About Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM, L.Th. Expertise I am a Catholic apologist, catechist, spiritual director, and spiritual warfare/deliverance counselor holding a degree of Licentiate in Theology. Questions dealing with the Catholic Faith will be answered according to official Church teachings, where such official teachings exist, and according to solid principles taught by the Church and the saints on areas where there is no specific Church teaching. I am a one-hundred-percent loyal and obedient to the Pope and Magisterium of the Church. If you want to know the TRUE SCOOP of Church teaching, here is the place to get it.
2) Apologetics and Catechesis primarily offered through a Catholic Q&A (plus volunteering on expert.com); and
3) Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare: involving many things ranging from investigating "haunted houses," to counseling with demonized people, to dealing with spiritual warfare issues in our society.
Experience I was a Baptist preacher, Bible teacher, and evangelist for 15 years before converting to the Catholic Church in 1992.
As a Catholic I have been teaching Bible, Catechetics, apologetics, and evangelism for 14 years. I also have 24 years of pastoral counseling experience and 14 years experience as a Catholic Spiritual Director.
I have been in deliverance ministry since 1986 as a Baptist. After converting to the Catholic Church I continued the spiritual warfare work including counseling, writing, consulting, and teaching workshops, and training Deliverance Counsellors.
In 2002 we began a new apostolate called the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling. This agency offers counseling to those persons who are demonized, and offers training for people who feel called by God to become Deliverance Counsellors. As director of the St. Padre Pio Center I was featured in a series of interviews on Spirtual Warfare on Ave Maria Radio.
Award: Recipient of the prestigious Kaltenborn Foundation Grant.
Organizations In Religion: Catholic Society of Evangelists, Institute on Religious Life, Adoremus: Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Coming Home Network, The Blue Army of our Lady of Fatima, Apostleship of Prayer, Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts (Montfort Fathers), Confraternity of the Brown Scapular
BR> In Counseling: American Counseling Association, Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, the International Society for Mental Health Online, and the former National Psychiatric Association. Brother is also currently working with two other counselors to form a new association called the American Nouthethic Association of Catholic Counselors. This association is not yet operational.
In Website Design: HTML Writers Guild, the International Webmasters Association, and the Good News Web Designers Association.
In Creative Writing: Academy of American Poets, the Association of Authors and Publishers, and is listed as Editor and Publisher of St. Michael House Press and Writers House Press in the International Directory of Small Presses and Little Magazines and the WritersNet Online Directory
Publications Religious Book Publications include: +"Regula Sanctus Michaelis" (The Rule of St. Michael) +"Three Secret Strategies of Satan and Other Essays" +"St. Michael's Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog" +"Hope, Help, Victory: A Spiritual Warfare Workshop" +"St. Michael’s Deliverance Counseling Manual" +If God Wants This of Me: The Story of a Baptist Minister Turn Catholic Friar" (forthcoming)
Poetry Publications and Credits: Book: "Only Silence is Shame" Magazines & Readings: published in various magazines and conducted numerous readings
Listed: "Who's Who is U.S. Editors, Writers, and Poets" and the "International Authors and Poets Who's Who" out of London in the 1980s
Other Publications: Book: "The Wilder Letters" (book of essays)
Book: "The Falling Torch: Our Democracy in Crisis"
I have spoken to you about my addictions-Mast...and porn. I ve been confessing the same sin again and again but ve not got out of it thats why I feel guilty to go for confession. Am I committing a sacrilege by falling in to the same sin again and again. Am 24 now. If I die all of a sudden or even later and lets say I dont get a chance to confess or repent right before my death will God damn me?I fear eternal death and constantly ask for His mercy. But am worried because I fall again and again even right after confession. Please help.
Answer Dear Johnny:
You are not committing a sacrilege because you commit the same sin over and over. It is nonsense to feel guilty to go to confession. Guilt for sin LEADS us to confession, not away from it.
Would you feel guilty to go to a doctor because you got an infection over and over? Failing to go to the doctor when you have that infection can kill you.
Failing to go to confession, no matter how many times you commit the sin will also kill you -- it kills your soul.
Why would anyone fail to go to the Great Physician when they have the infection of sin, no matter how many times they get the infection?
Jesus was asked about how many times should a person be forgiven. He answered "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven", which means that one never stops forgiving. There is no limit to God's forgiveness.
You need to work on your pride. It is prideful to feel guilty for going to confession for the same sin over and over. Pride is a deadly sin. Humble yourself and get to confession as often as you need to go.
In-between confessions, when you commit a grave sin, you can say an Act of Perfect Contrition immediately, even before you have a chance to get to confession. This will restore you to a State of Grace.
But with this Act of Perfect Contrition comes the promise that you will get to the Sacrament of Confession to confess that sin at your earliest opportunity. Also, while the Act of Perfect Confession restores you to a State of Grace, you may not receive the Eucharist until you confess that sin in the Sacrament.
A perfect act of contrition, however, is being sorry for your sins because you love God and do not want to disappoint him. Sorrow for sin because you fear hell is called "imperfect contrition."
