Episode 164 -- Life of St Philip XIV.164. -- Dealing With Scruples

We read about a friend of St Philip with scruples. Scruples are not just doubts or difficulties. Scruples are a spiritual condition that even saints in their early days went through, for example, St Francis de Sales and Bl. Anthony Grassi. Scruples involves seeing evil where there is no evil. A scrupulous person is always afraid that he or she has done something sinful. Scruples will cause a kind of spiritual paralysis. They leave a person without peace. Scruples are a terrible affliction that require, usually, a spiritual father to guide a person through. St Philip was given great graces to help those with scruples. He knew that one of the best remedies is to manifest to others what kinds of thoughts we are having.