Overcoming spiritual sloth: 1. Charity - zeal, love of God. Willing what God wills for self and neighbor. 2. Justice - constancy in the will. Fighting the tumult of the emotions consistently when doing something arduous such as prayer. Willingness to suffer. 3. Be willing to be joyful even in the arduous. Personally, I like to meditate on Our Lady's visit to Elizabeth traveling for days on foot to help her cousin out joyful for the Word was with her. But Our Lord's passion also works. 5. Detachment 6. Spiritual and corporal works of mercy
it was the other day, I was meditating on the seven deadly sins and I couldn't really wrap my head around sloth. this session demystified things, God bless the good work you are doing.
Before I was baptized I was always claiming to be a lazy man despite all the people around me assuring me that I was not, that I was a hard working man. I was trying to explain them that I was because I was failing to do what I ought to do. Then, after becoming a Catholic I saw that I was actually right. Today, after listening to this recording three or four times I can tell that I had no idea how terribly big sloth I am! Thank you for that! Father was speaking about books. I was not sure if they were just examples or there are books I could study in order to bring some tranquility of order into my life. I have that sloth and gluttony cardinal sins overgrown out of proportion and I need to work out my salvation from these sins. In fear and trembling because I see how weak and easily discouraged I am! Should anyone know what books this priest was speaking about, were they about sloth, and where can I get them then, please, let me know in Jesus Holy Name.
What a great homily for the readings of septuagesima Sunday! Whose gonna run to the race. The church is so wise in her warm up for spiritual athletes , the pre stretch /dynamic warmup before the contest of lent.
A Catholic Mom's Life on RUclips is starting an online rosary prayer tomorrow, God willing. Not sure what time, but if you sub and click the bell, you should receive a notification. 😊 Spiritual warfare can cause people to develop distaste for spiritual things. Program your own minds or someone else may do it to you nowadays. Tough times. No matter what, singing songs to God always recharges me. 😉
Good Evening Fr Ripperger and Holy Father(s), Firstly, I would like to thank you ALL for your sermons as I have found great delight and learnt more about what it means to be a Catholic here in less than a week then anywhere else. Secondly, Holy Father, I would like to know if being 'smug' is a 'venial sin?' On a personal level, I find it faith destroying especially when it comes from a Priest and members of a Roman Catholic Church. I really can't thank you enough Father, thank you.
sharon weideger thanks.I don't like to use that so that I can do other things while listening to it. I'm grateful and I appreciate your kind advice. GOD BLESS YOU TOO.
Thank you Father. In response to scarecrow? Comments. I agree the Priests are not praying as they should instead they are too busy taking care of church affairs and the majority of them their personal life something that needs to be rectified and that's if they care. This is why the Catholic Church is in so much and deep trouble spiritually. I feel there is a spiritual blockage from lack of consistency in prayers from our Sheppards. I also would like to add a word of advice to the young generation that are innocently using the acronym LOL which I learned it's stands for "LUCIFER OUR LORD." Now that they know they should stop using this word. God bless you Father and pray for us who are discouraged with this atrocious most heinous scandals in the Catholic Church which seem to have no end to it. This has affected our prayer life
Hail Mary, Our Mother, Protectress and Defender, Terror of Hell Prayer In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. By thy fiat and magnificat to God the Father, you conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us. Blessed art thou amongst all of creation combined, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mother of God and my Mother of Divine Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Perfection of angels, saints, and martyrs, Mirror of Justice who crushed the head of the serpent under the purity of thy feet. Virgin Most Powerful, whose greatest virtues of humility and obedience to the will of God are the antithesis of the devil's greatest sin of pride and disobedience, Woman mightier than all the forces of hell, cover us under the mantle of thy maternal protection! O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Triumphant mother at the foot of the cross, advocate and pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Jesus, King of Mercy, I put my trust in thee. Amen. Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, defend us in battle, Amen. Mary: Terrible as a heavenly army arrayed for battle, Pray for us. Amen. Please share. ❤️😅
When you pray and prayers fall on deaf ears.And your Faith turns to doubt.Depression , PTSD , anxiety, manifests and consumes in ways that incapacitate a person and thus seemingly makes one slothful.Physical pain issues on top of that do not make the situation any better.But the reality of mental anguish and emotional distress are enough to cripple one into a state of inactivity.Fear comes with that and also intense rage.Where is the intercession at? We are also financially wrecked.People have prospered from our suffering, while we cannot pay our debts and are in financial ruin,where is divine Justice? This is real not some fabrication.Those at the top see those at the bottom as worthless and do not even acknowledge that every human has a soul .Case in point babies fresh out of the womb can be legally murdered noe in New York and pending in Virginia.Call me crazy now , if you think ill of me.I am a believer whose Faith fallen because of myriad negatives.Please .....Stand in the gap and pray fervently for my family and I .Thank You in advance if you do.
Please listen to the book “Poem of the Man God” it’s dictations from Jesus to Maria Valtorda. Listen to V 2 even for 15 mins. It’s free on U Tube. It will change your life. I once felt negative like you and that book has changed my view.
To overcome thoughts like that it may be helpfull to read and contemplate about the book of ecclessiates. As long as one is concerned about things of this world everything is and remains pointless. But it doesn't have to be so.
May God bless you and protect you and your family from the wicked.never doubt Gods ability to turn evil situations into blessings for his glory! Remember he makes all things new you must hold out alittle longer endurance is the key. Christe Eleison Amen.
Good video... for the most part, we just need to keep in mind that Fr Ripperger’s words aren’t infallible, in general, we must watch for those who make up their own little gospel.
There are several nearby Novus Ordo communities and then there's one TLM community. It's arduous to go there because it's a two hour drive there. That could be a perfect example of this. Question: I don't see it as a good thing to just ignore my nearby N.O. community because they know me and all that. How do I be charitable to them without getting attached to them or in fact how do I detach from them but still be charitable to them?
here's the problem in some ways I'm more of a " man " then some men I think this is a common problem today. Women seem more like men then men. But that will never work because we're NOT men.
Many of the saints experienced bouts of severe depression. How does that factor into spiritual sloth? Because it's very difficult or impossible to experience joy in a state of "clinical depression" where even the tiniest thing--brushing one's teeth-- is arduous and extremely difficult. Are depressed people spiritually slothful? I'm reading Saint Faustina's Diary which, I guess, answers this question to a degree, but since most of us are not saints, we do not have the intimate relationship with God that she had, who actually spoke to her, guiding her through bouts of near despair.
Yeah, I think depression is actually considered a form of self-love, because you can only be depressed if you are thinking about yourself too much. (And this is coming from someone with a history of depression as well)
@@kristinacatherine5121 What's the root of it, though? Spiritual or chemical, or does it depend on the person? (Interestingly, I've heard that there's a similarity between mental issues and demonic activity, to the point that people suspected of being possessed are seen by psychiatrists or psychologists, I can't keep them straight, first in order to rule out a mental problem.)
Not neccessarily. Sometimes in my personal spiritual sloth. I will feel self doubt when i sin. Instead of denying myself and coming to confession to come back into the state of grace i will give in to the sloth and say i can put it off because the pain of humiliation in confessing the sin for the 1000th plus time outways my desire forgiveness. Its a avoidance of the sacred not the hatred of it.
In reply to Henry Stoneking comment................ l don't understand your comment. These priest don't live their faith, do you live your faith in what this priest is saying. You seem to hate, your are very critical, you have no peace....how about coming to God and asking him to remove all your negativity...yes, there are bad priests, and modernists, etc, there always will be. How do you live?............ does the 'beauty ' of Christ shine out of your face, so, when l look upon you and see Christ in you, l want what you have?
In another video he recommended an out of print catechism of the council of Trent with commentary. Since that recommendation it has now been reprinted with a forward by Fr. Ripperger
This sermon is basically is a form of spiritual abuse if you take it literally. In a nutshell this is this sermon If you aren’t working yourself into complete spiritual exhaustion then you are lazy, if your completely exhausted then you are lazy and finally if you complain at all then you are lazy
I understood it to mean if spiritual matters are boring/irritating, then you're backsliding. Backsliding implies a lack of moving upwards, which is arduous (the opposite of a slide). I believe St. Paul had a good reason for using a race as a metaphore. To take up one's cross and follow Christ is not easy.
You’re catastrophizing, but remember the words of Our Lord: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” Rev 3: 15-16
I'll have to listen to this over and over and over.
I hate what Father is saying but I really want to learn to love God more and more.
Overcoming spiritual sloth:
1. Charity - zeal, love of God. Willing what God wills for self and neighbor.
2. Justice - constancy in the will. Fighting the tumult of the emotions consistently when doing something arduous such as prayer. Willingness to suffer.
3. Be willing to be joyful even in the arduous. Personally, I like to meditate on Our Lady's visit to Elizabeth traveling for days on foot to help her cousin out joyful for the Word was with her. But Our Lord's passion also works.
5. Detachment
6. Spiritual and corporal works of mercy
An old Navy buddy of mine always said it, "if you're not getting better then you're getting worse."
"This is a war that doesn't end until you're dead"
it was the other day, I was meditating on the seven deadly sins and I couldn't really wrap my head around sloth. this session demystified things, God bless the good work you are doing.
I needed to hear this. This really hit home for me regarding my own issues. Thanks for the upload.
Me too, well said.
Me too now, with everything that’s going on….
Thanks Fr. Pray I get rid of my fear and procrastination tonight.
Superb.A true man of God.Thank you Father.
Before I was baptized I was always claiming to be a lazy man despite all the people around me assuring me that I was not, that I was a hard working man. I was trying to explain them that I was because I was failing to do what I ought to do. Then, after becoming a Catholic I saw that I was actually right. Today, after listening to this recording three or four times I can tell that I had no idea how terribly big sloth I am! Thank you for that!
Father was speaking about books. I was not sure if they were just examples or there are books I could study in order to bring some tranquility of order into my life. I have that sloth and gluttony cardinal sins overgrown out of proportion and I need to work out my salvation from these sins. In fear and trembling because I see how weak and easily discouraged I am! Should anyone know what books this priest was speaking about, were they about sloth, and where can I get them then, please, let me know in Jesus Holy Name.
thank you sensus fidelium
What a great homily for the readings of septuagesima Sunday! Whose gonna run to the race. The church is so wise in her warm up for spiritual athletes , the pre stretch /dynamic warmup before the contest of lent.
This is very very helpful. I understand more deeper the importance of spiritual sloth.. thank you Father.
Thoroughly theological and psychological lecture. Have to listen more than once to process it. Excellent work
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Is it same as acedia? Thank you Father. So glad you're teaching about demons and exorcisms now. Such an obvious great need at this terrible time.
I think I’m pretty slothful spiritually, but by God’s grace I’m getting better. I hopefully will get out of it permanently
Love this talk! Thank You!
Thank you!
A Catholic Mom's Life on RUclips is starting an online rosary prayer tomorrow, God willing. Not sure what time, but if you sub and click the bell, you should receive a notification. 😊
Spiritual warfare can cause people to develop distaste for spiritual things. Program your own minds or someone else may do it to you nowadays. Tough times.
No matter what, singing songs to God always recharges me. 😉
Yesssssss
Me too!!!! 🙏🏼🎶🕯💒🕊🎶
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Good Evening Fr Ripperger and Holy Father(s),
Firstly, I would like to thank you ALL for your sermons as I have found great delight and learnt more about what it means to be a Catholic here in less than a week then anywhere else.
Secondly, Holy Father, I would like to know if being 'smug' is a 'venial sin?'
On a personal level, I find it faith destroying especially when it comes from a Priest and members of a Roman Catholic Church.
I really can't thank you enough Father, thank you.
Ohhhhh I REALLY NEED THIS………. 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Sometimes the truth hurts. I’m smarting pretty good after learning these things.
Thank you
Since the soul is considered feminine. The daughters of vices are in the soul. And the soul needs restoration.
Well said.
Jesus I love you. All I have is yours. Yours I am yours I want to be. Do with me whatever you will.
Jesus I Trust In You
Extremely helpful.
Thank you so much Father for this.
Please can the Videos be louder. I'd appreciate this so much. Thanks and GOD bless.
Hi chienyenwa Anokwu,sometimes I have a problem with sound I put earphones in and this really helps gb
sharon weideger thanks.I don't like to use that so that I can do other things while listening to it. I'm grateful and I appreciate your kind advice. GOD BLESS YOU TOO.
@@ednaa4382 there's also small speakers you could buy that plugs into your device x
yes, attaching speakers help. Saves my mobile's speakers and batt :)
Sound is too low - Such an important topic that I wish I could hear it clearly.
Thank you Father. In response to scarecrow? Comments. I agree the Priests are not praying as they should instead they are too busy taking care of church affairs and the majority of them their personal life something that needs to be rectified and that's if they care. This is why the Catholic Church is in so much and deep trouble spiritually. I feel there is a spiritual blockage from lack of consistency in prayers from our Sheppards. I also would like to add a word of advice to the young generation that are innocently using the acronym LOL which I learned it's stands for "LUCIFER OUR LORD." Now that they know they should stop using this word. God bless you Father and pray for us who are discouraged with this atrocious most heinous scandals in the Catholic Church which seem to have no end to it. This has affected our prayer life
Lol, you're funny
It supposedly stands for laugh out loud, but I wouldn't doubt that there may be a hidden meaning intended.
Hail Mary, Our Mother, Protectress and Defender, Terror of Hell Prayer
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. By thy fiat and magnificat to God the Father, you conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us. Blessed art thou amongst all of creation combined, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Immaculate Conception, Mother of God and my Mother of Divine Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Perfection of angels, saints, and martyrs, Mirror of Justice who crushed the head of the serpent under the purity of thy feet. Virgin Most Powerful, whose greatest virtues of humility and obedience to the will of God are the antithesis of the devil's greatest sin of pride and disobedience, Woman mightier than all the forces of hell, cover us under the mantle of thy maternal protection! O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Triumphant mother at the foot of the cross, advocate and pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Jesus, King of Mercy, I put my trust in thee. Amen.
Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, defend us in battle, Amen.
Mary: Terrible as a heavenly army arrayed for battle, Pray for us. Amen.
Please share. ❤️😅
I love this guy so big
When you pray and prayers fall on deaf ears.And your Faith turns to doubt.Depression , PTSD , anxiety, manifests and consumes in ways that incapacitate a person and thus seemingly makes one slothful.Physical pain issues on top of that do not make the situation any better.But the reality of mental anguish and emotional distress are enough to cripple one into a state of inactivity.Fear comes with that and also intense rage.Where is the intercession at? We are also financially wrecked.People have prospered from our suffering, while we cannot pay our debts and are in financial ruin,where is divine Justice? This is real not some fabrication.Those at the top see those at the bottom as worthless and do not even acknowledge that every human has a soul .Case in point babies fresh out of the womb can be legally murdered noe in New York and pending in Virginia.Call me crazy now , if you think ill of me.I am a believer whose Faith fallen because of myriad negatives.Please .....Stand in the gap and pray fervently for my family and I .Thank You in advance if you do.
Those negatives show you the even more increased reasons to pray! We .. even you must stand the gap for each other and pray like never before.
Please listen to the book “Poem of the Man God” it’s dictations from Jesus to Maria Valtorda. Listen to V 2 even for 15 mins. It’s free on U Tube. It will change your life. I once felt negative like you and that book has changed my view.
To overcome thoughts like that it may be helpfull to read and contemplate about the book of ecclessiates. As long as one is concerned about things of this world everything is and remains pointless. But it doesn't have to be so.
May God bless you and protect you and your family from the wicked.never doubt Gods ability to turn evil situations into blessings for his glory! Remember he makes all things new you must hold out alittle longer endurance is the key. Christe Eleison Amen.
How blessed are we to have these great priest, beautiful wisdom,thanks be to God 😇
Good video... for the most part, we just need to keep in mind that Fr Ripperger’s words aren’t infallible, in general, we must watch for those who make up their own little gospel.
They are common sense.
No one is saying that they are.
There are several nearby Novus Ordo communities and then there's one TLM community. It's arduous to go there because it's a two hour drive there. That could be a perfect example of this.
Question: I don't see it as a good thing to just ignore my nearby N.O. community because they know me and all that. How do I be charitable to them without getting attached to them or in fact how do I detach from them but still be charitable to them?
It's not ridiculous, God will reward the sacrifice.
Emotional sloth is more dubious.
DUDES. this is life and death. if you want to live, listen
here's the problem in some ways I'm more of a " man " then some men I think this is a common problem today. Women seem more like men then men. But that will never work because we're NOT men.
Many of the saints experienced bouts of severe depression. How does that factor into spiritual sloth? Because it's very difficult or impossible to experience joy in a state of "clinical depression" where even the tiniest thing--brushing one's teeth-- is arduous and extremely difficult. Are depressed people spiritually slothful?
I'm reading Saint Faustina's Diary which, I guess, answers this question to a degree, but since most of us are not saints, we do not have the intimate relationship with God that she had, who actually spoke to her, guiding her through bouts of near despair.
Yeah, I think depression is actually considered a form of self-love, because you can only be depressed if you are thinking about yourself too much.
(And this is coming from someone with a history of depression as well)
@@kristinacatherine5121 What's the root of it, though? Spiritual or chemical, or does it depend on the person? (Interestingly, I've heard that there's a similarity between mental issues and demonic activity, to the point that people suspected of being possessed are seen by psychiatrists or psychologists, I can't keep them straight, first in order to rule out a mental problem.)
Can be any or all the above .
Strong distaste for the sacred sounds more like a demonic issue.
Not neccessarily. Sometimes in my personal spiritual sloth. I will feel self doubt when i sin. Instead of denying myself and coming to confession to come back into the state of grace i will give in to the sloth and say i can put it off because the pain of humiliation in confessing the sin for the 1000th plus time outways my desire forgiveness. Its a avoidance of the sacred not the hatred of it.
WHAT is he saying at 10:30? I cannot for the life of me make it out, and it sounds important.
CC says it's "utopia," which does not seem right.
Are you talking about the law of the flesh, that concupiscence that constantly draws us towards sin, because of the war between the body and the soul?
I think he said “atrophy” which means withered or dying as in a crippled limb.
In reply to Henry Stoneking comment................
l don't understand your comment. These priest don't live their faith, do you live your faith in what this priest is saying. You seem to hate, your are very critical, you have no peace....how about coming to God and asking him to remove all your negativity...yes, there are bad priests, and modernists, etc, there always will be.
How do you live?............ does the 'beauty ' of Christ shine out of your face, so, when l look upon you and see Christ in you, l want what you have?
Father, what books do you recommend??
depends on what you want/need to read
He recommends some books on his video Spiritual Life (part V) Spiritual Reading. .
I like his book of Omaha sermons. You can get at Sentrad.
I know for mental prayer he likes The Ways of Mental Prayer from TAN and for humility he likes Humility of Heart by Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo
@Henry Stoneking I'm already a nerd at heart so in addition to the Bible I will need to check out Father's books
In another video he recommended an out of print catechism of the council of Trent with commentary. Since that recommendation it has now been reprinted with a forward by Fr. Ripperger
Anyone know the name of the painting at 22:50?
Its called "Jesus, My Lord, My God, My all" by George Henry Grenville Manton
Thank you so much!! @@crok8349
What books?
Books for spiritual readings, you can try Glories of the Divine Grace, in addition to the Holy Bible.
23:55
Is not lust even worse, like porn.
This sermon is basically is a form of spiritual abuse if you take it literally. In a nutshell this is this sermon If you aren’t working yourself into complete spiritual exhaustion then you are lazy, if your completely exhausted then you are lazy and finally if you complain at all then you are lazy
I understood it to mean if spiritual matters are boring/irritating, then you're backsliding. Backsliding implies a lack of moving upwards, which is arduous (the opposite of a slide). I believe St. Paul had a good reason for using a race as a metaphore. To take up one's cross and follow Christ is not easy.
If it becomes joyful, then it's not exhausting, is it?
@Henry Stoneking "He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me" - Jesus
As he said, distain and annoyance at difficult things is sloth.
You’re catastrophizing, but remember the words of Our Lord: “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot.
But because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” Rev 3: 15-16
Thank you