I'm gay and need prayer!

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SS,

I, too, will be praying for you! We all struggle with various sins, but our prayers for one another and the prayers of the saints lift us up together as the Body of Christ so that the burden of our respective crosses is never borne alone. Have courage to follow God wherever He leads you, and God bless you.
 
I’ll pray for you.
1 Hail Mary
1 Our Father

Also… My advise is to become Catholic as soon as possible, ;-). I know from personal experience that there can be very powerful graces available through the Sacrament of confession especially toward sins we struggle against habbitually, the kind of Sins that tear at our flesh and dig into us with claws. Confession can really truely bring freedom and peace.

May God bless you.
 
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searchingsoul:
…I’m also praying for God’s guidance - should I be out there looking for a wife I can love, or should i concentrate on accepting castity?

…Also, my desire for a family is not derived from social pressure, although that was a reasonable point to make. I would just love to have kids. There would be so much joy in bringing up a famil, and to to be able topass on the faith. But perhaps, I’ll just have to settle for nephews and neices!
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I would also give you this advice. I too once had a huge hole in my heart. I wanted a wife very bad and prayed week after week for God to provide what would fill my emptyness. After much spiritual growth I eventually realized that it was God that was missing in my heart and only after I saught him to fill the void would I be spiritually ready to be a husband.

Years after seaking to fill that hole with a God instead of a family I realized that I didn’t think God was calling me to married life but instead to either the Priesthood and/or religious life. Either way even if I do eventually go the marrage route I will be much happier knowing God filled the gaping hole in my heart.

God Bless…
 
Searching Soul I’m praying for you! Do not worry much about finding a wife at this point. Just focus on removing your temptations first, living a chaste life (including chaste thoughts), make sacrifices for Christ and love Christ first. Remember chaste living is something that can be carried over to marriage so chastity is very important first. If you do so, no matter your vocation (either marriage or single life) everything will follow in God’s will. Even your vocation. 🙂 May God bless you abundantly!

-Alison
 
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searchingsoul:
Hi.
I’m a young protestant who has struggled with homosexual urges for many years. I have never engaged any homosexual activities, as I believe that to be sinful. I have, however, struggled with an addiction to pornograph.
i have also been exploring Catholicism for some time, and this has led me to devote myself more fully to prayer. I have even begun to pray the rosary! i’ve noticed such a profound change in my life.Please pray for me too. I desperately want to be a father and a husband, and a devoted Christian. Pray that God will grant this. I just don’t know what I’ll do with my life if God doesn’t work a miracle
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You are in my prayers.
 
SS:

God bless you. May your faithfulness in following the will of God in your life make you whole.

Investigate the Theology of the Body by JP II explained by Christopher West. I think it will really assist. www.giftfoundation.org

It touches up on the masculinity and femininity and their true goals.

Keep us posted and as you can see you are prayed for and supported already.

in XT.
 
Since I posted here a week ago, I have had such an incredible week. I have never known prayer and blessing such as I have experienced, and I have really valued the prayers of all of you who have responded. God has shown me just how powerfully he answers prayer.

As many of you suggested I would, I have found peace in surrendering my future to God. I have prayed only for grace to accept God’s will and to live a life of purity and chastity. As Alison pointed out, this will prepare me either for marriange or celibacy.

The most important fruit of all your prayers however, is that I feel so much closer to Our Lord. Thankyou for helping to bring me closer. Please continue to pray for, as I pray for you.

SS
 
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searchingsoul:
Since I posted here a week ago, I have had such an incredible week. I have never known prayer and blessing such as I have experienced, and I have really valued the prayers of all of you who have responded. God has shown me just how powerfully he answers prayer.

As many of you suggested I would, I have found peace in surrendering my future to God. I have prayed only for grace to accept God’s will and to live a life of purity and chastity. As Alison pointed out, this will prepare me either for marriange or celibacy.

The most important fruit of all your prayers however, is that I feel so much closer to Our Lord. Thankyou for helping to bring me closer. Please continue to pray for, as I pray for you.

SS
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You must be a charming, handsome individual to have such a desire for God’s holiness within your life. It inspires me so much.

Whether you become chosen for Holy Matrimony, or become chaste and celibate for life, I know that you will show and prove yourself worthy as a man of God. I have complete trust in your hope, because I know that God will always provide for us. It is Yah who created the whole world, and Yah who makes our burdens issue enough so that we can carry them.

Praise Yah all your life, and let Him be your Guide. Through the Holy Scriptures, Sacred Tradition, and Sacred God, you will always feel liberated in His love.

God bless!

Kevyn.
 
I was in that exact same boat about a year ago. I turned to the Rosary and it gave me so much strength. It gave me courage to go to confession and reunite myself with the Eucharist. Let me tell you, giving up the pornography is infinitely greater than continuing to be a slave to it.
 
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searchingsoul:
Since I posted here a week ago, I have had such an incredible week. I have never known prayer and blessing such as I have experienced, and I have really valued the prayers of all of you who have responded. God has shown me just how powerfully he answers prayer.

As many of you suggested I would, I have found peace in surrendering my future to God. I have prayed only for grace to accept God’s will and to live a life of purity and chastity. As Alison pointed out, this will prepare me either for marriange or celibacy.

The most important fruit of all your prayers however, is that I feel so much closer to Our Lord. Thankyou for helping to bring me closer. Please continue to pray for, as I pray for you.

SS
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Wow, SS, your post is a vivid testament to the power of prayer. Your words convey the palpable impact that it has had on your life. Please be assured of my continued prayers for your discernment and for strength to bear your cross with love. Your situation brings to mind one of my favorite quotes, which is listed in my signature below:

“Those deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or in enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will.”
St. Teresa

God bless.
 
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searchingsoul:
Hi.
I’m a young protestant who has struggled with homosexual urges for many years. I have never engaged any homosexual activities, as I believe that to be sinful. I have, however, struggled with an addiction to pornograph.
i have also been exploring Catholicism for some time, and this has led me to devote myself more fully to prayer. I have even begun to pray the rosary! i’ve noticed such a profound change in my life.Please pray for me too. I desperately want to be a father and a husband, and a devoted Christian. Pray that God will grant this. I just don’t know what I’ll do with my life if God doesn’t work a miracle
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Searching Soul, I highly recommend you read this amazing thread on Catholic Answers forum. This person, as yourself, has had wonderful answers to prayer with regard to the same subject.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=90089
 
Visit Father Jim Lloyd’s Web site. He headed up the Master’s Degree Program for Pastoral Counseling at a Catholic college for decades and after retirement was assigned to work with the gay community.

He has some interesting and well worded comments:

geocities.com/frjimlloyd/
 
Searchingsoul—have you ever considered that this homosexual urge may be demonic? Pray and ask Jesus to show you His thinking on this. Satan attacks those who follow Christ, in their weakest areas. This just happens to be where he found your weakness. There is nothing to be ashamed of because you have been attacked! And by all means you are doing the very best thing by asking your brothers and sisters in Christ to pray for you! Just remember—THIS IS A WAR! Read your Bible. Put on your armor and go out with Jesus and all the saints, to conquer the enemy! Check this out: drbo.org/cgi-bin/s?q=put+on+the+armour+of+God&b=drb&t=0
 
I’m praying for you like you asked. We have a lot in common but it’ll take some thinking before I can post any details about my cross. Basically, I don’t like kids, and I’ve always been this way since my very young childhood (never played with dolls either, and I hated my younger brother when I was four–he was so icky to me)

…and suddenly I am married and open to them, praying like crazy for God to either soften my heart and give me strength, or to just tell me I can postpone kids indefinitely. So far I’ve learned the value of patience but I haven’t gotten a clear answer yet. Maybe it’s around the corner. I won’t give up hope. (For clarification–I value all life and I am very pro-life. I just don’t get the same feelings and instincts that the majority of people do when they’re around kids.)

Will you pray for me too? Hugs. XOXO
 
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