Overcoming a Crush on My Priest

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I disagree with the idea of not fighting these feelings or enjoying them. Its also not true that we can’t fight them because God always offers enough grace. We need to dispose ourselves and receive it through prayer 🙂

Such feelings can be natural or a diabolical temptation. Either way, I think its very important to resist them particularly if there’s any lust. Even if they are more like a crush with no explicit impurity, if its unresisted it could easily turn to impurity… That’s just how concupiscence seems to work.

A priest is a person consecrated wholly to God. Impure feelings or thoughts about priests that are accepted are actually sacrilige too. Maybe thinking of this could help to fight them. Please don’t be discouraged though. God knows we are very weak and wants to help us. We all have concupiscence. I agree with the poster who said to pray for your priest’s vocation and virtue. Pray for him to be holy and pure. To be protected from the devil. I think that can help. If even thinking of this person tempts you, its best to avoid thinking about him. Busy yourself, think of other things. 🙂
 
CatholicRaven said:
There are many available online and on holy cards or prayer booklets, or you can use your own words, of course. Here are a couple I know of:

From the USCCB website:
Gracious and loving God, we thank you for the gift of our priests.
Through them, we experience your presence in the sacraments.
Help our priests to be strong in their vocation.
Set their souls on fire with love for your people.
Grant them the wisdom, understanding, and strength they need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
Inspire them with the vision of your Kingdom.
Give them the words they need to spread the Gospel.
Allow them to experience joy in their ministry.
Help them to become instruments of your divine grace.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest.
Amen.

From Endow:
*O Jesus, we pray for your faithful and fervent priests, your unfaithful and lukewarm priests, your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields, your tempted priests, your lonely and desolate priests, your young priests, your old priests, and the souls of your priests in purgatory.

We pray for your priests in special need of spiritual, emotional, or physical healing, for priests who have left the Church, and for the souls of the priests who will die today.

But above all, we recommend to you the priests dearest to us: the priests who baptized us, the priests who absolve us from our sins, the priests at whose Masses we assist and who give us your Body and Blood in Holy Communion, the priests who teach and instruct us; all the priests to whom we are indebted in any way.

O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.*
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Thanks!
 
Just as a sideline topic .
I had a Crush on a Nun .
Sister Marcia was my Grade 1 & 2 teacher ,
My Feeble mind had no idea of Romance
But I was attracted to her like a magnet to a Fridge 😃
 
Its the mind set and maturity of the individual having the crush. I am mature, and have no plans to act upon my so called crush, I doubt I’d be a temptation to him if the opportunity did arise; frumpy, overweight middle aged woman…no chance. I would recommend your advice to avoid temptation and pray for the immature mind or someone seeking a relationship.
 
The reason I gave the advice, is because even if there’s no chance of the priest being tempted or the person acting on the feelings, the feelings can still affect them and draw them towards sin in their heart. I believe such feelings should always be resisted. I think consenting to romantic feelings for a consecrated person is already wrong and dangerous, plus it can grow into more explicit lust. Its a temptation, regardless of the origin or whether it would be acted on. All starts in the heart… That’s my perspective… I think it’s related to what is in the Bible too with listing after someone in the heart already being adultery.

Of course if a person fights the feelings, they are not sinning 🙂
 
Thank you once again. Well said. Its wrong to have those feelings. Show respect for the priest and have self dignity.
 
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