Are Your Sins the Same Story Again and Again? Rewrite the Script.
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- Do you commit the same sins over and over again? Does it feel like a bad movie that you’re stuck watching, with the same sad script playing over and over again?
Rewrite it. Rewrite the script.
Today, Fr. Mike gives us some novel ideas for steering hard out of the “grooves” of sin we've worn deep into the bedrock of our daily lives.
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I don’t feel like it’s just a coincidence this was posted November first. To all my brothers and sisters trying to say no to lust this month (and hopefully forever after the month ends), we got this. Praying over all of you. And please pray for me too. Something that’s helped me too is praying a few Hail Mary’s when tempted. It’s hard to talk to your Holy Mother then commit an act of lust after.
Mother Mary help me to be more like you - is a powerful prayer.
Not the same sin, but the Memorare helps me!
Why dont you simply pray to Jesus? Its much faster! To my brother in Christ (but NOT Mary veneration) thank you for you comment and it would be my privilege to prayer for you!
@@inconnu4961 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “O woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:1-5)
Thank you, sister, for this advice. Love.❤
This must be God’s providence! This video popped up right when I got back from confession. I myself committing the same sins every time. I always bring myself back to confession. Often the priests in the confessional say to me “just keep trying your best,” and I do, but it’s not exactly the wisdom that provides me with help. One time a priest asked me about, “the script.” I told him how the same thing occurs every time. He said to me, “Put a crucifix next to the place where you commit that sin the most.” Interesting advice! I follow it, but I still fall short. Now this video comes to me! “Re-write the script.” Recognize the script and offer it to the Lord! It reminds me of the quote from St. Leo the great quoted in CCC 1691. Go read it. (It’s too long to copy here.) It also reminds of St. Paul saying that we aren’t slaves to sin anymore! All of this coming together is great. THANK YOU Father!
Hang in there. Habits (sins) rarely go away over night, but take time, diligence and grace.
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Don't forget to be humble, brother, God bless.
Same here. I fall for the same SIN. I can fo for 2 weeks. At most. But eventually fall..I wonder if the Priest already knows me in confession because I go so much. 🤔😢 but I do try. But I knw deep inside I can do better. The Rosary really helps sometimes. Keep the faith. NO PAIN NO GLORY. 📿🕊🍞🍷📖🙏🏻⛪️✝️🫶🏻🙌🏻
Thank you 🙏: again: thank you 🙏
1. Awareness
2.Plan for rewriting the script: avoid place and things where the sin occurs.
3. 30 seconds of intense effort: take the 1st step
Remember to give yourself grace, dont be too hard on yourself
Eventually the priest I went to confession to one day said to me, “ he said out of blue, “you are going to be all right” it was when I realized he was right, that wise priest, despite confessing over and over the same sin. The the times between those confession got longer as the sins decreased. There came a time where I learned that I was stronger. Praying always, and it did stop. I was free of it. Praise the Lord!
that is so amazing! i am currently struggling with habitual sin and it is very very hard. thank you for sharing
I have been for 4 hours on RUclips. This video has popped up about 7 times already. I definitely have the big sin of RUclips addiction. I tried to fight it with the digital wellbeing and app timer tools.. it's not enough I need God. He had been calling me all day to watch this. Praise God 😊
The same here, i'm probably need to go for a ytb fasting.
same lol
Yet, you are all still here 🙄
This is such great advice! I am a new Catholic. During my first confession, I confessed the sin of wrath. The Priest said that he (being Irish, LOL!) also struggled with being easily angered. He learned to overcome it when he stopped having expectations of other people. He only needed to adjust his thinking a little and then Jesus just took the sin of wrath right out of him. He rewrote the script! I've tried to do the same thing, and it really helps! I don't expect people to agree with me all the time, or do things my way. It's a lot harder to make me angry now. I so appreciate my Priest's counsel.
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well said.
This is why I love being a Catholic.
Nothing but humble honesty about being human and the "how to guide" about the tools God gave us to help us back up.
Being Catholic is the best thing this side of heaven..
Yes, it's not all about fire and brimstone with no solutions. We get solutions, things we can try to get us there.
@@gemum4219Other Christian denominations get those also! The concept is NOT unique to Catholicism, but your specific techniques may be!
@@inconnu4961Catholicism is not a denomination, that's a Protestant thing, which started existing in 1517. Catholicism IS Christianity, it is the Church that Christ established.
I love being a Christian.
I just finished praying the rosary with my daughter, asking God for forgiveness. And this pops up!
It's my confirmation day and I just confessed 1rst time. Thank you father for all you do you've inspired me a lot
A very good non Catholic friend of mine once joked to me about my having “Catholic guilt”, don’t know if I’m right but I said I had no guilt, maybe shame, but I know I’m very imperfect but God still loves me and gives me the chance everyday to get better. Prayers to all to let God in, and don’t give up!
A righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.
I'm failing every day. But I keep falling.
But I know that God's mercy never ends.
We all fail, we will fall short at one point or another. Ive developed this mentality of "Fail forward" we fail but God and Our Lady will help us up every time, so every time I walk out of confession in a state of grace, I try just a little bit more and a little bit more. This is fairly recent and results will never be instantaneous. This is just how I started going about things. Also frequent confession has been helping! Even a singular mortal sin, and confession is on my mind, the first opportunity, I pounce!
So you say every day, try and go two days, then 3, so on and so forth, youll get there! Fr. Chad Ripperger said we need to pay attention to our frequent sins, its a sign from God that those are the virtues He wants us to master or cultivate, so to speak. Lust- God wants you to cultivate chastity, Anger- Patience, Pride- Humility. There may be 7 deadly sins, but there are 7 virtues to combat them!
Fr. Mike is such an awesome person. Been listening to his Bible and Caticism in a year podcast totally recommend 👌 😊
Right on ! Don’t forget the nurses lounge too ❤❤❤ I need to stop gossiping 😢❤
I started to listen to free audio books on internet about the saints lives, my life CHANGED...😊
Most likely, the best ever pre-confessional advice that I have ever heard!!!!
Don't ever let our sins get in the way of God's forgiveness. 👃
Romans 7:15-25 😢🙏🏼
Merciful Lord, grant us the graces necessary to detach from our wills and live for Your will to be done.
This is how I deal with anger.
If I am getting annoyed with someone, I try an get the heck away from them.
I’ve also heard that seeing Jesus in everyone is a big deterrent.
@@amellowmanThat's too kind for me.
YES. Confession is groundhog day every couple weeks. I leave confession ready to do great. I then have one venial sin, get so down on myself, then I'm like well, might as well get my money's worth and away I go
Don't do that. It's no game
"Might as well get my money's worth." That's the same problem I have. But we'll get through it.
@@whoputyouontheplanet3345 pray for me, I'll pray for you
Oof, I understand that sentiment. It sounds like you have some good awareness though. This just came to me, based one comment that this isn't a game (which I agree with). We could gamify it in a different way. In lots of games we hold on to all sorts of items or tokens to help us continue in the game. You lost a token and that's frustrating. Great news though, you still have a whole bunch more of tokens to hang on to. Dropping one token doesn't mean you drop the whole bag of tokens. That's how you can get your money's worth. By hanging on to that bag of tokens. Anyway, that may not be your cup of tea, although I may use something like that for myself. However we look at it, we've got this, we CAN do this. God is with us.
I know this is a little long but I ask you please take a second to read this!
I understand and relate to that completely… but we must realize to sin over and over knowing we are going to confession anyway is a serious sin of presumption.
I don’t say this to make you feel bad (I fall into that sin also) but to show you just how serious sin is! Jesus wants to be your best freind! Think of it like this, if you went and did something against a friend or a parent, say talked about them behind their back. If they figured out you would want to immediately apologize and ask for forgiveness, not go and continue to talk bad about them, that would make you a bad friend. This is the same for our relationship with Jesus, the only difference is that unlike a parent or friend, Jesus knows EVERY time you turn against him and choose sin over him to “get your moneys worth”
but don’t fret because guess what…
Jesus wants a deeper relationship with you more than anything! And no matter how many times you fail, or how many times you turn away, he will ALWAYS be waiting with wide open arms And unlike a friend or parent here on earth, once you repent no fail or sin of the past will change your relationship with him! It will be as if you never turned away! 8. “He remembers our sins no more” (Isa. 43:25) I know because here on earth when we fail someone it will forever effect our relationship even if it’s just a small way, but how crazy is it that no matter how much we fail… as long as we repent (are sorry and try our best to turn away from sin) Jesus will love us as if it never happened!! Oh what a friend we have in Jesus!
God bless 🕊️
Thank you Father. I was abused as a child and now abused by my husband. I struggle with anger of the whole injustice of it all. I don't want to be like this. I don't want anger I want peace and joy
God bless your journey. Have you tried healing retreat?
It's no coincidence that this video is the first listed as a suggestion this morning. I have a habitual sin that I was staying away from for a few months. Yay! I was even feeling stronger about staying away because I had started thinking about my guardian angel more. It kind of seems like I had rewritten the script a bit, probably my angel helping me out there. And then something popped up in life that I wasn't expecting, and could be linked to my sin. I had already been telling myself "no" for some days right before that happened (I was really proud of myself too, it felt good to not engage in the sin). Looking back I can see I probably did feel helpless. I just fell into the cycle for a few days and I was getting on myself for not distancing from the problem. Last night I stopped engaging and I felt like I had a better hold, and more confidence I could distance myself again. And here we are. I treasure these moments. God knows and loves us so well.
Pro active avoidance. Good advice Father Mike.
“Remember, this all starts by feeling powerless.” [8:54]
“Great might is needed to raise up the lowly, to deify a mere mortal, to make the weak perfect, to grant glory through abasement and victory through suffering...To make gods those who were human, He was made human who is God.” -St. Augustine
God bless, Fr. Mike!
I literally just came back from confession. Where i have confessed a nasty habitual sin and my priest gave me penance of asking God to remove this habit. This video is absolutely an answered prayer!
I was in this situation. The same sin, over and over, however confession over and over. The lord came to rescue me. He just strengthened me over time and I was able, with gods help, to put this away.
My journey had to go deep. Not only did I have to really appreciate St. Therese of Lisieux - and learn to be honest about being little - but also I had to do some trauma work with a psychologist who appreciated Catholicism. Childhood trauma is a real thing, and it doesn't have to be huge and dramatic to leave a wound that leads you to repeat things that are not healthy. That's the "grooves" to which you refer : the brain is wiring at a fast pace in childhood and wants to be efficient later, so it would rather waltz down the old pathway than make new ones. I do believe that Grace perfects nature so a combination of therapy (to reprogram the grooves, the neural connections) and Sacraments is not problematic. It seems to be working for me, in any case.
Childhood trauma is indeed a real thing. God bless you in your therapy
It wasn't your fault. Never ever forget that but claim it.
Exactly, Sacraments are to heal the soul, therapy to heal the mind, and they are deeply connected to our general wellbeing.
For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light
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Speaking to my life right now. God bless. Pray for me. I pray for you.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that struggles with this. Best advice yet I’ve heard regarding this. Another one I’ve heard is to be patient with yourself and keep putting in the effort. It does take time to rewire our brains.
"You're trimming roses in a fancy garden, while wild weeds out in the wilderness are just waiting for some rain."
You're absolutely right, but I'm just really sad.
Thank you father for your preaching today because I’m always in the group I’m always try not to send as old as I am at 75Day by day life is very hard to deal with as you get older seems like you lose your patience but God bless you I pray for you pray for me my family pray for your family God be with you peace father peace😂
Gossip is such a bad one for me. It is my number one sin by far. It feels so impossible to escape - like there’s nobody I can talk to without falling into it! This is excellent advice, thank you father.
Its a wonderful experience to receive excellent practical amd spiritual advice from a holy priest. But it becomes positively transcendental when he has hair as magnificent as Fr. Mike.
Thanks Fr Mike, just what I needed to hear tonight ❣️God Less you🙏
It’s rare to find a soul who selflessly helps so many young, so often, on such deeply meaningful topics. Thanks for all you do Father Mike.
Oh my gosh Father. So helpful. I particularly like specific concrete suggestions. I’m going to try that 30 second thing.❤😊
This is just what I needed. My very recent confession Father told me to pray and ask God to bring healing in places I may not even know needed to be healed to help see why certain sins, in the work place, happen. Gossip. Anger. Something many struggle with at times.
Father Mike's plan is a beautiful extension of what God is asking me to do, too. Praise God for His love and mercy and for the faithful priests He uses to guide us and lead us closer to Him.
Lord, help us be the saints you have called us to be.🙏🏽
Genuinely some helpful advice, thank you so much!!
Got to start one project to create a new project, and then another to work all day.
This man is such a legend!! Thanks father Mike!
Yeah I just came from confession today also and this video just popped up.
Same
Only by Gods grace can we actually change ❤
Thank you for the practical advice. I find that it is easy to find theological reasons to avoid sin, but hardly any practical help for a sinner who wants to be free without being super condescending. Thank you. God bless 🙏🏽
Thank you Father Mike for this! I will implement this, as I want to be a better version of myself each day, to make our God proud of who I am trying to become! And thank you Lord for your love, patience and mercy you have for all of us! Prayers for everyone!
My first year of teaching, a veteran teacher told me to avoid spending too much time in the teachers' lounge. He said that's not a good place.
My mom is a retired teacher and she also indicated she didn't spend much time in the teacher's lounge. Mainly to use the microwave or something like that. When I was a kid there were special days that I could go to school with her, for whatever reason I didn't have to be in school. I remember one specific visit that we did eat in the teacher's lounge. Oof, I sensed something wasn't right. I have no idea what was said at this point, but whatever was said made me uncomfortable. I think inherently I knew what they were doing was wrong. That may have been the time my mom shared she pretty much stayed away.
Thank you so much for this. My anger is always directed at myself and I have such a hard time loving myself after past abuse that I suffered for so long. I pray for Father Mike every day because I listen to the Catechism & The Bible in a year every single day. It’s been a great help to me and to my husband
You are not to blame for abuse. It's not your fault. It is *not your fault.* Just gotta keep remembering that.
This is the best solution to recurring temptations. Thank you Fr Mike, may He continue to use you to the fullest.
Father Mike, you, indeed, are a blessing. Love your talks. 😊
Father Mike thank you!!!!! You have touched so many people's lives, including mine!!!!❤❤❤
Matthew 23:9 - And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Well done Fr. Mike! 100% agree. The same works with falling in love with praying the rosary every day. Start with one Hail Mary, then it will come the second, the third one and before you know you finished the entire rosary. And once you turn around you have prayed 3 rosaries in a day. Wanna play music in a car? 10 sec is enough to turn the rosary recording instead of random music. Everything starts with one Hail Mary and Mary's love leads further:)
I glad that I'm not the only one who has this issue.
This video, father mike makes sheds light how to deal with this problem .. thank you mike as well as everyone else who commented and sharing your struggles. God bless us all ... till then!!!
Over and over again... Im tired of apologizing i can only imagine how exhausted God is hearing the same thing over and over again
God bless you Fr. Mike.
Thank you, 3:56 Father Mike, for your wonderful and encouraging words.❤ 😊
I was just feeling shame for some sin that has been in my life for almost as long as I can remember, when this popped up. Thank you, Father Mike. I have started writing a plan to work through this based on your suggestions. Also, just to let you know, many of us Prots enjoy and grow from a lot of the content you post. I appreciate all that you do.
Thank you so much for these videos!! I’m thankful for this channel and I make sure to share with my family and friends
Thank you Father, Last couple months of life have taken drastic changes and now adapting. But i still have my personal issues. This is what i needed to hear to help guide me again. Thank you. Many blessings and thank you.
Wow i love this advice, thank you for making it available for all of us to be blessed by your teachings 🙏
God bless you, father Mike
How can I overcome the deadly sin of solitary pleasures when I've been single almost my entire life? I'm not a Saint and everywhere I look the world is throwing temptations at me. I know to well where this is leading me and I ask myself how can I go against nature even if I tried those advices many times. I'm trully desperate to solve this situation but in this world it seem unthinkable for me other than digging a hole and hide from everything. I've been saving myself for the right person all my life whitout success, it seem impossible to find good Catholic woman with good faith like if there aren't any of them left around me. This is not a coincidense I have this video one my recomended list this morning trust me, even after one of the greatest confession of my life this week. Thanks for this video.
Thank you, Father!
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account
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this video couldn't be anymore spot on in what's going on in my life I pray that with the strength God gives us my partner & I can overcome these sins 🙏🏼
Super helpful needed this
Habitual Sin sometime you can also apply a Habitual Prayer to that time when it occurs - One of my favorites was "Arise O God - Let Thine Enemies be scattered, Let those who hate Thee flee from before Thy face" This was a most helpful prayer and I overcame a terrible temptation. Gossip is a horrible habit - Many people are gossips and don't even know that is what they are doing because they think of a gossip as intentionally trying to cause harm to one of the subjects but not so, you can gossip about true things - but they are things that don't need to be discussed in present company and mulled over by you and same. So gossip is a constant in this country I think. TO get away from them doing it I used to say " Uh, I don't think we should talk about it" or "I think we should ask such n such and not assume what they were thinking" and yes those kind of responses were terribly hard but people finally got the realization I did not want to hear it. Just do something - try something - God will help you if you put your mind to it.
Reprogram ! It works. God bless.Claire.
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart
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Thank you Father I just needed this ❤❤
It's like quitting smoking. I didn't just make one decision to not smoke now and forever. I made the choice to quit, then came the first craving, then it takes 5 minutes of EXTREME effort to get through that, then I chose once more to quit smoking, until the next craving hit. Another 5 minutes of EXTREME effort. And so and so on, ad nauseum. And eventually, little by little, it gets easier.
Ya....working on a sin I did openly and routinely without ever thinking of sin or any of this for over 20 years. My entire world view and expectations were built around it for all of my developing years and then the entirety of my life from that point on as a purely indulged and openly enjoyed matter of habit.
Thats a lot of momentum to turn around....God's going to have to be patient on this one....
I do have the same sins. So embarrasing going to my parish priest with the same venial baggage. FYI... I was a teacher. Less sins now that I'm retired. 😊
The same script never thought about it like that before. Time to rewrite my script ✍
Thanks Father Mike
Thank you for your wisdom Father Mike 🙏❤✝️
Thank you for this father mike, this is so good
Born in Escondido I repented and apologized for every wrong doing and told the cops the truth pray for Rachael
Before the end of this year I'm going to confession. Please pray for me to have courage to do so. God bless you all
Thankyou..listening from the other side of the world 🌎....
Fr Schmidt, please pray 🙏 for me. Darkest moments/LUKEWARMNESS on praying. What I hate most is displeasing LORD GOD.
"Work." There you guys go again. Semper Reformanda!
Bless❣️
Can you make a video on: "Was Jesus Funny?" I've always wondered if Jesus was funny or not.
We are made in the image of God and we have a sense of humour. Yes, Jesus has a sense of humour. I’ve personally experienced it.
@@stephaniehowe997 Being made in the image of God refers to our Spirit not our ways of thinking and humor is a way of thinking - however - having said that - belly buttons are pretty funny if you ask me and platypus and flat fish with eyes on one side of their head are hilarious.
"How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?" Matthew 7:4
If that is Jesus not cracking a joke, I don't know what is.
Needed this ❤
SO GOOD!!!!
Praise God!
Great video!
🙏🙏🙏.Thank you
Such great advice!❤
Great Advice Father 🙏
You have no idea how much I needed this video.
Amen 🙏 Thank you Father 🙏
These are the excatly honts that I needed. RUclips algorithm is not that band, and certainly God's grace 😆. Thanks you so much. Viva Cristo Rei, e Salve Maria
Wow! Just what I needed!
Thanks fr. Mike 😊
Thanks!
Thank you Father
Thank you Fr Mike.
This is SO. GOOD.
Thank you for it ❤
Good stuff.
Thank you very for this!