Interview w/ Fr. Ripperger | Mental Health, Wounds, and Healing
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- CFN's Matt Gaspers talks with Fr. Chad Ripperger, superior of the Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother (aka Doloran Fathers) and world-renowned exorcist, about mental health and how to approach healing from a Thomistic perspective. Fr. Ripperger covers this subject in great depth in his book, "Introduction to the Science of Mental Health," as well as in his newer book, "Dominion: The Nature of Diabolic Warfare," both available from Sensus Traditionis Press: sentradpress.com. To support Fr. Ripperger and the Doloran Fathers, visit: dolorans.org/donate.
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God bless you and thanks for watching!
I am devoted to the Auxilium Christianorum. I pray for Fr Ripperger, his bishop, his team, and those in their care.
Me to!
me as well!I have a copy of fr Chad's book "deliverance prayers for the laity"and say the nine prayers daily.
Me too! I just started and it’s amazing how I felt attacked at first but continued to pray. 🙏
Me too
Im a devout of the Precious Blood of Jesus but i dont do the A.C. prayers as Father Chad said it requires authorization from the confessor. Also im being helped with liberation prayers so i pray the one that was given to me.
Praying the Rosary daily WILL HELP. But it’s like watering seeds. At first you won’t see, but with time, you will realize how far you’ve come. Speaking from experience and still so far to go. Pray pray pray. Pray for me as I pray for all who are in their battles as well. ❤
It's not the only thing....."prayer alone" is not the only part of the recipe. Understanding the roots, when our nervous systems are formed as a children, is also important. It's not either or, but and. Thank you, we need to pray each other. Praying is important, but we often talk at and to God more than we listen - people are afraid to listen because their pride prevents them from the humility needed to hear truth admit wrong and change ways.
Praying for you and thank you for your hear that prays for others :)
I agree. The rosary and relationship that it cultivated with our Lady has truly saved my life. I would not have survived these past two years (my h 20mo affair during the birth of our 6th baby) without her. I owe a great deal of thanks to Father Ripperger for stressing the importance of Our Lady and her most holy rosary.
Me too!
Agreed.
My SEVERE mental illness recently released me enough to allow me to see the light. I had no clue that I had been separated from God. It took 39 years of severe mental illness and what seemed like endless trauma to find myself underneath all of the rubble. I have finally accepted Jesus and the demons are desperate but they NO longer have the power!!!! The devil feeds off of the despair and victim mentality. I am breathing proof that there is hope for the sickest.
Xoxo
I love this, especially the penultimate sentence. I think that that's something I'm starting to realize.
Betting you relapsed by now
All very true I will pray for you
Prayers for healing for all suffering with mental illnesses
In my opinion, suffering from mental illness is the worst pain of all. All suffering from it shall be in my daily Rosaries.
Don't forget to offer up the pain.
You are so right. My 33:42 daughter has suffered for years with bipolar disease. Even went through ECT’s, which I would NEVER RECOMMEND! Finally with counseling and med management she is on an even keel and doing great. Have hope and don’t give up!
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My anxiety and struggles with negative thought of terms have been tremendously helped by a program called Primal Trust. Some of the tools I refuse to use, but I’m taking the information for what it’s worth. Our wounds definitely need to be healed and when those are addressed the mental state comes back into balance.
Thank you 🙏🏻
As someone who has diagnosed Major Depressive Disorder, I'm very grateful to Fr. Ripperger or providing hope in this otherwise dark part of my life. I appreciate his approach of outright discussing the issue and it's scientific basis, rather than just shunning us like others may.
Praying my rosary twice or more a day, is helping me get thru a difficult time Thank you for this ministry and Father Ripperger
listening, processing, not talking or praying is also essential. We don't get the tools or skills to deal or cope when we just go to our rosary every time and only that. It's not either or, it's and.
At 47 minutes or so an approach to healing from psychological trauma named the gifts of the sacraments as healing. And they truly contain great graces for healing since Christ is present in them. Adoration is also a powerful presence and therefore healing. We look at Him and He looks at us. And that is true even when we visit the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle apart from Exposition. And we just BE there. I remember years ago asking Him to grant me the grace to simply be. I wasn’t mentally ill but I was in intense inner pain. That was about 40 years ago. Something changed within. I received an inner strength and the grace to be who I am before Him, Who Is all in all. I recommend this practice to those who are deeply hurting. And know it’s not an instant healing. We must persist in spending time with Him. And even now, there are new sufferings and hurts, and they often are associated with past ones but He is always there. Scripture tells us He is close to the broken hearted. What I did receive was the grace to forgive which is so necessary for healing.
@@jac1161 Since when was it necessary to live the Catholic faith according to the cell phone? If you notice, they are controlling everyone and actually turning the practice of the faith into something not Catholic.
My son needs prayer. He battled depression for years and suicidal thoughts, and then he had a full mania with slight paranoia he gets so depressed over his life please pray for him
I can listen to Father Ripperger all day😊
I’ve been depressed since a trauma in my childhood, I refuse to take drugs for it. the answer is within me, God is with me always.
I'm sorry you live with such trauma. CPTSD sufferer here,with anxiety/panic/insomnia/somatization so, yeah, I totally understand your pain. Drugs are definitely not a solution for everyone, even if they're promoted as panaceum.
You have to forgive the person who caused the trauma. Confession. Focus on God 🙏
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God is the answer. Forgive everybody everything, pray, give alms, go to confession regularly and receive the Lord in the Holy Eucharist as often as you can.
The meds help a bit, take them. It helps carry the cross but it’s not a cure. It adds quality to your life and the lives of those around you.
Father Rippenger is the first person I have ever heard that got it right about forgiveness. It is a process. First forgiveness with the will and forgiveness that needs to occur within our inner most being that are held deeply within the wound. I have been a therapist and ordained minister and do deliverance for almost40 years. I counsel deeply wounded people. I am in my particular specialty and the Holy Spirit had given me decades ago the same explanations of Will, mechanics and operations of the soul. This is awesome. What the Protestant world is missing is the teachings about virtues and holiness ness. A Friend gave me his book Dominion.
and respectfully, sir, the 7 Sacraments are also vital for healing. Confession and the Eucharist since my conversion have transformed my soul and my psychology… may the Lord continue to bless you and your work.
One of the BEST videos with Father , I have a whole lot of father wounds and asking for prayers, my biological father murdered my mother please pray for my family and children 🙏
Praying for you, friend, and your family. Praised be Jesus Christ who has conquered death through his glorious resurrection! ❤️🙏🏼🌹
@@mommyseastar5776 Lord have mercy on this man and his family
You and your loved ones and your mother will be in my daily Rosaries.
@@lakotafire2804 May God Almighty bless you for this and you will also be remembered in my prayers Thank you from the bottom of my heart 🙏
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One of the best interviews with Fr Ripperger specifically on the subject matter 🙏Thanks
I thank God for this interview. My daughter was recently diagnosed with BPD and suffers greatly. I have been desperate to understand it but didn’t trust the opinions of mainstream psychologists. She needs prayers though as she has rejected her Faith and so lives outside of God’s protection.
I will include her in my prayers today in Mass.
I’ll include her in my rosary today ❤
@@angelawatkinson245 Thank you. There are no words to express how much that means to me❤️
@@scott6504 Thank you. You have no idea how much that means to me❤️
My 25 year old daughter has been battling mental illness for over 13 years. She also has the BPD diagnosis. She is currently seeking a new therapist and psychologist who deals with BPD. She has also stepped away from her faith. My husband is a deacon in the Catholic Church and the attacks on our family have been relentless. I will pray for your daughter, please include mine in your prayers as well.
Prayers for all surviving mental illness! I pray that you will thrive despite your struggles and experiences and that each of us can help each other on this journey!
Fr. Ripperger's Thomistic teachings were turning point in my own mental healing. The two most important being:
1. The body follows the disposition of the soul. (And Christian Anthropology)
2. Rule of life. (It repels demons and unblocks the flow of grace.)
Excellent comment!
Yes two very important points
The third most impactful that helped me turn things around was his teachings on the virtue of mortification. Denying yourself something every day will also keep the demons away in addition to fortifying your will and mastering the flesh.
@@alvc22 yes great third point
Rule of life?
Please pray for my 29 year old daughter 😢she is lost too
My Go-To Priest: Thank You, Father!!
Excellent interview Matt with insightful questions. Father Ripperger is a treasure for the Church. Such a scholar and so clear in his teaching. Thank you!
There is one huge factor missed here : to acknewledge the fact, that many traumatized , depressed people cannot afford therapy (psychological, psychiatric), and even if they can, they cannot fully recover when they lack strong support group, "emotional safety net". And that is problem no.1. People are isolated. Also people in the church. Not everyone is married, has sibling or friends... some people are very lonely. We need healthy, supportive environment to get healthy. I was talking with a fellow believer recently, and I shared my helplessness with this person. I rarely cry , but this time I did. And then I saw that blank stare on myself, and a comment : "You should go to psychiatrist and take some meds I think." And you know... It brought more pain to my heart. This person, a regular churchgoer, didn't offer any words of compassion, encouragement, there was no question if there's any help I need... I felt judged, as if I was a mere attention seeker. I am not.
I am very worried, that since spiritual and emotional problems are both very much tormenting, there's always that temptation to send people to the doc to get some pills, than to provide genuine acts of human kindness. Or to think about create a small communities of believing people, who will spend time together, go somewhere together, have fun together... . Maybe such communities exist in the U.S. I don't know. Here in Europe no one is interested in creating such things. Everything is focused on families, spouses or kids. Where is the place for the brokenhearted and lonely? Where is the place where we belong?
I’m sorry you had to go through that it must of felt awful
I am in the same situation in my country...I rely on my cat that God gave me for companionship, my books and you tube etc channels, that reflect my passions, and being in nature as much as possible. I never feel lonely in nature, especially in beauty. I sometimes take pictures that focus on something that I can marvel at, and then can return to it again with a good memory.
One last thing, if we get out of ourselves by praising God and focusing on His love for us, we won't be lonely. It's a question of discipline. Which is a fight.
I will pray for you...thanks for your comment!
@@rosieespinozaruiz6939 Thank you, rosie.... You're very kind.
@@tracycameron5099 Thank you ,tracy... I deeply appreciate your prayer. That's means a lot to me.
Is focusing on God enough? I think yes and no. Mind you, even Jesus wanted his friends to accompany Him in Gethsemane. He needed Simon of Cirene's help to carry His cross. We are more or less intro/extraverted. I think very introverted people deal much better with such situations. I think it's wonderful you have that blessing to find strength by having a kitty, taking amazing photos and enjoying the nature. :) May God bless you abundantly!
I am introverted in an extroverted world and feel alone-even amongst loved ones. We could talk, but, for me, even friends online is not the same as their being local. No loved ones understand and would probably suggest a psych or pills from that doctor or another. In East Asia, they have it worse, because they get labelled as crazy if they go seek help and miss out on social advancement. They could probably use skilled “friends”-unofficial professional help pro bono or a small cash donation for needs. It would be risky with others’ kids if you teach English or something and volunteer counsel-moreso, if something goes wrong.
Took me 31 years to heal after my husband left me after 27 yrs of marriage, but finally God healed me...Now I have no feelings one way or another for him, in fact many times I take care of him because he is not a well person physically.
May God CONTINUE to Bless you for your charity towards your wayward husband!!!🥰
@@granmabern5283 Thank you so much.. I pray for his conversion.,
God bless you hun, no worries men that do us harm in any way WILL answer for it . Stay well ❤️🙏🏻
That wounded part is so true. The man I love betrayed me with my own friend, and i went completely insane in that moment I knew I was capable of murder, and just terrible sins, I forgave both of them and love them both but my heart is truly so wounded. Crazy how this video came out now, since it's the anniversary of when all that betrayal began and I feel like l'm going insane. Even though I forgave them my trauma is at an all time high - love everything father said in the video.
God bless him.
You’re not alone, forgiveness is so important. When the negative thoughts come I just pray for those who hurt me and meditation on the passion of Christ makes my suffering seem minuscule by comparison. Life is unpredictable but God never is so I just cling to Him. Plus many of the saints will tell you when great suffering comes into your life it means God is calling you to a deeper relationship with Him. All things are passing and eternity is the only thing that really matters in this life so I hope you stay strong:)
@@seshwondo376 it is very important, and it doesn’t feel like a one time thing. I feel like I have to forgive again and again, of course there’s that general “I forgive them” but there’s layers to it, and it’s a deeper forgiveness, hard to explain but i definitely agree when I think of how brutal this betrayal is to me I think of the many times I have betrayed Christ myself, and I deserve this pain & even worse for all of the things I have done in my own life. If anything it’s an act of mercy from God to allow me to experience such intense hurt so I can make reparation through this. & he’s sharing a small part of what he felt at the time of Judas & St. Peter’s betrayal.
@juliannarvivas you put it perfectly I'm working through the same level of woundedness, forgiveness is a daily choice, I pray for them every day during my Rosary, I go to Mass 4 times a week, I have to keep reaching out for the Virgin Mary's intercession, I just started a Novena with St. Thèrése for extra help. I hope and pray you heal and that you find a holy man who would never betray you, if that be God's will. Don't stop praying. Don't stop forgiving. Learn about St. Maria Goretti to see the power of radical forgiveness. Salve Maria!
I read of a woman whose boyfriend left her completely unexpectedly, suddenly saying he no longer loved her, and he wanted nothing more to do with her.
She was distraught and angry, but decided to start forgiving him. So what she did is this: she would say out loud but very softly so others wouldn’t hear ’God bless (his name)’ every time she thought of him. In the beginning she was very bitter, but after some time she sincerely meant her blessing to him and her heart softened more and more as time passed. After about two years the ex-boyfriend suddenly contacted her again and apologised for what he had done. They reconciled and were married soon after.
May you find healing and joy, and new trust and love. Sending you all good wishes
I lost my 13 year old girl, Michel Lim Min En on 15 January 2024. She was doing well in school and succeeded in so many things. On 15 January 2024, she set her alarm clock at 2am, flicker the torch light at 2.30am and 3.30am giving a new meaning to our Hail Mary prayer, wearing a black mask, black socks, black jacket, grey shirt and black pants, carrying a decathlon bag filled with wallet and EZ-Link card, rafia strings, her journal that says ‘adventure awaits’, winter mittens, etc. and climbed (jumped?) out of our 12 floor service balcony. She was found at the ground floor dead, in the sleeping Saint Joseph position with little physical injuries (mostly internal), bleeding from her mouth. The night before I had a prompting of the Holy Spirit but thought nothing of it and went to bed. I failed my child in so many ways. Pleading for the mercy of Jesus on her soul! We pray the Rosary and the deliverance prayer of Father Chad every night. The school counsellor says she is fine and has no issues. We are trying to make sense of this.
😢so sorry to hear this.
so sorry for your loss. Your prayers for your daughter now will really help her find peace.
Thank you and God’s blessings be upon you all!
So sorry
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Fr. Chad knows what he is talking about the way he speaks non stop. The psychology field needs him.
Prayers I Suffer FromDepression Anxiety Please Father iNeed AHealing Through Jesus.
Rev Fr Chad Ripperger is divine minister leading Catholicism to its roots under divine Providence.., he's number one minister of Catholicism and praise be lord Jesus 🙏🕊️.
Gentlemen:
Thanks so much for all that you both do for the restoration of Catholic Orthodoxy and Tradition!!🙏🙏
FSSP and all Eccelsia Dei groups Have a sworn oath with the vatican that they fully agree with vatican chew and the nobles order mass. They furthermore agreed that the nervous order mass is fully and holy totally complete. The only I stress the only thingAbout FSP that is traditional is the Liturgy. It's a bait and switch, They are suckering you in with the mass but on the back end they are totally simpimg to V2 and the Novus ordo. You are being duped NEITHER of these 2 restored anything. They are V2 Novus Ordo with TLM flavoring
@@aislinndeweston4140If they made such an oath, they sure don't keep it, Deo Gratias
Yes 👏🏻 AMEN ❤
Very interesting, thanks to both. Some childhood hurts last a lifetime, even some little thing a parent said.
In my case depression was both spiritual and medical. It caused me to learn about St. Jose Maria Escriva and gave me a way of life that brought me to Our Lord. However I still had low thyroid and OCD. I got the thyroid straightened out medically and it helped a lot. Then when I had my kids I suffered OCD again and went on an SSRI. That took the symptoms waaay down. Finally what’s given me the most peace is saying the Rosary daily. So it’s been a combo of meeting medical and spiritual needs. Praise God in my sufferings and consolations. He leads me to himself.
Praise God that you were so diligent in addressing your health. Medical or otherwise, it’s each one’s Cross to bear, as strenuous and tedious it is at times. Perseverance in prayer is KEY! God wants us leaning on Him - this has been my lesson throughout.
@@cherylyanosy9582 Amen to that!! Thank you so much for your kindness. ❤️🙏🏼🌹
YES! The both/and approach! I'm glad you've found help in your sufferings. I went through post partum depression with both my children and it was the worst.
They should use this as required reading for any Psychology Program and each level, whether it be Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral levels of study. As an undergraduate Psychology major I prayed for someone to write a book about the genesis and theories of psychology from a Catholic perspective. God heard and answered my prayers from 1984 as he 'raised up" Father RIpperger. i bucked with many an instructor against Freud, Jung, and all contemporary theorists because their theories are based upon and within Paganism belief systems. Certainly, theirs and contemporary diagnostic criteria, for mental and abnormal health are biased against Catholicism.
Praying with Msgr Rossetti monthly on line from the St Michael Center is very helpful. He says deliverance prayers with his listeners…they’re very powerful!
God bless you Father 🙏I have your book Deliverance Prayers and I pray daily Our Lady of Sorrows Chaplet.Please pray for my adult son who suffers from the afflictions of drug addiction and his mental health issues..diagnosed with Bi polar 🙏 Please heal him Lord ..Our Lady of Sorrows pray for us and pray for my son 🙏
I’d like to hear, specifically, about how to deal both spiritually and psychologically, and healing from narcissistic abuse of the four main types: classic, covert, communal and malignant, and where people truly ARE out to hurt others. Thanks.
Yes, this is much needed, coming from an adult daughter with a covert narcissist single mother who continues her bad behavior in spite of being very religious.
I might no be correct about this but my answer is … walk away… pack your bags and go. However if that’s not possible, I’d suggest shoring up your ego strengths. Fr seems to say develop virtues. Good. Also set boundaries. Recognize the truth of your value before God.
Healing from the abuses from a relationship with a NPD person (Narc personality disorder), takes a lifetime of healing 💔. It's so much work & hard to forgive...
Fascinating..God bless you Fr.Chad and all you do for us.
I has cancer 23 months ago, treatment for same 18 months ago, the treatment aftereffects are still with me it is mental, emotional and sometimes physical, do a lot of praying and staying busy. GOD really helps me.
There’s so much I wasn’t told - I didn’t know. I thought I was so good. But now (at 60) is can see my errors and can’t help but wonder how my path was flawed to bring me where my family is and how I listened to psychology to raise my children and how that also influenced and led me in error and to where I am in relationship to my family and friends and God! Lord have Mercy! 🙏
Dr. Ray Guarendi probably covers a lot of that.
I can relate so much as I was deeply traumatized by early abuse and the response, included by by the Church, to my trauma reactions. My early years were marked by disordered running away, acting out and pure survival. At 35 i started counselling and 12 step work. I also managed to study philisophy and explored emotions mainly to understand myself. 28 years later after so much search that led me in all sorts of directions, including New age, etc, i managed to find my way to the Church, confession and réconciliation. For first time i feel free of emotional flashbacks and oppression. Having studied philosophy, im reading Thomas Aquinas now. Praying, singing In the choir, meditating all are finally integrating body, mind and soul. Deliverance prayers are excellent. Probably i need more support but in a little parish in the west of Ireland so whenever the Holy Spirit guide me it will be the sign that im ready for more. For now, im so deeply grateful for all these lectures and for having God in my life. 🙏✝️
Father R. Has an excellent book of Deliverance Prayers for the Laity. If you don't have it I highly recommend it especially for you who have faced so much. Peace through Christ.
I’m in Ireland too. I haven’t been to confession in 35 years. Now I can’t seem to find an active confession box! Following fr rippergers advise. Brilliant man doing fantastic work to bring people back to spiritual support.
Very inspiring!
@@emmap1159 i do have it. Its good!
What an incredible episode. So much packed into it. Need to listen again even though I have learned so much. My poor brain couldn't take it all in! Thank you Matt and Fr Ripperger.
Matt, great to see you again on CFN!
God bless Fr. Ripperger, in Jesus' name.
Father thank you so much for the advice about our lady of sorrows it has helped me very much!
I am watching a second time and taking notes. Higher/Lower faculties, association, habituation Trauma. With a desire for healing from lies disorders and habitual sinful behavior. I will be putting a fair amount of effort into understanding this talk and applying in a practical way to being more holy. I see a priest about once a month who is familiar with Fr. I’m hoping he can guide me and help me to “reset”. There is one scripture that comes to me often. “My people perish for lack of knowledge.” May we all benefit from Father’s work and through our own prayers and self examin to be free from sin and filled with all the good stuff!
I have only heard Fr. speak re exorcisms, had no idea of his background in psychiatry. I am mesmerized by this interview! Thank you!
Ooh, you are missing out, friend! He has a ton of talks on CZcams, search his name. He is brilliant!
Wonderful discussion, thank you both so much! Let's support Father's chapel fund ... funds or prayers or funds and prayers! 🙏📿♥
Praise God for this work through the amazing Fr. Ripperger. God Bless you Fr. Ripperger.
I love him and listen to him anytime I see his name!! He has helped me deepen my faith & I’m so grateful! ❤
This has been such an insightful video. Every stage he covered is my life. I was abused badly by my oldest brother when I was a little girl for many years. Even worse, my parents didn't believe me. They treated me like the little boy who cried wolf. Even though I'd show them the bruises. My first husband was a duplicate of my brother. My second marriage was about the same on a different level.
It took years to actually understand everything. My brother died in a terrible accident, on my birthday. I didn't feel remorse when he died. I do now. I've forgiven the people who hurt me, and I have forgiven myself, and I had to learn to love myself. Through a deep devotional prayer life and by the love and grace of God, I am healing, and I feel healthy.
My problem is I don't know how to go to confession. I am at peace now. When I think about going to confession, which I desperately wish I could, it brings back such terrible memories. I just can't rehash those old memories because they throw me back to those feelings of absolute utter dispair. I just can't think about things from my past. I am happy and at peace in my life now. How on earth can I go to confession without reopening those old wounds? It's impossible. I feel like I'm going to need a few hours to explain my sins and why I did the things I've done. Just like in Forrest Gump, I wish I could repeat the line, "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." I couldn't even begin to put a number regarding how many times I repeated the same ugly sins, over and over again. Why I felt such hatred and distrust toward people. My life was terrible for so many years.
I know there are others who have lived similar experiences and have had lives just like mine. Advice would be welcome, and prayers would also be appreciated.
Don’t limit God’s mercy. Please go to confession. Don’t wait any longer, call your local priest, set up an apt and confess your sins. And leave everything else to God’s mercy.
The confession "box" is a safe place. Many people cry while confessing, don't worry about it. Just tell the priest and know that Jesus is behind him. God knows if you're truly contrite and the priest will be able to give you guidance as long as you are able to confess. To make it easier, use any online guide to Examination of Conscience. From there you can just list down your sins. No need to write a novel, just enumerate and be concise. Surely you can go from there once inside the confessional. You can truly get past your wounds, trust in Jesus. 🙏
Hello, dear. I would suggest prayers to Saint Padre Pio and the Cure of Ars, two heroes of Confession. They can help us from Heaven. We don not need to explain our sins or tell WHY we did them. God was THERE. He loves us! He wants us to GIVE HIM our Confession simply, like a bag of rusty nails, so He can heal our heart and soul. As for numbers of times, we can estimate. Like, almost every day, or once or twice a week, or, constantly for about ten years. Our Guardian Angel helps us, too.
I’ve done a few General Confessions, during Ignatian Retreats, which are usually five days. Once or twice in the usual Confessional. Once you get guided to do a General Confession, you never need to start from square one again. Instead, you start from the PREVIOUS GOOD CONFESSION. Same with each new, “ regular” Confession. We start from the last good Confession. From time to time, we can RECALL A past confessed sin, at the END of a regular Confession, to increase our own level of Contrition. For example, if I fall into a sin of lying, or gossip, even a small one, I can say at the end, “ I would like to also ask pardon of God for all the --sins I have already confessed in the past, and for all the sins I have forgotten. Amen.
The Ignatian Retreat is five days, not the Confessions! Lol! A good Confession can take two minutes or fifteen. Usually two.
@@granmabern5283 Thank you so much for this explanation. I just didn't know how and you gave me a beautiful road map. You've brought me to joyful tears! God bless you!
I relate to Our Lady of Sorrows and ask for her intercession and pray the chaplet. I have always been able to pull myself out of the pit but at 68 years I am completely overwhelmed. My autonomic system is stuck in overdrive in fight or flight. Past 11 years have bee torture. I have tried everything. ECT TMS MEDS COUNSELING. INPATIENT OUTPATIENT. It started at menopause. Sorrow grief and long time abuse by people I love dearly. I am thinking of EMDR and Neurofeedback Loop. I am isolating and avoiding socially. I am a retired nurse and taught religious education for 25 years. I go to Adoration frequently and desire to volunteer in a home for unwed mothers before and after delivery. I am stuck and chronically fatigued. I am so opposite of my former self. I ask my guardian angel St. Joseph and Our Lady of Sorrows to reveal the root cause of my interior life regarding such a stumbling block to my true personhood in this season of my life. Thank you for any insight. 🌹
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I don't know how your physical self is doing health wise but I tried carnivore diet over a year ago and have kept it up. It has given me another layer of freedom. It is basically eating meat cut out all processed foods including pasteurized dairy, sugar, grains, vegetables, vegetable oils. ❤️🙏✝️
Praying for you. My son may be doing TMS this summer. Please offer it all up for Holy Souls 😊 I hope you wear The Brown Scapular 🙏😎❤️
Rosary and Vitamin D, liquid form. And vitamin B’s.
God bless you!
You are not alone! ❤ Along with prayer and keeping the sacraments, I have found success with a good quality B complex and other essential vitamins and minerals, avoiding refined sugar, taking walks, and vagus nerve breathing exercises to calm the autonomic nervous system (see CZcams for breathing exercises and Dr.Berg health videos). I hope this helps! 🙏🏻😇
I commented before seeing the entire video. Have to pause the video to say how delightful it is to see Fr. Ripperger light up when speaking about his father.
I really appreciate how the book, “Psychology of Mental Health” is organized using Thomistic anthropology. And I remember you saying in your interviews that demons are very legalistic and that precision is very important in spiritual warfare. Those two points really come out in your writing. You are very detailed, very precise, and easy to understand. The information you give and the points you make are very clear. I would even say that the way you communicate is “demon proof.”
30:08... I saw this topic and I needed to listen to it for many reasons... All day yesterday tried to download it.. All I got distracted and led away from it... This morning I pushed through those attacks and here I am listening and managed to download it... Thank you to this amazing man of God for all the very important information and teachings he delivers to us... Be blessed and safe forever 🙏
Listened two weeks later. Worth every minute spent. Ordered the Kheriaty Catholic Guide from a thrifty paperback bookseller. If finances change, will try to buy Fr. Ripperger's works.
I love, love, love Fr. Ripperger! I desire to get all of his books. I am sorry for the loss of his father.
Auxilium Christianorum Prayer Awesome works wonderful plus an obsession to the holy rosary is amazing 100% living it right now thank you FR. R
What is the Aux prayer?
@@LeftenantMalachiIt’s a little booklet with beautiful prayers.
Thank God for this podcast and for Fr Chad Ripperger. This message is so helpful to ALL who suffer from mental health and wounds from abuse. I've witnessed a person who was healed thru prayer. Her baby died, was in a
car accident. She lost her memory, regained it
after our Deacon Joe Alvarez prayed for her. Praise Jesus Christ!✝️
Fr Chad I'm so grateful
& thankful for your service, thank you for making Jesus first( The Blessed Trinity) mother
Mary 🕊🔥✝️🛐🙏🙏🙏
Came across this accidentally, useful good informative . Will share .
God bless .
God almighty bless Fr. Ripperger and many thanks to Matt Gaspers for this interview. I have a son with autism in the least functional spectrum. He´s 25 years old now. My mom used to asked me persistently to pray to our Lady Mary for him. I didn´t do that as at that time I wasn´t a believer. Now I regret I didn´t do that yet I´m convinced that if I had enough faith, my son will be healed.
It’s possible for God to heal your son. It is ALSO possible that your son’s path to Heaven, and yours, includes this affliction. I’ve worked with handicapped people and they are beautiful.
I enjoy the talk about demons and all, but this is so so interesting. Especially from a very smart priest.
Thankyou. I’ve sent so many of his videos to my children
This is so good. Thank you. Hope this talk reaches those who need it and those who can help those who need it. Praise God.
I’m feeling relief after reading Father Ripperger’s prayer prescriptions in Adoration
It seems to me that we are all, to a man, traumatized and wounded. How can we reach adulthood without being traumatized in many ways? It also seems to me that one of the best ways to overcome the feelings of depression, self-pity, and lack of forgiveness, is more reading and meditation on the Passion of Our Lord. In relation to what He suffered, who had no sin at all, unlike us, we have suffered nothing. We are such sinful creatures who deserve much more suffering than what God allows us to suffer.
Also, I don't understand why now suddenly in our time, we need brain studies and all these mental practitioners when throughout the whole history of human nature people were living under very harsh conditions, without the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins or Harvard Medical School and still managed to live, work and save their souls? It seems that the corruption of morals extant today is THE problem. St. Thomas had the answer hundreds of years ago. Light a torch, chase the demons away and go back to our prayers.
You have an excellent comment.
I think one of the main reasons we have all these "mental issues" is that with the collapse of the faith and the lack of spiritual grace that comes with not going to mass, people no longer avail themselves to confession.
Going to confession regularly enabled the confessor to also know his penitents and the priest could help these people, especially if he found that there were real mental issues underlying the committing of sins.
Unfortunately, until there is a revival of the faith and its real practice, I see nothing but insanity magnified.
The needs seem greater than the resources to meet them. Many seem a bit overwhelmed but let us try take responsibility for what we can and fight back one step at a time. Prayer. Study. Reflection. Prayer. Action. More Prayer. Patience. Faith. Trust.
Amazing to see you back in the seat doing God’s work. Deo Gratias.
I dear not rear my daughter properly. Now she is married outside of the church and her children are not baptized. God have mercy and heal us both
Boy do I wish I could know half of what father knows!
I have been been sick for two weeks.My doctor did not even look at my throat, thanks to covid paranoia.Meanwhile I suffer without any relief.Please pray for me.
It's NPD that is destructive. Narcissistic Personality Disorder in our Church. Includes Priests too. It's very crucial to understand the familial dynamics.
Devote traditional Catholic. Still committed horrible sins. Abortion, multiple marriages. I adopted a saying in my mature years when asked about marrying again. "My chooser is broken." I know why and Fr. R nailed it.
And yet, here you are…. what a beautiful story of God’s grace is being wrought in your life and what great hope there is for all of us that God can ‘repair the ruined mansions’ (Isaiah 58:12 and Jeremiah 30:18).
It gives me consolation at any rate especially when I lament how far I am compared to what I should be …
Maybe you were abused by narcissistic men ?
Excellent interview. So helpful Thankyou
Thank you and glad your back .
Wonderful video topic and guest thank you so much.
I think that is key to ask Our Lady of sorrows for the root cause. I had a client who did that and she didn't see what the root cause was but in talking about it our lady revealed it.
Thank tou Father Ripperger and Matt so very much. Overwhelmingly moved by this video. God bless you both 🙏
Just brought the book! I have just started a MA in Counselling so this is great timing! 😇
My father was a cruel dictator, terrorizing us from the beginning. My mother had no ability to love. My sibilings and I all suffer severe anxiety, depression, and fear. Fr Ripperger is right on about how the association with others after trauma too early in childhood, is disordered.
Matt so good to have you back!! Hope it's a regular return😀
Thank you Father Chad and Matt, it’s a beautiful topic 🙏💕
I hope all psychologist exorcists around the world would eventually have such a program where they can teach/conduct seminars for the interested secular and Catholic psychologists.
And wow that last part about Our Lady of Sorrows and Virgin Most Prudent is quite a gem of info! Thank you for this great interview.
Let's see Fr. Rippenger on Jordan Peterson's podcast alongside Daniel Dennett! This Basis psych 101 should be the very core of mental health professional's education.
Padre, I enjoyed Catholic Church after 5 years of study about Christianity. I was raised LDS or Mormonism and exactly 5 years ago I started to learn about their lies. And since then Our Holy Mother was leading me to Catholic faith ❤. But I still have “friends “ from that cult and sometimes they invited me to events and every time I go I got really sick on my soul it’s hard to explain they asked a lot about Catholicism and insist in take me to this cult again it’s kind of mental abuse . I need to be strong and say not for them even we grew up as a friends but now it’s so hard to be around them . Please pray for me .
Wow 😮 . I’ve learned so much ! This has been wonderful !! 🙏✝️🙏♥️ Thank you
I dont know where id be without this priest
Father Ripperger, you’re the best!😊 You make an extraordinary priest, exorcist, philosopher, and psychologist. Had you chosen the vocation of marriage, you would doubtlessly have been an equally extraordinary husband, father, and provider. There’s a woman somewhere who might have been your wife, who missed out on a very fulfilling life.
At any rate, thank you for sharing yourself with all of us, which you could not have done had you married and devoted yourself to wife and children. But your knowledge, your faith and attitude toward life, your example of steady love for the Church… I find these traits in you so reassuring, that if I’m feeling anxious I can watch one of your videos and be reminded of how I should view the world, and consequently feel better. Thank you for this, Father.
Thank you Fr. Ripperger for sharing your wisdom with us through your books. May God Bless You and Keep you safe! - Please pray for my family, specially my children's conversion and my son and mother that passed away so they can be in heaven along the HSP. Thanks.
😢😢😢please know my mother's heart grieves so to read this. How torturous is the human heart; who can stand...
Father is advocating for mood stabilizers. Which is exactly the opposite of what almost every doctor, not clinically educated for this type of Situation…..
Father Ripperger is yet spot on again.
Big pharma is a fiscally motivated industry. Sadly.
Is he saying its ok to take a mood stabalizer when needed? I haven't been able to listen to the whole talk yet
Demons are very powerful,Thankfully I’m on a healing road, thanks be to GOD, Doctor who got my mental disability Father Ripperger Thank God I pressed play on CZcams channel very helpful oration ❤
This is brilliant. God bless Fr. Ripperger. 🙏
I would pray that secular people in this profession would watch this to understand that the Catholic approach doesn't start with "it's all possession" and actually there is a very wise and informed position that considers psychological, chemical as well as spiritual cause/affect. And it may open some eyes as to why, in some cases therapy isn't working.
God bless Fathers work! 🙏
It is good to see you again, Matt. Father is always chock full of interesting information, and I could listen to him for hours. In fact, I think I have listened for hours.
Matt, will you be coming back regularly anytime soon? You are missed. God bless you, Fr Ripperger and you Matt!
This was amazing. A major option for folks these days that is gaining traction is life coaching. A coaching session with a good coach can be life-changing in the best possible way. Good coaches show up empty & simply ask questions to provoke deep insight. They slow down the process so the client is "forced" to face the lies he has been telling himself for years, most likely decades. Learning to be a coach has helped me to grow in ways that I didn't know I needed to and has made my life so much richer through my interaction with clients. Seeing them change & grow is mind-blowing at times. God gives us EXACTLY what we need!
Thank for sharing your wisdom, Father!
Our society of today is CONSTANTLY HYPNOTIZED by bad Music and TV programs in many places.
Recommend Dr Michael Nehls' "The Indoctrinated Brain..." which involves areas Father has mentioned about depression, Alzheimers as a result of an attack on the hippocampus.
Please pray for me Father Pipperger.if you can send me healing please.do i have Depression and.im surrounded by Suicide God in his wisdom Guide you to pray for my healing. Im over 70 now and my journey was difficult. I live in Europe so i dont have a hope of getting to you in person Jesus my lord and my GOD AMEN
I suggest to ask Mama Mary for help too. You can pray the Consecration of One’s Exterior Goods to the Blessed Virgin Mary among other things. Pray the rosary daily and mean it by really thinking abt each mystery while praying. If you have a Catholic priest in your area, go to confession after a thorough examination of conscience (plenty of guides online). This should help reduce such thoughts unless you've been clinically diagnosed by a doctor? It's best to also visit Jesus regularly at the Adoration Chapel, like, at least 30 minutes. If you have the time I hope you can do all or any of these as they are some of what many Catholic exorcist priests have mentioned that can help us in spiritual warfare.
Thank you so much Father. It makes sense and it’s the grace of God that has moved you in this direction to help us. God bless you. ❤
Thank you for sharing this!
Amen 🙏🏻 thankyou Lord and this video
I’ve definitely been hurt by big pharma. I do have a brain issue with OCD since I was 6, but I have been over medicated for many years. The meds caused a heart arrhythmia and now I’m withdrawing from them. It’s horrible. I’m hoping I can be on a low maintenance dose and then be able to cope with help from my faith and counselling. Thankfully I have a good spiritual director who helps me keep my prayer life on track.
Two great men - thank you
“we don’t have time to cover all of these now” SOUNDS LIKE FR CHAD HAS A NEW TOPIC TO WRITE ABOUT!!!
PLEASE PLEASE FR ❤