He's changed. And I think that's a sign he's having a true encounter with Christ.
Porn isn’t just an issue Catholics deal with. This can apply to any Christian.
Lately I’ve been recommending “Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism” by F. Carolyn Graglia.
The author makes a strong case that Feminism has done enormous damage to women, to men, and to relations between men and women. She indicates that Feminism has always been championed by lesbians, barren women, and women with children but with no material instinct (Betty Friedan). Feminists basically hate women who value children. Feminism is primarily anti-children and had led society to embrace anything which gets away from valuing children (abortion, homosexuality, pornography, disrespecting housewives in favor of “women who work”).
The author also provides plenty of evidence that prior to the sexual revolution, married couples had truly satisfying sex lives (the whole notion that we were repressed prior to 1960 is a myth). After the sexual revolution, things went wrong in ways which are not always easy to see, but that (in general) our sex lives are not as good and we do a lot of things wrong today (because we’re so liberated).
I’m glad this young man has been changed.
As someone who works in the area of annulments, it was revealing to me how lonely porn makes the partner of the porn user. The person can be in the same room, ready for a happy romp in the hay, but the porn user is getting off by him/herself. Just doing the act, without the companionship. Sad.
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From the article as you posted it.
First two paragraphs:
At the start of the fall semester of my senior year of college, I was receiving the Eucharist every day. The problem was, I was not Catholic. I had begun attending daily Mass four months before, drawn less by the Catholic faith than by the soothing regularity of the liturgy. Whenever the host was administered, I went up with the rest of the parish and received it without a second thought.
But by September, I could no longer plead ignorance. I had begun to participate in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and was learning about church doctrine and the theology of the sacraments, including how the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life.” I also learned that people were not supposed to take the Eucharist unless they had received first Communion. How could I live with this contradiction: breaking the rules of the very church I wanted to join? At the start of my senior year of college, I was taking the Eucharist every day. The problem was, I was not Catholic.
Now the article as it is written...first two paragraphs with the key omitted sentence in bold that mentions protestant.
At the start of the fall semester of my senior year of college, I was receiving the Eucharist every day. The problem was, I was not Catholic. I had begun attending daily Mass four months before, drawn less by the Catholic faith than by the soothing regularity of the liturgy. Whenever the host was administered, I went up with the rest of the parish and received it without a second thought. I did not think there was a difference between Protestant communion and the Catholic Eucharist other than that one was administered more frequently than the other.
But by September, I could no longer plead ignorance. I had begun to participate in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and was learning about church doctrine and the theology of the sacraments, including how the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life.” I also learned that people were not supposed to take the Eucharist unless they had received first Communion. How could I live with this contradiction: breaking the rules of the very church I wanted to join?
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This is rather disingenuous attempt to manipulate an article for the sole reason of mis-using the caucus thread.
My Dad used to leave Playboy magazines around and both my brothers went on to have “issues” with pornography. Both have been married more than twice, have cheated on their wives, have molested family members, etc. It was a terrible example that perpetuated immorality.
This is actually a beautiful post. Thanks. And if he makes any mistakes before marriage, he knows how to seek forgiveness and he will be forgiven. I understand the power of the Catholic Church. In Europe in college I would get up early on SUNDAY as a Jew and go down to the 11th century cathedral just to hear the music and the Latin and the smells etc. I may not have converted but I see the power of Gd in that religion. We earthly people need to use our senses to get holier. We are not angels. We are of the earth. He’s on the right path.
"Another Christ." The pitiful poor man with a "burning desire for the body and blood of Christ" as well as lust for seeing female flesh, is delusional. Nowhere in the the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (showing how they understood the OT and gospels) is Scripture), Acts-Rev., do we see the Lord's supper described as spiritual food, and with the focus being on consumption of it as so, as the preeminent and central activity of the church, nor being for individual consumption.
Instead, the only manifest descriptions of the Lord's supper in Acts thr Revelation (besides Jude 1:12 below) is 1 Corinthians 10+11. Which teaches that the Lord's supper is to be an effectual communal remembrance of and thus a declaration/proclamation of the Lord's death, (1 Corinthians 11:26) by which He purchased the church, (Acts 20:28) which declares this by sharing bread and wine with each other as bought saints bought by Christ's sinless shed blood.
Who are to show remembrance of the Lord's death by manifesting fellowship with Christ and each other thru this communal sharing of a actual meal, like as pagans manifest fellowship with their object of worship and each other in their dedicatory feasts. (1 Corinthians 10:15-23)
Thus to eat independent of each others, ignoring and thus shaming those who have not, is to "not eat the Lord's supper," and which was the sin and cause of judgment in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 (see here ), that of not effectually recognizing the body of Christ, which theme of unity continues into the next chapter.
Likewise, to take part in pagan religious feasts as well as sanction Christian communion to anyone is also to incur judgment, by signifying fellowship with those who are not of God, and are contrary to Him, and in the case of Christian communion it is defiling what is to be a holy declarative communion with Christ and each other who are bought with His blood. To take part in the Lord's supper while being or acting contrary to those for whom Christ died is to "come together unto condemnation."
But if the congregation is told before hand what this supper is about, which thus requires manifest regeneration and treating others as blood-bought saints (both in positive affirmation as well as needed correction) then if some presume to be partakers their blood is on their own hands.
Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. (1 Corinthians 11:17)
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. (1 Corinthians 11:20-22)
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:26-27)
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. (1 Corinthians 11:33-34)
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;