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Captain_America
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At any rate, take it a day at a time and congratulate yourself for each day you don’t. After a while, it does get easier to say no.
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gem4truth
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masturbation is an addiction. i think it is an addiction as bad as any drug addiction. i hope and pray that you and everyone who is carrying that cross makes it through the journey. God Bless!
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fred_conty
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Great site for explaining purity.
davidmacd.com/catholic/masturbation.htm
A Group dedicated to purity and their personal ideas
angelicwarfare.org/Index.cfm?u=09330C5B-3048-7C56-931078C7A3B588CD
Here is some important info about the Miraculous Medal, one of Mother Teresa’s
favorites.
“Have a medal struck… All who wear it will receive GREAT graces; they should wear it
around the neck. GRACES will ABOUND for persons who wear it with CONFIDENCE.”
From the mother of Jesus spoken to sister Catherine Laboure 1830.
Later Mary said, “… it must be given to the whole world and to every person.”
“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
“The devotions we practice in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they be,
are very pleasing to her divine Son, …” St. Teresa of Jesus
During this apparition, Mary’s hands had 3 rings on each finger. Each ring gave off
rays of colored light. A few rings did not. Mary said that the lights radiating from
the rings are graces that people ASK for. The rings that didn’t radiate she said
were graces not given because they were NOT asked for.
Have it blessed. The devil hates blessed objects. Keep it on all all times.
Wear her medal in her honor because the devil can’t stand her either.
Then say, “Mary I am asking now for great graces which
you promised to those who ask and believe in what you said.”
Trust her, it works. She is the mother of God. Would she lie?
Your mother wants to help you. It is her wish for you. She promised and she will diliver.
“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
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“Yes, blessed is she who BELIEVED that the PROMISE made her by the Lord would be FULFILLED.”
(Lk. 1;45) St. Elizabeth extolling Mary for her complete trust in God’s promise.
davidmacd.com/catholic/masturbation.htm
A Group dedicated to purity and their personal ideas
angelicwarfare.org/Index.cfm?u=09330C5B-3048-7C56-931078C7A3B588CD
Here is some important info about the Miraculous Medal, one of Mother Teresa’s
favorites.
“Have a medal struck… All who wear it will receive GREAT graces; they should wear it
around the neck. GRACES will ABOUND for persons who wear it with CONFIDENCE.”
From the mother of Jesus spoken to sister Catherine Laboure 1830.
Later Mary said, “… it must be given to the whole world and to every person.”
“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
“The devotions we practice in honor of the glorious Virgin Mary, however trifling they be,
are very pleasing to her divine Son, …” St. Teresa of Jesus
During this apparition, Mary’s hands had 3 rings on each finger. Each ring gave off
rays of colored light. A few rings did not. Mary said that the lights radiating from
the rings are graces that people ASK for. The rings that didn’t radiate she said
were graces not given because they were NOT asked for.
Have it blessed. The devil hates blessed objects. Keep it on all all times.
Wear her medal in her honor because the devil can’t stand her either.
Then say, “Mary I am asking now for great graces which
you promised to those who ask and believe in what you said.”
Trust her, it works. She is the mother of God. Would she lie?
Your mother wants to help you. It is her wish for you. She promised and she will diliver.
“Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.” St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
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[legionofmary.org/MiracMedal.html](http://www.legionofmary.org/MiracMedal.html)“Yes, blessed is she who BELIEVED that the PROMISE made her by the Lord would be FULFILLED.”
(Lk. 1;45) St. Elizabeth extolling Mary for her complete trust in God’s promise.
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Robert_Sock
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You may want to keep in mind that certain medications drastically reduce the libido. I take a medication called Paxil fro anxiety and depression and I find that most of my sexual urges have disappeared. Doctors can prescribe Paxil for purposes other than mental disorders, and may be prescribed for the reduction of the libido.
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piejesu
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Some things that I have found helpful.I need tips , advices, anything that can make me stop,
- Make your Desktop image, one of the Crucifixion.
- Sprinkle Holy Water on your computer(s) and consecrate it(them) to God
- Setup some form of Safe Search and blocking software
- Go to confession regularly whether you have committed a mortal sin or not.
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Kenny_Kamel
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Read up on Saint Augustine of Hippo, for example:
This happens to all men, whether they’d admit it or not. If you don’t “do it to yourself” your body will natually “release.” This is not sinful, but if you IN ANY WAY make an act to stimulate yourself I would consider it gravely/mortally sinful and you would need to go to confession. Mind you that this is up to YOU and YOU need to amend your life. I once struggled just as you are, I’ll freely admit it, and frankly for a year or so I wouldn’t go to confession for any other reason than to say that I failed in my resolve to not commit this sinful act.
Here’s a tip, EVERY SINGLE TIME you feel like masturbating get on your knees and pray. Pray for an increase in the virtue of chastity, pray to offer up your sinful thoughts to our Lord and ask him to strenghten you, pray for whoever you are thinking about who the thought of is leading you into temptation. We can all pray for you but you need to pray for yourself, especially in the immediate moment of temptation. Its a difficult habit to break but it gets easier with time and know that it may take you years and a hundred trips to the confessional booth before your break yourself of the habit.
Read the stuff I’ll quote below from Saint Augustine’s wiki and pray for his intercession:
Saint Augustine held that male nocturnal emissions, unlike masturbation, did not pollute the conscience of a man, because they were not voluntary carnal acts, and were therefore not to be considered a sin. Augustine did, however, pray that he may be released from the “glue of lust” and thus recommended the beseechment of God’s assistance in clearing one’s soul of all such carnal affections.If I get an erection and I get an ejaculation without wanting to masturbate , is is a sin?? is lust a mortal sin, if you didn’t know?
This happens to all men, whether they’d admit it or not. If you don’t “do it to yourself” your body will natually “release.” This is not sinful, but if you IN ANY WAY make an act to stimulate yourself I would consider it gravely/mortally sinful and you would need to go to confession. Mind you that this is up to YOU and YOU need to amend your life. I once struggled just as you are, I’ll freely admit it, and frankly for a year or so I wouldn’t go to confession for any other reason than to say that I failed in my resolve to not commit this sinful act.
Here’s a tip, EVERY SINGLE TIME you feel like masturbating get on your knees and pray. Pray for an increase in the virtue of chastity, pray to offer up your sinful thoughts to our Lord and ask him to strenghten you, pray for whoever you are thinking about who the thought of is leading you into temptation. We can all pray for you but you need to pray for yourself, especially in the immediate moment of temptation. Its a difficult habit to break but it gets easier with time and know that it may take you years and a hundred trips to the confessional booth before your break yourself of the habit.
Read the stuff I’ll quote below from Saint Augustine’s wiki and pray for his intercession:
Views on lustAugustine struggled with lust throughout his life. He had a mistress before he converted, but once he became a Christian, he condemned all forms of extra-marital sex (including his previous relationship with his mistress), considering them unlawful and unbiblical. In the Confessions, Augustine describes his personal struggle in vivid terms: “But I, wretched, most wretched, in the very commencement of my early youth, had begged chastity of Thee, and said, ‘Grant me chastity and continence, only not yet.’” At sixteen Augustine moved to Carthage where again he was plagued by this “wretched sin”:
There seethed all around me a cauldron of lawless loves. I loved not yet, yet I loved to love, and out of a deep-seated want, I hated myself for wanting not. I sought what I might love, in love with loving, and I hated safety… To love then, and to be beloved, was sweet to me; but more, when I obtained to enjoy the person I loved. I defiled, therefore, the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence, and I beclouded its brightness with the hell of lustfulness.
— Confessions 3.1.1
For Augustine, the evil was not in the sexual act itself, but rather in the emotions that typically accompany it. In On Christian Doctrine Augustine contrasts love and lust:
By love I mean the impulse of one’s mind to enjoy God on his own account and to enjoy oneself and one’s neighbour on account of God, and by lust I mean the impulse of one’s mind to enjoy oneself and one’s neighbour and any corporeal thing not on account of God.
— 3.37
Here we can see the theoretical resolution of the struggle documented in Confessions: that proper love exercises a denial of selfish pleasure and the subjugation of corporeal desire to God.
To the pious virgins raped during the sack of Rome, he writes, “Truth, another’s lust cannot pollute thee.” Chastity is “a virtue of the mind, and is not lost by rape, but is lost by the intention of sin, even if unperformed.”
Augustine viewed erections themselves as involuntary: at times, without intention, the body stirs on its own, insistent; at other times, it leaves a straining lover in the lurch.[119]
In short, Augustine’s life experience led him to consider lust to be one of the most grievous sins, and a serious obstacle to the virtuous life.
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3NailRenewal
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ifor me, it is a beleif thing.
if i truly beleived in God, i would not do it… the problem is, i beleive in the “high” i get when i do it more than i beleive in God.
If this helps you, it was dunb luck, from an even dumber person.
if i truly beleived in God, i would not do it… the problem is, i beleive in the “high” i get when i do it more than i beleive in God.
If this helps you, it was dunb luck, from an even dumber person.
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ConstantineTG
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I found one great way to resist temptation. Whenever you catch yourself being tempted, say the Jesus Prayer, “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.” Say it 5-10 times to chase the temptation away from your mind. Or say it more times if necessary, you can’t say the Jesus Prayer enough.
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Kenny_Kamel
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I’ve read through some of your posts on CAF and you seem like an incredibly sad person. Its sad that you believe in this “high” which is purely based on emotion as a result of physical and psychological stimulation. What you claim to believe in is something you’ve conjured up in your mind which disappears soon after you’ve gotten your “high.”for me, it is a beleif thing.
if i truly beleived in God, i would not do it… the problem is, i beleive in the “high” i get when i do it more than i beleive in God.
If this helps you, it was dunb luck, from an even dumber person.
To say that you believe in what is truly a state of emptiness predicated by your imagination moreso than God, well frankly I don’t know how you can call yourself a Catholic, Christian, etc. I’m not trying to tear you down but you really need to get your head straight if you feel that way deep down. No one deserves to feel ths way and I know that our Lord does not desire this for you. I’ll be praying for you brother, but at the same time please consider making the fullest effort to amend your life.
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