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I’ve only started considering the validity and help (for me) of “practical” measures like these 2.5 weeks ago, and here I realized that I was just in denial for a very long time now, and that it just shows how I can and should seek God with honest desperation and humility; this helps a lot.
I also got to read about Exodus90 for the first time, and the article really helped.
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Well written. Thank you, Colin. God bless.
I am a Baptist, so my methods might be modified in employing such a method. But, I found this to be an excellent strategy. I am an accountability partner to more than one guy who wrestles with this and am always looking for advice to help them. It is true that externals and a declaration to commit to a higher standard helps. I will say that I know some people who were “stubborn” enough that when they chose to stop drinking for example, they just stopped. One fella I know who is probably in his 70’s now decided to stop drinking. He told me that to stop drinking, he had to stop smoking too. So he asked his wife to stop smoking so that he could stop drinking. She agreed, and then they just stopped. I asked him: “How did you do it?” He said: “We just stopped buying the stuff!” LOL! Thanks for sharing this, and keep up the good work.
This is a very well written article. I appreciate your use of various references to argue your point that a sacramental like the chain of Marian consecration upon your wrist can be a supportive tool in the fight for chastity. I agree that visible signs are so important. After I was confirmed Catholic a few years ago, I wore my rosary wrapped around a belt loop with the crucifix in my pocket. I was inspired by religious who did they same and I thought: “Why can’t I do the same as well as a layman?” External sacramental signs can also be evangelistic aids.
I think we need to also be honest and humble. Just because I have chained my wrist or wrapped a rosary does not mean that I will not succumb to temptation. I was in San Francisco for a year discerning religious life after my Confirmation. My experience there led me into deep isolation and loneliness. I had enrolled in the Confraternity of Angelic Warefare, praying the prayers daily, attending daily mass, and a daily holy hour, praying all of the Liturgy of the Hours, fasting every Friday, and the knotted cord of the Confraternity was wrapped around my waste. One drunken night, I sat in my car with a well paid prostitute. She saw my cord and asked about it. I lied to her and ignored it. The Sacramentals, fastings, and prayers did not immediately give me victory over such sexual sins. What I was not aware was that the intense feelings of loneliness and isolation where implicit memories evoking themselves from a childhood of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. I needed to go deeper into my own story for a fuller healing. But, even more, in God’s Providential wisdom, he did not remove “thorn in my side immediately.” There was other work God wanted to do in my life, not the least to increase my trust in him, willingness to abandon myself into his love, and increase my patience. All that is an example that the battle for chastity is not easily or won quickly (except for special outpourings of God’s grace). We can not fall for the temptation of the “quick fix” or “simple solution,” even if such are good and holy things. The only way to conquer the battle for chasity is to enter into the Kingdom of God for all eternity. Until then, we endure courageously