The Psychological & Spiritual Effects of Being Negative ~ Fr Ripperger 

This is a lot to unpack and Im super negative so I need to listen to this over and over and over! I want to be healed and delivered from this so bad. My big takeaways: Stop thinking about yourself, start thinking about God. Its all about Grace. Also a biggee: demons want us thinking about anything as long as it isnt God.

Always learn a lot from you, Father. This really spoke to me. Coming from a hypercritical family, I think this affected my inner voice. I often find myself dwelling on self-loathing. It got better since I started praying the daily rosary but from time to time I still find myself being harsh on myself. I realize now that this is a form of pride and a disservice to my path to holiness. Praying for all of us to conquer our tendencies for negativity and self-loathing 🙏🏻

Demons can't read our minds but when we complain we inform them about what to torment our minds with. Offer all to God in humility and silence.

Fr. Ripperger is awesome.

This holy priest is talking to ME! I gotta' make some serious changes!

Fr Ripperberger is one of the good guys (one of the best). Of all the sermons I have listened to, of all the channels I follow, none have had a profound effect to the extent that this one has. I often find myself at first resisting and then over time accepting what he says. The advice is often hard to follow but when you do, it really bears fruit. This is the sign of someone who doesn't tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear, i.e. Truth. And yes sometimes it hurts. But it is the only thing that can set us free and save us.

Hi Father Ripperger. Your sister’s saying, “it’s not your monkey” is really a shortened form of a Polish saying. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy. I love your lectures. Please keep doing them.

I suffer and don’t talk about it. This helps. Thank you for the message father.

This man is a giant 🙌🏻👊🏻 bless his message and bless him with strength 💪🏻

I forgot something: a very Wise Priest gave a wonderful Homily and it was about JOY. J=Jesus O=Others Y=Yourself keep your life in that order and you will have and experience JOY. BTW GOD is always in control....nothing is happening that God does not permit.

Wow unbelievable , i live alone and am very isolated .I have noone to talk through anything with . I am currently battling negativity as I am awaiting health test results .I am leaning heavy on my Faith but have to keep reinstating this from within.I know that God is with me and in control of All things in this situation and others .I know that I am feeling fear and trying not to look too far ahead . I think that I'm experiencing lessons of Humility ,Faith Trust ,Patience and Hope because Im having to fight hard against the negative and to leave it all to Him .Material is worldly and often negative ,God is Peace and it's there that I am finding Hope .Surrender is all I can do .Please pray for me This lecture has come along at the right time for me.Gods will be done .Thank you Fr 🙏

thank you father, I've been suffering with depression for quite sometime now. I've been too hard on myself. thank you for this sermon.

Father R. is a good psychology teacher that is also a priest. That's a cool combination 😎

Prayed to our lady of sorrows like you always say to reveal to me my greatest defect and this video is the answer to the prayer. Thank you Father

Top notch preaching, gave me a kick up the back side.

This channel is a huge blessing

Father Ripperger is such a blessing for the Church. I listen to him all the time. What struck to my heart is the negativity that some Catholics and particularly Traditional Catholics focus on. Everything he said is so true. I love the Traditional Latin Mass, but I was raised in the Novus Ordo. I attend both. Sometimes I cannot always attend the Latin Mass. I love the Church and it’s caused me pain to hear people speak about the scandal in the Church all the time. I use to watch Traditional Commentators, who would speak about theology, but now they are always slandering the Church and telling you what’s wrong. I stay far away from them. What woke me up was slandering Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI is very humble filled with The Holy Spirit. He radiates such goodness. Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized shining the light on Christ. I’m so grateful to be Catholic. I know many wonderful Priest, both in the Traditional Latin Mass and Novus Ordo. The Church is beautiful. We must Love the Church. Beautiful talk.

Thank you God for these teachings. Please continue to bless those with the strength and courage that for the stamina, bravery and intellect to do your goodwill.👍🏻👍🏻

Hi father I’m a traditional , to Latin Mass and we are not sad we are full of joy we don’t go to see each other We look for GOD , VIVA CRISTO REY

You know, I know so many people who are so negative, they really need to hear this. They complain so much about everything and totally kill my mood. j/k I know I definitely needed to hear this. I have a lot of negative thinking, and day by day, by the grace of God, I'll overcome it. Thanks for the necessary reminder.

Fr. Ripperger: Thank you for another great talk. I have had a very different experience with the Traditional community. My fellow parishioners are happy, humble, good Catholic people. My husband has said that perhaps the sedevacantists we have met (NOT in our Traditional chapel) are more negative, like those described in this talk. Our chapel is fully Traditional and it is a joy to be part of it.

I think that Jesus Mary and Joseph must have been the happiest and most joy filled family ever. There would have been no negativity, only laughter.

ANOTHER EPIC TALK , THANKS GOD BLESS YOU FATHER.

Thank you Father Ripperger. I am so grateful for your message. God bless you and all your good work.

Thank you Father rippinger as a traditional catholic myself practicing the trying to practice the traditional Catholic faith I find it very enlightening and I have things to work on

Thank you, Fr. I am the trad you are addressing. I truly appreciate your work, especially this talk. May God continue to bless your ministry.

God bless you our lady keep you

Thank you God for blessing us with Fr Rippeeger. I have learned so much from him more than anyone else. The Holy Spirit works through him to reach us so thankyou 😊

I really enjoyed this talk. I was surprised what he found lacking in some traditionalists. Good talk. If I think about it, I can remember how focusing on negative things could give me a high. Point it is a focus on self. I will send link to others.

God bless you Father!!

Thank you so much Father Chad Ripperger. I am a traditionalist and I am not angry to hear the traditionalist comments mentioned. I am a resident of the District Of Columbia which famously known as Washington or Washington, DC... where the whole swamp is. Viva Cristo Rey. Thank God that I am consumed by the negative around me. I am surrounded by godless agenda and godless people..... Including my own family and friends coworkers and neighbors. Please , O Lord God help me with the whole conversion of my family, especially my daughter and son. 🙏😇❤️💙

Thankyou Father. Very well versed.

God's mercy relieves our burden.

This is a fantastic talk!

All in all, this presentation is a reminder that we are created in the image of God, thus we should not loss our focus to the extreme on the both sides... true humility, true mercy, true charity and true happiness.... in Christ the Truth will set us free....

I've given this topic a lot of thought. I think it's important to count your blessings. But I think it's more important to be honest with yourself so that God can sort you out properly. Finding a good balance is probably the answer.

Best of the Best. Thank you Father!!

This is a timely reminder in these troubling times with unlimited bad news and evil to be found in our world. It's ok to know but not to dwell on evil. Our brain is pliable and changes according to yoir choices. As Father eloquently explains. Great video to share..thankyou.

I started listening to this because my husband is so negative and found out that many times it think I should have done better in the past and when those thoughts come it’s all I can think of. Next time I’m trusting in His Grace since He has forgiven me already and forgive myself for not being able to see into the future and not being perfect in the past.

Thank you Father! As someone ridiculously scrupulous for a long time, you gave the solution. It's time to just "think God." ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Dear Father Ripperberger, I'm in probably the deepest 'dip' of my life...and this is a huge eyeopener! i thank you for that! I have bin watching your videos on youtube now and then, especially after a while of beeing in a negative spiral and doing al kinds of things that have nothing to do with God...and finally looking for answers and usually find them in your video's! Because I'm from the Netherlands and English is not my native language it takes me a bit more repeats to 'fully' (haha well fully only by God's will of course) understand what you're saying... Anyway a big thank you and God Bless!

Your words are so helpful. God bless you, Fr. Ripperger.

Thank you Fr Ripperger for explaining this well to us. It's always a new meaningful knowledge with you. God bless you.

Thank you sir so

"Anything but God" - wow, that really hits home.

Ty Fr Ripperger🕊🙏🏼♥️

20 min in and I am floored. This is amazing and I really needed to hear this

Makes so much sense! This video has opened my eyes and heart and possibly changed my outlook. Ty Father

Four years later, I''m over it.!

This was a real eye-opener and quite painful for me. I see how my negativity has hurt me but worse, those around me. But the up side is I've really grasped the lesson so I think I can start to make it much better. Thanks again Father Ripperger!

I have to say, I attend a novus ordo mass with a very holy priest … and charity abounds at our parish. Anyway, I’m thankful as always to you, Father, for this wisdom. My mother is extremely negative and as her caregiver I have found that spending extra time in adoration and working on deepening my meditative prayer time has transformed my ability to cope with and actually help her, and it’s helped me get over myself for my early convert scrupulosity re my past sins.

Thank you fr ripperger for this message

Awesome! Really needed to hear this. Thank you, Father!!!

Fr. Jenkins is one of the few holy priests of our time. I thank God for him and for his videos. Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

So good! I like the words on the Papacy! I have been trying to put it into proper focus without denying what’s going on.. thank you!

That's why I started watching videos on making things so that I can get out of that negative space of watching all the things that are wrong in the world

This was really good. I will feel good about myself even if so many of the church's significant people are so bad. As long as we long for God and do His will as best we can, we should be on the right side on the last day. I also have so many religious books and now I am VERY selective in what I read/buy. My bible should tell me what I really need to know. Douay Reims. Before Vatican II.

Lol.. I can sit and pray my rosary and keep thinking about the new rosary I want! Lol.. example of what your talking about to a crazy degree!m

A lot to process here. But very timely for me!

AND negativity is huge in the news and social media. I say that as a reminder to myself. Have to keep that in check.

Thanks!

Most powerful helpful talk thank you

Thank you Father..

This is so helpful. Thank you

I have had problems with scrupulosity. My experience is that it is much more complicated psychologically than how Fr. Ripperger explains it. It is not simply due to thinking negatively. It is about fear! It can be rooted in a degree of obsessive compulsiveness - an anxiety disorder. Scrupulosity was part of my becoming an agnostic and leaving the Church. After I did not have to worry about sin so much, I was no longer scrupulous. Seriously, the entire problem was gone. Nevertheless, I did have difficulties with depression and anxiety - both of which were resolved quite well through psychotherapy. I returned to belief in God after about 10 years and then the Church after an additional 15 years. I had the sense the scrupulosity might rear its ugly head again, as I never fully overcame it while in the Church, that is in that context. And it did. However, I was better equipped to deal with it. Got a spiritual director and regular confessor, who knew of the problem. Step by step I became increasingly aware of God's love for me. That was important (there might have been issues from my upbringing that inhibited that understanding in me earlier). Nevertheless, the problem would arise from time to time. OK I began praying to be relieved of it - that worked/works! I noticed more and more how my mind functioned - the habits it was in. I identified frequently looking back over events, searching to see if all was OK the way I acted (this part is consistent with Fr. Ripperger's suggestion of negativity). I gradually purposely decreased that behavior. I also began humorously coming up with some scenario that I knew was not sinful but which I knew my mind could make it into one; so I chided myself and laughed at the ridiculousness of it - this also helped and helps. I also recognized the issue of dependency as related to scrupulosity. Fear that then wants to be relieved by someone else telling you your behavior was not a sin - a difficulty depending upon one's own rationality to make distinctions. With regard to that, I began depending upon my own mind - for example, if my mind wanted me to worry about something that I knew was not sinful, I would not bring it to confession. I found that not bringing my scrupulosity to confession helped me a great deal - it really made me stronger in overcoming it. At the same time, I would suggest that challenging the dependency aspect must be done with care. If a person is not yet psychologically strong enough to challenge it, he must understand the dependency issue and challenge it in the ways and to the degree he can, gradually gaining independence of thought and the strength that goes with that. If a person has dependency-related psychological problems, it can take a good deal of therapy to manage it. Hence, there are factors that Fr. Ripperger identifies that can be part of scrupulosity. However, my own experience is that it is quite complex. For example, I doubt I would have been so well equipped to deal with it when I returned to the Church had I not had an excellent psychotherapist an one point in my life. After that work with him (talk therapy alone), my depression was totally overcome and my anxiety issues quite decreased. I was in a master's program in music and said to myself: "wow, I don't have nervous stomach every day at school (whereas I that had been the case since grammar school - possibly also involving an incident with a teacher - along with my character and temperament being on the sensitive side). In addition, while as humans we all share certain characteristics, each of us is also unique, the ramification being that one solution does not fit all people equally - people can have a similar difficulties which due to a number of different factors. Know thyself! :-)

That was an AMAZING talk! Take away is: if we don't let go of EVERYTHING and focus solely on God's Love, we will end up bitter. And the converse is also true: whoever is bitter must be holding on to something and not be focusing entirely on God...

This helps me so much. Trying to learn detachment. 🙂

Thank you, very much, i listen to your videos, i learn a lot , to progresse. i was baptised this year in june, here in Cannes, France, At the moment i am a baby spirtuelle 65 years old, but growing up very fast.

Soo great 🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏🕊

I love father ripperger

Some people are trapped in negativity thought processes. I work with such a person, at first I thought she was bitter and unforgiving, but as she shared things done to her, my annoyance changed to sympathy. It would have been helpful if you shared some ways people can self-help themselves out of negativity and/or how those who must be with them on a daily basis can help them.

This one is exceptionally packed...I would say, it is a " must hear' for all. And it is not for just hearing but to sit with pen and paper and to learn..i wish a word version was available for reading..Sadly the video is missing..so we cant see the flip chart.

I wish the Church would teach us HOW to forgive and not just TO forgive. I thought I had to forgive the nasties and still be nice to them when they had not changed. I became a doormat and lost my self esteem over many many years. Now I hate myself for being so stupid. This happened for most of my life bcse I knew no better. It was only when I got a Smartphone that I was able to listen to brilliant teaching on utube. We are NOT taught our Faith properly and Satan uses it to our disadvantage. I had to Google how to forgive. Thank God for Google.

Thank you Father I needed to hear this, it struck a cord in me. God bless!

I really appreciate Fr Ripperger's works, his speech always goes straight to the point and it brings clarity to my mind. Bless him! But I just don't think traditionals are so bitter tho xD

Thank you father-you have lifted a burden from me

Every last one of us needs this message, badly. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

So helpful. Thank you. 🌹

If one is negative, that person underestimates God being the Almighty and Omnipotent Being..

Thanks Fr.

Deo gratias!+

“I do not have the capacity to perfect myself” wow 12:00

And the algorithm is going to feed us more of what we look at. How scary is that. A great reason to be aware that you are being force fed by your own computer, which it turns out is not a force for goodness and decency. This is a good video. Fr. Rippberger is a good teacher..

A wonderfully presented philosophy in which to live your life

Just watching this for the 2nd time

‘ Our first responsibility is to pray & to fraternally correct when it is helpful ‘ . Sometimes it’s just too difficult to help & more so to do it fraternally.

VAT.2 did a good job on your theology.Try going to a traditional seminary as you will learn what tradition is.

Amen. 💞🇻🇦✝️🇻🇦💞

Love this guy, he's saving my life ❤️ apart from Jesus that is 💜

This is why I deleted my Facebook account lol

Funny, one of the most joyful priests I know leads a traditional parish....

From Misión Cruz Hermitage in Somerset, Texas. Health to everyone!

I guess I visited a non-traditional extraordinary form parish. People were very happy and even gathered outside after Mass to have picnic lunches and socialize. In moood it was similar to my little home parish in the middle of nowhere.

What a wonderful video!!! I really needed to hear this!!! Thank you so much!!!

I’ve known this for decades. Just never found a way apart from it. Long ago.. I did ask a Shrink why I have the idiosyncrasies, the weird behavior… why I do what I do…. and he said something profound “Because you want to”.

Fr. Said "this is the year of mercy, yet something tells me at the end of the year of mercy we're gonna get whopped!" Oh how true.

Good advice. Here is what I do not get, for music and movies if there is anything that is offensive to God it corrupts the entire piece of work and it is not fit. However in politics we should choose the lesser evil. Per your conferences it is always wrong to chose evil.

The distractions are - Anything but God. Stay focus on God. Forgive yourself because God did. I am angry bitter n sad. I need to get over it.

I could see someone looking at the pope and the state of the church and being very negative. However its from an accurate assessment.

Four kinds of negativity!? o great, I'll never get over it.