Struggling with sin. Please help

[lily20]

You must give yourself time and forgiveness during the recovery period. Give yourself a few months to get over this. Addictions take a long time.

As for impure images, please, eliminate them out of your home, or anything that can lead you to such. As for internet/etc. ban that too.

Try to limit the number of times you masterbate and feel good about your progress! Keep a diary to help.

Hope this helps!

In Christ,
Lily

 

[brian24]

Just like you, I would allow that Jesus says we all must prove things to ourselves…plus there are many things which has been incorporated into the RCC which neither Jesus, nor God have said or advised on…in reality, be a hypocrite, if you so desire, but, don’t make things up, as you go along…

Now, this is not a teaching of Jesus, but of his apostle Paul, that not everything will necessarily be found in the Bible:

2 Thess. 2:15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

Through inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul is clearly stating that letters and oral teachings passed down by the apostles are to be held fast to. The Catholic Church is in direct line of those teachings, passed from generation to generation since the time of Christ. You can disagree, but you will also be wrong. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against the church founded by Christ.

You can try and make excuses for female masturbation, but that is all they are. It is absolutely directing your sexuality inward. You are doing it to make yourself feel good, whether to “get to sleep” or not. It helps me fall asleep as a man, but that doesn’t make it right. Never once in the Catechism does it mention anything about spilling the seed. It’s about the thoughts that consist in masturbation. If you are lusting, thinking about someone in impure ways, you are sinning. If not, then you are thinking about how it feels so good to yourself, in other words directing your sexuality inward. Masturbation for a woman does not have any chance at reproduction. That is what sex is for. The end.