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Offline Stubborn

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Re: The Saints on Purity
« Reply #40 on: March 14, 2026, 05:21:33 AM »
Cardinal Hugo remarks that “the Apostle commanded that women keep their heads veiled in the Church because of the angels, that is, because of priests, lest looking at their faces they should be tempted to lust”.
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« Reply #41 on: March 14, 2026, 07:51:06 PM »
“When a taste for sinful pleasures,”says St. Gregory, “takes possession of a heart, it thinks of nothing but how to gratify its inordinate desires.” We must, then, struggle against it from the beginning by repelling every bad thought, for by such fuel is the flame of impurity fed. As wood nourishes fire, so our thoughts nourish our desires; and, consequently, if the former be good, charity will burn in our breast, but if they are bad the fire of lust will certainly be kindled.

— Venerable Louis of Granada in “The Sinner’s Guide”, Particular remedies for lust
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« Reply #42 on: March 16, 2026, 02:17:22 PM »
Even while he lived in a cave in Bethlehem in constant prayer and penitential austerities, St. Jerome was tormented by the remembrance of the ladies whom he had long before seen in Rome, and he cautioned his friend, to abstain not only from looking at women, but from even speaking of their figure.
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

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« Reply #43 on: March 16, 2026, 10:04:02 PM »
Let no immodest words escape you; for “evil communications” says the Apostle, “corrupt good morals.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)

A man’s conversation discovers his inclination, for, to quote the words of the Gospel, from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.


— Venerable Louis of Granada, The Sinner’s Guide, particular remedies for lust
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« Reply #44 on: Yesterday at 02:06:51 PM »
St. Gregory also says that sins of the flesh, though of less guilt than sins of the spirit, are of greater infamy. The reason is because these things are in common with beasts; as it is said (Ps. xlviii. 13), ' Man, when he was in honour, did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.'

— St. Thomas Aquinas on the 6th Commandment, Treatise on the Commandments
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