HEALING MEMORIES DEEPLY & Distractions during prayer - How to deal with it: St. John Cassian says clean out your heart before you pray. I learned from Fr. Robert DeGrandis, healing priest, that sometimes a thought just might be provoked by the Holy Spirit!!! AND The Holy Spirit wants us to deal with it now! I usually get hit with some thought right when I pick up my rosary to pray and when I first stare upon the Crucifix. So I begin to talk to Jesus about this issue I am having. I talk it all out, sometimes cry, weep, wail, scream why!!!! But I get it out of my mind, heart, spirit, and soul and finally release that burden into Gods Big Hands. You talk, talk and give, give more and more to God until you find complete TRUST in God. Then you will have your peace of mind, heart, healthy body, and spirit! Most of our issues are either current or a memory that plagues us. Just know that as you talk, take time to listen to God. God can heal you bit by bit every night while you sleep. Just because this same issue pops up again the next night in prayer, it does not mean God has not healed you..Some issues run deep. God knows how to peel back the layers. This is how you work with God to ROOT OUT the issue, the sins, cleanse the mind, heart, soul, and begin to forgive yourself and trust yourself again. When you discover pain, sorrow, anger, sins associated with an issue or memory, go see a priest asap and get this junk out of you finally. The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation will even give you a deliverance or exorcism you need. When that same issue pops up again, just go to God again for a deeper healing, cooperate with the Holy Spirit and give it to Him and let him heal emotional scars every night too. Forgive others. In Sacrament of Penance, confess the Name of the person your are so angry with or the person you gossiped about or sinned against. I know from personal experience that there is a big bonus to healing when you say the persons name. It is as if the Holy Spirit cuts ties of sins between you and this person and both of you get a long well deserved healing. This happened to me when I confessed of a sin of gossip I committed in 9th grade toward someone who just finally offended me for the last time. But on and off for 30 years I worried and wondered about the damage I had inflicted upon her. Finally, When I went to confession about my 30 year old sin, and with true repentance and tears of course, ooooohhhh mmmmyyyyyyy, God sure let me know He heard it and WOW what an immediate healing response He gave to me!! Please also know that you can do what is called a GENERAL CONFESSION! It is a confession of all your sins you can remember in your life! I strongly urge everyone to begin preparing this type of confession. Break it up into 5-10 years at a time. Most priests do not have 5 hours to hear the last 40 years of your sins, and, because this is an emotional toll upon your heart and mind, be kind and gentle toward yourself and just write and do what you can handle. Do not let yourself get discouraged and not make it to confession. All priests I know can easily make an emergency confession appointment. Another reason I strongly urge this confession is because the Church knows that sin has an effect upon your health. I want you to be mentally and physically healed if God Wills it. The third reason to do this type of confession is to get rid of the sin or sins blocking you from the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The last reason is to prepare you for the day of Illumination (The Warning before the 3 Days of Darkness chastisement which saints have prophesied for more than 150 years). This type of confession will bless you with such an experience of true spiritual freedom. When you feel this, you will finally know the real difference between bondage and freedom! You will be so full of joy in your spirit too, not just heart and mind! You will have Gods desires in you alive and you will begin to experience perhaps His Living Flame of Love! I cannot begin to describe to you the phenomenal blessings awaiting you. Priests and seminarians need to do this now!!!! Never let an ignorant priest discourage your confession when he kindly and somewhat curiously might say Why do you want to do this? It is not necessary. It truly is necessary especially if you do not practice weekly prayer but annual prayer! I also urge anyone of all ages who will be receiving their First Sacrament of Confession and Eucharist and Confirmation to do a General Confession. ~~ Maria. Now the following is a great writing by St.John Cassian on cleansing our heart: Church Fathers, Day Forty-Five: St. John Cassian says to clean out your heart before you pray. September 4, 2014 by Pete Socks The Egyptian abbot Isaac gave St. John Cassian some practical advice on praying: before you start, get rid of all the things in your mind that will distract you from your prayers. To be able to offer our prayer with that earnestness and purity with which it ought to be offered, first, all anxiety about carnal things must be entirely got rid of. Next, we must leave no room for not just the care but even the recollection of any business affairs, and likewise must also lay aside all backbitings, vain and incessant chattering, and buffoonery. Anger above all and disturbing depression must be entirely destroyed, and the deadly taint of carnal lust and covetousness be torn up by the roots. Then there must be laid the secure foundations of a deep humility, which may be able to support a tower that shall reach the sky; and next the spiritual structure of the virtues must be built up upon them, and the soul kept free from all conversation and from roving thoughts, so that thus it may little by little begin to rise to the contemplation of God and to spiritual insight. Whatever our mind has been thinking of before the hour of prayer, that thought is sure to occur to us while we are praying—for the mind in prayer is formed by its previous condition. When we are applying ourselves to prayer, the images of the same actions and words and thoughts as in our previous condition will dance before our eyes. They will make us angry or gloomy, or recall our former lust and business, or make us shake with foolish laughter at some silly joke, or smile at some action, or fly back to our previous conversation. So if we do not want anything to haunt us while we are praying, we should be careful before our prayer to exclude it from the shrine of our heart. –St. John Cassian, Conferences, 9.3 IN GOD’S PRESENCE, CONSIDER . . . Do distracting thoughts sometimes break in when I pray? How can I prepare myself better beforehand? CLOSING PRAYER Father, let me approach you in prayer with a good conscience, and cleanse my heart from every kind of pollution.
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