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I don’t know what to do. Please pray that God’s will is done. I am a twenty-something year-old man who struggles with bisexuality and self-pleasure issues. I was doing better until yesterday. I could use some advice as well as prayers. I’ve been struggling for quite some time with a Facebook friend who I am attracted to, and it seems the feeling is mutual. I have tried to just be friends, but inevitably our conversations take a graphic turn. We have not met in person yet, and a priest at confession a while back specifically told me I should not get together with him. I know that this kind of stuff is wrong, and my friend is aware of this. He respects that, but when in a lapse of judgment I start talking about graphic stuff he’s more than willing to indulge me. I am handicapped and live with my parents and I am an open book with them. Yesterday I had another graphic conversation with my friend and we started planning to get together. I dealt with the immediate ramifications of that conversation if you know what I mean and then I felt bad and told my parents. They made me block him immediately without saying goodbye. I feel bad for him, and I’m shocked to discover for the first time I’m having trouble being sorry myself for what happened. I won’t be going to Confession for over two weeks due to an agreement with my parents that I would only go once a month. I pray that I will truly be sorry for offending God, and not just worried about going to hell. I need the next Confession to really affect me so hopefully this won’t happen again.
 
Lord, please give namax91 a generous washing of your holy grace. See that angels surround and protect him from all temptations, that he might always walk as a child of light, in accord with the gifts you have given him. Lead him through these dark temptations and difficult struggles with flaming arrows. Draw him through this into a wonderful foretaste of heaven’s light, that the true meaning of the body become clear to this soul, to embolden his resolve. Cultivate in namax91 many healthy habits, that they might overcrowd and force out any of his bad habits. Grant him many graces for faith, hope, love, and joy. Have mercy, Lord. Our Lady, angels, and saints, pray with us. Amen.

Also, if you are open with your parents, and that is a good thing, I might suggest telling them you feel the need to go to an additional confession. Hopefully, they will understand.

It also helps to become well-versed in the meaning of the human body, its inherent spousal value and order, which can help one be repelled by acts that are violations to it. Here is a Summary PDF of Theology of the Body. Or you could read the whole thing.

Also, sharing this helpful C.S. Lewis quote:*For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides.

And this harem, once admitted, works against his ever getting out and really uniting with a real woman.

For the harem is always accessible, always subservient, calls for no sacrifices or adjustments, and can be endowed with erotic and psychological attractions which no woman can rival.

Among those shadowy brides he is always adored, always the perfect lover; no demand is made on his unselfishness, no mortification ever imposed on his vanity.

In the end, they become merely the medium through which he increasingly adores himself…After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little dark prison we are all born in. Masturbation is to be avoided as all things are to be avoided which retard this process. The danger is that of coming to love the prison.”
  • Personal Letter From Lewis to Keith Masson (found in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3)*Courtesy of Matt Fradd’s blog.
 
Praying to the Holy Spirit to give you guidance, direction, strength, fortitude & wisdom in your time of need.
 
Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil, may God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do you, O’ Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

Amen.

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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

†
 
Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil, may God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do you, O’ Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God thrust into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.

Amen.

†

Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

†

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.
 
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
I will be taking your intentions to mass with me today. May God bless you, console you, and may the Blessed Mother protect you lovingly under her mantle. ❤️
 
Gracious and merciful Father, please come to his assistance.

Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
 
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