Catholic OCD: The fear of Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

The ultimate sin, the biggest possible sin, the sin that causes the single most consternation and anxiety, is the fear of the unforgivable sin. Of course, men and women who suffer with OCD are going to eventually come face to face with this fear because it is the ultimate catastrophe. It is also one of the most misunderstood sins and often talked about and feared completely out of context.

[@ralphauer150]

I have OCD/Scrupulosity. So many things are made clear now at 80 years old. I believe having this illness and having to live through it. Gives one penitence and holiness. Assuming purgatory on earth, and reward in Heaven. 🙏

[@djazM]

I've been struggling with uninvited intrusive thoughts for many years and do not know how to handle or make them go away. God led me to this video 🙏🏾.Thank you, Father 🙏🏾.

[@andrewkemp6722]

Thank you so much father! I believe the Holy Spirit led me to your channel. I have been suffering with OCD Scrupulosity for 10 years and am constantly praying for forgiveness of my thoughts. Thank you for making these videos! God Bless!!

[@user-nd7yy5rs7z]

I appreciate you my brother in Jesus Christ, I love your teaching Almighty God has Blessed you with.

[@FatalLayersOfficial]

so many of my confessions are "i had blasphemous thoughts"

[@donaldostrem4982]

Thank you. I've had blacksmith's thoughts and Lord knows what else against the Holy Spirit. I've had OCD. You've explained this to me, I've been taking medication, but I just don't feel like God is out to get me. There are times that I feel that way for what I've done in the past. I still go to church. I still pray and all that Christian stuff. Stuff. I keep my OCD says that I'm not even a real Christian. Thank you

[@donaldostrem4982]

What I meant to see is that I feel God is out to get me. I hate this my OCD. It won't shut up. I have sensations that want to make me blaspheme the Holy Spirit. I hate it. I want to be forgiven. There's no end to this stuff.

[@nathancook1905]

@@donaldostrem4982 I've been there brother. I actually am there to some degree still, but I can tell you that God knows that none of these are your thoughts. If they were yours there would be no distress, but since you are distressed about them that is 100%proof that they are not from you. Remember John 6:37-40 "Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” You will get through this - take heart my friend. Seek out a Christian counselor who does ERP and CBT therapy as these are the standard treatments for OCD. God is not out to get you - He is out to LOVE you.

[@mfrihet8294]

@@donaldostrem4982I understand you. I had the same and it gave me unexplainable fear and anguish. The thoughts slowly stopped when I started to answer every thought with another thought ” Jesus is Lord”. So for every intrusive thought Jesus Christ was instead honered as the Lord that He truly is. The thoughts came less frekvently and at last I learnt not not engage in them. I just let them pass and I thought-I do not care about this. I do not want to this. I am not interessted. In my heart I want to love and adore God and Jesus Christ and the Hony Spirit. God is with you! Pray for a word of God and keep thinking it when the bad thoughts come. You are not the thoughts. You are a child of God for ever if you have invited Christ into your heart!❤️🙏🏽

[@tiff1622]

God bless you. You have a very soothing demeanor, which is perfect considering the subject matter.

[@cecilemarot2357]

Thank you Father . This is of great help.

[@GA-hh7wz]

This was tremendously helpful! Thank you very much for your videos!

[@dennisshannah4978]

Thanks Father. Excellent and very helpful.

[@user-sd8vy1yb4r]

as i understand it, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, an unforgivable sin, is attributing the works of Jesus to that of the devil, or vise versa.

[@hoplite-official5011]

father i had not yet read the bible and was in awe of the part where jesus says “eat of me” because somebody told me that they left because of it and i said wow eating of his flesh is hardcore…is this the unforgivable sin

[@hoplite-official5011]

i had thought the meaning was literal…is this wrong please deny my fears

[@zsofiasz.8533]

Thank you! 🙏

[@L3V_qwp]

I feel like everytime I speak I feel like I'm doing a sin, I feel so alone and lonely

[@NickyMetropolis1313]

You are describing a common occurrence among the scrupulous. You feel sometimes the best thing would be to just isolate your self and never talk to anyone. But we all know it wouldn't solve anything. Resist the battle. Eventually it will get better. God bless

[@andrewcothran8377]

Thank you Father pray for me because I don't think I have any hope left

[@user-nd7yy5rs7z]

U have more than hope, you have God's Holy Spirit Conscience like I do. I have been through hell about this subject.

[@ahardy57]

Andrew, you have to think outside the box. I went to a mental hospital for almost 3 yrs because of this. This was in 1971 when psychiatry didn't know obut OCD. Almost all my life I had obsessions. By 11, I was sure I had committed the sin against the Holy Spirit, merely by reading the verse in the Bible. When my belief about forgiveness changed, the obsession instantly disappeared, only to be replaced by another fear. I'm 66 yrs old now, and the fears change according to what I dread most. The anxiety feeds of my worst fears. The fear of commiting the sin against the Holy Spirit lasted till I was 17 yrs old. Looking back, it seemed strange that I spent so much time imagining something that is almost impossible for a faithful catholic to do. But, my brain held me hostage. Don't feed it. Keep your mind occupied with other things. Remember, you are the one keeping it alive by paying attention to the thoughts. God bless you!

[@Munstermarty]

A great channel, thank you Father.

[@dmytro723]

Thanks you so much father, i was fearing that i have commited the sin

[@Yungarctik]

Thank you so much ❤

[@theresebrown330]

Great insight!

[@russellgiam]

Thank you

[@WomanofGod1773]

Wait. But what if it was a genuine thought? What if I intentionally said something in my head? It was an accident and i didn't mean

[@7sheepdog717]

What about if you tell someone, such as a pastor, the content of the thought? Is it then blasphemy since you technically spoke it by telling them what you thought?

[@catholicocd]

Context also comes into consideration. For example. Yell “fire” in a crowded movie theater or yell “fire” outside in a completely empty lot. Big difference. Same words. Same tone of desperation. Completely different context. So it is when you tell your confessor. Completely different context.

[@catholicocd]

Perfectly illlustrates how scrupulosity works. Takes a particle of truth and blows it completely out of proportion.

[@marinalina6348]

I am an avalanche of stubbornness as a personality trait 😮

[@Soniajanethh]

Thank you God!!!! He sent this video to me at the right time! 😭🫶🏻

[@Spookie425]

In an OCD fit I was fighting terrible blasphemous thoughts and I said out loud several times the Holy Spirit is NOT "D***." Right after this I felt a total sense of dread because I felt like I was playing with my salvation and walking an incredibly fine line. I should have kept my mouth shut and fought the thoughts in my head. Could God think me to be a blasphemer? Have I inadvertently committed the unpardonable sin? About 3 months after this I had a dream where I blasphemed the Holy Spirit in my bathroom and I was fearful that this was confirmation from God that I had done this... I'm terribly worried and do not have the fruits of the spirit on my life, I am a mess. I have repented many times but I just feel loneliness and emptiness.

[@anand.rajendran]

We are all children of a merciful God. He always desire forgiveness not punishment. As we bear the wrongs of mentally discomforted kids he too know some of his children are mentally unstable and bears their wrongs. Trust in his Mercy because his mercy is larger than our scruplous thoughts. God bless

[@FreemanDHarcrow]

NO YOU DID NOT BLASPHEME MY GODLY FAMILY MEMBER. satan IS THE BLASPHEMER, JESUS CHRIST, JUST SHOWS US HIS MERCY AGAINST satan. ITS GODS WAR ANYWAY. 🙂

[@ahardy57]

No, blasphemers don't care or ask those questions, our minds can play tricks with us all.

[@catholicocd]

You do not have a spiritual problem. You have a mental illness. You cannot will your way out of mental illness, you need to seek focused therapeutic held if you want to attain any kind of peace. No one can do it for you. You have to do it for yourself.

[@kubisz9560]

If God does not hear my thoughts, do silent prayers have value?

[@catholicocd]

Very good question. The answer is that there is no difference between a silent prayer or a public prayer. It is the act of call g upon God who will Listen when he is called Intrusive thoughts are random anxious energy. Nothing more.

[@hansski1995]

I just discovered this channel-very interesting. Father, can you expand more on your statement that God isn’t sitting there listening to our brain with a microphone? I assumed that because God is omnipotent, he would hear/know everything that comes into our head or how we think. Example: let’s say I had [willful] negative thoughts about someone. Would those thoughts not be a sin unless I made it “public” in some way? I would think that thinking negatively of someone is a sin (whether God heard it or not). Thanks!

[@smearierbrutebr]

Father, wouldnt it be more "correct" to say that God doesnt care rather than that he doesnt listen to our thought? After all (at least for me) God knows whats inside every person's heart (center).

[@catholicocd]

I would not argue with you if it makes you feel better. It is not a correct statement versus an incorrect statement. All words and descriptions about God are incomplete and inadequate.

[@fin4933]

I had a blasphemous thought about the hoky rosary did i commit the unforgivable sin? Please help me

[@fin4933]

Holy rosary*

[@fishingshorts5206]

Great video. Is it blasphemous if you accidentally muttered it under your breath, from an extremely distressing thought about the spirit?

[@ahardy57]

It's a brain thing that can be managed or even gotten over. It's not about blasphemy, it's about anxiety.

[@joanned1910]

And read the word of God

[@BbBb-bs8wk]

Its telling lies about the holy spirit. To know the holy spirit and then to tell people the holy spirit is evil. This has potential to cause others who might witness whats being said about the holy spirit to perish. Knowing without a doubt the goodness of the holy spirit and then to tell others the holy spirit is evil.

[@DominikaCieslak-Polkowska]

If I said something blasphemous because of intrusive thougths? they made me to said something bad... is this unpardonable sin?

[@catholicocd]

No. It is not. It is fear of sin not sin. There is a difference. That is the point if the video.

[@DominikaCieslak-Polkowska]

@@catholicocd but it was against the Holy Spirit...

[@catholicocd]

@@DominikaCieslak-Polkowska no it was not. You did not commit a sin against the Holy Spirit. How could you be so concerned if you did? People who actually sin against the Spirit are not concerned that they have, the fact that you are so concerned and worried inidcates scrupulosity, not sin.

[@DominikaCieslak-Polkowska]

@@catholicocd thank You Father for the answer.. Please pray for me. I hope I will get peace in my heart. I pray each day.

[@firstnamelastname6925]

What if you label some as from Belzubub, but it may've been from God. What if you do it unknowingly?

[@catholicocd]

Thoughts are random, the personalization of thoughts is something that you generate. One more layer of detail to promote anxiety. God is not sitting in heaven generating cryptic messages to His people.

[@BbBb-bs8wk]

Blasphemy against the holy spirit is to speak against the holy spirit. For one to do this they would have to speak to someone lies about the holy spirit with witnesses listining. One would have to know the holy spirit and the truth of the holy spirit. This person would be saying words that work against what the holy spirit is doing here on this earth. This speach could potentially turn someone away from the holy spirit. This is an eternal sin because with the potential for this sin is that it could cause a person to perish without ever knowing the truth. This is not only a sin against God but its an act of evil against a brother or sister. This shows God there is not boundary in what one would do in terms of hurting another. This act is directed at God. This act is unforgivable because its potential to destroy anothers life. When we sin its usually a selfish reason behind our reason for sining. We know it harms us personally and we attempt to be self rightouse when it comes to harming others. The sin of blasphemy against the holy spirit is a sin of knowing without a doubt the truth and the reprocussion of rejecting the truth. Then proceeding to cause another to reject the source of goodness. Knowing the reprocussion for that person if they believe whats they are told. Even if they dont it shows God that person is completely against Gods works.

[@catholicocd]

Why do you desire to limit the mercy and the love of God with all of your definitions? Do you really believe that God is bound by your boundaries and definitions. You have yourself so tied up in knots to make your perception work it is painful even to read it.

[@2spaceace]

Can somebody tell me why God chose to create a sin that only affects believers!! I have suffered for 22 years believing I have committed blasphemy against the holy spirit, it was not a deliberate act !! I Questioned a answer God gave me in a deliverance service! I have really bad OCD and I think God, hates me so bad I can't get over it as he has helped me lots of times before that service !

[@catholicocd]

God did not create such a sin. Your scrupulosity created it. There is no such sin that had been created for people of faith. It is simply not true but it is fearful and anxiety producing which is why your scrupulosity promotes it.

[@2spaceace]

@@catholicocd when I was a non believer I used to say lots of things about the Bible and never worry about anything,then I found God , so could you explain your answer a bit more please ?

[@florecita1927]

@@2spaceace OCD attacks what is important for each person. If your blasphemy was not deliberate, then you don't have mortal sin.

[@greganderson2239]

Gods word clearly states that we are in spiritual warfare. Those beliefs and ideas aren’t of God. Gods word says to test the spirits. Don’t rely on your own thoughts, give your heart to God and trust in his grace

[@catholicocd]

@@greganderson2239 God’s word also teaches that it is necessary to test everything and retain what is good. When faced with contradiction and authentic evidence to the contrary you cannot remain a passive spectator. You engage the truth and determine what is authentic and true.

[@Big_Steve11]

Regrettably it seems father did not consult the CCC, inward thoughts can be blasphemous 2148 Blasphemy is directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one's speech; in misusing God's name. St. James condemns those "who blaspheme that honorable name [of Jesus] by which you are called." The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ's Church, the saints, and sacred things. It is also blasphemous to make use of God's name to cover up criminal practices, to reduce peoples to servitude, to torture persons or put them to death. The misuse of God's name to commit a crime can provoke others to repudiate religion. Blasphemy is contrary to the respect due God and his holy name. It is in itself a grave sin.

[@catholicocd]

A very accurate summary of blasphemy in general but not in particular. I was specifically referring to the subject matter of the video. Perhaps one of these days I might do a video on the general idea of blasphemy that you reference, but that was not the intention of this video nor the purpose of posting it. Perhaps you may want to put subjects that you are going to comment on within the proper context. It helps your argument and makes you seem at least a little bit authoritative which I believe you are reaching for in your commentary.

[@videonmode8649]

@@catholicocd "God is not monitoring your thoughts" What teaching or theology is this referring to?

[@catholicocd]

@@videonmode8649 all of theology. No where in any theological system is God understood or portrayed as the “monitor of thoughts.” I suggest you take a deep breath and actually consider the ramifications of this kind of belief and the havoc it wrecks, not only on your experience of God and divinity, but on your life as a free person, created in the image and likeness of God. And, by the way, don’t come back with a lame quotation, taken out of context from the scripture, and claim that it is authoritative.

[@videonmode8649]

@@catholicocd I ask with genuine sincerity. I don't suffer from OCD or scrupulosity. Why would God not know our thoughts? God knows the heart of men, but that's not to say a random thought was put there in your head to condemn you.

[@catholicocd]

@@videonmode8649 It is not that God cannot know your thoughts, it is that the scrupulous perception of God monitoring your thoughts and measuring them as somehow offensive, is not the traditional understanding of what it means when we state that "God knows us." It is not an either or, it is a both and.

[@Jamessean-uz6le]

Only psychics know what blasphemy of the holy spirit is

[@catholicocd]

If you believe in psychics you have a bigger problem than scrupulosity. Why would you permit yourself to be manipulated by another person who only wants your money.

[@Jamessean-uz6le]

@@catholicocd who do you think runs the Vatican they're psychics do your research

[@Jamessean-uz6le]

@@catholicocd and this is Jesus Christkzbin.info/www/bejne/fJfXgqOLdtGgfKMsi=4GxGZKOYGZ0GMyZK

[@Jamessean-uz6le]

@@catholicocd and just so you know the holy spirit is the moon and all the workings thereof

[@Jamessean-uz6le]

@@catholicocd if you disagree that's fine we can speak through scripture only thank you

[@dannyboy6598]

No mr cath priest u hv not explained it correctly. Fact is, this is not in your catechism n the holy spirit is absent in the rcc. Thts why this is a false church. If u hv explained the blasphemy, tell me which frame is it in your video. I might hv overlooked it. If i did, i apologise. This is a serious mattet n it must be properly explained. When i was catholic for 43 years i never heard this subject until i began to read the bible.

[@dannyboy6598]

I don't think U hv explained what blasphemy of the holy spirit is. U should get help or else U are misleading caths

[@catholicocd]

I did explain it. I did not explain it according to your definition, reflective of what? You should not make careless statements that are fueled by fear. It says more about you than it says about the person that you are commenting on.

[@NewBegginings000]

I sent it to someone and asked them what it meant? Is this saying I did it? I’m kinda going off & I got so much anxiety right now I’m sorry Lord please forgive me for my unsettling thoughts. 🥹🙏🏾

[@ahardy57]

This is an anxiety problem and a brain thing, so don't pay attention to your thoughts.