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blessedstar
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Whatever the Priest tells you to do then do that. Your obedience and respect should be to the Priest and he alone has a pastoral responsibility towards your soul and has an unbiased interest in what is best for you and your family. Your friends are not so unbiased nor half as learned in spiritual matters as the Priest. Don’t listen to hearsay and rumour about such things, the phrase ‘I have heard’ doesn’t mean it is fact…get the facts from the Priest and do everything he tells you to do.Simply because I have always had a weakness in the virtue of discernment. I don’t know if I am right or just plain wrong in my actions of having these statues in the home. I have made many, many wrong and disasterous decisions in my life that I would undo if it were possible.
To sum up, I want a consensus of opinion before I act. I could now remove the dragons from the rubbish bin and replace them if our parish priest gave the “OK” about having them in the home… but again, the warnings of my friends rinh warning bells for me as well
Mike
If you want to conduct a concensus of opinion you will get some say keep them, some say don’t keep them and some say do what you feel like doing…ignore all of it and do what the Priest says, who knows you and will advise you correctly.
I am presuming you have confessed what you thought were bad decision in the past (if not, you might like to do that, it will bring you Christ’s peace in respect of those things you are now regretting), so now, you need to drop the past yourself and forgive yourself too!
By the way if you ever have any more decisions you think are fairly big and you feel you have difficulty discerning take them to the confessional and there ask for the grace of discernment and the Priest’s advice, when a Priest gives you advice in the confessional, it is the words of Christ Himself, so listen closely and obey.
Remember lessons learnt in one area of your life can be used to deal with other things going on in your life. A man who never made a mistake never made anything; in other words don’t be afraid of making decisions, we all have to make them and we all make mistakes but eventually we grow better at making decisions by God’s grace and if we learn by our mistakes and take advice in the confessional.
The journey in faith is a lifetime lesson of falling and getting back up again…don’t be afraid, get back up again!
In my prayers.