I need help and prayers

[johnnyt3000]

I’ve been struggling with honoring my mother and father and with sins of lust, I pray the rosary everyday but it doesn’t really seem to help, I been having to go to confession every week since September(when I started to come back to the church). prayers and advice are greatly appreciated.

 

[China123]

Hello johnnyt3000. I will keep you in my prayers today. Keep going to confession as it does give you grace to overcome sin. And just keep praying. Sometimes we get dry in our prayer life and you just need to pray through it. Offer your day up to our Lord, the good, the bad, the everything. And keep praying even if it doesn’t feel like it is doing anything…it is!

Eternal God , in whom mercy is endless,
and the treasury of compassion inexhastible ,
look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us ,
that in difficult moments we might not despair
nor become despondent , but with great confidence ,
submit ourselves to Your Holy Will ,
which is love and mercy itself . Amen

 

[robwar]

I’ve been struggling with honoring my mother and father and with sins of lust, I pray the rosary everyday but it doesn’t really seem to help, I been having to go to confession every week since September(when I started to come back to the church). prayers and advice are greatly appreciated.

I am not sure but lust is separate from honoring your father and mother. One practical thing to help with lust is not to watch tv shows, movies, and read books that have it. Second, get rid of any pornography and don’t visit those sites on the internet. Next, since you are a teenager, that is a time for growth away from parents into your own person. In general, you seem to be a little scrupulous and you should probably talk about these issues with a priest. Now maybe you “feel” that the rosary isn’t helping, but it is. Pray the rosary as a discipline not as a magic formula for instant success.

 

[iohannes12]

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.
Amen.

 

[tawny]

I’ve been struggling with honoring my mother and father and with sins of lust, I pray the rosary everyday but it doesn’t really seem to help, I been having to go to confession every week since September(when I started to come back to the church). prayers and advice are greatly appreciated.

Praying for you. Keep praying.

 

[St_Francis]

I have a different sin that tempts me, and as soon as I notice what is happening, I say a prayer to a saint who helps with that sin. Sometimes I have to pray to more than one person! And sometimes I have to keep asking for his/their help over and over! But it is all getting better as I stick to doing this.

How to honor your parents changes from the time you are 16 to the time you are 20 (approximately), so it’s hard to give good advice about that. If you are young enough, perhaps it will help to remember that just as young people are learning to be adults, so are their parents learning to be the parents of adults. Each of you will stumble from time to time…

 

[244Rocket]

Praying hard for you.

 

[robwar]

I have a different sin that tempts me, and as soon as I notice what is happening, I say a prayer to a saint who helps with that sin. Sometimes I have to pray to more than one person! And sometimes I have to keep asking for his/their help over and over! But it is all getting better as I stick to doing this.

How to honor your parents changes from the time you are 16 to the time you are 20 (approximately), so it’s hard to give good advice about that. If you are young enough, perhaps it will help to remember that just as young people are learning to be adults, so are their parents learning to be the parents of adults. Each of you will stumble from time to time…

Yes, people confuse honoring their parents with a kind of blind obedience which it is not and as you pointed out honoring changes through the years as one grows up into adult hood.

 

[ChibiViolet]

Praying…