I detached from Facebook last Friday. People don't realize how addictive social media really is. Not only is it addictive, I truly believe it is rewiring our brains. I challenged a good friend of mine to quit Facebook with me. She couldn't last through Saturday.
satan hides behind every evil or weak person, drug, glass of alcohol, source of gambling, electronic device, places of immorality, immodesty, concupiscence etc. So Christians beware!
God took the man I loved to heaven, that helped my spiritual life beyond anything I could do, then he nearly had me lose my son. I was allowed to feel the full weight of purgatory, that God would not help me keep my son with me, and I was given the grace to detach in favor of God's Holy Will, praying for the grace of final perseverance the whole time, because I felt my heart breaking to the point of death. Once I detached miracles happened and my son is still with me!
"You can't be attached even to the consolations that you get thorughout the course of your spiritual life (27:17)" Thank you Father for your holy work! God bless you!
Thank you Reverend Father. Since I started sincere devotion to Divine Mercy, I have been able to accomplish all my personal spiritual desires and still a long way to go with Jesus leading me.
Thank you Father for this lovely sermon, which has helped me to learn more about my so many spiritual weaknesses. May our Lord be praised and glorified in every situation. Amen
Same. Everyone I knew knew how much I relied on coffee to get through a day like an addict. Recently was able to let it go and easily I did, didnt have to wait til Lent season. Detachment is anytime of the year, just let God take over.
@@phillipvolkert2755 I have many learning disabilities, but I try to not let it get me down. Thank you for making me aware of it and for making me embarrassed for something I can’t control. 💜👍🏻
Fr. Rippenger you have helped me so much in learning the truth faith ... as you quoted from Saint John the Cross, - From creatures for perfect union with God - God is everything, God is ALL, the necessary and absolute being most pure act without shadows of potency who exists of himself and possess the absolute plenitude a being, he is goodness itself, for us to pursue anything other than him in the end isn't really rational." --- Great Summary
We must love God first and our neighbour for His sake, we can not cut everyone off, as our commandment to love God then our neighbour as ourself, through charity
I find that reading about the Essenes, and about Elijah, and Carmelite way, to be excellent ways of making sense out of non attachment, in particular, to the lower faculties.
It is very difficult to practice detachment, for example, when you are supposed to be attached to your newborn; but it must be a different kind of attachment than the kind we are supposed to completely remove as we progress in the spiritual life. Obviously, our children ultimately belong to God, and not us, so that is one thing to keep in mind.
There's nothing unholy about being attached to your newborn. That's a natural healthy way to mother. He's referring to unhealthy appetites not our children. The ultimate way to be a good mother is to teach our children how to love our Holy Mother through our love for them and especially by teaching them to love our Holy Father, God, by guiding them, healthy discipline, faith formation, mercy, and unconditional love. God made you attached to your children as those children are His Gift to you. He trusted you enough to give you them and it's up to you to show them His Love right back and give them back to Him in His Holy Sacraments.
I almost lost my son in a car accident when he was 8(he is now 13). They basically told me he most likely wouldn’t make it. He ended up being in the hospital for a month and miraculously made it through. The hospital priest gave him Last Rights, and he was there for me every moment ❤️ The first night the priest said to me, which was heart wrenching but somehow somewhere deep in my psyche, also consoling, “He is on lend to you Amy, he is not yours to begin with, if Our Lord decides to take him honey, he is going home to his rightful owner.” It made me somehow in my sorrow and agony, think of things in a different light. It didn’t take the sorrow of possibly loosing him away, but it reminded me that my son is not in fact “mine.” He is Gods and he is on lend to me 🙏 I think it’s beautiful and necessary to be attached to our children, but knowing this fact, that our babies are, “on lend” to us from our Lord, is maybe the “detachment” we need as parents? ❤️🙏 That was the first thing that came to mind for me and only because of what the priest said to me, otherwise, I don’t think I could have comprehended it. ❤️🙏
Or else, a lot of parents follow their children into sin. They’ll hang the pride flag, happily attend the commitment ceremony, because the kid demands it. I’ve seen too many people deny Jesus and leave the church to follow an lgbt kid and applaud the whole way
God's current flows like perfect charity From God (who we love first) then from us it can flow to others. Then our love can be Holy and a more perfect reflection of God's love. Is that that right Father?
I think that what this lesson is saying (in simple terms) is that .....first we must tap into the current of God's Love.....then we can love everything else through the Love of Christ. If we try to live in our own strength it will fall very short of what is True Charity. So if we love something or someone we should lay them at Christ's feet. Detach from them completely and give them to God. Then we can re-connect in through Christ. Like we extend the current of God's love to others because we are First and foremost tapped into God. Am I understanding that right? If not Father please correct me. 😊
well. When I was a kid, after my first Communion I started to love the host because it tasted much better than any of the other oblates that were not consecrated. So, you can think of the Eucharist as very tasteful. I always wanted to have oblates but none tasted as good as the Eucharist!
I have tons of attachments I see after watching this. I guess I like creature comforts... coffee, pipe, good tasty food. 25:00 - think about God and He will solve the problem. Thank you
I have an attachment to food but mostly coffee ☕️ so in other words just slowly giving it up would be more effective cause I do fast but doesn’t seem to break the detachment completely
I have seriously observed this also. For some reason, when our bodies are in a frail place, there is often a helpful spiritual perspective we get on life, ourselves, etc.
100%. To the Glory of God, The Father I haven't had experiences with sicknesses and such, but like trials and tribulations and such, YES!! In the aftermath there is always _some_ detachment/Sanctification that occurs.
The happiest, most grounded people I’ve met are those who struggle with severe disabilities. They NEVER complain and are always delighting in the Lords Day.
My husband has worked away from home for about 10 years. He loves his work. He is faithful, just very extroverted. I was emotionally neglected as a child. I felt my husband emotionally neglected me and I would cry incessantly. Im now on antidepressants and I can do things again. Do I have a disordered attachment and how do I get rid of it.
I think sometimes we get attached to miracles rather than God’s will be done. I had 3 miscarriages and I had a crisis of faith when God did not save my babies. I had to eventually let go and accept these crosses as God’s will. I even got angry at God by thinking “how could you”? God forgive me for presuming that I think I know what’s better than God does. It takes complete trust when His plan involves heartbreak and tears but sometimes that’s what it is.
I pray that ultimately you reach Heaven where you will see/meet your children. Read the book: Heaven is for real. Or see the movie. It is about a small miracle a young boy experiences… a true story🙏
I really wonder when watching these videos how anyone ever gets to heaven..these videos would scare most people away from trying to live a devout life. Even trying to get my head around some of the concepts is mind boggling to me.
Henry Stoneking Then why did our Lord and Savior die? What exactly did he save if it wasn’t to bring us to Heaven because “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life “ If I need to be as good as you, or possibly you as good as me, don’t you think that takes away from God’s message of Love and Salvation? Do you really think you have attained Heaven by your works?
Patricia Ann So what do you believe? That you can do whatever you want in this life & still get to Heaven as long as you believe in Jesus? Is there no conditions like trying to live a good life & avoid sin as far as you're concerned? The Devil himself believes in Jesus. Any "works" as you call them that we do are done by the grace we receive from God but we need to ask for those graces & completely trust in him to give them to us..we have to humble ourselves & completely rely on God for everything & detach ourselves completely from this life & worldly things if we are ever to achieve any progress in the spiritual life..but even that detachment itself is something that we can only achieve by the grace of God. We also have to trust that God will forgive us no matter how many times we fall & resist the temptation to lose hope & give into despair (which is something that I struggle a lot with). What I'm trying to say in a very roundabout kinda way is that anything good we manage to achieve is God working through us by grace but we have to correspond to that grace & trust completely in him to gain the graces that we need to do those "works". He didn't have to do things this way, he choose to, so who are we to argue?
Tom K Thanks for your reply, I’m delighted to speak to someone earnest for God! I am disabled and believe my healing, God Willing will manifest.I was raised Catholic. I believe in Jesus, and His Word. More specifically, from what I’ve seen in my life, unlike Satan, I have an ongoing relationship with Jesus. I have a growing aversion to the sin in my life. I’m not trying to go up the rungs on a ladder, for my rank in heaven. I’m only trying to become closer with our Lord, Jesus. Sin is not my focus, but I’m being pulled out of a sinful lifestyle, because I see more and more clearly that my relationship with Him is damaged by my sins.. I echo Paul’s words “everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.” I enjoyed this video and I have benefited from the teachings, immediately.
To be honest when I first watched this video the thought of achieving complete detachment made me feel quite hopeless & scared but that was just me being weak & prideful in thinking about my own limitations instead of trusting in God's great power & grace to help me...I still struggle with it but I'm getting better, slowly but surely. God bless.
Could I have some direction in this matter. I am a new kindergarten teacher. I am finding myself very fond of certain phonics programs materials that are really helpful for the kids. I would be very upset not to use these things anymore. Any insight? Is this something I should be concerned with?
My comment is a little late, but I wonder how Fr. Ripperger would untangle the mess that has led people to treat the personality as temperament, and vice versa. Erroneously thinking it is personality that can be/is changed, and is temperament that is unchangeable. And they'll say they disagree with Fr. Ripperger. When I've thought deeper about it, it is Fr. Ripperger that is correct - personality doesn't change, and only appears to others as if changed because is the temperament thats been mastered and so people perception of you changes. Personality IS and doesn't do; temperament also IS, from birth...but the added conditioning as you go through life is what becomes and DOES...and can be changed. Temperament - temper - temperance...follow?
St John of the Cross elaborates profoundly on attachment to religion. This a difficult concept for those in the secular world trying to live a concentrated spiritual life. If we are in truth hiding in the pew, we are not turning to God. It's a clever, or psychologically crippled, form of worshipping ourselves. A friend, a wise spiritual man, a successful architect, once whispered to me inside a Eucharist Shrine, "Take a look around you. Notice all the psychologically disturbed individuals. In some cases, pure nut jobs. The spiritual life is difficult, especially if you want to center your life purely upon faith, hope, and charity. There are no rewards. No consolations. It is difficult to purify yourself without becoming attached to yourself." I admired Father Ripperger's example of a man loving the photo of his wife, yet not loving his wife.
Ok. So what about the story of Tamus and Mary ? I don't doubt the church but I still have questions that I've not seen answered. The bible don't mention Mary to be prayed to etc.
Mary is a person, and in heaven. She asked for help for the couple at the wedding at Cana and she can ask for help for you of you ask her. After all, she is in heaven and more alive than we are.
Go deeper what's the meaning of "pray" , other meaning of pray is "petiton". Just remember the first miracle of Jesus, through Mary Mother Christ the water turned to wine. You must start to pray the Rosary.
One prays to GOD through the intercession of His Mother (of Jesus) or through the intercession of GOD’S friends, the Saints and the Angels🙏 Also go directly to GOD.🙏
I just went through one, a surprised detachment, a true mental abuse and torment. Why these people are so sick and wicked and do it under the flag of "good Catholicism "! Over-Board and sickening to the stomach!
I think devotion is different than attachment. He says attachment is something that when you’re taken away from it, you feel pain. And I have a hard time believe anyone is attached to Mary. Attachments like Fr said, are disorders that feed the lower faculties.
It turns me off when I hear priests and other clergy who make puns or other shades of disrespect in their monologues and sermons degrading woman or religious sisters.I want to be fed the word. I want to listen to wisdom. Respectfully, I think you’re a learned man, but who finds most woman as imbeciles. I can’t imagine Jesus speaking the way you did in your opening about woman.
Attachments are also natural biological enduring relationship bonds. They should NEVER be broken unless we want a new generation of Priests who are emotional spastics
Love is different than attachment. People can mourn the death of a loved one, for instance, without being “attached” to that person. Jesus wept at Lazurus’ death
Im kind of shocked at how few views,comparatively, and timewise, this important video has gotten...such an important video.
Fr Ripperger has helped me a lot in deepening my faith. I learned a lot from him from all the Sensus Fidelium postings. Thank you
Hmm I may need to detach from binging Fr. Ripperger lectures.
You too?
Ha! Well, he’s increasing my faith, so it’s purifying my intellect and preventing detachments.🤪
Elizabeth D. Attachments ** 😂
What is binging mean. Is it a mistake
B Weatherman binging means to do a lot of something in a short period of time. The opposite of moderation
Yes thank you fr ripperger teaching me the ways, been studying, working mortification and self denial
Lent is a great time to break attachments.
I detached from Facebook last Friday. People don't realize how addictive social media really is. Not only is it addictive, I truly believe it is rewiring our brains. I challenged a good friend of mine to quit Facebook with me. She couldn't last through Saturday.
Dari Kate Streater ...I'm happy to say that I never posted any of my personal business on there
satan hides behind every evil or weak person, drug, glass of alcohol, source of gambling, electronic device, places of immorality, immodesty, concupiscence etc. So Christians beware!
Mich Ell, also food. I mean eating and drinking between meals
I want to detach from reading comments on subjects I listen to. It's really wasting my time. I feel like I'm very attached to read comments.
yup, I quit during COVID 19. Best decision in a long time.
God took the man I loved to heaven, that helped my spiritual life beyond anything I could do, then he nearly had me lose my son. I was allowed to feel the full weight of purgatory, that God would not help me keep my son with me, and I was given the grace to detach in favor of God's Holy Will, praying for the grace of final perseverance the whole time, because I felt my heart breaking to the point of death. Once I detached miracles happened and my son is still with me!
Praise God!
Thankyou so much Fr Ripperger. This is just what i needed . God bless you always .
"You can't be attached even to the consolations that you get thorughout the course of your spiritual life (27:17)" Thank you Father for your holy work! God bless you!
True had that issue too. people get addicted attached to those consolations. I did.
What I needed to hear today. Thank you, Father Ripperger 🙏
Thank you Reverend Father. Since I started sincere devotion to Divine Mercy, I have been able to accomplish all my personal spiritual desires and still a long way to go with Jesus leading me.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph pray for us!
Father Ripperger you're the best!
May God bless you abundantly!
Blessed be God forever. Amen
Thank you Father for this lovely sermon, which has helped me to learn more about my so many spiritual weaknesses. May our Lord be praised and glorified in every situation. Amen
Gods been helping me with this a lot lately 😊
God’s*
Same. Everyone I knew knew how much I relied on coffee to get through a day like an addict. Recently was able to let it go and easily I did, didnt have to wait til Lent season. Detachment is anytime of the year, just let God take over.
@@phillipvolkert2755 I have many learning disabilities, but I try to not let it get me down. Thank you for making me aware of it and for making me embarrassed for something I can’t control. 💜👍🏻
I have been going through a rough breakdown, please pray for me.
I’m praying for you! God will get you through this!
Without you Steve, I'd be lost. I thank you so much, words cannot explain. I'll offer some Eucharists for you ❤
❤LORD HELP ME WITH MY TEMPORAL PROBLEMS, AS WELL AS THE OTHERS YOU KNOW🙏❤️🙏
Fr. Rippenger you have helped me so much in learning the truth faith ... as you quoted from Saint John the Cross, - From creatures for perfect union with God - God is everything, God is ALL, the necessary and absolute being most pure act without shadows of potency who exists of himself and possess the absolute plenitude a being, he is goodness itself, for us to pursue anything other than him in the end isn't really rational." --- Great Summary
We must love God first and our neighbour for His sake, we can not cut everyone off, as our commandment to love God then our neighbour as ourself, through charity
Best judgement comes from total detachment, how clever and true.
Using my irascible appetite to rebel against devil, not to sin, strengthing lower factories and reasoning
Wow, this is very deep, and so true. Praise God for it.
I find that reading about the Essenes, and about Elijah, and Carmelite way, to be excellent ways of making sense out of non attachment, in particular, to the lower faculties.
So grateful for this.
so good. listened to this again. thank you.
Thank you so much Fr. Ripperger
It is very difficult to practice detachment, for example, when you are supposed to be attached to your newborn; but it must be a different kind of attachment than the kind we are supposed to completely remove as we progress in the spiritual life. Obviously, our children ultimately belong to God, and not us, so that is one thing to keep in mind.
There's nothing unholy about being attached to your newborn. That's a natural healthy way to mother. He's referring to unhealthy appetites not our children. The ultimate way to be a good mother is to teach our children how to love our Holy Mother through our love for them and especially by teaching them to love our Holy Father, God, by guiding them, healthy discipline, faith formation, mercy, and unconditional love. God made you attached to your children as those children are His Gift to you. He trusted you enough to give you them and it's up to you to show them His Love right back and give them back to Him in His Holy Sacraments.
I almost lost my son in a car accident when he was 8(he is now 13). They basically told me he most likely wouldn’t make it. He ended up being in the hospital for a month and miraculously made it through. The hospital priest gave him Last Rights, and he was there for me every moment ❤️
The first night the priest said to me, which was heart wrenching but somehow somewhere deep in my psyche, also consoling, “He is on lend to you Amy, he is not yours to begin with, if Our Lord decides to take him honey, he is going home to his rightful owner.” It made me somehow in my sorrow and agony, think of things in a different light. It didn’t take the sorrow of possibly loosing him away, but it reminded me that my son is not in fact “mine.” He is Gods and he is on lend to me 🙏 I think it’s beautiful and necessary to be attached to our children, but knowing this fact, that our babies are, “on lend” to us from our Lord, is maybe the “detachment” we need as parents? ❤️🙏 That was the first thing that came to mind for me and only because of what the priest said to me, otherwise, I don’t think I could have comprehended it. ❤️🙏
Or else, a lot of parents follow their children into sin. They’ll hang the pride flag, happily attend the commitment ceremony, because the kid demands it. I’ve seen too many people deny Jesus and leave the church to follow an lgbt kid and applaud the whole way
V good this wisdom is helpful. It has helped to see things in a v grounded way.thanku
I’m attached to this video, it’s very good
Lol
it requires long fasting grace of God and constant prayers
Wow I learned so much from this video!! Thank you Fr. Chad and SF. I think the pope in the film at the end is Pius XII.
Just amazing thank you
Great teaching, Fr.
God's current flows like perfect charity From God (who we love first) then from us it can flow to others. Then our love can be Holy and a more perfect reflection of God's love. Is that that right Father?
I think that what this lesson is saying (in simple terms) is that .....first we must tap into the current of God's Love.....then we can love everything else through the Love of Christ. If we try to live in our own strength it will fall very short of what is True Charity. So if we love something or someone we should lay them at Christ's feet. Detach from them completely and give them to God. Then we can re-connect in through Christ. Like we extend the current of God's love to others because we are First and foremost tapped into God. Am I understanding that right? If not Father please correct me. 😊
well. When I was a kid, after my first Communion I started to love the host because it tasted much better than any of the other oblates that were not consecrated. So, you can think of the Eucharist as very tasteful.
I always wanted to have oblates but none tasted as good as the Eucharist!
This is challenging. There are so many nice things
I have tons of attachments I see after watching this. I guess I like creature comforts... coffee, pipe, good tasty food. 25:00 - think about God and He will solve the problem. Thank you
I'm attached to coffee as well. I just cut back a little. It's really about balance. Moderation in all things.
I have an attachment to food but mostly coffee ☕️ so in other words just slowly giving it up would be more effective cause I do fast but doesn’t seem to break the detachment completely
Okay God You purify me! I hurt
It seems whenever i deal w/illness and or sickness my soul immediately starts to detach.....🕊
I have seriously observed this also. For some reason, when our bodies are in a frail place, there is often a helpful spiritual perspective we get on life, ourselves, etc.
@@matt8637 Seems like we begin to focus on whats important when sick, and not so much on the attachment and/or addiction.
100%. To the Glory of God, The Father I haven't had experiences with sicknesses and such, but like trials and tribulations and such, YES!! In the aftermath there is always _some_ detachment/Sanctification that occurs.
The happiest, most grounded people I’ve met are those who struggle with severe disabilities. They NEVER complain and are always delighting in the Lords Day.
Thank you
My husband has worked away from home for about 10 years. He loves his work. He is faithful, just very extroverted. I was emotionally neglected as a child. I felt my husband emotionally neglected me and I would cry incessantly. Im now on antidepressants and I can do things again. Do I have a disordered attachment and how do I get rid of it.
Offer all your misery to God.
God loves you.
Amen! ✝️🇻🇦💜💞
Saint Francis of Assisi ❤ was a master in detachment😊
Serious question, how to practice mortification? does skipping 1 meal is already a kind of moritification?
Yes, it is.
Wow. I’m more attached to the world than to God!! Pray for me!! I have some work to do…..
I think sometimes we get attached to miracles rather than God’s will be done. I had 3 miscarriages and I had a crisis of faith when God did not save my babies. I had to eventually let go and accept these crosses as God’s will. I even got angry at God by thinking “how could you”? God forgive me for presuming that I think I know what’s better than God does. It takes complete trust when His plan involves heartbreak and tears but sometimes that’s what it is.
Yes it does. Christ forgives you
That's a nice coherent thought... sometimes misfortunes happen so that we can go to God for healing.
I'm very sorry to hear that! I pray God gives you healing consolation
I pray that ultimately you reach Heaven where you will see/meet your children. Read the book: Heaven is for real. Or see the movie. It is about a small miracle a young boy experiences… a true story🙏
I really wonder when watching these videos how anyone ever gets to heaven..these videos would scare most people away from trying to live a devout life. Even trying to get my head around some of the concepts is mind boggling to me.
Henry Stoneking
Then why did our Lord and Savior die?
What exactly did he save if it wasn’t to bring us to Heaven because “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life “
If I need to be as good as you, or possibly you as good as me, don’t you think that takes away from God’s message of Love and Salvation?
Do you really think you have attained Heaven by your works?
Patricia Ann So what do you believe? That you can do whatever you want in this life & still get to Heaven as long as you believe in Jesus? Is there no conditions like trying to live a good life & avoid sin as far as you're concerned? The Devil himself believes in Jesus. Any "works" as you call them that we do are done by the grace we receive from God but we need to ask for those graces & completely trust in him to give them to us..we have to humble ourselves & completely rely on God for everything & detach ourselves completely from this life & worldly things if we are ever to achieve any progress in the spiritual life..but even that detachment itself is something that we can only achieve by the grace of God. We also have to trust that God will forgive us no matter how many times we fall & resist the temptation to lose hope & give into despair (which is something that I struggle a lot with). What I'm trying to say in a very roundabout kinda way is that anything good we manage to achieve is God working through us by grace but we have to correspond to that grace & trust completely in him to gain the graces that we need to do those "works". He didn't have to do things this way, he choose to, so who are we to argue?
Tom K
Thanks for your reply, I’m delighted to speak to someone earnest for God!
I am disabled and believe my healing, God Willing will manifest.I was raised Catholic. I believe in Jesus, and His Word.
More specifically, from what I’ve seen in my life, unlike Satan, I have an ongoing relationship with Jesus. I have a growing aversion to the sin in my life. I’m not trying to go up the rungs on a ladder, for my rank in heaven. I’m only trying to become closer with our Lord, Jesus.
Sin is not my focus, but I’m being pulled out of a sinful lifestyle, because I see more and more clearly that my relationship with Him is damaged by my sins..
I echo Paul’s words “everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial.”
I enjoyed this video and I have benefited from the teachings, immediately.
To be honest when I first watched this video the thought of achieving complete detachment made me feel quite hopeless & scared but that was just me being weak & prideful in thinking about my own limitations instead of trusting in God's great power & grace to help me...I still struggle with it but I'm getting better, slowly but surely. God bless.
T K I have the same thoughts. God’s mercy is our hope as we struggle to live out our faith and do everything we need to do or not do.
Could I have some direction in this matter. I am a new kindergarten teacher. I am finding myself very fond of certain phonics programs materials that are really helpful for the kids. I would be very upset not to use these things anymore. Any insight? Is this something I should be concerned with?
Would love to meet you!!!
As always enlightening stuff
Way too many ads!
Oof I needed this
Detachment from a human being. No matter who it is?
Any book out there on how to be a real traditionalist?
My comment is a little late, but I wonder how Fr. Ripperger would untangle the mess that has led people to treat the personality as temperament, and vice versa. Erroneously thinking it is personality that can be/is changed, and is temperament that is unchangeable. And they'll say they disagree with Fr. Ripperger. When I've thought deeper about it, it is Fr. Ripperger that is correct - personality doesn't change, and only appears to others as if changed because is the temperament thats been mastered and so people perception of you changes. Personality IS and doesn't do; temperament also IS, from birth...but the added conditioning as you go through life is what becomes and DOES...and can be changed. Temperament - temper - temperance...follow?
I probably won't be able to fully detach form Everything until I die.
St John of the Cross elaborates profoundly on attachment to religion. This a difficult concept for those in the secular world trying to live a concentrated spiritual life. If we are in truth hiding in the pew, we are not turning to God. It's a clever, or psychologically crippled, form of worshipping ourselves. A friend, a wise spiritual man, a successful architect, once whispered to me inside a Eucharist Shrine, "Take a look around you. Notice all the psychologically disturbed individuals. In some cases, pure nut jobs. The spiritual life is difficult, especially if you want to center your life purely upon faith, hope, and charity. There are no rewards. No consolations. It is difficult to purify yourself without becoming attached to yourself." I admired Father Ripperger's example of a man loving the photo of his wife, yet not loving his wife.
I get what shes saying about legalism. I was at one point a legalist.
Ok. So what about the story of Tamus and Mary ? I don't doubt the church but I still have questions that I've not seen answered. The bible don't mention Mary to be prayed to etc.
You don't pray to Mary, you ask Mary for intercession
Mary is a person, and in heaven. She asked for help for the couple at the wedding at Cana and she can ask for help for you of you ask her. After all, she is in heaven and more alive than we are.
Go deeper what's the meaning of "pray" , other meaning of pray is "petiton".
Just remember the first miracle of Jesus, through Mary Mother Christ the water turned to wine.
You must start to pray the Rosary.
One prays to GOD through the intercession of His Mother (of Jesus) or through the intercession of GOD’S friends, the Saints and the Angels🙏 Also go directly to GOD.🙏
Most people can't detach
God punishes those who won't rationally punish themselves.
♥️
Interesting.. lifelong "gotta have chocolate" thing has vanished...
8:47
I just went through one, a surprised detachment, a true mental abuse and torment. Why these people are so sick and wicked and do it under the flag of "good Catholicism "! Over-Board and sickening to the stomach!
54:05
No such thing as "attachment to God." This is what happens when you're too intellectual and not centered in your experience.
Sure there is. Our Lord puts it this way: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
What about attachment to Mary!?
I think devotion is different than attachment. He says attachment is something that when you’re taken away from it, you feel pain. And I have a hard time believe anyone is attached to Mary. Attachments like Fr said, are disorders that feed the lower faculties.
Dannes...what means :binging??
I'm attatched to my priest like he's my dad.... I can't seem to get over it
I think you get over this as you get older. Prefer nothing to Christ.
It turns me off when I hear priests and other clergy who make puns or other shades of disrespect in their monologues and sermons degrading woman or religious sisters.I want to be fed the word. I want to listen to wisdom. Respectfully, I think you’re a learned man, but who finds most woman as imbeciles. I can’t imagine Jesus speaking the way you did in your opening about woman.
No such thing
Women will say I need chocolate.
Attachments are also natural biological enduring relationship bonds. They should NEVER be broken unless we want a new generation of Priests who are emotional spastics
I understand where you're coming from but that isn't what Father is talking about. It's an extremely complex theological thing.
Love is different than attachment. People can mourn the death of a loved one, for instance, without being “attached” to that person. Jesus wept at Lazurus’ death
I have thought about detachment from social media but I have been filling my wall with holy & positivity ❤️🧡💙✝️🩸🌹✝️🩸✝️🩸✝️