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Sede Catholic · « **Reply #35 on:** March 05, 2012, 10:34:26 PM »

Watching television is often a mortal sin.
We know that there will be Blasphemy and anti-Catholic ideas.
We know that there will be immodestly dressed women on almost every program.
As well as obscene and pornographic images.
If knowing all this we choose to watch television, we risk mortal sin.

Our Lord said in the Gospel of St. Matthew XVI:26,
"For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?"

I read something about how one of the Saints saw a vision of a box in people's houses, and the devil came flying out of the box.
I believe she saw television in that vision.

Get rid of the box of satan.

Do not go to Hell because for refusing to give up the sinful "entertainment" we are fed by the anti-Catholic tv industry.

They are against Our Lord, so we should be against them.

Pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the Graces to give up this sin.
This Lent, try to give up television as a penance.

Think how much that would please Our Lord.

You can spend more time really with your Family and with God.

Maizar · « **Reply #36 on:** March 12, 2012, 07:39:42 AM »

We sold our television eight years ago because we needed the space in the flat. It is so easy to do, I wondered why we hadn't done it earlier. It is probably easier now than it was even then, since the Internet is now so prevalent. I have, however, heard many a sermon warning of the great dangers and temptations of the Internet. What would your words be about that, Sede Catholic?

Sede Catholic · « **Reply #37 on:** March 12, 2012, 09:17:03 AM »

Yes,
The temptations of the internet are also very grave.
If the computer is an occasion of sin, put it in the garbage. Break it first so that no-one else can use it.
Never give away a television, DVD player, video player, or computer. They will almost certainly be used for sin.

If one just looks at Traditional Catholic sites on the internet, then the moral perils are less.

Ideally, one should go without television, computers, and all their sordid technological cousins.

The Saints were canonized without any of those things.

Padre Pio compared buying a television to inviting the devil into your home.

Padre Pio would probably have likewise condemned the internet.

Reflection · « **Reply #38 on:** March 12, 2012, 09:49:12 AM »

I get angry with people who spend their days watching nothing but television. I know many people who will have the television on all day long, no matter what they're doing.

Some of my family members are like that and I worry about them.

SantaMaria1 · « **Reply #39 on:** March 22, 2012, 06:08:56 PM »

Replacing tv with lots of other screen time is hardly any better.