August 23, 2022

Our Social Networks Facebook Youtube Telegram Twitter Centercode Telegram-plane Comment MOTHER & REFUGE OF THE END TIMES IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH! HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS WATCH ONLINE Dealing with Temptations, Reflection 3: Sex Is Created By God And Is Good In his novel “The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith” Bruce Marshall wrote a very intriguing sentence: “The young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.”  At first glance this claim may seem absurd, as it seems that the young man who goes to the brothel is looking for anything but God.  So what did Bruce Marshall mean?  The author was trying to point out something unique and mystical about the sexual act.  In the sexual act, the human person somehow reaches out beyond their own self and transcends to know another person in very intimate way, in the most intimate way.  The uniting of a man and woman in the sexual act is a truly personal act in which they are united and come to know each other through the body, and in which they give the gift of themselves to the other person.  And so, even the young man who seeks to have sex with a woman at the brothel is, in a way, seeking to go outside of himself and encounter another.   The sexual act within marriage is something created by God and it is good.  For it to be as God intended, the sexual act must be an act of mutual giving.  Human beings try to separate the pleasure of the sexual act from procreation.  However, God never intended for the sexual act to be intentionally closed to life.  Is interesting to note how we human beings want to believe that somehow we know more about sex than God.  We seem to think we have empowered ourselves through the invention of birth control.  Archbishop Fulton Sheen with great wisdom once made the following comments about the Birth Control: “the words are not very proper because those who believe in it actually believe neither in birth nor Control.”What a beautiful creation the sexual act is.  The human heart desires by nature communion with another person.  Ultimately, the human person is restless until it is fully united with the One Who can completely fulfill it’s desires and yearnings.  In the book, “Sex and the Supremacy of Christ” John Piper suggests two points that we should really take some time to consider.  The first is that sexuality is designed as a way to know God in Christ more fully.  And so, sex is an incredible good because it is Holy and designed as a way to know God.  Secondly, he presents that through sex we are able to acknowledge the Supremacy of Christ in the gift of sexuality and the sexual act.  This is true for both the man and the woman.  God is truly pleased when we are able to enjoy sex in the way he intended us to enjoy this incredible gift, and He desires us to enjoy the gift of mutual self-giving and knowing. Subscribe for our FREE Newsletter Submit You have been successfully Subscribed! Ops! Something went wrong, please try again. More on Mother of Refuge of the End Times Dealing With Temptations, Reflection 3: Sex Is Created By God And Is Good Dealing With Temptations, Reflection 2: Sex Is For Marriage Viral Video! Miracle: Trained Search Dog Detects Presence of Life in a Church Sanctuary Prior To Papal Visit! Load More Go to Mother and Refuge Homepage Pieta of the Apocalypse: Essential End Time Prayers and Promises BUY NOW! Happiness and the Path of Spiritual Abundance (A Living Spring Book) BUY NOW! Live Prayers with Mother and Refuge:    Join us on Youtube and Telegram.

Our Social Networks Facebook Youtube Telegram Twitter Centercode Telegram-plane Comment MOTHER & REFUGE OF THE END TIMES IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH! HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE FREE DOWNLOADS CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS HOME ABOUT M&R MYSTICS ON M & R Privacy Policy ARTICLES BOOKS DONATE FREE DOWNLOADS CONTACT US PRAYER REQUESTS LIVE PRAYERS WATCH ONLINE The Spiritual Meditations of St. Francis de Sales – SEVENTH MEDITATION from the book, ‘Introduction to the Devout Life’first written for St. Jane Frances de Chantal and now offered to all SEVENTH MEDITATION Of Hell Preparation 1. PLACE yourself in God’s Presence. 2. Humble yourself, and ask His Aid. 3. Picture to yourself a dark city, reeking with the flames of sulphur and brimstone, inhabited by citizens who cannot get forth. Considerations 1. Even so the lost are plunged in their infernal abyss; suffering indescribable torture in every sense and every member; and that because having used their members and senses for sin, it is just that through them they should suffer now. Those eyes which delighted in impure vicious sights, now behold devils; the ears which took pleasure in unholy words, now are deafened with yells of despair; and so on with the other senses. 2. Beyond all these sufferings, there is one greater still, the privation and pain of loss of God’s Glory, which is for ever denied to their vision. If Absalom cared not to be released from exile, if he might not see his father’s face, how much sorer will it be to be deprived for ever of the blessed vision of God? 3. Consider how insupportable the pains of Hell will be by reason of their eternal duration. If the irritating bite of an insect, or the restlessness of fever, makes an ordinary night seem so long and tedious, how terrible will the endless night of eternity be, where nought will be found save despair, blasphemy and fury! Affections and Resolutions 1. Read the Prophet’s descriptions of the terrors of the Lord, and ask your soul whether it can face them, whether you can bear to lose your God for ever? 2. Confess that you have repeatedly deserved to do so. Resolve henceforth to act differently, and to rescue yourself from this abyss. Resolve on distinct definite acts by which you may avoid sin, and thereby eternal death. Give thanks, offer yourself, pray. Subscribe for our FREE Newsletter Submit You have been successfully Subscribed! Ops! Something went wrong, please try again. More on Mother of Refuge of the End Times The Spiritual Meditations of St. Francis de Sales – TENTH MEDITATION Viral Video! Pentecost, 2021: Holy Spirit Forms Halo & Doves Above Pope Francis’ Head – A Sign of God’s Presence! Viral Video! Incredible Viral Photo of Our Lady Taken In Canoinhas, Brazil! Taken on Vigil of Our Lady of Fatima! Load More Go to Mother and Refuge Homepage Pieta of the Apocalypse: Essential End Time Prayers and Promises BUY NOW! Happiness and the Path of Spiritual Abundance (A Living Spring Book) BUY NOW! Live Prayers with Mother and Refuge:    Join us on Youtube and Telegram.