Day 305: The Call to Chastity - The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

[@56Tyskie]

For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.

[@56Tyskie]

Yes the Rosary helped me with my battle with addiction to pornography. It has been nearly 2 years since I abandoned this sin and all that comes with it. A grace from god I do not intend on wasting.

[@xuanc5818]

CIY should be a requirement of Confirmation. Thank you Fr Mike

[@elesapowell3769]

Father Mike, thumbs up! Tell it like it is!

[@MJ-ei8ug]

Also remember you have a Guardian Angel who can and wants to help you

[@elizabethcronin3074]

Hello everyone & Happy Day 305! A blessed All Saints Day to all!🙏😇

[@dianefrank3688]

😇Hi on this All Saints Day305 😇🙏

[@TrixRN]

Hi y’all 👋 Happy day 305, only 60 days left. Blessed All Saints Day.🙏❤️

[@KB_2161]

Hello to all and happy 305!❤

[@dianefrank3688]

@@TrixRN It seems like Christmas is just around the cornor and than it will all be over. I am definetly going to do the CIY a 2nd year.

[@dianefrank3688]

@@KB_2161 Hi a busy & happy day.

[@jlopez840611]

Thank you Lord for coming through Father Schmitz in Spirit and helping define this enormous day of learning of Your Word and Commandment, this simple explanation in your words Father Schmitz is so easy to understand, yet i hope and pray we can all apply it to our lives, in the name of Jesús Christ of Nazareth I pray, Amén 💜❤️‍🔥💜

[@gailwedgeworth7517]

I wish I had this education long ago, and I could have avoided a lot of hardship. I should have connected the need for integrity of order in mind heart soul and body, and avoided the trivial pursuit of romance in tawdry things I thought were no big deal romantic - movies, books, trying to have what was broken and wounded in my life, but it just led to a lack of self-mastery and definitely was never the thing I needed to be content and whole. Every human, Catholic or not, ought to have this education for the betterment of their soul and the health of heart and mind, so important. I am grateful for this year's study.

[@sshankleton]

So true for me too!!

[@patrick.7326]

Amen

[@marianmilne6009]

I'm sure lots of can can resonate with this❤️

[@BlueHeart7720]

Amen 🙏💙

[@MrDarshD]

Same here. But it's never too late to return to God. Our life can change in a matter of days.. stay faithful like Job. God bless

[@mercymercy331]

Thank you father! So important reminders and encouragement as well.🙏

[@carolradlinger8661]

All so beautiful ! Lord you are SO awesome, leading and guiding us to be our best selves ❤

[@naomiwelch6715]

Excellent lesson! Happy All Saints Day and may God's peace be with you all.

[@richardbergmark6722]

“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.” JC Ryle

[@phylliscory2105]

At age 82, still working on self-mastery. Long process.

[@marianmilne6009]

Thank you Fr Mike for explaining this. Young people of today are under so much pressure 😢.......Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏

[@sandrastange8314]

Ok great explanation on Chastity. It's a gift.

[@almapuritaparcon3435]

Day 305. 🙏🙏🙏 Blessed Solemnity of All Saints! ❤

[@sandrastange8314]

Yes amazing journey indeed. I just love ❤

[@SurrenderNovena]

Wow! Wonderful! So many words of wisdom, insight, and helpfulness! “Laws of growth: progressing through stages marked by imperfection and too often by sin” just don’t give up, no matter how slow it’s going nor how many times you fail and fall. It’s all part of the “Laws of growth” Thank you, Fr. Mike.

[@staceyspargo5897]

Amen and Thank you a so needed subject for me to hear. God bless you!

[@marianmilne6009]

Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@KolokaiKalai]

Day 305..Thankyou Fr.Mike for your time...Praying for you..the Ascension team and all...

[@chavelasalas9151]

Praise you lord Jesus Christ ❤❤❤❤hear our prayers ❤❤prayers Father Mike Amen Amen

[@artorefalnera3055]

Fr. Thank you ❤. Praying for you, for the Ascension team and for all my CIY brothers and sisters. Special prayer for chastity and integrity for all. God bless ❤🙏.

[@nuembarradas4533]

Amen God bless,Thank you fr. Mike

[@valentinabiebie]

Amen and thank you. 10-11-2024

[@WashingtonDC99]

Day 305 ( Today is Wednesday November first of 2023 ). I keep falling but just because I keep FALLING does not mean that I will not pray The Rosary, I will not stop going to Holy Hour Of Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament Of The Altar, I will not stop going to Church, I will not stop going to celebrate The Mass. I keep falling... I will keep getting up and start all over again. Viva Cristo Rey. O Lord God Almighty I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof but only say The Word and my soul shall be healed 🙏😇👼 I am so grateful to God Almighty for all His blessings and protections towards me a sinner. I am still alive by grace of God. I could have been dead like seven times already and I am still here in one piece. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen 🙏

[@EugenieKikango]

Amen! Amen! May God help us all. Thank you Father Mike and grace to all.

[@gemmacrichton2195]

Hello everyone Blessed All Saints Day I love this time of the year.God blessed Fr Mike and everyone who are listening today 🙏🙏❤️❤️

[@CarmenRodriguez-vx1km]

Thank you Fr . Mike Schmitz ✝️

[@SoniaGech-kp9cl]

GodLogic Apologetics channel and The catechism in a year channel are best ❤

[@R.C.425]

Thank you, Father Mike

[@MrDarshD]

17:39 - THIS! this needs to be framed on the wall. "Lust indulged becomes a habit. Habit unresisted becomes a necessity." - It shows how small things can become the root of big sins and big problems. Chastity indeed is a must for everyone regardless of the marital status. Another truth of life is that we must control passion so that passion does not control us. Thank you so much for this analysis and reminders, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. Hid bless you all

[@CarlosRivera-lv3uc]

Padre, I have overcome acoholism, drug addiction, being an awful human for first half of my life. I found true love and a woman, a woman of God, who said I will walk with this man. Who chose to make my life complete and help me raise my son who is now 20. And dealing with impurity, as I put it; of myself is the single most difficult and constant thing in my confessions for so many years. Thank you for adding a new bulwark by the way of the Mighty Hand of God in my life today and I pray that his Hand is felt by all who struggle today and everyday.

[@TrixRN]

🙏❤️

[@CarlosRivera-lv3uc]

Thank you all. Like the Padre says, i am praying for you.

[@ginaanelli9717]

Blessings to you! ✝️🙏❤️

[@wreloise1]

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭51‬:‭10‬ ‭

[@rm-paradise]

God I know you are here, present and active in my life. Help me pray for my brothers and sisters who need your help. Help me pray for the souls in Purgatory so they soon can be in your love forever. Today being All Saints Day, give thanks and guidance of your favorite saint for their intercessions for you. 11/1/2023

[@TrixRN]

Amen!🙏❤️

[@marybailey6254]

Blessings to all who are participating in the CIY & BIY today🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻

[@rachelmcentarffer3190]

No apologies, Father Mike, to me for your interpretation in the beginning. I gotta a good chuckle. I'm praying for you and all following CIY. Learning so much! Grateful, and God bless!

[@TrixRN]

🙏❤️

[@meanchoolee5845]

Thank you Father Mike

[@R_Thomp]

Thank you Father

[@NAMASIVAYAMANANDASAKARAN]

We should see other people not as objects or things to be used, but people to be loved. Chastity is when the intellect guides our passions, and the will informs us to live a balanced life. Self-mastery is a process. We are all called to Chastity. The virtue of chastity involves the integrity of the person. Your spouse is the legitimate person of romance and do not have a shadow mission! Chastity is a moral virtue a gift from God. Serious sin and serious prayer can't coexist. Will pray for each other in the CIY family. Amen

[@moniquearseneault1460]

Thank you Father Mike, praying for you all, God Bless ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@rm-paradise]

Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 11/1/2023.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen 🙏

[@maryannagibson5838]

So great today! Thank you Fr. Mike!

[@lindaokeefe4526]

I’m cracking up about how Fr Mike remembers the 5th and 6th commandments!

[@marsharr2877]

Agreed!

[@KB_2161]

Lord Jesus, the Divine Physician, we lift up those in need of healing. May your grace and love bring wholeness and peace to their lives through Christ our Lord. Amen. ❤❤❤

[@peggybruening4415]

One of the most difficult concepts in today’s world 😞prayers to Fr. Mike and his listeners….

[@chavelasalas9151]

Thanks be to God prayers Father Mike Amen 🙏

[@SuperRuthJ]

Thank you Father Mike!❤️🙏❤️ When it comes to taking a personal stand regarding one’s sexual freedom, hook-up culture and peer pressure do not make the choice any easier. Yet choosing chastity is precisely more desirable than these lifestyles because it is a virtue that is centered around the divine, selfless nature of love. Our bodies belong only to God, not ourselves, because the Spirit of God is dwelling in each of us (1 Cor. 6:19). When young people forget the value and importance of their bodies, made in the image and likeness of God, they can fall from a state of grace and use their bodies for pleasure, while associating little meaning to it, either in thought, word, or deed. Saint John Paul II’s teachings on the Theology of the Body helps to tie the concept of chastity and love together since both are interconnected:

[@cynthiahall9297]

Perfectly said! Loved it! Thank you! Again.

[@jlopez840611]

Whoa! It is obvious how many of us viewed and heard the Word on day 305, yet! Many of us don't hit like. Perhaps, biggest stupidity still not willing to Listen, OH GOD PLEASE FORGIVE US!💜❤️‍🔥💜 and help us understand Now❤️‍🔥

[@susannebrule3160]

Thank you Father Mike. 😊❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@roystonfernandes8305]

Chastity means the positive integration of sexuality within the person. It is a moral virtue, a gift of God, a grace, and a fruit of the Holy Spirit. It involves an apprenticeship in self-mastery of human freedom directed towards self-giving. Fidelity to prayer, self-knowledge, the help of sacraments, the practice of the virtue of temperance, and the practice of asceticism adapted to various situations are some of the means that aid the living of chastity.

[@charmiemael460]

Tnx Fr.Mike and all The Ascension Staff and Personnel.💐🧡🙏➕🛐📖🔥🕊🔥

[@katpellot5898]

THEE BEST section of the Catechism for our time and culture! Thak you! Great job in explaining Chastity Father Mike 🙏❤

[@kathywiens9852]

I love that this ended in hope for us all. I'm grateful for all of my unseen fellow sojourners on here. We can do this. Let's keep encouraging one another as Father encourages us to stay on the narrow path that leads us all back to God. 🙏🤲🙏💕💝

[@TrixRN]

❤️🙏❤️

[@glenapereira3492]

We are all called to Chastity as it means the successful integration of sexuality within the person. It's a harmony that guides and governs our passions to treat people aright. Shadow/double mission must be avoided if we are to be really chaste people of integrity. Ethos is being drawn to the good and repelled by the bad. Choose serious prayer when breaking away from serious sin. Don't give up on growing in Chastity even if we fail in the process as it is a moral virtue and a gift from God. ❤ 🙏 😊

[@marsharr2877]

Love the end statement! So much mercy!❤ 24:42-24:49

[@WashingtonDC99]

Thanks be to God Almighty that The Priest ( My confessor) has not excommunicated me. Praise The Lord O My Soul. Praise The Lord O My Soul. I keep falling and I will keep getting up and start all over again, I am hoping that one day sooner rather than later I am going to succeed with the help of God Almighty. Alone is not going to happen.

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Amen 🙏

[@cmspanjers]

Great session!

[@josecesarvivares5005]

🙏🙏🙏

[@mariacisneros6114]

🙏

[@deedeebuhler9610]

May God bless you always 🙏

[@nathanngumi8467]

Word.

[@KB_2161]

❤

[@paulacevedo8814]

Praise to you God and Jesus Christ🙏❤🕊😇

[@joannebywaters4154]

Shared this to my Facebook, wish everyone would just have a listen...🙏🙏🙏

[@brooklyngal-b1b]

Wow, powerful.

[@munchlax9715]

Amen

[@robehrgonzales77494]

DaY 305-01-MaY-2024 HaPpY WednesDaY A❤m❤e❤n❤

[@hlobend2111]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼.

[@joseguzman1051]

Amen 🙏.

[@maryellenrose1764]

❤❤❤

[@DIS6103]

❤🕊

[@dawnmireles2912]

November 1, 2023 Would you consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning? Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!

[@adelaidawallaert287]

🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@gloriaruiz2332]

❤

[@tjf42193]

All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”

[@kattydeleo9035]

🙏🙏🙏🤗❤️

[@drs3055]

I am not sure what “chastity” means as defined in the Catechism! I am not “getting” this! I am surprised all others understand! Fr. Mike you did a great job, trying. Fr. Mike, it is your shared and clarifying insight that is so helpful - thank you. We pray for you, and for all of our Priests.

[@sgc603]

Control your passions, or your passions will control you.

[@dawnmireles2912]

November 1, 2023 I am looking for people to please take a moment and pray with me for Souls in Purgatory. Can you help? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)

[@rm-paradise]

In in with you in saying prayers for the holidays souls in Purgatory. 🙏 . All Souls Day tomorrow! * holy souls

[@JoannLenz]

Ever since I found this prayer I have been praying . It is part of my prayers everyday. I try to say it more than one tine. I ask God to have mercy every for all soul in purgatory .❤

[@dawnmireles2912]

@@JoannLenz you bring so much joy to me and the Souls in Purgatory!

[@dawnmireles2912]

@@rm-paradise Praise God! I am so grateful for your dedication to help Souls in Purgatory!

[@rm-paradise]

@@dawnmireles2912 I finished my trifecta today - that is, receiving holy communion, going to confession and visiting a cemetery for the holy souls in Purgatory to receive a plenary indulgence for them during the Octave of All Saints Day (Nov 1-8). I've been doing this for many, many years and is a small act for the souls needing our prayers. Some people may not be aware of this special act so look up All Saints, communion, confession and cemetery to find out about the Plenary Indulgence during this Octave.

[@victoriaa9107]

wait whatttttttt. Okay I accept this.

[@elesapowell3769]

I found it very amusing about the six commandment. Thou shall not commit Adultery. The sex commandment🙂

[@MB-fw5ut]

What if you are just plain single, not a consecrated single person, which I take it means a vowed religious? I am hearing only of the married and those ordained, or am I misunderstanding? I feel a bit as if the category I fit in is never acknowledged.

[@dcharles3585]

Totally agree! I always imagined I'd marry but 60+ now and it never happened. It's not like I chose to be single; no one ever asked me. People choose marriage or religious life as a vocation but I 'm just...here. People say single persons are important for the church but we don't get much acknowledgement of our particular problems or issues. I live a chaste life but hard to see it as a gift when you wish life had turned out differently. It is more of a cross. Some people don't have food, some poeple have illnesses. I don't have love or physical intimacy. :/ (Sorry don't mean to be a downer. I'm usually pretty happy and upbeat but sometimes it hurts that people just skim over us.)

[@dailybread300]

@@dcharles3585 I’ve begun to offer my aloneness and loneliness as an offering for Eternal togetherness and Love.😌🙏💕

[@MB-fw5ut]

@@dcharles3585 I am there with you. I have a similar story, and am a similar age. And impossible not to note that marriage and ordination are both sacraments, so there is the promise of fruition/arrival somehow, a "naming," not to mention anniversaries and jubilees and so on (as well as "days" honoring parents/the married/grandparents, twice in one year that I noticed for the latter (Biden's declaration, the pope's declaration, different dates but the same fuss), renewal of vows (why?), and so on. I also tire of the stereotypes of single lay people, such as that we are super volunteers (I'm not, I confess) or do things like run for local office. No, we are not all the same. My "contributions" to the church would draw the notice of exactly no one, yet I am always reading that "we" do this, that, and the next. Not so. Every one of us is unique. Color me irritated, I guess! Blessings to you, and may God help us all.

[@kathydeegan7358]

My ex-husband chested on me when we were still married. He was having a relationship behind my back with another woman and trying to hide it until God opened my eyes 👀 and made missed that he was doing to me. He was so unfaithful. It hurt terribly.

[@paularoussel7859]

I know how you feel since the same thing happened to me. 🙏🙏

[@kathydeegan7358]

@@paularoussel7859 It was devastating Paula. Ty for reaching out to me. Blessings to you always. 🙏❤️

[@allisonknittig2076]

All of those/us in lonely unromantic marriages are going to get alot more lonely.

[@joannebywaters4154]

Helps me!!!😂❤

[@DianePavlick]

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but it sounds like, if you are married, watching Hallmark movies and reading romance novels are sins. Can this be clarified.

[@kathywiens9852]

I can share from lived experience that partaking in the many "romantically themed" entertainments of movies, shows, books, can create feelings not good for the married couple. Especially for women but also men. Getting taken up in scenes that are created with, most times, with what society has ingrained in us, beautiful people, perfect settings etc. It sets us up to be dissatisfied with our own lives. It may feel nice at the time, and may even spark some romance between us and our spouse. Ultimately though in our real day to day lives we go looking for another fix when our lives aren't like all of the make belief stuff. Like I say I share from experience in more ways than one. It didn't turn out well either. It caused much suffering for many in the end. That also goes for opposite sex friendships in the work place. It's playing with fire and people will get burned badly.

[@TrixRN]

It can lead to dissatisfaction with one’s spouse & life; I know this from experience 😞. It can set up unrealistic expectations which no human can achieve. Much care needs to be taken.

[@BogoGog24]

I’m wondering the same. But I think the keyword is “legitimate,” as in your spouse is the only “true” source of romance in your life, they can give you true love in a way books and movies can’t because they’re not people. If he truly means we aren’t supposed to engage in anything remotely romantic outside of our spouse, by that logic you couldn’t even watch something as innocent as I Love Lucy due to the depiction of Lucy and Ricky’s marriage in the show. That would be silly. I agree with the commenters above that he likely means if engaging in romantic movies or books warps your view of romance or your marriage so severely you start to become unsatisfied or place unrealistic expectations on your partner, that is when it becomes unhealthy. The whole point of most movies/books/songs is to depict love in a romanticized way because that’s what makes them interesting and engaging. If they were realistic depictions of every day life, they would be boring. That’s why it’s called entertainment. If you take it for just that, and don’t take it as a guide for how romantic life should actually be, I don’t see why we couldn’t still enjoy them. I’ve never heard the church or any priest say we’re not allowed to watch romcoms or read romance novels, provided it’s not overly sexual or anything. At least that’s my 2 cents on it but hoping maybe somebody will clarify.

[@dcharles3585]

I was also wondering about this. I like a good rom-com or romantic suspense story. I hate horror, murder, war stories, police or medical dramas... I don't find violence and sadness entertaining at all; if I do watch something like that, I dwell on it and am upset for days afterward. I can't fathom how watching things that depict evil and sadness can be okay but watching 'happy' stories is wrong. I don't think you can't make a blanket statement that a certain genre is bad for everyone. I know a lovely couple who have been happily married 50 years and she watches a Hallmark movie every afternoon while she knits. Perhaps the point is that people need to know themselves, what their weaknesses are, and then act accordingly. If you are the kind of person who tends to be dissatisfied with your relationships, then you need to avoid searching for a better alternative in a make-believe world of romantic books or movies. If you find violence upsetting, then don't watch shows about it. Also people need to remember that most movies and books are fiction and even 'reality shows' aren't real. Treat them as entertainment and not a road map for your own life.

[@TrixRN]

@@dcharles3585 Amen🙏❤️

[@JudeMichaelPeterson]

Regarding the bit on the unitive nature of the marital act. It is true that force and coercion should never come into play and that either party forcing or coercing the other into the marital act would be gravely sinful, however, it also needs to remember that the word of God in both New Testament scriptures and the magisterium of the Church both command spouses not to deny each other. This is taught in no uncertain terms in Paul's letters and throughout the two thousand years of infallible Church teaching. A spouse who denies their spouse the marital act sins and this sin ought to be confessed. This needs to be handled with care because it does not mean that if a legitimate injury or something is preventing intercourse that either party is sinning in that case. A woman for example will definitely need time to recover after giving birth and the husband would be sinning to demand sex during that time of healing. But on the other hand the women who use sex as a weapon or tool of manipulation against their husband are in similarly grave sin. Unless the couples are taking a fast from intercourse, a fast which the infallible word of God says must be mutually agreed upon to be legitimate, then generally speaking both spouses have an obligation to willingly and lovingly give themselves fully to their spouse when they ask. This is a hard teaching in our present day because everyone jumps in their minds to horror stories that are incredibly rare outside of the many movies they watch that have convinced them horror stories are common, but it is the teaching from God through scripture, tradition, and Church teaching. People really need to not watch so much TV because it really distorts their view of reality. Married couples I known who live this teaching are happy and mutually benefit from it. The traditional family is portrayed invariably as abusive and hellish on TV but in reality they tend to be the happiest homes of all and few homes are more hellish then those who try to live the modern cultural ideals that TV and feminists pretend is paradise.

[@andrewwhite1802]

First of all I appreciate your work on this! It has been really helpful. I'm curious why you start each of these with the phrase "as we journey together to our heavenly home". The Church has always taught in a literal bodily resurrection and a return of Christ to earth uniting heaven and earth in new creation. Having grown up in the evangelical world that phrase sounds like the kind of escapism theology (that we will be raptured and spend eternity in heaven apart from the world) I grew up inundated with. I think the Catholic Church's teaching on bodily resurrection and new creation is so refreshing so I'm confused why you use that phrase. It makes it seem like the end goal is to be disembodied souls in heave, not fully reunited with our resurrection bodies in the new creation.

[@b2yellow1]

What is your mission as a Widow.. I need to find my way...+

[@KB_2161]

Miraculous Prayer to the Holy Spirit In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Holy Spirit, you who makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach my ideal, you who gives me the divine gift to forgive and forget all the wrong that is done to me and you. who are in all instances of my life with me. I, in this short dialogue, I want to thank you for everything, and affirm once more that I never want to be separated from you, no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. To that end and submitting to God’s holy will, I ask from you.. (Mention your request here…) Say 1: Our Father… Say 1: Hail Mary… Say 1: Glory Be… I believe in Thee, O my God. Strengthen, O Lord, my faith. I hope in Thee, O my God. Affirm, O Lord, my hope. I love Thee, O my God; increase, O Lord, my love. I repent of having offended Thee. O my God, help me to have contrition, so that with the help of Thy grace and the powerful patronage of Holy Mary of Good Success, I may never sin again. O Lord, have pity and mercy on me. Amen. Our Lady of Good Success, Pray for us...Amen

[@andrewrahnacnrep]

One flesh is one flesh. If you don’t see God, you don’t see Christ. Four we are one flesh of God.

[@maryellenrose1764]

What is romance?

[@marsharr2877]

“quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life” Per Google 😊

[@andrewrahnacnrep]

Do you mean self-mastery in Christ. Or Self

[@sheranibotejue2812]

Does this mean a married person cannot enjoy a romance novel or a romance movie? In today’s world reading or watching a movie is recreation. Sometimes the ONLY recreation if you live by yourself. Please comment.

[@pilot2502]

Is this the same St. Augustine that taught sex between spouses was sinful if the wife was pregnant? He clearly had some strange views.

[@andrewrahnacnrep]

Integration in Christ is that what you mean to say father when you leave them out of the sex actor love for anybody else where is Christ say it don’t pander. The catechism in this section leaves out Christ. Crowing from the courtyard

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559]

Where can I find a church that forbids marriage? *"who forbid marriage"* 1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV - 1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559]

All doctrine unique to the Catholic church is unnecessary if Christ's sacrifice is complete. If Christ's sacrifice was perfect and he took away all sin past, present, and future than... Penance has no purpose. Purgatory has no point. Absolution is unnecessary. Need I go on? Yes, Christ's sacrifice on the cross is complete and Final. The Bible confirms this repeatedly. Flee this Anti-church. Trust In Christ Alone. Trust in him alone like you would trust a parachute. You can add nothing to a parachute by flapping your arms. Just as you can add nothing to the perfect and finished sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross for all of your sins. Do not cheapen the saviors work by adding mans tradition on to it. Find a real church that does not withhold drinking from the cup from its lowly non-priest membership.❤ *Honest questions are welcome.*

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559]

None of the full-time ministers, male or female, in the Catholic church are married.

[@trudyfriedrich7416]

Where can I find a church that is divided into competing and disagreeing denominations ? The unity of Christians was meant to convince the world that Jesus was sent by God. Jesus prayed three times for unity. See John 17:20-23. What does the ever increasing fragmentation of protestantism say to the world ? Protestant......45,000 denominations Catholic...1.4 billion... one faith... Come join the Church Jesus founded, prayed would remain united, and has.

[@TrixRN]

The Catholic Church does not forbid marriage.

[@TrixRN]

@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodin1559 You’ve been told over & over the Church does not withhold the cup. Stop it. You’re not even Catholic. You’re not getting the body or the blood if you’re not at least part of an ancient apostolic church. Are you?

[@StriderX04]

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[@Flgurl129]

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[@munchlax9715]

Amen