything.
2. And so, if you want to be merciful to your fellow human being, first you have to love and be compassionate to that person and if you want to receive Mercy, you must let yourself be loved. Mercy is the chain that unites with love, for one cannot love without being merciful. Understand that My love is without measure, it does not feel burdensome, nor does it value effort, it is simply given. You, on the other hand, are weak in love and imperfect in virtue; you are in need of My strength and of My comfort.**

Jesus to Catalina:

The Great Crusade of Mercy - loveandmercy.org/Eng-CM-Reg.pdf

11) Mercy is love, My child. It is union with God and union with God is the certitude of victory and an everlasting abundance of virtues. Mercy is the unquestionable proof of love for Me.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Image - (St Margaret-Mary Alacoque)

http://s7.postimg.org/4jx43bm1n/Christ_7.jpg

Jesus to St Margaret-Mary Alacoque -

**"Behold this Heart which has loved men so much that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting **(Crucifixion) and consuming itself (Last Supper, Eucharist) in order to testify to them it’s love."

I hope all this has helped.

God Bless

Thank you for reading
Josh

 

[flower_lady]

"…when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I myself act in your soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of mercy. Souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity. The torrents of grace inundate humble souls." (Diary, 1603).

The Message

How to Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy

http://s28.postimg.org/6bvy5pai5/Prodigal_Son.jpg

Sacred Heart of Jesus Image - (St Margaret-Mary Alacoque)

http://s7.postimg.org/4jx43bm1n/Christ_7.jpg

Jesus to St Margaret-Mary Alacoque -

**"Behold this Heart which has loved men so much that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting **(Crucifixion) and consuming itself (Last Supper, Eucharist) in order to testify to them it’s love."

I hope all this has helped.

God Bless

Thank you for reading
Josh

My goodness, I should never feel guilty again after reading this. Thank you soooooo much.
Thank you all you have helped me feel much better. I had never read a lot of this.

 

[flower_lady]

Dear Flower Lady,
I read your public profile and admire you very much for all that you are achieving despite your disability. When you feel so worried about ‘sins’, doesn’t it help to know that Our Blessed Lord loves you with an all-embracing love. You are His beloved child - unique and cherished by Him. He doesn’t expect us to be saints. It must surely give Him great joy that you lead such a devout, prayerful life - a perfect example for the grandchildren you love and whose company you so much enjoy.

May God bless you and give you peace.

Thank you for your kind words. God be with you.

 

[josh987654321]

My goodness, I should never feel guilty again after reading this. Thank you soooooo much.
Thank you all you have helped me feel much better. I had never read a lot of this.

It was my pleasure.

God Bless

Josh