Message for a recovering Catholic, from a wise ancestor:
The excessive guilt carried by many Catholics leads to overwhelm. It leaves a person without a sense of any practical way of dealing with the situation. It makes you throw your hands in air and pray blindly.
That isn`t the same as shining a light on the situation, or on your feelings. It just leads to internal agitation and anxiety. You’re just generating all this anxiety and blaming it on “evil”.
So you never get down to the real issue.
Image: Confessional in the Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse, France.
CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
