This is my advice it works for ALL sin, I can guarantee it.
Meditate on the passion of Christ, imagine His Precious Blood flowing from His Body, imagine His suffering of His knowledge, how He felt every pain before it happened to Him. Nothing was held back, by that I mean, He felt it without any narcotic to help Him, He did not deceive us in any way by willing the pain would not be so bad. He could have with a wink of His eye willed His executioners to suffer or drop like a fly, but He did not.
Put yourself in His place through that entire night, of Holy Thursday, His being dragged about from judge to judge knowing all along His fate. Can you just imagine His suffering on Good Friday, think of the entire passion.
If you spend a little time on this daily, you will not so much as tell a lie.
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That's good advice. And if that is what works for you, great. However, if a reader tries that and finds it to be inadequate for whatever reason, I have another method that might be worth trying out.
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Sometimes a VARIETY of weapons wins the battle.
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Memorize and at times of trial repeat the Scripture verse, St. Luke 1:51 ...
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He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
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If you like, you can replace "shewed" with "shown." The meaning of this sentence is understood more completely in context of the Magnificat:.46] And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. [47] And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. [48] Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. [49] Because he that is mighty, hath done great things to me; and holy is his name. [50] And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him. [48] "Shall call me blessed": These words are a prediction of that honour which the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin. Let Protestants examine whether they are any way concerned in this prophecy.
[51] He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. [52] He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble. [53] He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. [54] He hath received Israel his servant, being mindful of his mercy:[55] As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever. .
Traditionally, the Church adds a doxology to the end of this prayer, as you find in your missal for use on Holy Saturday.
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On numerous occasions when I had at one time found every trick in the book to be inadequate, the mere vocal utterance of this Luke 1:51 verse was found to instantly route the demons and send them fleeing into the wilderness from whence they had come.
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Problem solved.
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Oh, one more thing.
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Regarding those who are wont to worry whether "m___" is perhaps, maybe, sort of, not always a mortal sin, all I can say is, A) They've been listening to a Jesuit talking about it somewhere, or B) They have not tried the daily recitation of Our Lady's Magnificat together with the firm intention to overcome the sin of impurity.
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