Dear Orabelle:

Wow, that is a lot of questions. As for sending the answer to your email address, that is not possible. If you gave a valid email address when you posted the question you will receive an email notice when your question is answered.

By the way, I am only a "brother", not a priest.

From your comments and questions, and taking note that we have not actually talked, my guess is that you are not a victim soul. Nevertheless, it appears that you are indeed suffering a lot. This is an opportunity for your to offer your suffering to God as a ordinary person regardless of whether or not you are a "victim soul".  This is an opportunity for you to share in the suffering of Christ and to grow in the faith.

I am in pain and suffering myself every single day. I am not a victim soul; I am just an ordinary person. But, I try to offer my suffering to God. I thank God for my suffering because through this suffering I have come closer to God than I every have before.

As such, I would prefer to remain disabled and in pain and suffering and be close to God than to be healed and take God for granted.

You can do what you can to alleviate your suffering medically; you can pray for healing but you must always end your prayers the way Jesus did in the Garden, "...nevertheless Thy will be done."

In whatever happens you need to accept your suffering as redemptive and helpful to your spiritual growth. St. Paul was suffering and God said "no" when he asked to be healed. In that experience St. Paul discovered that "in my weakness I am strong in Christ."

In the weakness of your suffering you too can be strong in Christ.

As to your questions.....

1) What is a Victim Soul?

The term victim soul is misused a lot. It tends to be used toward anyone who has chronic suffering. Chronic suffering does not in itself make one a victim soul.

The dictionary definition of victim soul is: A person specially chosen by God to suffer more than most people during life, and who generously accepts the suffering in union with the Savior and after the example of Christ's own Passion and Death. The motive of a victim soul is a great love of God and the desire to make reparation for the sins of mankind.

2. Are all Priests, Nuns, and Tertiaries victim souls?

No, most priests, nuns, and tertiaries are not victim souls. There is no class of people and no state in life that qualifies one to be a victim soul. Victims souls are people "specially chosen by God to suffer more than most people". These chosen people come from all walks of life; it is whomever God chooses.

3. Are Victim Souls depressed, and scared all of the time?

No. A victim souls "generously accepts the suffering in union with the Savior and after the example of Christ's own Passion and Death. The motive of a victim soul is a great love of God and the desire to make reparation for the sins of mankind."

4. Is it possible to be a victim soul without being a saint?

Yes. Only a very few people are Canonized as Saints and most Saints are not victim souls. However, all of us are to be saints (with a small "s"). A saint is a person in a state of Grace. We all are to be in a State of Grace.

5. While being a victim soul, is it possible to be happy, full of faith and still bothered by satan?

Yes. In fact a victim souls WILL be happy and full of faith as a victim soul "generously accepts the suffering in union with the Savior and after the example of Christ's own Passion and Death. The motive of a victim soul is a great love of God and the desire to make reparation for the sins of mankind."

Satan can still bother them, us, or anyone. In fact, Satan will bother people of faith more than people of no faith. People of no faith he already has, people of faith he wants to get. Any Christian who is living a life of faith will be harassed by the devil in some way, great or small.

6. Does God decide to make the person a victim soul or does God let the person decide if they want to be a Victim soul?

A victim soul is a "person specially chosen by God..."  A person cannot choose this for himself.

7. When a person is a victim soul, is it because they have committed a sin and given satan permission to bother them?

No, a victim soul is a "person specially chosen by God to suffer more than most people during life". This is a privilege to people who are able to "generously accept the suffering in union with the Savior and after the example of Christ's own Passion and Death" and who have a motive of "great love of God and the desire to make reparation for the sins of mankind".

8. Are there degrees or stages of being a victim soul?

I suppose there can be differing degrees in the sense that victim souls suffer in many different ways, some more than others. But in all cases the suffering is more than usual. That is the point. And their "more than usual" suffering is joyfully given to God.

9. When I saw the movie by Mel Gibson, entitled the Passion;The Virgin Mary was walking toward Jesus as He carried his cross, she was watching from a distance and satan was watching her. I think that Jesus and the Virgin Mary were bothered by satan during their life times on earth. Jesus was/is a victim soul. Was His mother also? What do you think?

Yes, I think that our Blessed Mother was a victim soul. She suffered more than usual, more than other mothers who may have had their sons executed, in that her heart was pierced and she shared in the suffering of her Son who took away the sin of the world.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary