OCD/Scrupulosity Group

Heaven2001,
Here is a similar question with the reply from Fr. Serpa, Catholic Answers Apologist:
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=180503
You are not your thoughts. Ignore them and let them pass through you like a wave. If you try to block them, it will probably just give them more power. The evil one wants you to believe that you are evil. You are not evil. You are a child of God, who loves you more than you could ever imagine.

Hi everyone may God watch over you all.
Today for the first time in four years since my thoughts started, I felt I brought on the thought into my head with no doubt. I still reacted to the thought I had, and I never want to hurt the lord deliberatly now I'm question the past thoughts if i was responsible for them. Has anyone had this happen to them or a different experience.

hi everyone, I'm in need of advice today I had some really bad thought, sometime I think maybe I have changed maybe this is me and I'm in denile because, there r day I can block all thoughts and there r days I can't. I go over them again and again but having different thoughts of the same thing in different ways I am tired. this week i've began dig my nails into my skin making it scar with marks to help focus on something other than the thought.
Help me with advice and prayers please I feel like I'm going crazy and maybe I'm evil and in denile.

Hi Arturo,
Mother Teresa said, "We are not called to do great things, but to do small things with great love." Doing constant penance, saying lots of prayers, and never allowing yourself to enjoy things is not what God is looking for. He is not looking for sacrifices made out of guilt and obligation, but sacrifices offered freely in love. In addition, he created the good things of earth for us to enjoy. Even the great saints enjoyed themselves - St. Therese, for example, always loved a good chocolate eclair!
You're in my prayers.

I wouldn't say it was a sin.

In the first place it doesn't seem that you had the intention of commiting a sin in the first place. Second that happens to a lot of people. It's just bad communication or bad understanding.

Second for that reason you are saying that you are not sure whehter it was true or not. If it was true then it was true, if it wasn't true, then once again it was just a bad misunderstanding. Either ways I would say that it wasn't a sin.

I do background work as an actor. I recently signed a non-disclosure form re. a project I was working on. I didn't read it, but was told it involved taking photos. Now, I'm not sure if that was totally true and I feel guilty because I told friends about the project and wonder if I have committed a sin, but I really don't know what commandment was broken if any.

Heaven2001

Thanks for your reminded that we cannot always pray as much as we would like

A lot of times we tend to forget what Saint Therese of Lisieux knew. That it is our intentions, and not how big something is, that makes things praiseworthy for God. It doesn't matter how big or something is, but whether we did it out of love.

Thanks and God Bless
Arturo

Arturo Ortiz I think you need to remember the God is merciful and that sometime short prayer are good, as the priest has told me. I came to a stage where I prayed the the rosary and divine mercy chaplet everyday. there were day I couldn't or if I was tired or stay up late watching or even lazy I would feel bad and question god that I pray but his not help. We r human and god is merciful there r day I make the sign of the cross and don't say anything as he know every little detail in you heart. You r in my prays

Please pray for me

My scrupulosity has been getting at me. This time it's not intrusive thoughts, but rather its feeling bad if I don't pray all the prayers that I usually pray each day. It also includes feeling bad for letting myself wear specific cloth that I like to wear, and other making offerings.

I usually pray a certain number of prayers that I pray everyday. This includes The Rosary, prayers to specific patron saints, and other prayers that I pray each day. If I forget to pray one of these prayers I feel horrible and I feel down. I feel as if I was spiritually lazy that day, but the truth is that sometimes I just have a lot going on that makes it hard for me to pray each of these prayers.

The second thing is that I got into the habit of making offerings to God, such as fasting, and not letting myself do specific things that I would have enjoyed doing, for sinners or simply for other people. That is a great thing, but the problem is that I got into the habit of doing this that now it seems that I feel guilty whenever I let myself do anything that I love doing, if I don't offer every single thing up, I feel as if I am being selfish. I feel bad even for letting myself eat something I would have loved for instance.

Please help and God Bless
Arturo

Thanks timeandeternity

You are in my prayers too