Cecilia Cicone 🚀

I love Jesus, Jesus-related activities, and coke zero | wrote a book for kids | review books for @osvnews | views expressed here are my own, not my employer's

[Cecilia Cicone 🚀 @cecsquared]

I have quite a few new followers! I entered a convent in 2016 before having to leave in 2020 because I developed mental illness. I’m Catholic, love living in Indiana, and have two dogs as my companions.

Feel free to ask me anything!

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In case I haven’t clearly said it before, I accept my mental illnesses as the cross that Jesus has given me to work out my own salvation and the salvation of the world, but it sucks 🥰

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If you don’t sleep, the nightmares can’t get ya

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@CaptainVatican @BackwardsFeet @jdflynn Wait group tats???

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@SrDorcee Divorce is always painful. My parents divorced and remarried without an annulment, and that brings its own pain with it.

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@librarythingtim Ok that was awesome

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@DeltaFlute I’d smash 4/6 of these

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@Sylvan_Cat @BrantScylftun @melodymlyons Yes, those are sins. But if someone is not doing those things and confesses the broader category of sins, it risks scandal to suggest them, especially to minors. And most confessors do not know someone’s entire background from the few moments they’re in the confessional.

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@Cac0110 I just read her memoir last month. I know she fell away from Catholicism— may she rest in peace.

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@Sylvan_Cat @BrantScylftun @melodymlyons I disagree. If someone confesses to using porn or to reading inappropriate books, that’s one thing. But if someone confesses to being unchaste with themselves, the question, “Was it a book that aroused you?” is speculative and inappropriate.

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@theobronzor I thought the worst part of the sex abuse scandals was the sexual abuse of children by clergy

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@JmtodTwit This is like me considering becoming the town secretary

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Ok, I'm grumpy and random people are jumping on me about everything from canned pumpkin pie filling to my spiritual direction history, so it's time to log off and go touch grass

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@kathrynlopez I live about an hour away from South Bend in Northwest Indiana. Moved here from the east coast and it's the best decision I've made! Just bought a house six months ago to set down roots.

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@BrantScylftun @melodymlyons This is a real person I know. She was absolutely distraught and felt like she shouldn’t have been so vulnerable in the confessional. It was traumatizing Thankfully, she was able to find a good priest who was appropriately shocked at the story and he’s her confessor now.

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@BrantScylftun @melodymlyons I know a woman who confessed to impurity with herself and the confessor asked whether or not she used a toy. That is obviously inappropriate, but in that moment the woman felt like she couldn’t question the confessor. I think that’s what @melodymlyons is warning against.

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@benedict_usman @melodymlyons buddy, the main sins I struggled with were not sexual sins. I know it's hard to believe.

But it sounds like that is something you struggle with, so I'll be praying for you.

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@benedict_usman @melodymlyons You're assuming a whole lot of things. I went to a confessor. That's where I discussed my battles with sin, in the sacrament that Jesus gave us for that purpose.

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@lukei4655 I'm glad they're discussing it. I was hoping there would be a note about it in the report, but if it's not a key part of their strategy it makes sense that it wasn't included.