Today in Porn(eia): Lent Edition

March 5, 2018 by JOB at 8:57 am

Any well-catechized Catholic knows that fornication and other sexual sins are not the worst sins; pride, vanity, and acedia, indeed all the other deadly sins, are worse in themselves than lust. We know, too, that all human beings suffer to a greater or lesser degree from the disordered concupiscence of our fallen nature; we are prone to sins of the flesh, and many will struggle with them for a long time. All this is true; and yet it is no less true, as St. John Cassian and countless spiritual masters teach us, that we must fight against this sin and conquer it if we wish to make any progress in the spiritual life, in holiness, in the charity that loves God for His own sake and our neighbor for God. If we get stuck in porneia, we make the devil’s job easy. He can leave us alone to wreck ourselves.

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Big Jon Bully says

March 26, 2018 at 10:39 am

Good stuff, thanks.

I enjoy the korrektiv.

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Big Jon Bully says

March 26, 2018 at 10:45 am

Benedict XVI said, “A heart is pure when it is not stained with lies and hypocrisy, a heart that that remains transparent because it is alien to duplicity. A heart is pure when it does not estrange itself with the drunkenness of pleasure, a heart in which love is true and is not a momentary passion.”

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