Penance

[seanom]

Hello I am interested in doing penance not severe ones but small ones. I was wondering if anyone could give me ones to do that won’t damage your health etc. I am interested in possibly putting small stones in my shoe not so much that it is actually painful but just uncomfortable, any tips??

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

Hello I am interested in doing penance not severe ones but small ones. I was wondering if anyone could give me ones to do that won’t damage your health etc. I am interested in possibly putting small stones in my shoe not so much that it is actually painful but just uncomfortable, any tips??

So you buy a good pair of shoes and put stones on it? Better buy a pair of shoes with stones on it already. If possible with some soft stones that hurt less.

Once, someone asked the Seer Lucia of fatima what Penance was. If someone neede to do something spectial, like putting stones on Yves St Laurent shoes. She said no. You would need to accept everyday life, everyday penance.

Tor me, it is worse than the stones in the shoes.

I am with the beatitudes in front of me and I invent. Listen, I am not saying you should that, I am not preaching, I am meditating with you and seeing what could bedone in line with the beatitudes:

1. 
   *]1- givve money to Somalia and Ehtiopia even if it is 50 cents
   *]1. joins any St Vincent of Paul group
   *]2. listen to people, eye on eyes: there are som many people who need someone to talk to! Even if it is boring even if it is your grandmother who tells you the same story for the 275th time.
   *]3. smile, even if hurts inside. sime is contagious.
   *]4. give 20 cts to Ethiopia.
   *]call somebody whom you did not see for a long time. write an email to some lost friend. make an agenda of birthdays and make something special for each one.
   *]6. confess. repent. pray.
   *]7. pray for peace. for peace of arms. for peace of arms. join a peace organization.
   *]8. accept.accet.acccept what Gos has given you. this is the worst for me for I do not want to accept, I want to be me to rule the world, so for me it is hard to accept. It is much worse than the stones.
   
   Do not take it bad my jokkes, OK? If they are bas taste jokes, tell, me
   I must decide my going to Dublin. I shall not die without going to an Irish Pub (whcih one do you recommend with traditional Irish Music and Brew, and see the circuit of James Joyce (and what else?). It must be rainy, for a sunny Ireland is not in my dreams.
   
   GBY

 

[Jim_Roberts]

Hello I am interested in doing penance not severe ones but small ones. I was wondering if anyone could give me ones to do that won’t damage your health etc. I am interested in possibly putting small stones in my shoe not so much that it is actually painful but just uncomfortable, any tips??

********************************************************************************************************There is no reason for this. The priest has given y ou absolution and b eside we will do our suffering in Purgatory, so why do you want to punish yourself?

JESUS I TRUST IN YOU

jr

 

[willofgods]

Hi seanom,

I think I’ve read similar threads before, and the best advice I saw was that you would do best not to engage in such penance without first seeking a spiritual director!

Otherwise, you may go about it wrong, defeating your purpose.

In the meantime, why don’t you take up the Rosary (particularly the Sorrowful mysteries) or the Via Crucis, meditating on Jesus’ Perfect Penance for us, and our salvation?

(Just an extra thought, even on a nice padded kneeler, after 10-15 minutes of praying, you may find your knees getting a little sore…praying isn’t always taking the easy way out )

 

[Anathama_Sit]

Hello I am interested in doing penance not severe ones but small ones. I was wondering if anyone could give me ones to do that won’t damage your health etc. I am interested in possibly putting small stones in my shoe not so much that it is actually painful but just uncomfortable, any tips??

Greetings Seanom,

Get a spiritual director. Be open and honest and transparent with him. Follow his counsel. [Sometimes this is very penitential]. The devil fears obedience more than austerity.

I just counsel you to make sure that your spiritual director of choice is a priest and also a priest who lives and believes ALL of the teachings of the Church.

God Bless.
Anathama Sit