This has got to be the most sane explanation of Human Sexuality in our Catholic world I have ever heard. Dear Fr. Santa, you have have helped me so much in the past with scrupulosity, and now with these words to help me to maturely look forward to discerning and forming my conscience on sexual matters. Thank you so much.
After this video i listened to two sermons of St Alphonsus on purity and sexuality and they couldn't have been more emphatically different than the content of this video. St Alphonsus could be summed up by saying "if you think there's a such thing as too scrupulous, you're going to hell."
I am so happy that St Alphonsus would never say such a thing. I am saddened that you believe that he would. I think it is more of the summation of your opinion than that of a great saint.
@@catholicocd I'm not a scholar or theologian. I'm a poorly catechized person, who reverted to the faith after several decades, and who is searching for clarity and not finding much. What I've heard from St Alphonsus terrified me and left me feeling that "without daily access to reconciliation and the Eucharist, I'm going to end up damned". I figure that I don't have the proper education or nuanced understanding of the faith to understand him properly so I will stay away from him for now.
@@HeracleetusIt is very wise to stay away from things that don't make you feel healthy even when those things are good in and of themselves. Many of us are very much like you. I would like to add My two cents. As Catholics we seem to think that Saints had to beatific vision while they were on earth. But they did not. They were men women and children who were living in a time and place. They live particularly holy lives in their time and we believe they are in heaven. But they were absolutely capable of making mistakes. There are many saints and theologians and clergy and holy lay people who disagreed about a whole host of topics. Saint Alphonsus was not infallible, he was a holy man who was doing the best that he could and now he is in heaven praying for us. I'm considering also your fear about daily Eucharist and daily reception of the sacrament of confession. In the olden days people did not receive the Eucharist even weekly at times In fact some people would only receive it once in their life and it would be on their deathbed. That would probably be the time they received their one Sacrament of reconciliation as well. But people still want to heaven and avoided hell. With scrupulosity we are driven by false accusations and anxiety and fear and these things are not telling us the truth of the state of our soul.
This has got to be the most sane explanation of Human Sexuality in our Catholic world I have ever heard. Dear Fr. Santa, you have have helped me so much in the past with scrupulosity, and now with these words to help me to maturely look forward to discerning and forming my conscience on sexual matters. Thank you so much.
Some criticism if I may: This video seems more of a perspective opinion on Catholic sexual history than a help for the scrupulous.
After this video i listened to two sermons of St Alphonsus on purity and sexuality and they couldn't have been more emphatically different than the content of this video. St Alphonsus could be summed up by saying "if you think there's a such thing as too scrupulous, you're going to hell."
Well, St. Alphonsus is very likely to have suffered from scrupulosity himself.
I am so happy that St Alphonsus would never say such a thing. I am saddened that you believe that he would. I think it is more of the summation of your opinion than that of a great saint.
@@catholicocd I'm not a scholar or theologian. I'm a poorly catechized person, who reverted to the faith after several decades, and who is searching for clarity and not finding much. What I've heard from St Alphonsus terrified me and left me feeling that "without daily access to reconciliation and the Eucharist, I'm going to end up damned". I figure that I don't have the proper education or nuanced understanding of the faith to understand him properly so I will stay away from him for now.
@@HeracleetusIt is very wise to stay away from things that don't make you feel healthy even when those things are good in and of themselves. Many of us are very much like you. I would like to add My two cents. As Catholics we seem to think that Saints had to beatific vision while they were on earth. But they did not. They were men women and children who were living in a time and place. They live particularly holy lives in their time and we believe they are in heaven. But they were absolutely capable of making mistakes. There are many saints and theologians and clergy and holy lay people who disagreed about a whole host of topics. Saint Alphonsus was not infallible, he was a holy man who was doing the best that he could and now he is in heaven praying for us.
I'm considering also your fear about daily Eucharist and daily reception of the sacrament of confession. In the olden days people did not receive the Eucharist even weekly at times In fact some people would only receive it once in their life and it would be on their deathbed. That would probably be the time they received their one Sacrament of reconciliation as well. But people still want to heaven and avoided hell. With scrupulosity we are driven by false accusations and anxiety and fear and these things are not telling us the truth of the state of our soul.