Catholic OCD: The Supposedly Safe Choice
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- A not uncommon dilemma for a person who is struggling with OCD/Religious scrupulosity is to fall prey to a false choice: should I remain safe, always taking the most strict path and most unforgiving choice or should I risk my potential salvation and peace of mind for a more mature and more healthy choice? It is fundamentally a false choice. You can in fact be safe, faithful, living according to God's plan for you, and maintain a healthy and integrative religious practice.
THANK YOU For. Santa! I've been receiving SA newsletters for about 50 years and have always so appreciated that SOMEONE cared enough to minister to us. But now THESE videos, that I have just discovered, that YOU are personally doing, are helping me so much! They are helping me BELIEVE that letting go of having to do the SAFE thing may be something I could actually, maybe do. After 50 years! Please keep making these videos. And pray for us. ( I know you do). Thank you.
Thank you Father Santa for understanding scrupulocity and the suffering of those with this disorder. For me I have found so much peace when listening to your videos. I always feel that after listening to you I can manage my scrupulocity much better. You bring to light everything that I need to hear. God is all loving and does not want us to suffer. He is not a strict father but an all loving and forgiving one. Stopping the compulsions and trusting in God can bring us so much peace. While it is difficult to manage the anxiety each day we must put our best effort forward to trust in God’s grace. God Bless you for taking the time to deliver these videos to us.
Fr. Santa please know your work helps people immensely.
Thank you for this very helpful video. As I listen to your videos, I feel like lights are being turned on to help me find my way. I have felt so lost. I can hardly believe that you understand so much about my thought processes - and that others apparently have these same thought processes. Thank you.
thanks Fr. Santa. This helps a lot. God bless you!
Thank you dearly for these videos, Fr Santa. God bless.
Thank you for these videos. I dont know why these aren't the dominant messages of the Church. We are so focused on discerning what is "objectively wrong" that we (Catholics) have lost, in large part, the Gospel message.
Blessed be God, who led me here.😓🕊️🙏🙏🕊️
Thanks Father. Great video. 👍
Thank you
"Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence,) with fear and trembling work out your salvation." Philipians 2:12
Redemption, the *ability* to access salvation, is absolutely a gift given to us by God through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Salvation, the *actual* accessing of heaven at our death, is granted through our conformity to the will of God by keeping His commandments throughout our lives. We must "work out with fear and trembling" our own salvation. Scrupulousity is an excessive worry about how to effectuate salvation that actually hinders spiritual growth, but the reality still stands that not only is God all merciful, but He is also all just, and will hold us to account at our particular judgements. Scripture is full of support for this, especially from the mouth of Christ.
For Christ put it simply in John 14:15, "If you love me, keep my commandments." He also commands in Matthew 5:48, "Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect."
You do not seemingly understand that scrupulosity is a particular manifestation of OCD, a mental disorder. It is not primary a spiritual struggle but rather a psychological disorder that disguises itself as a spiritual struggle in order to generate anxiety.
@@catholicocd I do understand that deeply, since I've struggled with OCD for most of my life, and I've struggled with scrupulosity due to my OCD since my conversion to Catholicism. That's why I clicked on this video. I would hope God has mercy on me for this very fact of it being psychological. Nevertheless, the points I made previously still stand as it is de fide doctrine.
At 2:19 you say something that troubles me: "Are you jealous, because I am generous?" What does this sentence mean? It sounds as if you were trying to speak from the position of God and it's very unsettling...
I am quoting from the parable that is found in the gospel of Matthew 20:15. If that is unsettling perhaps you should read the parable of Jesus to better understand the context. God bless.
@@catholicocd Thank you for the explanation, as well as the wish! God bless you.
What's with the aside on patriarchy?
What do you mean the aside. It was not an aside. It is an important component to the context. Not flippant or disrespectful but also not to be dismissed as unimportant.
@@catholicocd Specifically the part about excluding half of the population based on gender -- what is the purpose of this comment?
While I think scrupulous people can definitely over-emphasize certain aspects of God in an unhealthy way, I don't think conflating "patriarchy" with an overly strict father is entirely fair. The Church itself is patriarchal as women are excluded from clergy (which is exclusive based on gender), and the Bible talks about the husband being the head of the wife. That doesn't mean fathers (or Fathers) need be overly strict and aggressive all the time.
I have been interested in your material as I struggle with scrupulosity, but honestly this video worries me a bit, and I am really not trying to be a troll.
@@catholicocd the Church is a Patriarchal, and Patriarchy is a good thing. I guess you could say Many people have a perverted idea of what Patriarchy is, and that is why they love or loathe it.
I'm not saying that because of your comment, that automatically means everything you say is wrong, but I seriously have wonder what other major ideas you have wrong after that kind of comment, Father.
Beware the modern Catholic priests who preach the wide road.
Thank you for making my point. Fear is often the single biggest obstacle to grace.
@@catholicocd Oh I think you're making your own points just fine.