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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Healing from the Wound of Sin

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike explains how even partial healing from the wound of sin is still worth the effort. Don’t give up just because you know your sins will leave some stains and scars. God’s mercy can do amazing things in your life, even if it is just partially healed.

No matter how massive and unforgivable you think your sins are, God’s mercy is infinitely greater. St. Thérèse of Lisieux said if you took all of the sins in the world throughout all of time and tossed them to God, it would be like flicking a drop of water into a raging inferno (paraphrased).

nulltheless, justice demands for sins to have consequences. God forgives the eternal effects, but there will be temporal consequences. We shouldn’t let those temporal consequences prevent us from living the life God wants us to live. God can use anything we give him.

Just because you can’t do everything doesn’t mean you can’t do anything.

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0:00.0

Just because I can't do everything doesn't mean I can't do anything.

0:07.0

Amorne's Father Mike Schmidt and this is Ascension Presents.

0:15.2

So I recently got an email from someone who had a really serious, like deep, deep question

0:19.1

and the deep question was they kind of explained that they, how did I say this, they listed

0:25.8

the number of the wounds in their life.

0:29.2

And this particular person was listing the number of ways in which they had misused their

0:34.2

sexuality and the experience, like, the big reason they were writing to me and listing

0:39.0

off, like, here's the ways in which I have misused my sexuality and then, and it has been

0:43.9

misused by others, is because they were experiencing a great amount of discouragement.

0:48.4

The discouragement was, so will I ever really be healed?

0:52.0

Because I've done these things.

0:53.0

Does that mean, like, I'm basically a lost cause?

0:56.4

And I just thought, wow, that's really fascinating because they kind of almost, they were

1:00.1

almost about the land of the plane and be like, yeah, I'm pretty much a lost cause when

1:03.4

it comes to this arty.

1:05.3

There's no real hope for me when it comes to love.

1:08.2

There's no real hope for me when it comes to the Lord.

1:10.4

He probably can't do anything with me, can he?

1:13.2

But will I have to, because because I've done these things, I'll have to carry this with

1:17.2

me the rest of my life, right?

1:18.5

He can't heal me.

1:20.0

Question mark, period, almost, kind of a thing.

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