we love you

You can do it!

@TheReligiousHippie thanks after coming back to my faith it's hard to find friends

@@josephvincent4629I pray ur doing well since it’s been 9 months lol

I'm trying, it has been very discouraging

I thought this was the case for me. Unfortunately, I've come to understand that I just have a low libido, and wasn't as faithful as I thought I was. But when the temptation strikes, I am weak like many. While I confessed my sin as soon as possible, I still feel the urges. I no longer feel spiritually unclean, but the battle has still been intense, and I fear I'm going to fall again. While I do think it's a despicable sin that I want to overcome, I realized that a big reason I was able to avoid it for so long was fear of confessing it. Sure I confessed it in my first confession as a convert, and while I definitely wouldn't say the first confession is easy, it's definitely easier to admit to looking at porn and masturbating when that sin could have been anywhere from days, to years ago. But now I had to confess to something that clearly happened the other day, seeing as I received the Eucharist last Sunday. A fresh mortal sin is definitely more difficult to confess. While I'm happy I confessed it so that I didn't have to deny myself the Eucharist this Sunday, I feel like I also broke through one of the biggest barriers, which isn't good. Now that I've confessed such a mortal sin, I feel like even though I don't want to go through that again, I'll now struggle with temptation more, now that I've already overcome the fear of confessing this sin.

Same here Brother, the daily Rosary holds so much power and has guided me in ways I couldn't imagine it could❤❤❤

Totally Me too! Started going to daily mass &Rosary ! Helped me with addictions! Free 6xweeks! thank God (Reading confessions of St.Augustine of Hippo)

Absolutely!!

Im so glad :)

It's NOT irreversible. But it's not easy to turn away. I spent most of my life starting around 12 addicted to pork, and by extension, lust. I tried many times to quit, and failed. Unfortunately, those times I "quit" weren't entirely sincere. Porn is an addiction. It's the most pernicious drug there is. It's not even recognized as a drug, but if you think about it, it fits all the criteria. There's only one way to quit any drug, and that's "cold turkey." Get rid of it, all of it. If it's tapes or cds/dvds, throw them away. Magazines and books; trow them away. Downloads on your computer; delete them. ALL of them. Don't kid yourselves, you don't have the strength to keep this stuff in any form. You will fail if it's there. Lose it. Prayer is your best defense. Mass and communion, and the Holy Rosary are your weapons. Use them as often as you can. If you find yourself thinking impure thoughts, simply stop it, and say "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, help me." It's not the thought that is sinful, it's dwelling on it that makes it a sin. Be mindful of what you see/watch on the internet. If it even looks suggestive, turn away. You trained yourself to be lustful, now train yourself not to be. It's doable, Nick. I didn't think I could do it after 55 years and multiple failure, but it is doable. I kept giving up because it was easy, and I never got rid of the porn. But you can do this. I will pray for. God be with you.

The best medicine: the rosary

Got you bro

Wow! Love this! 🙏🏼

It’s only a violation of the 6th and 9th if the person is married

Lusting after someone you see irl or online will send you to hell but it’s not facilitating child porn lol

@@cardboardcapeii4286 Your logic is pharisaical. The commandments should be interpreted to their maximum extent, not miminum, as Christ tells us in Matthew 5:27. Child porn is just the most extreme example, but the Bible makes it clear all over the place that lust is connected to murder. Consider the example of David.

False 🙃

Procreation is possible without Lust. It’s called love.

That’s called human instinct. Christianity doesn’t ask us to become psychopaths.

@@CatholicWisdomHuman instinct is corrupt on account of original sin.

@@RepublicofE I see what you mean. So we’re talking about those “sins by breathing” that every saint committed as well ?

@@CatholicWisdom In a sense. See Article II of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession (on original sin).

It can’t be a sin because you dont choose it

When I was in high school dealing with this issue, I tried to combat it by ramming a pen into my palm as hard as I could whenever my thoughts started going astray. It didn't really work. Doing a fasting regimen would probably be more effective but that's pretty hard to do when you're in K-12 school.

@@RepublicofE But it usually works the only problem is that I cant do that at church or in school...

@@RepublicofE and I have problems with my circulation so fasting is not really possible...

I'd be inclined to say causing yourself physical harm would be a bad idea. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and we should be careful not harm something that is a gift from God. Perhaps physical exercise instead? Hard to be thinking about impurity if you are doing push ups, burpees, planks ect! It would also help you become heathier for what ever tasks God is calling you to!

@@ThatKenpoGuy the monks in the middle age also did that...

Yes

@@TheReligiousHippie What do you mean by this?

If you are a Baptised Catholic, then yes. If you are not a Catholic, then not necessarily no. If you're a baptised Catholic you're bound to the laws of the Church which stipulates a valid marriage can only be granted while married in the Church, or with valid dispensation from doing so (for whatever reason). If you're a non-Catholic Christian, and you & your spouse are both baptised, you would incur a "Sacramental Marriage", this is specifically as a grace given by the Church to ensure that A) the majority of the world does not commit fornication, B) it disposes them at certain actual graces that assist in the likelihood of conversion to the true faith. If you're non-baptised, and your spouse isn't, you would just incur a natural marriage or a legal marriage; these are still technically "marriages" per se, but not to the degree wherein you're simply fornicating by having intercourse. Muslims for instance aren't fornicating. Hope this helps.

@pr0xy373 thank you, yes it does help. I'm going through RCIA right now and I was baptized Lutheran, my wife on the other hand was not baptized.

@@MikeyAGoGo101 I would consult with your Priest for specifics, I will pray for you both!

Mutual masturbation is mortally sinful. Not exercising the virtues of chastity (even within marriage) is often sinful, you're supposed to use intercourse as a means to avoid strong sexual temptation, but you will never foster virtue if you simply keep pushing one another towards regular near occasions of lust (there is of course positive sexual desire, but this is more strongly ordered and comes around naturally; whereas the near occasion is much more intentionally incited by one partner). The dress of modesty is a much more subjective question and it's hard to answer, I'd consult a Priest.

@pr0xy373 In other words: The church is teaching a double-standard. They want you to believe that sex outside if marriage is bad, but sexual activity of any kind WITHIN a marriage between husband and wife = good and holy, but at the sane time, still bad and therefore sinful. And husband and wife aren't allowed to "incite" sexual activity between each other, nor are they allowed to feel sexual attraction for each other because "lust is sinful", and the church has zero realization that without sexual attraction (lust) there is no relationship to be had. Make it make sense

The Bible definitely gives pastors/priests the authority to retain and forgive sins. The error of the Papists was in connecting confession/absolution to the false doctrine of purgatory, and in insisting that one cannot return to a state of grace without being absolved by a priest (absent extenuating circumstances). That's false doctrine, but the idea that priests/pastors can give absolution is absolutely biblical. No, it's not God yielding to the will of the priest, for when the pastor/priest pronounces absolution, he stands in the place of Christ and by His authority. He does not do it as mere man. Insofar as Rome is wrong about this practice it is in the fact that they do in fact make it more about the priest as man than as servant of Christ, though they would deny this.

Her degree to say that lust is bad?

Really dude? You don't have to be a veterinarian to know a horse behind when you see one.

The Holy Spirit gives wisdom!!!

As well as reading the Holy Bible & asking for wisdom !!! Does your church teach that Lust is okay?

@@thereturnofthemacif she wants to be a real traditionalist, she’ll leave the theological topics for theologians! :)