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Selling Homosexuality To America
Paul E. Rondeau
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What the Saints say about the sin of homosexuality
Saint Augustine (354-430)
“Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation…”
(Book III, Chap. 8, no. 15) Saint Gregory the Great (540-604) “Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose emphasized the shame of that crime.” (Morales sur Job, Part III, Vol. I, book 14, no. 23, p. 353) Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072) “Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything.” (St. Peter Damian, Book of Gamorrah, Wilfrid Laurier …More
Selling Homosexuality To America
Paul E. Rondeau
www.lifeissues.net/…/shta_01sellingh…...
What the Saints say about the sin of homosexuality
Saint Augustine (354-430)
“Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation…”
(Book III, Chap. 8, no. 15) Saint Gregory the Great (540-604) “Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord. He had decided to punish Sodom for the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment he chose emphasized the shame of that crime.” (Morales sur Job, Part III, Vol. I, book 14, no. 23, p. 353) Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072) “Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.… It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything.” (St. Peter Damian, Book of Gamorrah, Wilfrid Laurier …More
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Sins Against the Sixth Commandment: Fornication, Adultery, Oppression (Rape), Incest, Sacrilege (the violation of a person consecrated to God, or of a sacred thing or holy place, by a sin against chastity), Pollution (Masturbation or self-abuse), Sodomy, all forms of Pedophilia, Bestiality, Contraception and all impure desires willfully consented to are always mortally sinful.
1 Corinthians 6 : 9 …More
Sins Against the Sixth Commandment: Fornication, Adultery, Oppression (Rape), Incest, Sacrilege (the violation of a person consecrated to God, or of a sacred thing or holy place, by a sin against chastity), Pollution (Masturbation or self-abuse), Sodomy, all forms of Pedophilia, Bestiality, Contraception and all impure desires willfully consented to are always mortally sinful.
1 Corinthians 6 : 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6 : 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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492. What are the principal sins against chastity?
Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave.
1 Corinthians 6: 9 Do you not know that …More
492. What are the principal sins against chastity?
Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave.
1 Corinthians 6: 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave.
1 Corinthians 6: 9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
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“However, they are called passions of ignominy because they are not worthy of being named, according to that passage in Ephesians (5:12): ‘For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.’ For if the sins of the flesh are commonly censurable because they lead man to that which is bestial in him, much more so is the sin against nature, by which man debases himself …More
--Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Santa Caterian da Siena e San Bernardino da Siena, addirittura affermano che la sodomia è il peccato più grave, dopo quello contro lo Spirito Santo e, comunque, se la sodomia è praticata con persistenza, in violazione dei dettami di Dio, anch'esso diventa peccato a cui non c'è perdono: “…Commettendo il maledetto peccato contro natura, quali ciechi e stolti, essendo offuscato il lume del loro …More
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Amen St Catherine of Siena ; Pray for us.
Vision of Saint Catherine of Sienna on impurity
Dialogue with God The Father
"(...) those unhappy men do not only check such tendency, but that they do something much worse and they fall in the vice against the nature. They are blind and stupid, whose confused intelligence does not perceive the vileness in which they live.
I displease this last sin,…More
Dialogue with God The Father
"(...) those unhappy men do not only check such tendency, but that they do something much worse and they fall in the vice against the nature. They are blind and stupid, whose confused intelligence does not perceive the vileness in which they live.
I displease this last sin, because I am the Eternal Purity. It is to Me so abominable that by its cause I made disappear five cities. (cf. Genesis 19, 24). My Justice is not able to support it more.
That sin, nevertheless, does not only dislike to Me. It is even unbearable to the demons, who are had by patterns by those unfortunate ministers.
The demons do not tolerate that sin. They do not wish the virtue, but by his angelical origin, they challenge to see so stinking vice.
They throw the poisoned arrows of lust, but they turn round at the moment at which the sin is committed ".(Saint Catherine of Sienna. The Dialogue)
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“No more silence! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues! I am seeing the world going to ruin because people are not speaking out.” Saint Catherine of Siena.
Saint Catherine of Siena, a religious mystic of the 14th century, relays words of Our Lord Jesus Christ about the vice against nature, which contaminated part of the clergy in her time. Referring to sacred ministers, He says: “They …More
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Linacre Quarterly -Catholic Medical Association Responding the Abuse Crisis Volume 78 Number Linacre Quarterly lq.cathmed.metapress.com/content/q136857458l7
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"Conversion is a form of martyrdom. It involves the surrender of oneself - body, mind intellect and faith to Christ. It requires docility and a willingness to be led to the truth, and for many the truth lies in a direction 'where you do not want to go.' (John 21:18-19)
~ Patrick Madrid, convert to Catholicism & author of "Surprised by Truth"
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For men are most anxious to find truth, but very reluctant to accept it. ... In short, finding out truth is not so hard; what is hard is not to run away from truth once we have found it.... The greatest among philosophers are those who do not flinch in the presence of truth, but welcome it with the simple words: yes, Amen. Saint Thomas Aquinas
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For men are most anxious to find truth, but very reluctant to accept it. ... In short, finding out truth is not so hard; what is hard is not to run away from truth once we have found it.... The greatest among philosophers are those who do not flinch in the presence of truth, but welcome it with the simple words: yes, Amen. Saint Thomas Aquinas
An thoroughly objective, rational, logical and factual analysis of the homosexual myth currently permeating modern society:
www.tfpstudentaction.org/…/defending_a_hig…
"This utterly diseased queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny infamous to men and odious to God. ...She strips her knights of the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears of every vice. ...She humiliates her slave in the church and condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and consumes his flesh like fire ... she mobilizes him in the militia of the evil spirit and force him to fight unspeakable wars against God . She detaches the unhappy soul from the company of the angels and , depriving it of it excellence, take it captive under her domineering yoke. Once this poisonous serpent has sunk its fangs into this unfortunate man is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails, and the mind's vision is darkened. Unmindful of God, he also forgets his own identity. This disease erodes the foundation of faith, saps the vitality of hope, dissolves the bond of love. It makes away with justice, demolishes fortitude, removes temperance, and blunts the edge of prudence. Shall I say more?"- St. Peter Damian -Liber Gomorrhianus ad Leonem IX Romanum Pontificem
An thoroughly objective, rational, logical and factual analysis of the homosexual myth currently permeating modern society:
www.tfpstudentaction.org/…/defending_a_hig…
"This utterly diseased queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny infamous to men and odious to God. ...She strips her knights of the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears of every vice. ...She humiliates her slave in the church and condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and consumes his flesh like fire ... she mobilizes him in the militia of the evil spirit and force him to fight unspeakable wars against God . She detaches the unhappy soul from the company of the angels and , depriving it of it excellence, take it captive under her domineering yoke. Once this poisonous serpent has sunk its fangs into this unfortunate man is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails, and the mind's vision is darkened. Unmindful of God, he also forgets his own identity. This disease erodes the foundation of faith, saps the vitality of hope, dissolves the bond of love. It makes away with justice, demolishes fortitude, removes temperance, and blunts the edge of prudence. Shall I say more?"- St. Peter Damian -Liber Gomorrhianus ad Leonem IX Romanum Pontificem
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IN BRIEF
2392 "Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being" (FC 11).
2393 By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.
2394 Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his particular …More
IN BRIEF
2392 "Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being" (FC 11).
2393 By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.
2394 Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his particular state of life.
2395 Chastity means the integration of sexuality within the person. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery.
2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
2397 The covenant which spouses have freely entered into entails faithful love. It imposes on them the obligation to keep their marriage indissoluble.
2398 Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of marriage. By giving life, spouses participate in God's fatherhood.
2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).
2400 Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the dignity of marriage.
Examination of Conscience for Confession
Sixth and Ninth Commandments
Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or desires?
Did I use impure or suggestive words? Tell impure stories? Listen to them?
Did I deliberately look at impure TV, videos, plays, pictures or movies? Or deliberately read impure materials?
Have I indulged in pornographic material or introduced and shown others pornograpy?
Have I been guilty of the sin of self abuse (masturbation)?
Did I commit impure acts with another - fornication (premarital sex), adultery (sex with a married person)?
Did I avoid the occasions of impurity?
Have I frequented immodest places of dance, clubs etc. or taken part in indecent dances?
Did I engage in homosexual activity?
Have I committed any sexual acts with someone of the same gender (homosexual)--including sodomy or entertained such thoughts?
Have I willfully placed myself in the occasion of sin through bad company?
Have I committed sexual acts with someone related by blood or by affinity within the degrees in which marriage is forbidden by the church (incest)-or entertained such thoughts?
Have I committed sacrilege by sinning against chastity with someone consecrated to God or with a sacred thing or in a holy place? These are also sins against reverence to God.
Have I kidnapped anyone or held someone against their will with the intention to sin against chasity.
Have I committed the sin of bestiality.
Have I sung unchaste songs or recited impure verses?
Have I been careless about my clothing, posture, or appearance, thus exposing others to impurity?
Have I allowed my eyes to wonder in curiosity over dangerous objects?
Have I permitted friendship to degenerate into sensuality?
Have I had premarital sex?
Have I been guilty of willful divorce or desertion without just cause.
Have I prostituted myself for personal gain whether for myself or another, whether financial or otherwise.
Have I been guilty of the crime of rape by either physical or moral force (intoxication, fraud, bribery, or grave fear)?
Did I respect all members of the opposite sex, or have I thought of other people as objects?
Have I been guilty of unnatural sexual acts (Anal sex or anal intercourse) with someone of the opposite gender--this includes even your spouse--or entertained such thoughts?
Have I been guilty of the sin of crossdressing?
2392 "Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being" (FC 11).
2393 By creating the human being man and woman, God gives personal dignity equally to the one and the other. Each of them, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity.
2394 Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his particular state of life.
2395 Chastity means the integration of sexuality within the person. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery.
2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
2397 The covenant which spouses have freely entered into entails faithful love. It imposes on them the obligation to keep their marriage indissoluble.
2398 Fecundity is a good, a gift and an end of marriage. By giving life, spouses participate in God's fatherhood.
2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).
2400 Adultery, divorce, polygamy, and free union are grave offenses against the dignity of marriage.
Examination of Conscience for Confession
Sixth and Ninth Commandments
Did I willfully entertain impure thoughts or desires?
Did I use impure or suggestive words? Tell impure stories? Listen to them?
Did I deliberately look at impure TV, videos, plays, pictures or movies? Or deliberately read impure materials?
Have I indulged in pornographic material or introduced and shown others pornograpy?
Have I been guilty of the sin of self abuse (masturbation)?
Did I commit impure acts with another - fornication (premarital sex), adultery (sex with a married person)?
Did I avoid the occasions of impurity?
Have I frequented immodest places of dance, clubs etc. or taken part in indecent dances?
Did I engage in homosexual activity?
Have I committed any sexual acts with someone of the same gender (homosexual)--including sodomy or entertained such thoughts?
Have I willfully placed myself in the occasion of sin through bad company?
Have I committed sexual acts with someone related by blood or by affinity within the degrees in which marriage is forbidden by the church (incest)-or entertained such thoughts?
Have I committed sacrilege by sinning against chastity with someone consecrated to God or with a sacred thing or in a holy place? These are also sins against reverence to God.
Have I kidnapped anyone or held someone against their will with the intention to sin against chasity.
Have I committed the sin of bestiality.
Have I sung unchaste songs or recited impure verses?
Have I been careless about my clothing, posture, or appearance, thus exposing others to impurity?
Have I allowed my eyes to wonder in curiosity over dangerous objects?
Have I permitted friendship to degenerate into sensuality?
Have I had premarital sex?
Have I been guilty of willful divorce or desertion without just cause.
Have I prostituted myself for personal gain whether for myself or another, whether financial or otherwise.
Have I been guilty of the crime of rape by either physical or moral force (intoxication, fraud, bribery, or grave fear)?
Did I respect all members of the opposite sex, or have I thought of other people as objects?
Have I been guilty of unnatural sexual acts (Anal sex or anal intercourse) with someone of the opposite gender--this includes even your spouse--or entertained such thoughts?
Have I been guilty of the sin of crossdressing?
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The sixth Commandment:
"You shall not commit adultery."
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Mt. 5:27-28)
“You shall not commit impure acts”
492. What are the principal sins against chastity?
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Grave sins against chastity differ according …More
The sixth Commandment:
"You shall not commit adultery."
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Mt. 5:27-28)
“You shall not commit impure acts”
492. What are the principal sins against chastity?
2351-2359
2396
Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave. Compendium of the Catechism.
493. Although it says only “you shall not commit adultery” why does the sixth commandment forbid all sins against chastity?
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Although the biblical text of the Decalogue reads “you shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14), the Tradition of the Church comprehensively follows the moral teachings of the Old and New Testaments and considers the sixth commandment as encompassing all sins against chastity.
What the Catholic Church Teaches
"Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.
The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose. For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.
Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children.
Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.
Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties.
It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants, (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others.
It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world.
It is a grave offense.
Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials."
2355 Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.140 Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.
2356 Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church (2351-56) 224
What does the ninth Commandment forbid?
The ninth Commandment forbids all wilful consent to impure thoughts and desires, and all wilful pleasure in the irregular motions of the flesh
What sins commonly lead to the breaking of the sixth and ninth Commandments?
The sins that commonly lead to the breaking of the sixth and ninth Commandments are gluttony, drunkenness, and intemperance, and also idleness, bad company, and the neglect of prayer.
"You shall not commit adultery."
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Mt. 5:27-28)
“You shall not commit impure acts”
492. What are the principal sins against chastity?
2351-2359
2396
Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more grave. Compendium of the Catechism.
493. Although it says only “you shall not commit adultery” why does the sixth commandment forbid all sins against chastity?
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Although the biblical text of the Decalogue reads “you shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14), the Tradition of the Church comprehensively follows the moral teachings of the Old and New Testaments and considers the sixth commandment as encompassing all sins against chastity.
What the Catholic Church Teaches
"Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.
The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose. For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.
Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children.
Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.
Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties.
It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants, (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others.
It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world.
It is a grave offense.
Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials."
2355 Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.140 Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.
2356 Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church (2351-56) 224
What does the ninth Commandment forbid?
The ninth Commandment forbids all wilful consent to impure thoughts and desires, and all wilful pleasure in the irregular motions of the flesh
What sins commonly lead to the breaking of the sixth and ninth Commandments?
The sins that commonly lead to the breaking of the sixth and ninth Commandments are gluttony, drunkenness, and intemperance, and also idleness, bad company, and the neglect of prayer.
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Lesson 39:
The Sixth and Ninth Commandments
"But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His power. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Or know you not, that he who is joined to a …More
Lesson 39:
The Sixth and Ninth Commandments
"But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His power. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:13-20)
What is the Sixth Commandment?
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
What is the Ninth Commandment?
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
What do these commandments oblige you to do?
To practice the virtue of chastity according to your state in life.
Chastity regulates the use of sex for married people. Chastity forbids any use of sex, complete or incomplete, to unmarried people. This also includes those who are engaged.
Who are the only ones who may engage in sex?
Only husband and wife who are validly married to each other, and only in the natural manner, with their proper marriage partner, and only in a manner that leaves open the conception of a child.
Name some of the sins against the Sixth Commandment.
Adultery
Birth Control
Fornication
Sins against nature
Self-abuse
Immodest dressing
Impure touches, looks, kisses, dancing, reading
Looking at impure pictures, dances, shows, movies
Keeping company with people who are a temptation.
What is adultery?
Sexual intercourse which a married person has with someone to whom he (or she) is not married.
"For fornicators and adulterers God will judge." (Hebrews 13:4)
"Neither fornicators... nor adulterers... shall possess the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
What is fornication?
Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.
What is self-abuse?
Enjoying the sexual pleasure alone; also called masturbation.
What are sins against nature?
Perversions committed with oneself, with another person or with animals.
"Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind [i.e., practicing homosexuals] shall possess the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
What is forbidden by the Ninth Commandment?
Impure thoughts and desires.
"But I say to you that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
What kind of sin are sins of sex - that is, all impure acts, thoughts, and desires?
Every sin of impurity is a mortal sin, unless not fully consented to, as could happen, for example, with impure thoughts.
A temptation is not a sin. If you reject a temptation, you do a good act and receive extra grace.
When do you become guilty of impure thoughts?
When you knowingly and willingly keep such thoughts in your mind, but especially in taking pleasure in them.
"For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders." (Mark 7:21)
Is it possible to lead a pure life?
Yes, with God's help --
If you stay away from all persons, places or things which easily lead into sin.
If you pray often (especially to the Blessed Virgin Mary and especially pray her Holy Rosary) and go to Confession and receive Communion regularly.
If you keep busy.
If you flee from temptations when they first appear (do not "toy" with sexual temptation).
If you practice giving up things you like and doing things you do not like.
"And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one." (1 Corinthians 9:25)
PRACTICAL POINTS
A Catholic today must bear in mind that he is living in a mostly pagan world and that many things which the world takes for granted are in fact sins or at least serious temptations that must be avoided. Television shows, videos, wearing apparel, etc... must be evaluated with a Catholic conscience and not with the eyes of the world.
The Sixth and Ninth Commandments
"But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God hath both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His power. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. Or know you not, that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:13-20)
What is the Sixth Commandment?
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
What is the Ninth Commandment?
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
What do these commandments oblige you to do?
To practice the virtue of chastity according to your state in life.
Chastity regulates the use of sex for married people. Chastity forbids any use of sex, complete or incomplete, to unmarried people. This also includes those who are engaged.
Who are the only ones who may engage in sex?
Only husband and wife who are validly married to each other, and only in the natural manner, with their proper marriage partner, and only in a manner that leaves open the conception of a child.
Name some of the sins against the Sixth Commandment.
Adultery
Birth Control
Fornication
Sins against nature
Self-abuse
Immodest dressing
Impure touches, looks, kisses, dancing, reading
Looking at impure pictures, dances, shows, movies
Keeping company with people who are a temptation.
What is adultery?
Sexual intercourse which a married person has with someone to whom he (or she) is not married.
"For fornicators and adulterers God will judge." (Hebrews 13:4)
"Neither fornicators... nor adulterers... shall possess the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
What is fornication?
Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.
What is self-abuse?
Enjoying the sexual pleasure alone; also called masturbation.
What are sins against nature?
Perversions committed with oneself, with another person or with animals.
"Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind [i.e., practicing homosexuals] shall possess the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
What is forbidden by the Ninth Commandment?
Impure thoughts and desires.
"But I say to you that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
What kind of sin are sins of sex - that is, all impure acts, thoughts, and desires?
Every sin of impurity is a mortal sin, unless not fully consented to, as could happen, for example, with impure thoughts.
A temptation is not a sin. If you reject a temptation, you do a good act and receive extra grace.
When do you become guilty of impure thoughts?
When you knowingly and willingly keep such thoughts in your mind, but especially in taking pleasure in them.
"For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders." (Mark 7:21)
Is it possible to lead a pure life?
Yes, with God's help --
If you stay away from all persons, places or things which easily lead into sin.
If you pray often (especially to the Blessed Virgin Mary and especially pray her Holy Rosary) and go to Confession and receive Communion regularly.
If you keep busy.
If you flee from temptations when they first appear (do not "toy" with sexual temptation).
If you practice giving up things you like and doing things you do not like.
"And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible one." (1 Corinthians 9:25)
PRACTICAL POINTS
A Catholic today must bear in mind that he is living in a mostly pagan world and that many things which the world takes for granted are in fact sins or at least serious temptations that must be avoided. Television shows, videos, wearing apparel, etc... must be evaluated with a Catholic conscience and not with the eyes of the world.
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Amen ....Please Lord have Mercy.....
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
“[The vice of sodomy] she mobilizes him in the militia of the evil spirit and force him to fight unspeakable wars against God . She detaches the unhappy soul from the company of the angels and , depriving it of it excellence …More
Amen ....Please Lord have Mercy.....
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
“[The vice of sodomy] she mobilizes him in the militia of the evil spirit and force him to fight unspeakable wars against God . She detaches the unhappy soul from the company of the angels and , depriving it of it excellence, take it captive under her domineering yoke” (...)Once this poisonous serpent has sunk its fangs into this unfortunate man, he is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails , and the mind's vision is darkened. Unmindful of God , he also forgets his own identity. St. Peter Damian -Liber Gomorrhianus ad Leonem IX Romanum Pontificem
Romans 1 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worth while to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
“[The vice of sodomy] she mobilizes him in the militia of the evil spirit and force him to fight unspeakable wars against God . She detaches the unhappy soul from the company of the angels and , depriving it of it excellence, take it captive under her domineering yoke” (...)Once this poisonous serpent has sunk its fangs into this unfortunate man, he is deprived of all moral sense, his memory fails , and the mind's vision is darkened. Unmindful of God , he also forgets his own identity. St. Peter Damian -Liber Gomorrhianus ad Leonem IX Romanum Pontificem
Romans 1 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worth while to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
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This utterly diseased queen of Sodom renders him who obeys the laws of her tyranny infamous to men and odious to God. ...She strips her knights of the armor of virtue, exposing them to be pierced by the spears of every vice. ...She humiliates her slave in the church and condemns him in court; she defiles him in secret and dishonors him in public; she gnaws at his conscience like a worm and …More
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"The devil’s artful fraud devises these degrees of failing into ruin such that the higher the level the unfortunate soul reaches in them, the deeper it sinks in the depths of hell’s pit" (PL 145:161).St. Peter Damian -Liber Gomorrhianus ad Leonem IX Romanum Pontificem
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Saint Bonaventure, speaking in a sermon at the church of Saint Mary of Portiuncula about the miracles that took place simultaneously with the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, narrates this: “Seventh prodigy: All sodomites—men and women—died all over the earth, as Saint Jerome said in his commentary on the psalm ‘The light was born for the just.’ This made it clear that He was born to reform …More
Saint Bonaventure, speaking in a sermon at the church of Saint Mary of Portiuncula about the miracles that took place simultaneously with the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, narrates this: “Seventh prodigy: All sodomites—men and women—died all over the earth, as Saint Jerome said in his commentary on the psalm ‘The light was born for the just.’ This made it clear that He was born to reform nature and promote chastity.” (St. Bonaventure, Sermon XXI—In Nativitate Domini, in Catolicismo (Campos/Sao Paulo), December 1987, p. 3; F. Bernardei, op. cit., p. 11)
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Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517)
"Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature . . . be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery (chap. 4, X, V, 31). So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity, taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the …More
Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517)
"Let any member of the clergy caught in that vice against nature . . . be removed from the clerical order or forced to do penance in a monastery (chap. 4, X, V, 31). So that the contagion of such a grave offense may not advance with greater audacity, taking advantage of impunity, which is the greatest incitement to sin, and so as to more severely punish the clerics who are guilty of this nefarious crime and who are not frightened by the death of their souls, We determine that they should be handed over to the secular authority, which enforces civil law. Therefore, wishing to pursue with the greatest rigor that which We have decreed since the beginning of Our Pontificate, We establish that any priest or member of the clergy, either secular or regular, who commits such an execrable crime, by force of the present law be deprived of every clerical privilege, of every post, dignity and ecclesiastical benefit, and having been degraded by an ecclesiastical judge, be immediately delivered to the secular authority to be executed as mandated by law, according to the appropriate punishment for laymen plunged in this abyss."