Prayers for OCD/scruples

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Approximately 21 months since returning to Confession after not having gone for at least 7 years, I am still battling scruples. I’ve learned so much about my Faith and I usually seem to give others good advice, but can’t seem to see clearly when thinking about my own sins. If it’s not a sin, I think it’s venial. If it’s a venial sin, I worry it’s mortal. I keep thinking back to what the catechism says about how if we remember a mortal sin we need to confess it at our next confession. I’ve been going to Confession frequently for 21 months now, and I’m STILL thinking of things from my past. I don’t want to think about them, but they keep popping into my head. If I could see clearly whether or not something was mortal and needed to be confessed, that would be okay I guess. But I agonize sometimes for hours or days about my next confession–about whether or not I’ve left anything out that might be mortal sin. I also sometimes have intrusive thoughts–impure and blasphemous. I’ve basically done a 180 since coming back to Confession 21 months ago. Whereas before I was a Cafeteria Catholic and didn’t worry about sin (and had plenty of them), now I’m scrupulous and that’s ALL I think about: “Did I commit a mortal sin?” “Should I confess this from my past?” “Did I consent to this thought? If so, was it venial or mortal?” “Did I do enough to dissuade someone else from committing sin?” And ON and ON. I just want to have a NORMAL, PEACEFUL conscience. Not a FALSE peace (like I had before as a Cafeteria Catholic), but a REAL peace from the Holy Spirit. Please pray for me.
 
I offer what I believe is a remarkable resource…an excellent resource for spiritual counsel for scruples.

It is a booklet – 21 pages…but very precise and very pastoral/spiritual guidance…hope this helps you…prayers & blessings for you.

Pax Christi
fatherdoyle.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/scruples-and-their-treatment.pdf
SCRUPLES AND THEIR TREATMENT
By Fr. William Doyle S.J.
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The manuscript copy of this booklet was found among the papers of the late Father William Doyle, S.J. It is partly a translation, partly an adaptation, of L’Ange Conducteur des Ames Scrupuleuses ou Craintives, par le R. P. Dupois, S.J.
Father Dupois’ little book first appeared in 1897, and since then it has gone through sixteen editions. It has been examined and approved of by the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, and has, besides, the approbation of many bishops and theologians.
Father Doyle’s version has been somewhat reduced in size, and some alterations in it made, and the** booklet is now published in the hope that it may be an encouragement and a help to timid and scrupulous souls**
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Definition.
Scrupulosity, in general, is an ill-founded fear of committing sin.
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There are** two kinds of scruples: those which affect only the intelligence; those which affect also the sensitive will.**
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  • Purely intellectual scruples are really only doubts. They are most frequently met with in straightforward souls, who exercise self-control and are not habitually scrupulous. As soon, therefore, as these souls become morally certain that the act in question is not sinful, the scruple vanishes. This kind of scruple is harmless, and needs no treatment.
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  • The contrary is the case with scruples which affect the inferior part of the soul (sensitive will). From the strong impression produced on the senses these draw a force which resists the mere statement of facts. Such scruples chiefly afflict impressionable souls; in fact, it is their emotional nature which engenders scrupulosity. A practical definition of this kind of scruple would be:** an uneasy, ill-founded fear of committing sin, increased by the impressions made on the inferior part of the soul.
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    An example may help to make clearer these different kinds of scruples. Two persons leave the church on a Sunday morning, fearing that, owing to their many distractions, they have not complied with their obligation of hearing Mass. Having listened to their doubts, their confessor reassures both. However, one only is entirely satisfied. The** other soon becomes troubled again, gets nervous, and feels an almost irresistible longing to be quite sure, either by fuller explanation or by hearing another Mass.** The** first of these persons had only an intellectual scruple**, the harmless fear of a loyal soul; the second suffers from nervous fear, which stirs the sensitive part of the soul, and causes a real scruple…
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Treatment of Scrupulosity
The general rules for the treatment of scruples may be reduced to** five: prayer, vigilance, struggle against depression, obedience, generosity in sell-conquest**. On the first three, little need be said; obedience and generosity in self-conquest constitute the basis of the treatment.
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It is a two phase thing or process in my opinion Veronica.
  1. God, The Holy Spirit, Jesus and Mother Mary are at times showing me to re-confess old sins He knows that I have not fully healed from as yet or;
  2. satan tempts me at times (usually through The Holy Rosary and prayers) to distract me from praying hard on causes that God, The Holy Spirit, Jesus and Mother Mary that satan does not want God and Jesus to rectify.
After the past few years I know when to re-confess and when to ignore the re-visitation of sins through the most Loving Wisdom and Guidance from Our Lady Mary Mother of Jesus and Jesus through Their Holy Rosary daily.

Healing from our past is when I have come a great deal closer to Jesus Veronica; my Healing commenced in 2011 through 2012 and am still Confessing and Healing sins that Jesus is showing me. However, once He has forgiven a particular sin and I have done Penance and if that sin arises in my mind, I say a few Our Fathers and send away satan for attempting to undo my cleaner Soul revisiting the sin which ceases us from praying about causes/other things (for me while praying The Holy Rosary) and moving on to carry out kindnesses for others. “It” attempts to distract my mind during The Holy Rosary with the objective for me to cease praying The Holy Rosary. Mother Mary encourages me to ignore and keep praying blocking “it’s” temptation and objective for me to re-visit old sins that God and Jesus had forgiven me months ago!

I understood the go of it/the process while praying The Holy Rosary last year and this year.

I just say extra Our Father’s to God, The Holy Spirit and Jesus when this occurs at the end of The Holy Rosaries and if I remember at Confession. Otherwise, I rest and am reassured by Jesus that He forgave me those sins way back.

If I know that my remorse has not been adequate, then Jesus reminds me to re-confess on certain sins on occasions, however it is not during my prayer time, more through signs and situations that occur each day. Then I confess and pray after opening up my heart fully (usually in tears) expressing true remorse for that sin and heartily asking for forgiveness.

The key of course to me is being ‘genuinely and truly remorseful’ when confessing the sin. He of course ‘knows’ when I am not remorseful while confessing sins. He ‘knows’ my dishonesty when I have not been ‘remorseful’ in confessing my sins. How I reach that ‘remorsefulness’ in confession is thinking about how I would have felt in that situation being the other person and thinking about what goodness and acts the other person has done in their life that I do not know about, apart from the fact that each person in His World are our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, still learning like us and tempted by satan like us.

Being truly remorseful about sins assists with satan not tempting me to re-visit old sins, wasting God, The Holy Spirit, Jesus and Mother Mary’s precious time spent on me, in me and with me on my soul journey praying and assisting others and my Soul.

I try and stay away from Television/programs, The Newspapers, junk, rubbish, computer entertainment, all of the things that can re-visit old sins tempted by satan.

Please Dear God our Heavenly Father, The Holy Spirit, Dear Jesus Christ our Saviour and Dear Our Lady Mary Mother of Jesus could You bathe Veronica in Thy Divine Love, Wisdom and Reassurance in relation to the forgiveness of sins, now and for Eternity, Amen.

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.

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.

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.
 
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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