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Hello Father JoeI have a question about OCD and the guilt associated with intrusive thoughts. What should I do when obsessive thoughts arise that often involve making a vow to God, specifically about forbidding myself something that I wouldn’t want to forbid? It’s difficult to determine how much I actually want to make this vow, and these thoughts are interfering with my daily life. Sometimes I can even think that I 100% remember that it was voluntary, but given that such thoughts arise not once but periodically and prevent me from doing what I wanted, I have hope that This is still OCD and not a real vow. But there is also another problem: recently I had a little to drink, and such a thought came to me again. I don’t remember exactly how much time passed (maybe 10 seconds, maybe less or more) from the moment of the thought about the vow to God. I immediately forgot the content and I’m afraid that this forgetfulness is my fault because alcohol was involved and I didn’t want to analyze this vow to God. Therefore, I’m afraid that now I cannot do everything that might have been the content of that vow, so as not to break a vow that might have been made. Do such vows obligate me?
Hello, Father Joe, may I ask what was the scale of the brutality of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks and did it almost destroy the Armenian Christian community because we rarely get news or hear from them.
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