Heathens Begone

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2022-05-09 21:51:40 "You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.

He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?

Are not even the tax collectors doing that?

And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

- St. Matthew 5, 43-48 Open / Comment

2022-05-09 12:04:03 On the vice of impurity
St. Alphonsus Liguori

First point
Delusion of those who say that sins against purity are not a great evil

It is a mortal sin; it cannot be a small evil. It is more sinful than theft or detraction or the violation of the fast. God loves purity with an infinite love; and consequently He has an infinite hatred for the sensuality which the lewd, voluptuous man calls a small evil.
Even the devils who held a high rank in Heaven before their fall, disdain to tempt men to sins of the flesh.

"Fornication and pleasure", says Saint Jerome,"pervert the understanding , and change men into beasts. He says that there is nothing more vile or degrading, than to allow oneself to be conquered by the flesh. Is it a small evil to forget God, and to banish Him from the soul, for the sake of giving the body a vile satisfaction , of which, when it is over, you feel ashamed?

Saint Thomas says, that particularly by the vice of impurity, men are removed far from God. The unchaste are guilty of an increasing torrent of sins, by thoughts, by words, by looks, by complacencies, and by touches; so that, when they go to confession , they find it impossible to tell the number of the sins they have committed against purity.

To conquer temptations, continual prayer is necessary. Commit this sin, the devil says;for you afterwards confess it. But to make a good confession of your sins, you must have true sorrow in the heart, and a firm purpose to sin no more. Where are this sorrow and this firm purpose of amend, when you always return to the vomit. If you had had these dispositions, you should not have relapsed, or at least you should have abstained for a considerable time from a relapsing. You have always fallen back into sin after confession. What sign is this?It is a sign that you were always in enmity with God.

Second point
Illusion of those, who say that God takes pity on this sin

In the sacred Scriptures we do not read of any sin so severely chastised as the sin of impurity. Saint Remigius writes, that if children were excepted, the number of adults which are saints that are saved, is few, on account of the sins of the flesh.

It was revealed to a holy soul, that as pride has filled Hell with devils, so impurity fills it with men.
Saint Isidore says that there is no vice which so much enslaves men to the Devil as impurity. Hence, Saint Augustine says, that with regard to this sin, the combat is common, and the victory is rare.

There are two great remedies: prayer and the flight of dangerous occasions. Hence, as soon as a temptation against chastity presents itself, the remedy is to turn instantly to God for help. Immediately, without listening to, or beginning to argue with the temptation.

Saint Philip Neri used to say that cowards- that is, they who fly from occasions of sin- gain the victory. Hence, you must, in the first place, keep a restraint in the eyes. Job said: "I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin" ( Job 31:1). A wise man is timid, and flies away; a fool is confident , and falls.

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