Translation from: THE CATHOLIC MORAL – Editorial Luis Vives
Lesson 21 SINS OPPOSED TO THE SIXTH AND NINTH COMMANDMENTS
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245.- What is forbidden in these commandments.- With these two commandments, God forbids us all sins contrary to chastity, that is, lust and all acts of impurity, both internal and external. In the sixth He forbids us the external acts of lust, the impure actions of all species; in the ninth, inner sins, that is, evil thoughts, delectation, and the desire for those impure actions.
The ninth commandment was not necessary, for it is not lawful to desire what is forbidden to do; but with it God wanted to tackle evil at its root. It is a defensive wall to safeguard the sixth. This insistence of the Lord makes us understand the sensitivity and seriousness of this matter. Jesus Christ warned us when He said: From the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adultery, fornications... (read Saint Matthew, XV, 19).
"This is the will of God," says St. Paul-... “that you refrain from fornication and that each of you know how to use one's own body holily and honestly:... God has not called us to filth but to sanctification" (read 1 Thessalonians, IV, 3-5)
246.- Impurity.- Impurity is any thought, desire or action that upsets the moral order established by God who gave man the most noble instinct and power of procreation as the aim of marriage. Impurity is such an abominable vice in the eyes of God that God regretted having created man (read Genesis, VI, 5-6), and sent the Universal Flood so that all prevaricators perished.
God said to our first parents Adam and Eve, as He blessed them and gave them dominion over some created things: Grow and multiply and fill the Earth (read Genesis, I, 28). With those words He imposed on them two duties, concerning their life: one, that of developing and conserving it (to grow) and the other, that of propagating it (to multiply). As an incentive to facilitate these two duties and those that arise from them, the Lord put some pleasure in their fulfillment. Thus, eating and drinking, necessary to maintain life, are accompanied by the pleasure of taste. Here the virtue consists in eating and drinking only for the good and utility of the body; but not in excess or for mere pleasure, which would already be vice.
Likewise, with regard to the most important faculty of procreation –which associates man with the work of creation-, God wanted its use to be accompanied by some sensitive pleasure, but only lawful in the realization of the aim of marriage; therefore, any sexual pleasure that departs from the order established by the Creator is illicit and sinful, and must be avoided at all costs. [God said in the Old Testament that He wants us to be saints, so we must be more and more spiritual every time. Read in Psalm 94: 8-11 (may be in your Bible it is Psalm 95) what happened to the people that grieves God. The children that had nothing to do with those sins, and even were purified 38 years eating mana in an oasis, they entered in the promised land but they had to fight. Graces are given, but we must have merits. In my opinion, the order to keep the sabatic year, it was to teach them to trust God, but they didn’t keep it, so, God warned them, Read Leviticus 26:34.
So, people should have learned to look for and trust in God alone, to be Saints. The 10 Commandments are a sort of beginning, so: “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is one of the steps to reach the word of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:28.
We have a soul given by God, that came from Him and Catholics are living temples of God, who makes His abode in our soul when we are baptized. The Old Testament complains that men stopped looking at Heaven. So, we adulterate the purpose of our body when we make sexual personal sins, and we adulterate the marriage if we thing it is a passport for sex. Because God blesses the union of a man and a woman in the Sacrament of Marriage for the spouses to help each other to be Saints. A good example of it we have in the marriage of Tobias and Sara, read his prayer, he took his sister (she was a cousin he had never seen before, but they called relatives, or sometimes other people of the same nation: brothers), not looking for pleasure but to raise children for the glory of God and he asked Him to let them reach together old age (so: no divorce). God gave woman to man to be his help and companion, help in important issues and not in behaving worse than animals. That is why I think that it is better to take out of the head all that is related to sex, because pleasure is part of the act of conceiving, and spouses adulterate the act if they look only for pleasure. We do not look for pleasure, we are in an exile and try to make penance and good works, etc. to be admitted in Heaven, it is abominable if the spouses taste a stupid pleasure of 3 minutes and kill a son. There are times in which the marriage is impossible to continue because of the infidelity of the other spouse or because of violence, but, except those causes, they must trust in the blessing of God (if they received the Sacrament in state of grace, if not they would receive the grace when they confess) who gives all the necessary graces to continue together. In those cases in which they have to separate themselves, they continue being married because the Sacrament is till death separates them. No excuse is allowed. The purpose is to give glory to God, and children’s psychology needs only one mother and only one father on earth and good examples of wisdom and fidelity, and humility (and may be sense of humor) leading to fulfill the promise they made to God. They must grow spiritually… giving good examples to their children. ]
247.- External sins of impurity.- External sins of impurity are expressly prohibited in the sixth commandment. They are committed with looks, with words and with actions. Those who, with deliberate will, complacency and needlessly, set their sights on certain people or indecent objects that are a close occasion of sin, they sin mortally. "Through dishonest glances death enters into the soul."
They sin with words those who use licentious conversations or jokes of clumsy things, and tell obscene tales for dishonest purposes; those who publish, sell or lend lascivious books, indecorous pamphlets and impudent songs; those who sing and listen to them with complacency; those things are tacit approval. In addition to personal sin, there will be scandal if innocent children see it or hear it.
They sin mortally by work against chastity, those who alone or with others allow themselves dishonest and shameful actions that they would never dare to commit in the presence of their parents, teachers and superiors. If these actions are committed with others, there can also be a scandal and, depending on the people who they are done with, sin takes different names and varies in malice, all of which must be declared in confession, without naming anyone.
[This “without naming anyone” would seem strange in this modern age, especially in the case, for example, of an adolescent led to sin by a superior, but in the Sacrament of Confession we ask forgiveness of our sins, we are not there to tell what others do. Nowadays, the infiltrated snakes do not give any counsel in that Sacrament for the sanctity of our soul, to help heal our soul… but in the past, priests used to give those counsels and I think that there were included the indications where to denounce the rotten apple and of course what to do to avoid the occasions].
248.- Internal sins of impurity.- The ninth commandment forbids sins of thought and desire, contrary to purity, and delectation in impure delight.
Sin mortally of thought those who, with awareness and will, delight and indulge themselves in detail in clumsy memories or representations of the imagination or ideas of the intellect, even if they do not wish to put them into works.
Those who not only admit bad thoughts or dishonest imaginations, but also wish to execute the actions, even if they do not later carry them out, they sin mortally of desire. The sin is in the ill will they have.
Those who, with awareness, and voluntarily, take pleasure in what is dishonest and re-enjoy themselves in it, they sin seriously by delectation. Do not confound the desire of the will with the natural inclination of the senses to delight.
249.- Seriousness of the sins of impurity.- The sins of impurity, whether internal (thoughts, desires), whether external (works), do not admit the lightness of matter. Because of the forbidden matter, all these acts performed with complacency or in order to experience impure pleasure, are always mortal. They can only be venial when there is no full awareness in understanding or full consent in will.
The sins of thought and desire are of the same kind and seriousness as the dishonest thought or desired action. But, between thought and desire there is this difference: that thought is not always sin, while desire always is.
He who voluntarily thinks of dishonest things to delight himself, sins mortally, even if he does not carry them out or wish to do them. But if, realizing that that thought is evil, he tries to set it apart, not dwelling on those thoughts, he does not commit any sin, rather he acquires merit. As long as evil thought provokes dislike, there is no sin; but as soon as there is aware complacency, they have already sinned. On the other hand, desire is always as malicious and pernicious as the action itself: Jesus Christ says that (Matt., V, 28).
Dangerous acts, committed only by lightness, curiosity or entertainment, in a brief way and as in passing, do not go beyond venial sins unless they are very dishonest or cause of near danger of consent or produce serious scandal. If they are done without any malice and for just cause, there is no sin.
[Do not think it is a sort of permission… if there is “the near (or close) danger of consent”, those are mortal sins. And Saint Therese of Avila says we have to be horrified by venial sins.]
250.- Important practical tips.- Do not see evil where there is none. You will find yourself troubled by strange thoughts that assault your spirit many times; do not give them more importance than mosquitoes or flies that exercise your patience in summer. Just as you repel those insects, do also discard, calmly, those undesirable thoughts that are characteristic of what hurts purity, and... nothing has happened here. There will be guilt in those thoughts when you bring them voluntarily to your mind with insane readings, curious glances, or other recklessness; or entertain yourself with them gladly when they are presented to you without looking for them.
Do not listen either to certain sensations or spontaneous movements that you may feel, either during the day or at night. As long as you do not accept them and make them yours with your consent, they are not sin.
If, walking down the street or on the beach, it is unexpectedly presented to the eye something that you would have preferred not to see; or you hear, in spite of yourself, any conversation or unpleasant and even dishonest word, there is no guilt in it, since all this disgusts you and you try to react immediately to make the bad effect disappear. Another thing would be if you like it.
[Chances must be avoided, e.g. to stop going to that beach and look for a more decent one. It is very good to read all the dreams of St. John Bosco.]
If your studies force you to see and study pieces of art in which body nudity appears, look at them in God, modestly and without malice, and you will not sin. Remember then that your body – God's admirable work – is worthy of the most delicate respect. [I think we should see if there is really a need to continue those studies. Many things that are said art since prehistory are actually, pornography. E.g. a statuette of an obese and obscene woman, they call it "the goddess of fertility", but if so, she would be pregnant. In addition, since the expulsion from Paradise God gave leather robes to Adam and Eve, therefore, humans who eventually practiced or praised the lack of clothing, are a deviation that should not be followed. And now again, with the excuse of art, etc. this generation is offending God and His Saints to the limit (Sistine Chapel, etc.)]
If you do not know if you have sinned seriously or not, examine quickly and with serenity before God whether you could swear that you have committed mortal sin, doubt is already a favorable sign of a righteous soul. In any case, make immediately an act of perfect contrition for whatever fault you may have. The confession will put you in complete peace of mind.
251.- Causes of impurity.- the precious virtue of chastity is besieged in and out. It has powerful enemies within and many outside enemies. All these enemies of purity are precisely the causes and occasions of the opposite vice, called impurity. The internal causes are roots of impurity, and the external ones are occasions.
They are roots of impurity: intemperance, idleness and pride; which can be reduced to a single one cause, which is sensuality, that is, man's natural inclination to everything that pampers the body and the senses.
The main external causes or occasions of sinning are: bad companies and dangerous friendships, bad readings, obscene shows (especially cinema), immodest dances, nudity; immodesty in dress, brought by the feminine fashions; and the freedom of the beaches. All these occasions or circumstances are flattering inducements of the senses that give rise in us to bad thoughts and desires and drag us into sin.
[Remember that there was no TV when this book was printed. And examine the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses. More that a decade ago, a world-famous computer expert had published two drawings of the present and future of mobiles, in the “present” he put in a man with a mobile in his hand, normal. And in the future, a giant mobile from which came a hand in whose fist was the prisoner man],
252.- Obligation to avoid occasions.- The divine law not only forbids actions, dishonest thoughts and desires, but also all acts, although they may be indifferent, that lead to those sins, and all things that induce impurity, because he who loves danger, will fall into it. "Many were lost by their recklessness; and presumption perverted their thinking" (Ecclesiasticus., III, 26-27).
253.- Occasions of sin.- The occasions of sin are not equally serious or dangerous: some are close and others remote.
The close occasion involves serious danger and induces direct sin, because it usually makes the one who is exposed to it to fall into sin, such as attending an indecent film or dance session. The remote occasion has slight danger of sinning and does not usually make the subject fall; for example, an ordinary scientific or literary reading, a special sign of affection for a person (a kiss).
[This is very much on my own: here they clearly talk about kisses on the cheek between people of different sexes. And not to mention the disgusting kisses in the cheek between men... Someone would say ... can't fathers give kisses on the cheek to their daughters? The Old Testament says not to be cheerful (funny) with them, love is demonstrated with deeds and words that seek the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical good of that person.]
These occasions are not equally dangerous for everyone. They may be severe for one person and mild for another; this may depend on nature and temperament, training and culture and instruction. Thus, it may happen that a pious person with good inner defenses, travels in a public transport with a young lady not very decent in her demeanor or dress and does not experience the slightest shock; and, instead, another falls seriously.
["In everything you do, remember your end and you will never sin" O.T., if the individual represents in his mind the eternal pain that that lady will suffer eternally if she does not repent: fire, rot, worms, torments... surely he would have no time for unhealthy thoughts, and he would get pain/compassion for his neighbor and surely would say a heartfelt prayer for her and the unhappy ones she drags.]
By the way they are presented, these occasions can be divided into voluntary and necessary. Chance is voluntary if someone voluntarily and freely enters in it; and it is necessary when it is inevitable.
254.- Rules about occasions.-
1st. No one is allowed to place himself, voluntarily and freely, in a close occasion to sin; therefore whoever knowingly exposes himself to committing mortal sin, sins seriously even if later, for whatever reason, he does not fall into sin.
2nd. When the occasion is remote you have to avoid that it becomes close, for that aim you must not put yourself in that risk without just cause. We must be suspicious of it, take preventive measures and set it aside as much as possible, unless they are indifferent or good things in themselves, but which could accidentally produce temptations; in which case there is no need to worry.
3rd. When the close occasion is necessary, there is a serious obligation to make it remote, that is, to keep danger away, to put all the appropriate means to overcome. For this we must act with prudence, and with a righteous aim, asking God for His favor so as not to fall. A magnificent example of this attitude is the story of Judith. If someone does not take the appropriate means, he could seriously sin of negligence. In these cases, it is good to go first to a prudent confessor and follow his advice.
255. Internal causes of impurity.- Sensuality is the rebelliousness of the flesh against the spirit. He who lets himself be carried away by sensuality will fall into great sins of impurity, because the soft and effeminate life is the mortal enemy of chastity. Its main manifestations are:
1. The intemperance in eating, sleeping and, above all, drinking; because it gives fuel to carnal movements and favors impurity. “Where there is satiety, impurity reigns”, says St. Jerome
Bad consequences bring, above all, the immoderate use of stimulant drinks, such as wine, cognac, alcohol, etc. “And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit”, says St. Paul (Ephesians, V, 18).
2. Idleness, school of malice and mother of all vices. "The work," says Suarez, "in addition to attenuating the forces of the body and afflicting them conveniently, makes the faculties of the soul be occupied and makes them have something to entertain themselves in, thus preventing them from wandering through banned fields." This is why St. Jerome says that he who works has a demon to tempt him, but he who does nothing is harassed by a hundred.
[That is why the infinite wisdom of God put the system of Judges (I do not mean those who impart justice but those in the book of Judges of the O.T.), where everybody took care of working to earn their life and when there was a danger, they chose a temporary leader. And above all there was the power of the High Priest who had to strive to serve God. But the kings... there were those who did honest mental work to seek good (there were Holy Kings in the Church) but most... and career politicians, most... they are vicious with no other concern than to do the will of their master who lead them by direct fraud and lies, without knowing what honest effort is and they are power-hungry dogs. The best president we had in Argentina was practicing catholic, rural doctor... Arturo Humberto Illía, but now the engineering degrees at university, for example, are obtained by anyone just because of being a son of a rich man; and lawyers etc., ... worse, when those politicians, false professionals, reached power… they destroyed all the good society had. God gave us a King, His Son, Jesus Christ, who has to reign in our souls and lives, and a Queen, His Mother. If the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart reign, everything would change for peace and good.]
3. Pride, which attracts the wrath of God. Those who presumptuously get carried away by it and only count on their own strength are sunk into the mud of voluptuousness and impurity. God punishes the proud by abandoning them to ignominious passions, says St. Paul.
256.- External causes of impurity.- Sensuality gains strength with the external causes that sinners favor, instead of avoiding them as they should. They are occasions to sin:
1º Bad companies. Bad companions are very dangerous, because they poison souls little by little. They are like the rotten fruit that infects the healthy, "like the tombs full of corruption and rottenness that give off a pestilential smell" (St. Thomas). “Tell me who are your friends and I'll tell you who you are”, says the saying of the experience [in English: Birds of a feather flock together]. The most dangerous friendships are those that are between persons of different sexes.
EXAMPLES.- 1. One day the young Antonio María Claret – now canonized – was at a meeting of boys. One of the elders, who knew his virtue, told him: "Leave, Antonio, we want to talk about bad things" – "Thank you for the warning", Antonio replied, and never met them again. 2. José Tudela, a 12-year-old boy, was invited by a friend for a walk. As soon as he was back home, his father said to him, "Are you here so soon?" –"Yes, Dad, they have started talking to me about girls. I told them I wasn't there for that; I have said goodbye to them, and I have come." 3. The famous Leonardo da Vinci hired a young man whose face reflected innocence, candor and purity, to serve as a model of Jesus in the painting of the Last Supper he was preparing. Months later he needed another model to paint Judas Iscariot and hired a lost drunkard that he found in the street and who looked like the personification of perfidy, of the man dominated by passions. By copying his portrait he saw resemblance in the factions and told that to the young man. He cried, saying, "Yes, certainly, I was also a model for the image of Jesus, but from then, the bad companies have changed me."
2º The bad readings, sources of poison, in which immoral books are comprised (1), mainly lascivious novels, obscene magazines, and all kind of shameless publications, even more seductive and corrupting than conversations. The partner may, at times, blush and stop for a feeling of respect for innocence, but the obscene book is not ashamed and is always there, tempting. Sometimes the effects are not immediate, but they are no less pernicious. Pope Pius IX called “the devil's arsenals” the printing presses in which bad books and newspapers are printed. Indecent paintings and prints cause the same or greater evil than books. Such books and things cannot be kept, neither sold, nor given, nor lent, if not, the individual falls in mortal sin. They are to be destroyed or handed over to whoever can handle them.
(1) The Spanish State prohibits morally harmful books, and punishes those who provide works not included in the authorized Catalogue. "In accordance with the provisions of the Decree of National Education, dated July 24, 1947, which created the National Reading Service, and in order to avoid the incubation of books and novels not subjected in advance to any solvent selection, the Ministry itself published in the Official Gazette of the State, dated August 23, 1950, an Order by virtue of which, a rigorous inspection will be carried out in those bookstores and stalls dedicated to the sale or rental of this kind of readings".
[There are people who hate censorship, there is logical censorship, like this one above, the censorship that prevents propaganda of terrorism, etc. To put it more clear: he who grows wheat has to uproot the weeds; and he who wants weeds and darnel to grow, plucks the wheat. In these last times, truth and science are censored and attacked. Someone would say: God lets the wheat and darnel grow together until harvest. Yes, darnel is devil's people, but God commands us to have a heart free of thorns and other weeds. I repeat, there is a logical censorship and other that is not. As there is obedience to logical laws emanating from the Law of God and there is another obedience that certain people give to the organization of darkness.]
Balmes, forced to read many bad books to refute them, felt the need to combat the dryness of soul that they gave him, with the reading and meditation of the Gospel or any ascetic book.
[A saying says “ignorant catholic, future protestant” we have to read the Bible daily and MEDITATE IN GOD. It is an issue of life or death that we read the Bible to our children and they keep the Faith. The marriage is adulterated by betraying the marriage vows by letting another to use the body that is for the spouse; the body is adulterated being single by using its parts for purposes other than those that were designed, betraying the purity that it has to have as a temple of the Spirit, God is the Husband of our souls; someone adulterates against his own body (and against other’s eyes and purity) when he allows other people's eyes to look where they should not (we must wear loose and decent clothes, men and women), someone adulterates against the gift of the word when he says bad words or use vulgar expressions etc ... Read Mt., 12, 36-37)
This adulterous generation, as Jesus Christ called it, is now adulterating the words of the Bible And it is worth remembering that a marriage celebrated by a duly consecrated Catholic Priest, it is indissoluble, no bishop can annul it. I advise you to read Directive 15 of Our Lady of the Roses about the Holy Marriage. www.tldm.org
3º The spectacles. They were established for educational purposes, mainly the theatre, to train the public in good customs and could very well contribute to it if they did not leave the field of morality; but today, unfortunately, they offer very serious dangers for souls, mainly cinemas, theaters, swimming pools, beaches, and even some places for sport, where semi-nudity is practiced.
Modern theatre is a school of depravity and a seedbed of vices. "In the theater," says a contemporary author, "poison enters through the senses; the soul is as intoxicated; what began in the scene unfolds later, and the seductive immoralities of the theater sometimes produce their deplorable fruits in families and society." Even the corrupting Alexandre Dumas, had no hesitation about writing in the foreword to one of his scandalous novels: "A prudent mother should not go to the theater, much less take her daughter there, because in the theater it is immoral, not only the dramatic work, but the place itself"
What can be said today about the cinematographer, whose immorality is much greater and more daring than that of the theatre? They reproduce scandalous scenes of all kinds, which the actors of the theatre would not dare to represent. Such a cinema is an attack on Christian morality, and even on natural and human morality. There will never be enough fighting against that category of cinemas.
[When a horrible film was screened in the cinema in 1971, they had to take it out of theaters because people all over the world imitated the crimes they saw. TV is educating society to greater perversion each time. People imitate everything. That is why our entertainment must be to read lives of saints, which are beautiful and also do so much good; that, family visits and Sunday walks, they were the distractions of the Saint family of Saint Therese of Lisieux. I once read the laughable anecdote of a man who said that, at the exit of a classical dance play, he was trying to imitate an artistic leap that he had seen, one individual saw him in the street of the square that night and he explained the issue to him and they started imitating the dancer, a police officer came to ask them what they were doing and he also started trying to do it. The man said that after 3 hours and a few bruises, the 3 had achieved an acceptable imitation. Funny, but it describes how humans imitate others. What enters through the eyes stains the soul because we have allowed it to enter. Some men, talking about the beauty of women, said we have eyes to see what God created, but a priest said that God gave us eyelids to close our eyes when we have to.]
Swimming pools and beaches are other places of perdition, when people do not have the fear of God or at least some dignity and culture.
4º The dances; normally they are not bad, especially the regional ones, as long as they are made with decency and when they are artistic; but they are very dangerous because they excite passions and give rise to many sins, especially if they are done with people of different sexes. Saint Ambrosius says that "they are the ruin of modesty and the tomb of innocence." "If some inexcusable reason forces you to go to the dance and take part in it, try to make the dance with holy fear of God and the thought of death," says St. Francis of Sales. In that way the close chance to sin becomes remote.
5º Immodesty in dress. It is no excuse for wearing not honest dresses to say: It's fashion. Also in Noah's time there was a fashion, and because of it the universal flood came; and today, because of fashion, God sends us storms of shrapnel, bullets and fire. These fashions, comming from Masonic, Jewish and anti-Christian agencies, have no purpose but the de-Christianization of the society. For this, they take advantage of the lightness of the worldly woman who listens more to the whims of fashion than to the voice of the Church and human dignity, passing over one's own conscience. Every woman who respects herself and respects others, is always dressed with all honesty and modesty, with Christian grace, mainly in the church and more when she goes to receive the Holy Communion.
[No words to describe the filthiness that took place in Spain after Franco's death and what happens now even in the Church. The woman should never wear trousers... read the messages of Our Lady of the Roses. St. Paul, when he talked about people dedicated to bad passions, said that their women were crazy.]
A venerable prelate said: "The woman who walks through our streets in immodest clothing and immodest demeanor, is sowing ruins... Who will be able to count the deluge of sins, at least internal, to which the immodest dress of women leads? Terrible weapon is this with which the prince of darkness gives the assault on souls and with which he spreads corruption, without obstacles to stop it" Nakedness in dress [they are talking about low necklines, transparencies, short skirts, tight clothing…] means the loss of shame.
[Read what Our Lady of the Roses’ Messages say about the duty of mothers when their daugthers use provocative clothing. Perhaps the impudent young woman (or a young man, and nowadays they are not only the young ones) in tight clothing will not suffer immediate consequences of their wrong behavior, but they probably raise bad thoughts in the mind of a wretch who sees them, and the consequence is suffered by another, an innocent.]
257.- Dire consequences of impurity.- Without counting the many mortal sins that it carries with it, impurity brings disastrous consequences not only for the soul, provocking eternal damnation, but also for the body, to which it takes away strength and health.
Impurity blinds the soul, dulls the mind to idiocy, hardens the heart, makes it lose all fear of God and faith. It gives the soul tedium for virtue and heavenly things, makes it fall into despair and leads it to final impenitence and Hell. The ravages of this vice know no respite. These assertions are confirmed by thousands of examples provided by the daily experience.
Impurity causes notorious havoc in many bodies, from which it robs strength, health and gives sadness and premature decrepitude. Impurity dishonors life and families, sows discord, dispels fortunes, disturbs peoples, ignites wars, dissolves marriages, consumes lineages, debases men, and, in the opinion of famous doctors, it is the cause of many serious diseases: syphilis, thysis, heart disorders, brain conditions, epilepsy, spinal weakness, etc.
[Now I do not know if modern doctors would agree so much, except in the first 3. I even guess they disagree in the 3rd., but I know the case of and adulterous man who died of a heart attack at the concubine's house... sinning. Nature is wise... passions are attenuated over time, of course. But unhappy men now want to have an "active sex life" when they pass 40 and more. The act of procreation is used for that: procreation, it is a deviation of the mind to think about an “active sex life" In the O.T. someone complains that "men stopped looking at the sky", of course, they began to look at gold and power, in the 60s: drugs and sex and now they behave worse than animals. It is because the devil pushes them to increasingly aberrant things.]
Sins of impurity are abominable in God's eyes and attract tremendous punishments upon men. According to St. Alphonsus Mary of Ligorio, the vast majority of dammed must attribute their condemnation to this sin. "No vice," says St. Bernard, "delivers as many souls to Satan as impurity does; this is the crime that populates hell."
Most tremendous punishments of this vice were: the universal flood; the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah and other cities of the Pentapolis; the 24,000 Hebrews killed at the hands of the Moabites and Midianites; the almost total destruction of Benjamin's tribe; the plague that decimated David's subjects; the destruction of the Roman Empire; the Visigothic defeat at the Janda; the French revolution and many others without number.
“I have lived in ignominy and die in infamy” (Nero).
EXAMPLE.- Because of impurity, health is lost.- A doctor in Paris told this to Monsignor de Segur: "Since you spend your life confessing and leading young boys, insist on that they respect their bodies from the point of view of their future. I speak like this, not as a Christian, but simply as a doctor. I am seeing entire families being annihilated, men in the prime of age being snatched away by insignificant epidemics, I see scrofulous, feeble children dying before they reach manhood. What is the cause of this? Well, impurity, bad habits, which from youth spoil the body, infect blood, enervate the brain and limbs, and prepare an ignoble future and an untimely death
258. Practical tips.- He who does not want to get burned, let him not play recklessly with fire. If you have a true will not to be stained with impurities you will avoid at all costs, with all commitment and prudence, the causes and occasions that may lead you to sin. It is easier to avoid vice than to make amends; if you get contaminated, you can hardly get rid of it. Fight as much as you can against such a shameful crime: to preserve yourself from it you will find no better antidotes than the means at your disposal to keep yourself pure, chaste, and pleasing to the Lord (numbers 241 to 244 of the previous lesson). Remember the word of St. Paul: Did you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, that you have received it from God, and that, therefore, you do not belong to yourself... Glorify, then, God in your body (1 Cor. VI, 19-20).
[they are poisoning the air whiy drugs, poison and dessecant,,, they are killing me]
particularly in eastern Germany where the decades of what was called "really existing socialism" dechristianized whole districts.