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Definition of pornography - just FYI
« on: June 30, 2017, 07:15:40 PM »
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  • For no particular reason, I wanted to make sure everyone on CathInfo knows the definition of pornography.

    por·nog·ra·phy
    pôrˈnäɡrəfē/
    noun

    • printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sɛҳuąƖ organs or activity, intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.
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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #1 on: June 30, 2017, 08:37:53 PM »
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  • One example:

    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi


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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #2 on: July 02, 2017, 01:19:40 PM »
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  • Catholics should worry most that they don't act against the virtues of purity, modesty and chastity

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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #3 on: July 02, 2017, 01:29:08 PM »
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  • Catholics should worry most that they don't act against the virtues of purity, modesty and chastity

    Indeed.

    If you had to pick one weakness or sin that you want to be strong against, always pick chastity/purity.
    All other sins are easy to conquer compared to the demon of lust.

    I'll never forget this chapter I read in a TAN book called "The Sinner's return to God" with a picture of the Prodigal Son on the front cover. It was the chapter on impurity.

    A man was on his deathbed, and he had renounced all his other sins, EXCEPT he was living in sin. He had a mistress.

    The man was otherwise disposed to make restitution and separate himself from all his other sins, but despite the priest's pleading, he wouldn't send away his mistress.

    In the end, he embraced her and said, "I could never renounce you" and died while in the act of embracing his mistress. Thus, the miserable wretch almost certainly went to hell.

    What a horrible hold sins of impurity have on a person. And remember Our Lady of Fatima said that sins of the flesh are what the majority of hell's inmates were guilty of.
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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #4 on: July 02, 2017, 02:02:23 PM »
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  • Impurity is so hard for someone with a mistress or second wife/husband to give up because the emotions are involved. Things such as money are cold and can be easily given up for most people, but emotional sentiment is tough. 


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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #5 on: July 02, 2017, 03:12:53 PM »
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  • I remember when I was young around mid-twenties and went to confession to a traditional catholic priest for the first time and I had sins of impurity to confess. This priest explained to me that these were mortal sins and that he couldn't give me absolution but instead told me that I needed to go home and say the rosary every day (5 decades) and come back to confession next week and even if I still had additional sins of impurity to confess, as long as I had said the 5 decades each day that he would give me absolution.

    He explained to me that the rosary and mortal sin cannot coexist together for long and that if I persevered in the rosary each day that it would win out.

    I followed his advice which turned out to be the best advice I have ever received and was able to overcome these sins of impurity by the rosary.

    Another thing that I have added which I was told from another priest is to get on my knees as soon as I wake up each day and ask the Blessed Mother to help me with purity, modesty and chastity by saying 3 Hail Marys.... this has been a great blessing as well.

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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #6 on: July 02, 2017, 04:14:47 PM »
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  • "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #7 on: July 04, 2017, 12:40:41 PM »
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  • I remember when I was young around mid-twenties and went to confession to a traditional catholic priest for the first time and I had sins of impurity to confess. This priest explained to me that these were mortal sins and that he couldn't give me absolution but instead told me that I needed to go home and say the rosary every day (5 decades) and come back to confession next week and even if I still had additional sins of impurity to confess, as long as I had said the 5 decades each day that he would give me absolution.

    He explained to me that the rosary and mortal sin cannot coexist together for long and that if I persevered in the rosary each day that it would win out.

    I followed his advice which turned out to be the best advice I have ever received and was able to overcome these sins of impurity by the rosary.

    Another thing that I have added which I was told from another priest is to get on my knees as soon as I wake up each day and ask the Blessed Mother to help me with purity, modesty and chastity by saying 3 Hail Marys.... this has been a great blessing as well.
    Beautiful.  Thank you.


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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #8 on: July 04, 2017, 01:34:44 PM »
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  • Impurity is so hard for someone with a mistress or second wife/husband to give up because the emotions are involved. Things such as money are cold and can be easily given up for most people, but emotional sentiment is tough.
    I know quite a few people who get excited about money  .......   to the exclusion of other things. And pleasing the second woman in a man's life, one's mother, can be quite hard on the nerves!

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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #9 on: July 04, 2017, 02:11:02 PM »
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  • But let us give thanks that our Mother-in-laws are not Jєωesses!



    Otherwise, we'd really be living our purgatory here on earth.


    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #10 on: July 04, 2017, 10:09:44 PM »
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  • What does this have to do with "Resistance/ SSPX"?


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    Re: Definition of pornography - just FYI
    « Reply #11 on: July 04, 2017, 11:12:01 PM »
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  • What does this have to do with "Resistance/ SSPX"?

    We've been ex-bounding on the topic of pornography and have gone off on some tangents. ;D
    "Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi