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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2026, 06:10:42 PM »
"Whilst the holy martyr St. Perpetua was languishing in a dark dungeon she saw the following vision: She beheld a golden ladder which reached from earth to heaven. This ladder was very narrow. On each side were ragged swords, lances, knives, and sharp points of iron. At the foot of the ladder an ungainly monster kept guard to prevent any one from approaching. This vision was meant to show her that she would have to endure suffering and martyrdom for the faith.

"Every maiden who is desirous of preserving her chastity intact may apply this vision to herself. For chastity is a golden ladder which reaches to heaven, but on the right hand and on the left are sharp instruments, namely, enemies, dangers, temptations proceeding from men and from her own fallen nature."

— Fr. Lasance, The Catholic Girl's Guide, "Fight and Conquer", p. 241
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Offline Stubborn

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« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 11:21:46 AM »
“We have not strength to practice any virtue, but particularly the virtue of chastity, for we have by nature a strong propensity to the opposite vice, the Divine aid alone can enable a man to preserve chastity, but this aid God gives not to those that voluntarily expose themselves to the occasion of sin or remain in it. He that loveth danger shall perish in it”, says Ecclesiasticus. 
Hence St. Augustine gives the following advice; “To repel the attacks of lust, take flight if you wish to obtain the victory”.
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

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« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 10:25:49 PM »
But the greatest evil of intemperance is, that it exposes chastity to great danger. “Repletion of the stomach,” says St. Jerome, “is the hotbed of lust.” Excess in eating is a powerful incentive to incontinence. Hence, Cassian says that “it is impossible for him who satiates his appetite not to experience conflicts.” The intemperate cannot expect to be free from temptations against purity. To preserve chastity, the saints practised the most rigorous mortifications of the appetite. “The devil,” says St. Thomas, “vanquished by temperance, does not tempt to lust.’’ When his temptations to indulge the palate are conquered he ceases to provoke incontinence.

— St. Alphonsus Liguori, True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Appetite
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« Reply #23 on: Today at 05:37:25 AM »
“Oh, how many”, says St. Jerome, “at the hour of death”, to his disciples as we read in the epistle of Eusebius to Pope Damasus, “how many have been cast into the putrid mire of impurity for presumptuous security that they should not fall. No one then”, says the saint, “should consider himself secure against this vice. Though you’re a saint, you are always in danger of falling”.
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