I am writing this in the hope that maybe someone will be able to advise me. Mom has always been a believer, but after Dad died four years ago, it began to escalate in a worrying direction. At first she just went to church more often than usual, made friends with the priest, invited him for teas and dinners, etc. Now I see that she can get up early in the morning for mass, and often goes to the evening. She also often fasts, which is very dangerous at her age and with her ailments! I remember one time I came to visit her, and there was an empty fridge, the rosary, of course, on the table, because my mother was saying the chaplet. For two and a half hours, she told me later. She hadn’t eaten anything all day, and she hadn’t drunk any water, because it was fasting. She was pale as a sheet and could barely speak. I went shopping, cooked dinner, and somehow made her eat. But that was just the beginning…
He watches TRWAM TV from morning to evening – if he spends the day at home. My mother has a small pension, and my husband and I try to help, e.g. every month we buy all the necessary medicines for her, we also do shopping. My mother began to make regular donations to her parish’s bank account, not to mention the fact that she can throw 50 zlotys or even 100 zlotys into the church’s tray. When I ask her about it, she goes mad and shouts that she will do what she wants with her money, and that the Church is the only salvation for Poland.
Recently, she started a fight about me and Darek not having a church wedding. I’m agnostic and my mother knows it, but it’s only now starting to bother her. She was literally hysterical when I told her we weren’t going to change that. I would like to add that we have been married for ten years, we have two children.
“She was in tears. She despaired that we were living contrary to God’s will”
Mom was in tears. She lamented that we were living contrary to God’s will, in debauchery, that we were corrupt. I had never heard those words come out of her mouth before. She didn’t speak to me for a week afterwards, she didn’t answer when I called. And when it happened to pick her up, she said that “until I join the sacrament of marriage” and “I do not turn back from the wrong path”, she will not contact me. There were a few more similar brawls, which sooner or later spread to the bones.
Recently, my brother drove up to her apartment to fix a leaking faucet in the bathroom. When he walked in, he just couldn’t believe his eyes. In the middle of the living room, she spread a rug and arranged a chapel, like in a church, where she kneels and prays every day. This is not a reason for jokes for me, because I am really concerned about her health. How to get mom away from such fanaticism? I don’t want to argue with her, because apart from typical church topics – we always got along great.
Justyna.
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Source: Gazeta
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