I feel guilty.

[StudentMI]

If I returned it, I would feel remorse in having to have the delivery man, and the people at the audio store, work harder (it was delivered by UPS).

Okay. That’s scrupulosity. Please see a priest.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Buying the stereo gear gives jobs to the people who design and build them.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in buying the gear, unless you let your wife and children live out in the snow because you used the money for the equipment rather than food and shelter for them.

Jim

 

[Fairwinds]

I feel guilty because I bought some audio gear that was quite expensive ($1,400). I know that most people on this forum will say that I’m being scrupulous, but I really believe that God judges me with a high degree of scrutiny. I really could have done without it.

I’m wondering why you thought it important to include the price of the gear. no offence intended, just curious.

 

[Phil_Marinus]

It’s not really the costs, I can afford it.

It’s something that will allow me to better praise God in that I listen to a LOT of sacred music.

It has nothing to do with buyer’s remorse; I really do want it.

If I returned it, I would feel remorse in having to have the delivery man, and the people at the audio store, work harder (it was delivered by UPS).

I think I’m going to use this as a lesson and not fall into the same trap again. I will live even more modestly in the future.

  I think you being a bit silly now Robert..... Curious as to your age ? 
 Could explain a couple things.

 

[nagyszakall]

If I returned it, I would feel remorse in having to have the delivery man, and the people at the audio store, work harder (it was delivered by UPS).

C’mon now Robert,
Tell the truth; you’re just playing a joke by posting these things. You must have a good laugh at all the replies.
You do know, I am sure, that the ups man is payed for returning your merchandise and that most ups employees are probably grateful that they have a job and can earn money to feed their families. That is payed from the money of people like you, paying a s***load of money for stuff they don’t need, however, most of them without the feeling guilty part.
Just go ahead and return it, and give the money to the poor. I guarantee, you will no longer feel guilty.

 

[Robert_Sock]

I’m 58 years old.

No, I’m being very serious. I live modestly, and that’s the way I want to live. I feel that God rewards me spiritually for my life style. I live like a monk and seldom leave my apartment (just for food shopping and my doctors’ appointments). I’m being perfectly serious here.

Again, I believe God judges me much more strictly than He does everyone else, just like He judges monks and hermits more strictly, but I would live like this regardless. I truly believe that we live in a miserable and corrupt world.

 

[Phil_Marinus]

Robert… Your 58 ? You come across as an intelligent but insecure 20 something ,
Sorry if that offends you… But I have read a number of your threads and that’s the impression I get… Seems like you need to get outa that apartment and smell the roses,
You really don’t need to live like a monk… We all have a cross to bear, but you don’t need to carry 10 at once, would be interested in what life experience you might have,
Without being intrusive ,
God loves you no matter how you are,

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I’m 58 years old.

No, I’m being very serious. I live modestly, and that’s the way I want to live. I feel that God rewards me spiritually for my life style. I live like a monk and seldom leave my apartment (just for food shopping and my doctors’ appointments). I’m being perfectly serious here.

Again, I believe God judges me much more strictly than He does everyone else, just like He judges monks and hermits more strictly, but I would live like this regardless. I truly believe that we live in a miserable and corrupt world.

God doesn’t judge anyone more strictly, he judges all equally, but justly.

The audio equipment you purchased, may be God’s way of inspiring you through it in some way.

I think you need to read up on the Spirit of Poverty, and understand just what it means.

Fr Dubay wrote a good book on it, “Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom.”

He shows how to interpret the beatitude “Happa Are You Poor,” correctly.

 

[Robert_Sock]

Pope Francis: Catholics must build a poor Church that offers praise to God, or the Church will become an “old, lifeless NGO”…

We are all members of the Church, and we ought to live in modesty.

I agree with Ready that I should listen to my conscience.

 

[Beryllos]

Come to think of it, I can relate to Robert’s chosen lifestyle. There certainly is too much attachment to worldly things in US culture. It’s not just material goods but popular TV and music entertainment, celebrity worship, addiction to the news, and on and on.

My wife and I try to keep it in check, to live simply, not only for moral reasons but also it’s financially prudent to live within your means. It doesn’t feel like we’re missing out on life’s pleasures. It is comfortable in a way.

I imagine there are many in this forum who live “modestly,” or “simply.”

 

[Phil_Marinus]

Pope Francis: Catholics must build a poor Church that offers praise to God, or the Church will become an “old, lifeless NGO”…

We are all members of the Church, and we ought to live in modesty.

I agree with Ready that I should listen to my conscience.

Robert, Do you think it is Possible you pick and choose bit’s of your faith that suits your concept of the Catholic Church ? Faith is a much broader word than living like a hermit…
Beryllos...... You gave a well informed reply..

 

[StudentMI]

Pope Francis: Catholics must build a poor Church that offers praise to God, or the Church will become an “old, lifeless NGO”…

We are all members of the Church, and we ought to live in modesty.

I agree with Ready that I should listen to my conscience.

The Pope also went out for a drink with some Cardinals the night He was chosen as Pope. Should he have retired to his chamber and slept on stone?

Your conscience may be distorted by scrupulosity. That’s the thing about feelings, Robert. They’re not always rational, and of course they’re not always from God. For instance, just to give some personal perspective here, I told a priest I know that I was worried something was a sin, and he said “that’s not a sin! It’s stupid but it’s not a sin.” It’s why you should have one confessor, Robert, not shop around for opinions from different priests.

Thomas Merton said in Seeds of Contemplation (I know he’s controversial, but this book was on the ‘okay’ list on a Catholic Answers article, and it carries an Impirmatur) that one trick Satan uses is to make God’s law seem impossible to follow so that people give up in despair. God doesn’t judge you more harshly than others. This is why you should see a priest.

 

[Phil_Marinus]

Robert… I, and I’m sure everyone here does not want you to think we are all Ganging up and Picking on you… next week it will be my turn to be picked on because Once again I said something Dumb… Lighten up,go outside smell the Roses, life is beautiful outside.