Hi PATAVIUM:
thank you, brother, for your candid discussion of this on this thread.
You fell victim, as many of us did, to the DECEITFULNESS of Sin.
Hedonistic sin, especially, blinds us to the fact that Sins are Crimes against God and man. How? Simple. Hedonistic sin, such as sexual sin, FEELS Good. Because WE feel good, we actually Feel that we are pleasuring the other person and giving THEM affection and a good time. This feels ACTUALLY kind of generous. It makes us feel that we are being kind to them, when in reality we, they and us,
are using each other’s bodies for our own pleasure and nothing else, failing to note that they, and we, are physically, temples of the HOLY SPIRIT.
If you want help overcoming the temptation to fail to notice that,
then meditate on the Assumption of Mary, BODY and soul, into heaven at her passing.
WHY would it matter so much that her mere BODY was raised and taken into heaven?
Because her entire body, every last pore, was used exclusively for the glory of God.
OUR eyes, which are often full of fornication, adultery, sodomy, craven greed, are not like hers. Her eyes saw everyone and everything as something and someone to glorify God.
HER hands were used to nurture righteous deeds and to work for her family and loved ones and her Divine/human Son. Her unmentionables were used by her to give life to her Divine Son as a human and thus, kind of in a way became OUR new womb, too.
Her feet were quick to walk the path of righteousness. That is why, immaculate from her conception and righteous/immaculate all her human life on earth, Mary was taken body and soul into heaven. Her body was an instrument of her God-caused Righteous Soul, and shared fully in the glorification of her soul, which is only fitting.
When we think of this glory given to Mary, we will not want to sin against another human being nor even LOOK at porn or anything else.
Same with Jesus’s body. WHY did his body have to be raised?
Simple: he united Divinity with his body, and his body was used ENTIRELY for the Glory of God and to SUFFER for the salvation of Mankind. When he SUFFERED, it was in his holy Body. The anguish in the garden wracked his body (all of it, including nerves, stomach (just like us when we’re in anguish), brain, etc) in AGONY, leading him to profusely sweat BLOOD. His body, too, shared in his re-glorification three days after the Cross and is our very FOOD.
Thanks, PATAVIUM, for sharing with us.
Eternal Father, I offer you the most holy and sacred Face of your beloved son Jesus
in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today and all this coming week,
in petition for Thee to pour out thy abundant Grace and gifts of grace (graces) upon our brother PATAVIUM. Comfort him, heal him, and raise him up, LORD, and keep him from despairing over his past sins, which You have so abundantly forgiven. Bless him spiritually, physically, and financially, LORD. In Jesus’s Name I ask Thee, AMEN.
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
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