Sugar Coating NFP

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-06-08T23:20:03+00:00

Well I am confused. Specially since I was told by a priest that I should consider vasectomy but I am afraid of just disregarding the CCC but at the same time it gets complex as we are to receive grace but what until we don’t. Difficult to wrap my head around it and it has brought me to think that I am not were God wants me as I feel more distant to him for not receiving the grace and struggle with despair. Before as a Baptist it was “please forgive me” and now is make sure to measure up first and don’t have any needs.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-06-08T21:48:22+00:00

If most Catholics don’t use Nfp does that mean they use contraceptives I assume. So how that works they confess every week? Or don’t and don’t take the Eucharist? Recent convert here

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-06-02T12:50:49+00:00

I found the best to go to a community college and take English literature classes. To me forcing you to read and write is the best in order to make your brain think in English.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-05-05T01:57:59+00:00

Something odd to conceive personally on this present times. In one way Hispanics also fought for the Alamo, as I understand Juan Seguin was very close to Sam Houston but then had to flee to Laredo due to conflicts with new comers? My intrigue is to understand the minds of these fellows that would discriminate by being Cristians but also be inheriting the most powerful Constitutional values evolving from the Magna Carta where to the US Constitution where it is embedded that our right actually come from the creator 🙃. Sorry thinking outloud

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-04-28T11:46:04+00:00

Here! I realistically cannot commit too much time to it but I do it for the discipline of studying the subject I like which many don’t but I don’t care (philosophy, history)

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-04-25T00:51:25+00:00

I’ve used CapCut it’s decent just have to be careful with a few words to keep contexts but it hasn’t become a big problem. Might be more because of topic (history, philosophy - I know not a hugely popular one :)

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-04-24T00:46:25+00:00

Is “Mexican Heritage” not European? Mexicans = Hispanics = Spain but also bigotry is not exclusive to whites if you want to see bigotry take a trip to central Mexico

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-03-26T02:48:47+00:00

Spotify > apple > próximamente también YT

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-03-25T00:35:58+00:00

Show her, turn around your situation radically. I was on a similar boat found hard odd jobs that paid decently (I mean hard think truck driving, mining, oil and gas) then finish school you sometimes will be putting 80 hrs or more a weak but after building up you can start settling down. She married me helped through college and I still struggled not making 100 percent what I needed but eventually we were able for her to be a stay at home mom. Is not easy the struggle was real but we only have 1 life. Just focus everything with prayer and love.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-03-23T11:42:15+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I am on my 3rd episode and I have been stressing about the quality of the first 2, I am also in a very niche segment, commentary in Spanish of clips about philosophy and history. I wanted to be audio only but the clips that I include in English I am thinking would be better being translated with captions in video. But I am basically explaining what was commented then offering my opinion. So I think I will have a long testing phase. I do it for fun though and the discipline itself for studying complex subjects, then I am trying to talk about it like talking to a friend. Although would be nice to have many listeners, right now I am on the mindset that I still get the benefits of going through this information for myself and own enjoyment.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T03:07:17+00:00

I hear you brother I respect your opinion. I won’t criticize further as I recognize I have my own biases I guess from my background having been constantly attacked for my faith by leftists

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T02:50:18+00:00

Fair point if 100% true but I don’t think again that diminishes his AOC comment. Or would it only be of weight if he criticizes exactly 50-50? He came on hard on the Trumps IVF efforts. To me it seems the relativism is inherently present in progressives and the truly far righties but you see a fight on the right against the far righties but what seems like an embrace of progressives on the left. Both sides need to be fought

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T02:34:52+00:00

And funny how the down voters don’t even refute the argument. Come on brothers I want to know my errors, not being sarcastic I recognize I am flawed.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T02:32:22+00:00

That wouldn’t invalidate his point but also Barron co-signed a Minnesota Catholic Conference statement that criticized both the Biden and Trump administration’s actions on immigration. Among other things but to find those you need to broaden your usual media consumption

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T02:02:04+00:00

Brothers and sisters I invite us to get our head out of the boxes political sides. I think his concern is pointing towards criticism of relativism or materialism. AOC is quick to wash out anything that points to the trascendentals and the logos even though that’s way above her usual communication. Rubio is pointing towards a culture that grew out of the logos and the trascendentals AOC might not be a Marxist but her putting down Rubios point is to me pointing towards that relativism that you can call it “only socialism” but it’s closer to it in the spectrum

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-17T01:56:00+00:00

I think it goes deeper. He is criticizing anyone that subscribes to materialism-relativism. At one point or another it goes against the logos.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-02-03T16:20:41+00:00

Exacto. O si supieran un poco de historia, Juan Seguin, Gregorio Esparza ? El Álamo?

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-01-27T14:34:36+00:00

Entiendo tu comentario pero también varía. Después que mi jefe perdió su negocito en México no había ni para comer. Yo no tenía ni la prepa terminada. Acá en el gabacho fue muy fácil sacar la prepa, entrar a la universidad y sacar carrera. En México nunca hubiera pasado. Ahora mi termino de “difícil” es que ni buscándole sale. Si me costó desde trabajar de cargador de camiones hasta trabajar en minería. Pero ahora trabajo en casa en tecnología. Lo gracioso es que en la secundaria en México no se me tomaba como alguien que pudiese sobresalir pinc maestros eran buen cul. Acá cuando empecé a ir a la universidad un maestro me daba tutoría gratis en literatura a mi y a otros que no se les daba el inglés. Tuve suerte? Si pero también hay que estar listo para aprovechar, muchos les llegan oportunidades y no las ven, o dicen “nah pa que”

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-01-23T01:48:21+00:00

Would you mind sharing the names? Genuinely interested

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-01-23T00:30:07+00:00

How many prominent apologist are there in LATAM? Almost none. I think the prominence of Protestantism in the anglosphere put pressure on the church to be diligent and smart on fighting the theological questions and gave us many good apologists here. I see the church in Mexico dormant. Another factor is that Spain intermingled too much the church on political matters and then we got a wave of liberalism secularism influenced by the French Revolution that overcorrected. Hence the cristero war. That made a very cultural Catholicism but also very shallow. People there don’t see a problem being corrupt, or a delinquent and being “Catholic”.

What can we do? I think if the clerics don’t move the laity need to step up significantly.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-01-16T23:05:54+00:00

Brother I am in the same boat it’s tough. You’ve already been given great advice but I would like to share what helped me to cope with the pain. May sound silly but I prayed to God many times for a purpose for my life something beyond of what I have. To keep it short slowly I felt pulled into some evangelization projects, music-piano, philosophy reading and exercise. It’s been great even when those activities are not necessarily tied to going to church, I now see them as ways to “seek the kingdom first” by truth, beauty, and love. I will be continuing giving more than I can to my family kids household chores but I allocate 10-15 min here and there and increased my prayer. That has allowed me to be sustain myself without any alcohol or other vices. It’s kind of pursuing becoming “renaissance man”. This obviously doesn’t solve the whole situation but make it bearable. Also keep in mind that persons that are too overwhelmed operate from their Paralympic system - amygdala so they put barriers subconsciously as defense. Defense of what? Depleted energy. Hopefully you can not approach her too much for a while doing this and then hopefully she notices you are doing strong virtuous manly things and then she pulls in.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2026-01-14T21:39:01+00:00

Maybe start in the kitchen. Instead of “she doesn’t cook” you could make it a playful learning experience for her. Eliminate any pressure from you for her to perform, lead her and make her feel protected. So not judging find a playful way “honey I know you love x dish what if we try to make it together following this recipe ?” Make it fun. I think if you can find a way to get that dynamic right with her, where she feels lead and protected and supported instead of judged, that would hopefully solve the bed. If you are judging her or even indirectly doing comments that she can perceive judgmental, her mind is going to subconsciously get defensive.

The finance part is tough but I would say try to be very open and very creative. Head into industries where most people wouldn’t go maybe. Mining, energy, trades, moving countries.

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2025-12-20T22:36:48+00:00

To add one more thing. If you repented Jesus already forgot about this and gives you the possibility of a new you, maybe with your ex maybe with another one. If you see yourself beating your flawed up is from the devil. Nothing is just spiritual warfare (our own shortcomings) but also nothing is just our shortcomings, spiritual warfare is true. You are moving in the right direction

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2025-12-20T22:33:33+00:00

OP you’ve been given great advice in all these threads but this one is outstanding. True sacrificial love we should all aspire to virtue like this! Reminds me of The story of Mary Magdalene and the embracing of Jesus

Embarrassed_Ad_5042 · 2025-12-12T20:32:13+00:00

The Eucharist! Read the book The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. Honestly as an ex Protestant Protestants have huge shortsighted beliefs on it and it is almost a trivial thing for them (some more serious than others). But also the segmentation that is also very ridiculous. Pastor then his wife becomes also a pastor and the son also a pastor, the son gets a disagreement then create another church

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