Crusader_4 Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 How does one know if they are being over scroupoulous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted July 9, 2004 Author Share Posted July 9, 2004 Good question... I mean, I know I am a miserable little soul, but with God, I know I become wonderful! How would you know if you were being over scrupulous... ?? :scratch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemnantRules Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 me hard time...NOOOO. LOL. i honestly don't think i do. Looking at my little bro though, man i need to calm him down. He will have a stroke by he's 18! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnanc Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 [quote name='Crusader_4' date='Jul 9 2004, 12:21 AM'] How does one know if they are being over scroupoulous? [/quote] [url="http://mission.liguori.org/newsletters/archives.htm#SA"]http://mission.liguori.org/newsletters/archives.htm#SA[/url] Here's a newsletter for the scrupulous. [url="http://www.traditionalmass.org/Fighting%20Scrupulosity.htm"]http://www.traditionalmass.org/Fighting%20Scrupulosity.htm[/url] I know its one of those traditional Mass sites but the info on scrupulosity is accurate I believe, and matches my other research. Scrupuloisty is kind of a religious form of OCD. It is a preoccupation with sin especially for me struggling over if something is a mortal or venial sin, in some cases where there is actually no sin at all! You know because it is devestating to your prayer life because you might spend an hour or more just struggling about one occasion of impure thoughts, trying to decide if its a mortal sin, which can be followed by some by very frequent confession, in which on goes only out of insecurity because many times there is no sin. Its a habit that the deeper you do into its harder to get out of. Even when you know that something is not serious sin, you have a persistant doubt that won't go away. Thats why its sometimes called the "doubting disease". St. Alphonsus Ligouri suffered greatly from scrupulosity I believe, One thing that is pretty sweet is that my experience with this, as I got away from it, it helps me be much more self-aware than i other wise would have been able to be I think . pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted July 10, 2004 Author Share Posted July 10, 2004 Those are some pretty cool links there! Very helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piccoli Fiori JMJ Posted July 10, 2004 Author Share Posted July 10, 2004 Those are some pretty cool links there! Very helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 i don't think i'm too hard on myself... i'm too hard on others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picchick Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 [quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Jul 6 2004, 07:49 AM'] +JMJ+ Am I the only who seems to be striving for perfection, even when I cannot attain it (At least not here on earth)? I guess I've been really down because I haven't been meeting my expectations for myself. It can be really stupid things too, simple things that I could have done to be more humble or selfless, but instead I feel like I was extreamly greedy and selfish, even though I really wasn't horrible about. I don't know. I feel like I'm babbling on and on... that's all from me... [/quote] Yay!!!! I am not the only one. I get upset and frustrated because I have the picture at how whatever I am doing will turn out perfect. It never does though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelFilo Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 I can say I was like that at times, and it comes back. There is a cure mind you, it is quite simply, to realize that in the time you are over-scanning yourself, and picking apart this and that, you've totally lost sight of the reason you are being hard on yourself, Jesus. The point is, he wouldn't want you to do it, because it is so irrelevant once you go to reconciliation since all sins are forgiven, the spoken and the unspoken ( of course no leaving out stuff you remember ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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