Please pray for him....!!?

Question

My husband has been afraid to sleep at night.in the dark, he has to have a light on cause he says's he see's things. For the past couple of months, I'm not sure how often though, but he thinks of Satan out of no where. Saying his name outloud or in his head. He says he doesn't know why this is happening but he tries to pray but he still has this problem. I'm not sure if he's ever repented his sins, he's a catholic so he thinks only a priest can forgive him which I don't believe. Can you all help me pray for him to keep Satan at away. Thanks...Also, any other advice will help.

Answer 1

I am glad I converted to Catholicism.

I am always seeking knowledge.

I found this info online as 'additional readings" :


Protestants being thus impious enough to make liars of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Ghost, and of the Apostles, need we wonder if they continually slander Catholics, telling and believing worse absurdities about them than the heathens did? What is more absurd than to preach that Catholics worship stocks and stones for gods; set up pictures of Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other saints, to pray to them, and put their confidence in them; that they adore a god of bread and wine; that their sins are forgiven by the priest, without repentance and amendment of life; that the pope or any other person can give leave to commit sin, or that for a sum of money the forgiveness of sins can be obtained ? To these and similar absurdities and slanders, we simply answer: "Cursed is he who believes in such absurdities and falsehoods, with which Protestants impiously charge the children of the Catholic Church. All those grievous transgressions are another source of their reprobation."

"But what faith can we learn from these false teachers when, in consequence of separating from the Church, they have no rule of faith? ... How often Calvin changed his opinions! And, during his life, Luther was constantly contradicting himself: on the single article of the Eucharist, he fell into thirty-three contradictions! A single contradiction is enough to show that they did not have the Spirit of God. "He cannot deny Himself" (II Timothy 2:13). In a word, take away the authority of the Church, and neither Divine Revelation nor natural reason itself is of any use, for each of them may be interpreted by every individual according to his own caprice ... Do they not see that from this accursed liberty of conscience has arisen the immense variety of heretical and atheistic sects? ... I repeat: if you take away obedience to the Church, there is no error which will not be embraced.

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Additional Reading
Against the Reformers

St Alphonsus Mary De Liguori (1696-1787)Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible online

Answer 2

while you might not like this advice.... you asked. your husband might be feeling your resentment toward the practice of confessing to a priest. i believe it would be good for you to have a priest come to the house adn talk to him. the priest is there to actt as someone - we are told to confess out loud - the priest will hold his cinfidence and give him the knoweldge of confessing to a person who will not judge or condemn him. BTW, being Catholic does not mean that we believe only a priest can forgive sins - those sins committed against a person to whom we can still speak - those should be confessed to the person.

there may be things troubling your husband about which he is not comfortable talking to you. do not hold that against him. do not hold against him either the fact he needs to confess to a priest. i agree that if he is having these thoughts of satan, he needs to talk to someone and the priest is a good start. does he have a rosary? when my nights were troubled with horiffic thoughts, i would pray the rosary until i fell asleep and wake up clutching it still. it allowed me to fall off with thoughts of CHrist's life in my head. have him focus on the glorious or luminious mysteries. if you can find him a copy of the Scriptural rosary (sorry don't have the link handy) there are beautiful scriptural passages about which we are to focus.

i'm really sad that he is going through such troubles and it is causing you probably just as much grief. when a woman loves her husband -they share the pain of each other.

my heart and prayers go out to you both.

God love you, God bless you, God keep you!

PS - when the priest is there you could also ask him to bless your house - it might give your husband some comfort.

PPS -- please don't think i'm chastizing you as no, i don't know the whole story, just what you posted. but whether you believe or not, just try to be supportive of him with his need for a priest.

Answer 3

Have him call on Jesus instead. Meditate on happiness and stop using his "inner voice". I know this sounds odd but sex or masterbation can help reduce the stress/energy of being afraid at night. Seeing a Doctor is ok but it will be on the record. It is possible that he is having false awakenings if he is paralysed mostly when he sees things...then it would probably be the incubus. :) If this is true then God is giving him a gift of astral projection if he can conquer his fear of death. If YOU think he has become a danger to others or himself then he needs to be taken for serious therapy.
One of my favorite quotes:
"I must face my fear. Fear is the mind killer. I will face my fear; I will let it pass through me. When the fear is gone, there will be nothing, only I will remain."

Answer 4

I will pray for him,remind him that God is the only one that forgive sins ,and he is so merciful ,let him read the bibble ,and he will find how many people Jesus forgived ,so he should feel safe,God never let things that we cant fight happen to us ,so have faith

God help you

Answer 5

You need to get him to a doctor. Seriously.

Prayers are wonderful, but this sounds like a psychological issue.