Prayers requested

prayers on the way.
Roman 5:20 "where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,".

 

Will pray for you, brother. Don't worry about your past, worry about your future. Let God's strength and grace fill your soul with energy. And if you cannot find the power in yourself, reach out to friends/family to help you in your fight. Stay safe and God bless you!!!

 

Only prayer (individual or when someone prays for you) plus Sacraments are not enough. God said in His Word that we must repent = be obiedent to His Word (in practice - we must try to do all what God's Word and Church say). Prayer , Mass and Sacraments are necessary because through them we get the necessary strength of will to try to be obiedent to God and His Church.
Plus we must pray above all at the time of temptation if we want to have the power and ability to say no.

If we analyse what AA members do (12 step program) - they do the same. Even if they don't call God Jesus or even mostly avoid the word God, using High Power, they always say that the only effective way is to realise in practice the 12 steps every day. If we analyse the 12 steps we'll see that all of them base on the Bible (if you don't believe, read them all).

They have 12 steps and we have the Gospel. We must implement Gospel in our everyday life like they implement the 12 steps. I know some of them - Their implementation is real and they treat it very seriously day after day. We must do so at least as hard as they do. We call it a path to sanctity.

There are 3 big mistakes which Catholics do trying to get rid of an addiction:
The first mistake is: we pray, ask others for prayers, go (even regularly to Mass and Confession), say rosaries etc. but we aren't obiedent to God or try not enough to be obiedent - lukewarm (don't want to change our life and decisions and choices according to God's Word and Church). Faith without deeds is dead.
The second mistake is trying to be a good man, husband, Christian, Catholic , ( being obiedent to God and Church ) but at the same time neglecting prayer, Mass, Confession, Sacraments...... the result is that we wish to change ourselves but we have not enough strength of will to do it. We fight untill stronger difficulties or temptation come and we give in because no man is able to repair himself without God's grace (power). As if we said to Jesus - '' we can save ourselves (from pmo or other addictions), we are saviours, not You''

The last mistake - we can call it the third one, is lack of prayer at the time of temptation. We try to fight it with all known measures but without God (His help) because not praying at the time of the attack is as if we say to God - I'll do it on my own, Your help is not necessary - as if we forgot His words -
'' without Me you can do nothing.''
or as if we never heard:
''Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”