Need prayers and advice!

[K_of_C_15]

Please help, I have a bad problem with lust and have sinned gravely. I know our lord has forgiven me time after time for the same sin, but I feel like I haven’t learned my lesson. I really want to stop…I don’t know how. I feel unworthy, stressed, and hopeless. Please! I ask for your prayers to be set free from this. If anyone struggles with the same situation, share with me how you cope with your situation.

 

[mrsjennymulhall]

Hello,

Of course I will pray for you and advise that you go to Confession very regularly. However, I would also suggest that you examine the causes of this feelings very carefully to determine where they come from before you can deal with them.

For example, if these feelings occur in a specific place or with a specific person; I would advise that you avoid that place or person as far as possible. Do these feelings arise when you’ve been drinking? Drinking can be a ‘social lubricant’ but too much drops inhibitions so far as to open us to unhealthy behaviour. You must dissect these feelings completely, find out the how, when, why and examine them carefully.

That said; you are the master of your heart; not the other way around. If you feel that self control is a problem for you, make it a habit to say ‘no’ to yourself at least once a day, beginning with small things. Self control is a muscle which gets stronger in the exercising.

I’m so sorry you are struggling with this; your hurt and worry are very clear in your post. Make full use of your confessor and try to find and root out all your triggers for these unwanted actions. Take care and God bless you.

Jenny x

 

[angell1]

praying for you. it will take time. baby steps

 

[tawny]

Please help, I have a bad problem with lust and have sinned gravely. I know our lord has forgiven me time after time for the same sin, but I feel like I haven’t learned my lesson. I really want to stop…I don’t know how. I feel unworthy, stressed, and hopeless. Please! I ask for your prayers to be set free from this. If anyone struggles with the same situation, share with me how you cope with your situation.

Praying for your intentions.

 

[oldburkes]

What has worked for me is a concentrated effort to see each woman as a ‘whole being’.
She is a person, good or bad, attractive to me or not, warm and affectionate or distant and abrasive.
When I see a woman who I’m NOT attracted to, for whatever reason, I try to focus on the fact that SHE, indeed, has a beauty that my eye is not perceiving, And I ask myself if it’s ‘the culture’ that’s telling me that another woman has more beauty, according to society’s norms.
This made me look at my attractions differently, and changed my whole perspective.
It’s just the way I handled it.
I’ll pray for you.

 

[drz888]

Lord, have mercy on K of C 15, please grant this soul many graces and angelic help in the face of every temptation. Instil in this soul a zeal to find the sacrament of reconciliation, at the least when any mortal sin is committed. Shine your divine light into this darkened pilgrimage, that this soul be emboldened by the warmth of your radiance and strive for holy obedience, now, unto the eternal garden of joy. Cultivate in this soul the virtues of joy, faith, hope, and love. Have mercy, Lord. Our Lady, angels, and saints, pray with us. Amen.

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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.

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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 our death. Amen.

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[ready]

I just said a prayer for you. God bless you.

 

[mommy_k]

Hail Mary,
Full of grace,
The Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art Thou amoungst 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

 

[pollylodges]

Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil, may God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do you, O’ Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

Amen.

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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

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