The commentary about the melancholic was 'spot on'! I'm melancholic and have had to learn, over the years, to become more positive in outlook for one thing. Also, Ste. Therese of Lisieux was of the melancholic temperament. Small but personal episodes in her life had a deep and lasting impression. One of her mottoes: "Do the little things exceedingly well for the love of God."
"Deep Idealism and Hidden Pride" defines me. The day I first talked to the priest of my parish (I was a protestant coming to the catholic Church and he wanted to know me better) he saw my main motivations for my conversion were intelectual and told me by the end of the conversation that deep intelectual interests can lead somebody to be proud and I should be careful with it. He was spot on and one of the things I ask God the most when I pray is to make me humble and don't let me entertain some prideful thoughts that often come to my mind.
im so grateful that i learned that this was my temperament, i've spent a lot of time beating myself up thinking that there was something wrong with me because i felt like i never fit-in due to having this temperament, it felt like the people that i was around always seemed to value quick thinking a reactivity when i naturally am not this way, this video is quite a vindication of my natural inclinations, it's been helping me to heal myself in this way and love myself more; which in turn allows me to love others more as well :)
Thank you for sharing this. I have a friend who is melancholic, and I am always afraid to bring up her temperament in discussion because I've heard that melancholics do not like others to analyze their temperament. But hearing this from you encourages me to help educate her. Because she is very shy and isolates herself from the world, and maybe she feels there is something wrong with her compared to others. Maybe learning this can help bring healing to her, as it did for you.
My temperament is melancholic. The routine and time management for me is so important. To work on the hidden pride is definitely in my morning prayers. I am my enemy. What helps me most, by the grace of God, is reading books for the religious. (Conference Matter for Religious by Girardey, Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues by Alphonsus Rodriguez, and most importantly to me, Jesus The Model of Religious by a Religious of the Congregation of St. Charles Borromeo. I also found that memorizing daily prayers by writing them over and over. To me it is so important to know by heart the Act of Faith, Act of Hope, Act of Love, and Act of Contrition and to pray them everyday. The Rosary (all 3 Mysteries prayed) is where I constantly seek in depth details and knowledge of Christ through books, paintings and sermons in order to go deeper into meditation. Spiritual Communion by Cardinal Merry del Val.
Melancholics are precious since they complement my sanguine personality! Melancholics are thoughtful and their deeds ground me so that I don't fly off the handle of spontaneous adventures that could lead to disaster! Dear reader, Tonight, I pray for you "Hail Mary" as you please pray for the state of California to reject Prop 1 by huge majority to stop enshrining infanticide into Golden State constitution for healthy mom on healthy baby death penalty for the crime of being unwanted! November 6, 2022 Saturday, Saint Gianna Pietro Molla, pray for us especially in CA Tuesday, November 8, 2022
So here is my confession: I've been a cradle Catholic since my baptism as an infant child, I've been a confirmed Catholic in accordance with all of the Sacaments. I've tried to stay true to my faith, even as far as attending lectures by Fr. Benedict Groeschel before he was well know and gave lectures in Kearney New Jersey. I attended his retreats in Launchmount, N.Y. along with a group of other followers in the early 1980s. One in our group went on to become a priest. I knew it before anybody else that he was going to become a priest. He was a special person and had the Holy Spirit deep within him. The impossible story is that this same friend baptised my little baby girl at Morristown Hospital in1995, born prematurely at less than one pound. Believing she would not survive, I searched for a priest to baptize her despite I preformed my own personal baptism. But there were no other clergymen around to baptize her. So I baptized her myself, possibly knowing that in a few hours my little girl might succumb to the lack of medical aid at the hospital during those times. While praying for a priest to appear at the locked doors of the local chappal on a Sunday morning, I could not find anybody to baptize my premature baby girl who I knew might soon die. So I took it upon myself to baptise her in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen. But to me, that was not enough, I wanted it to be done officially. Suddenly, while walking in despair for lack of any priests available at the hospital on a Sunday morning, I continued to walk toward the NICU to pray and possibly to say goodbye to my little 1Lb little baby girl. Then, suddenly as I was walking toward the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) I saw a man turn around the corner of a very long hallway walking towards me. He was dressed in black and had a white collar. As he approached me I recognized him as one of my fellow prayer group members from a few years earlier. He was now father Mark Mancini of Totowa, N.J. , a long-term friend and priest in the Passaic County diocese in New Jersey. As this unknown man in black walked towards me, I recognized him as my friend "Mark" from our prayer group from many years earlier. As we met, I stopped him on he spot and reminded him who I was. He instantly remembered me. I said to him: "Mark, I see you have become a priest". He said: "Yes I'm supposed to be at this hospital, but the think somebody made a mistake, the person I'm supposed to meet is not registered at this hospital". I said: "Mark, you are at the right place right now." I explained to him my dilemma that I needed a priest to baptize my little one pound little girl before she dies. I told him the whole story and he followed me to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). I needed him to perform the Sacraments before my little baby might die. So he immediately followed me to the NICU and properly baptized her and gave her the last rights as well. What are the chances in a person's lifetime for the above situation to happen? Happy ending, my little girl is now age 27 and is teaching in the field of social science where she will assist young kids in the Austin Texas area. I can go on and on, but I'll have to stop here. Question: what are the chances of this event ever happening without some sort of a spiritual intervention?
It was Divine intervention for sure! I have to say that as I am "revert", Catholicism in NJ is strong; and I'm lucky for that. I'm glad to here a great story that happened Kearny.
@@loulasher Thank you. Indeed, the Catholic faith is strong in N.J. and in many other states. I've since moved to Texas and I'm very impressed that people in Texas go to confession much more than they do in my former local church in N.J. It seems people in New Jersey take it for granted that its ok to receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord without going to confession for many years. As Catholics, we are obigatied to go to communion at least one time per year during the Easter season. In my church in N.J. I've never seen more than a few people wait on line for confession. Yet, it seems the entire congregation goes to the Holy Sacrement of Communion every Sunday. How is this possible? However, in Texas, there are many more people who wait on line for the Sacrament of Reconciliation before they receive Communion. Why is this? I can only surmise that the people in Texas believe more so than the people in New Jersey that the Holy Sacrament is the "real body and blood of our lord". It's been recently said that 70% of Catholics do not believe the Holy Eucharist and Blood is not the real thing. In Texas, it seems people have a stronger belief in the "real body and blood" of the Holy Eucharist than they do in other Dioceses in our Country. Why is that? To me, the population of central Texas has a very prominent population of Mexican Americans. In the NorthEast, the Catholic participants are much more diverse. Does this have some connection wju the people who believe in the Eucharist is the real "Body and blood" of our Lord? Does this mean that the ethnicity of those who are brought into our Catholic Faith has a statistical value of ethnicity vs. believers? I'm not from Mexico. I am a cradle born Catholic from a family raised in he early 1950s from Paterson, New Jersey.
I’ve honestly never considered my own pitfalls in the context of the western temperaments, but I’ve always seen the parallel between the introvert personality type and the melancholic and noted a niche of our culture that tends to idolize the introvert as a humble, solemn, selfless type which isn’t at all accurate. As a melancholic let me tell you our pride is a reserved, silent type but nonetheless hazardous as more extroverted and boisterous modes.
In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius says that God is the true source of inspiration & one's imagination and the enemy are the two *false* sources of inspiration. So how does one know that they are truly following the will of God ?
Thank you for this important question. To be able to "discern the spirits," as St. Paul admonitions us, nothing is more useful than a trustworthy spiritual director. God bless you.
I'm more melancholic realizing my pride and trying to fight against is hard but Mary and Jesus will help me get through it.
The commentary about the melancholic was 'spot on'! I'm melancholic and have had to learn, over the years, to become more positive in outlook for one thing. Also, Ste. Therese of Lisieux was of the melancholic temperament. Small but personal episodes in her life had a deep and lasting impression. One of her mottoes: "Do the little things exceedingly well for the love of God."
"Deep Idealism and Hidden Pride" defines me. The day I first talked to the priest of my parish (I was a protestant coming to the catholic Church and he wanted to know me better) he saw my main motivations for my conversion were intelectual and told me by the end of the conversation that deep intelectual interests can lead somebody to be proud and I should be careful with it. He was spot on and one of the things I ask God the most when I pray is to make me humble and don't let me entertain some prideful thoughts that often come to my mind.
im so grateful that i learned that this was my temperament, i've spent a lot of time beating myself up thinking that there was something wrong with me because i felt like i never fit-in due to having this temperament, it felt like the people that i was around always seemed to value quick thinking a reactivity when i naturally am not this way, this video is quite a vindication of my natural inclinations, it's been helping me to heal myself in this way and love myself more; which in turn allows me to love others more as well :)
Thank you for sharing this. I have a friend who is melancholic, and I am always afraid to bring up her temperament in discussion because I've heard that melancholics do not like others to analyze their temperament. But hearing this from you encourages me to help educate her. Because she is very shy and isolates herself from the world, and maybe she feels there is something wrong with her compared to others. Maybe learning this can help bring healing to her, as it did for you.
My temperament is melancholic. The routine and time management for me is so important. To work on the hidden pride is definitely in my morning prayers. I am my enemy. What helps me most, by the grace of God, is reading books for the religious. (Conference Matter for Religious by Girardey, Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues by Alphonsus Rodriguez, and most importantly to me, Jesus The Model of Religious by a Religious of the Congregation of St. Charles Borromeo. I also found that memorizing daily prayers by writing them over and over. To me it is so important to know by heart the Act of Faith, Act of Hope, Act of Love, and Act of Contrition and to pray them everyday. The Rosary (all 3 Mysteries prayed) is where I constantly seek in depth details and knowledge of Christ through books, paintings and sermons in order to go deeper into meditation. Spiritual Communion by Cardinal Merry del Val.
Melancholics are precious since they complement my sanguine personality! Melancholics are thoughtful and their deeds ground me so that I don't fly off the handle of spontaneous adventures that could lead to disaster!
Dear reader,
Tonight, I pray for you "Hail Mary" as you please pray for the state of California to reject Prop 1 by huge majority to stop enshrining infanticide into Golden State constitution for healthy mom on healthy baby death penalty for the crime of being unwanted!
November 6, 2022 Saturday, Saint Gianna Pietro Molla, pray for us especially in CA Tuesday, November 8, 2022
So here is my confession: I've been a cradle Catholic since my baptism as an infant child, I've been a confirmed Catholic in accordance with all of the Sacaments.
I've tried to stay true to my faith, even as far as attending lectures by Fr. Benedict Groeschel before he was well know and gave lectures in Kearney New Jersey. I attended his retreats in Launchmount, N.Y. along with a group of other followers in the early 1980s. One in our group went on to become a priest. I knew it before anybody else that he was going to become a priest. He was a special person and had the Holy Spirit deep within him.
The impossible story is that this same friend baptised my little baby girl at Morristown Hospital in1995, born prematurely at less than one pound. Believing she would not survive, I searched for a priest to baptize her despite I preformed my own personal baptism. But there were no other clergymen around to baptize her. So I baptized her myself, possibly knowing that in a few hours my little girl might succumb to the lack of medical aid at the hospital during those times. While praying for a priest to appear at the locked doors of the local chappal on a Sunday morning, I could not find anybody to baptize my premature baby girl who I knew might soon die. So I took it upon myself to baptise her in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen. But to me, that was not enough, I wanted it to be done officially.
Suddenly, while walking in despair for lack of any priests available at the hospital on a Sunday morning, I continued to walk toward the NICU to pray and possibly to say goodbye to my little 1Lb little baby girl. Then, suddenly as I was walking toward the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) I saw a man turn around the corner of a very long hallway walking towards me. He was dressed in black and had a white collar. As he approached me I recognized him as one of my fellow prayer group members from a few years earlier. He was now father Mark Mancini of Totowa, N.J. , a long-term friend and priest in the Passaic County diocese in New Jersey.
As this unknown man in black walked towards me, I recognized him as my friend "Mark" from our prayer group from many years earlier. As we met, I stopped him on he spot and reminded him who I was. He instantly remembered me. I said to him: "Mark, I see you have become a priest". He said: "Yes I'm supposed to be at this hospital, but the think somebody made a mistake, the person I'm supposed to meet is not registered at this hospital".
I said: "Mark, you are at the right place right now." I explained to him my dilemma that I needed a priest to baptize my little one pound little girl before she dies. I told him the whole story and he followed me to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). I needed him to perform the Sacraments before my little baby might die. So he immediately followed me to the NICU and properly baptized her and gave her the last rights as well.
What are the chances in a person's lifetime for the above situation to happen? Happy ending, my little girl is now age 27 and is teaching in the field of social science where she will assist young kids in the Austin Texas area. I can go on and on, but I'll have to stop here. Question: what are the chances of this event ever happening without some sort of a spiritual intervention?
It was Divine intervention for sure! I have to say that as I am "revert", Catholicism in NJ is strong; and I'm lucky for that. I'm glad to here a great story that happened Kearny.
@@loulasher Thank you. Indeed, the Catholic faith is strong in N.J. and in many other states. I've since moved to Texas and I'm very impressed that people in Texas go to confession much more than they do in my former local church in N.J. It seems people in New Jersey take it for granted that its ok to receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord without going to confession for many years. As Catholics, we are obigatied to go to communion at least one time per year during the Easter season. In my church in N.J. I've never seen more than a few people wait on line for confession. Yet, it seems the entire congregation goes to the Holy Sacrement of Communion every Sunday. How is this possible?
However, in Texas, there are many more people who wait on line for the Sacrament of Reconciliation before they receive Communion. Why is this? I can only surmise that the people in Texas believe more so than the people in New Jersey that the Holy Sacrament is the "real body and blood of our lord". It's been recently said that 70% of Catholics do not believe the Holy Eucharist and Blood is not the real thing. In Texas, it seems people have a stronger belief in the "real body and blood" of the Holy Eucharist than they do in other Dioceses in our Country. Why is that? To me, the population of central Texas has a very prominent population of Mexican Americans. In the NorthEast, the Catholic participants are much more diverse. Does this have some connection wju the people who believe in the Eucharist is the real "Body and blood" of our Lord? Does this mean that the ethnicity of those who are brought into our Catholic Faith has a statistical value of ethnicity vs. believers?
I'm not from Mexico. I am a cradle born Catholic from a family raised in he early 1950s from Paterson, New Jersey.
I am very critical as a melancholic
I’ve honestly never considered my own pitfalls in the context of the western temperaments, but I’ve always seen the parallel between the introvert personality type and the melancholic and noted a niche of our culture that tends to idolize the introvert as a humble, solemn, selfless type which isn’t at all accurate. As a melancholic let me tell you our pride is a reserved, silent type but nonetheless hazardous as more extroverted and boisterous modes.
It seems to me that people with mental illnesses have no hope in these spiritual battles...it really makes me question things.
8:48 😳😳its true though, without faith there is despair and life becomes miserable, don't do it 😭
In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius says that God is the true source of inspiration & one's imagination and the enemy are the two *false* sources of inspiration. So how does one know that they are truly following the will of God ?
Thank you for this important question. To be able to "discern the spirits," as St. Paul admonitions us, nothing is more useful than a trustworthy spiritual director. God bless you.
At minute 02:34, when Kevin says doctors, does he mean Doctors of the Church or doctors a profession e.g. medical / PhD?
Thank you for your question. Mr. Roarty speaks there of secular professions in which melancholics excel. God bless you.