Help
With Your Rule
Re The Second P - Obsession Issues
Dear Holly,
Thanks for writing your book. I haven't even finished it and have been recommending it to everyone! I have read up to the part of your book where you talk about 'obsession'. In your book you quote the priest saying that "emotional turmoil is a clear sign." You also list the three ways of having 'obsession'. Are there other ways to have 'obsession' or is my emotional turmoil more an everyday mother turmoil? How can I tell the difference. Does the promiscuity part have to do with pre-marital intercourse? Does everyone need to have a deliverance prayer said over them? What if I can not find a priest to do that? Thank you for your time.
Labels: 2nd P Person
posted by Holly at 8:03 PM
1 Comments:
Obsession is obsession when a priest tells you it is. I did not discern this for myself. It was discerned for me by my ongoing spiritual director. If you have a priest you are seeing regularly, you place this discernment in his hands and leave the rest to the Blessed Mother. I have no way of knowing, nor do you, outside of your spiritual direction/chats with your priest.
FYI, Promiscuity is premarital/extramarital intercourse with many persons over time.
Emotional turmoil can also be linked to many other factors. It is important for you to note that we always look to natural causes before we look to supernatural causes. Your diet, sleep amounts, exercise all need to be assessed and improved
upon in order for emotional turmoil to lessen. Then, your spiritual life - participation in the sacraments & regular prayer needs to occur. Then, if you are still in turmoil, you will need some type of counselling for possible psychological issues of the past or whatever. If it still doesn't help, only then would your priest look at healing prayers & discerning obsession. At this point, there would be the need of deliverance prayer if he felt this was your problem. For this, your priest and the Blessed Mother can arrange for who to help you.
Again - this is not 'normal' mummy-blues or mummy-scattered-feeling, but an ongoing, very deep oppression of the emotions which does not go away, which stifles life, which cannot be explained by other means, nor dealt with by other measures.
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