Me too its the most difficult sin for me personal, it is so hard sometimes to overcome lust, i will pray for you maybe i need some prayers too, love ya all
What’s interesting to me is that I can go months without watching it. But the times that I do watch it, I’m just like whatever. It’s bad and I know I should be better. Please pray for me. I would appreciate it!
Although watching pornography may not be the most serious sin, the failure to see the sex trafficking & slavery that produces pornography is a very serious sin.
Nearly fell back to it today, thanks to God i said a prayer and i got control of it... Now what's mind blowing is this video that poped up now a few hours later... Exactly like you said in 07:37 that's what happened.
I had been baptized around a month ago, I had instant, and I mean this quite literally, been empowered spiritually to completely overcome my lustful temptations, and for the first time since puberty I had been able to comfortably resist lust immediately after my baptism. However, within the last day and today, I had failed, and I willingly (without strong resistance) gave in. I feel ashamed and defeated, but this video appeared on my feed, and I am most grateful. I now understand how the Lord draws goodness out of evil, and used my own sin and evil as an opportunity to humble me, but then teach me humility. I am greatful, I will go to confession tomorrow, God bless you! Merci!!! 🇻🇦❤️🔥🇫🇷❤️🔥
Perfect response on your part -- go to confession!! My dear fellow pilgrim, you are at the start of a journey from the created world into a World beyond our wildest imaginations! At first, Jesus carried you. What else would you do for a baby? But now He has set you down to walk beside Him. The first steps are hard, because your feet are deep in the mud. Your muscles need to be exercised. But He is there, as you well know, and you can grab His hand in confession!!
Dear@@RickW-HGWT, excellent! Being Catholic (being Christian) is a lifetime project. No, a better comparison would be to say, it's like a marriage. There are things you have to do to keep the marriage -- saying "I love you", giving smiles and kisses, being courteous, being attentive -- and there are things to deepen the marriage -- the long, deep conversations, the fights that end in greater understanding... it's very simple to love God, but at the same time, it involves every aspect of your life, so all our own complexities enter in. So you are doing something very great, though it seems so simple! Thank you for sharing this
Similar to you, I started to wean myself off of sinful material in preparation for baptism, had the watershed experience as you described, and had a few false steps back afterwards. But your instinct is right and I tell you 10 years later it is an easy and light yoke! Jesus heals us just like when He walked the earth.
The last battle front you will face is waking up in the middle of the night already “circling the drain”. That is the hardest one to beat, and usually shows up when you start thinking you’ve kicked the habit. As hard as it is, you just got to get up and drag yourself into a prayerful cold shower.
I'll add a fairly common bit of advice people give when trying to quit an addiction. Find something else to occupy yourself with. Get involved in sports, join a martial arts dojo, take up an instrument, pick up a hobby, make something. Just as long as it's not destructive. Something that improves yourself physically and mentally, and which, importantly, takes your mind off the thing you're trying to quit. Sitting around thinking about not doing it is not only not helpful, but is liable to put you in a space where it becomes easy to break and give in.
Especially for an addiction like pornography. Which actually produces the same mental positive stimulus when you think about it, as you do when engaging with it.
For me, doing just more school made it better. If I'm spending all my time studying and doing what I actually like, learning, then I don't have time to do anything other than what I like.
Sport is not an answer for the lust, it's even one part of that problem of lust. Evil spirits use our mind and sinful memory, and cleaning of memory in our brains is not just simple thing to do. The best way to combat lust is to read Holy Bible and pray. If that's not enough you should take time to fast or to pray and go into wildernes like Christ did. Pilgrimage is useful and many times forgotten way to grow spiritually, and care our relationship with Christ. Jesus wants to live with us, so knowing his presence alltime and making things to remember it (crusifix on the wall etc), helps too. You wouldn't like to make pagan rites (porn is mostly as pagan rites) knowing that Jesus with holy angels are there with you. Repent and cut all ties with demons (Luc*fer, Lilith and Leviathan etc). And we pray this freedom from slavery of those sins through the precious blood of Christ, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
So to free myself from one addiction I need to fall for another? That seems a quite common advice and tactic among modern influencers. Like quitting gaming. Instead become addicted to hiking, sport, dating, tourism etc.
Ive mostly cut porn out of my life, but i still struggle with impurity. About a year ago, I was completely addicted, and than i had to dedicate serious time to the habit, and had to almost work to even get anything. But now that I'm making an active effort to cut it all off, it only takes a second to be caught in sin. It's so frustrating.
The prayer of St. Benedict has helped me resist the temptation of the sins of the flesh quite a few times now, and I haven't fallen since I started to pray it every time I have strong urges of this kind. Sancte Benedicte, ora pro nobis. Viva Cristo Rei!
I am not sure if I will get canceled here for saying this, but I am not a believer, still I couldn’t stop nodding to what Brian was saying in this video. This goes for a lot of his videos too, even though I disagree with him on certain major things, his content is still worth watching each time since there always seems to be some advice in it that can improve my life or that I can relate to. Yes, if you let these “sins” and weaknesses control your life, then you are creating these “handles” on yourself for malicious people to grab and manipulate you by.
All of the greatest strides I've made in forsaking p*rn have been through mindset adjustments rather than changes to my lifestyle or piling up on blockers. It's not enough to merely recognize the fact that something is wrong, you must seek to *feel* that it is wrong. I recommend anyone who is suffering from habitual sin to read Book VII of the Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle, his dissertation on continence and incontinence
For me the only thing that has worked in my battles with lust was joining a 12 step program. I highly recommend SA's version of the blue book the white book as well as Ron J's impossible Joy & the lust virus, Nate Larkin's Samson and the pirate monks. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
Once I stopped making quitting my top priority and instead focused on finding if God is real, I started going to Mass 5-7 times a week. Since the moment I started going to daily Mass, I've gone the longest without PMO and with the greatest ease. Not necessarily super easy, and I may yet hit stumbling blocks, but for the first time since I can remember I'm not totally at the mercy (well, lack thereof) of this sin. I hope I can one day genuinely believe and give thanks. Go to Mass every day you can, Angelus prayer 3 times a day, constant prayers of thanks giving and contrition, ask for faith and humility, Bible and Rosary every day. Make it enjoyable by listening to interesting Catholic podcasts and music and having a good translation of the Bible, finding or printing nice icons, praying with candles, etc whatever you need - experiment. Get a portable copy of the Gospels to read instead of browsing your phone when you're bored. Ramp it up gradually piece by piece - in the beginning I could barely handle getting up on Sunday mornings and had no chance the moment an urge struck, but however long it takes to get better is worth it. For me, the tipping point was no longer feeling uncomfortable at Sunday Mass and looking forward to it enough to be able to make the disciplinary commitment to weekday Mass. If you can, please try it.
Loneliness is a big part of it, how do we solve that? It's easy for someone who is married to say "not to watch porn." I agree obviously, but the problem of loneliness is NEVER addressed!
Feeling lonely implies you desire to be loved by a person other than yourself, more specifically from what pleasure that you receive from it. So it isint an issue of having a companion its more an issue of being attached to pleasure. Because you can be completely surrounded by companions and still feel lonely or you can only have yourself but not feel loneliness. But notice in some cases although they are married one or both still struggle with pornography.
@@LumenaYT This is an unhelpful answer; it’s just dismissive! There’s currently a loneliness problem among young men that even the mainstream media is talking about. It’s just a mere figment of our imaginations as you seem to be suggesting.
LumenaYT did not write that the loneliness issue was an illusion but that the company of another human being was not the solution. The root of the issue is lack of spirituality : plenty of people have struggled with celibacy in history but they were never really alone as they kept God in their heart. The same goes for couples, who should put God first before each other.
@@MarieE-we1tl Okay, I stand corrected, but how do you "put God first before each other." That seems like a vague statement, what exactly does that mean?
Some marriages come under severe pressure because of pornography. The innocent party can feel betrayed (as in infidelity). It can also invoke shame on the guilty partner's side, helplessness, lack of trust, estrangement and separation in a worst case scenario.
I'll tell you my story about how I broke free of porn. Long before I had converted to Catholicism, I had a girlfriend I was sexually active with. One day, she figured out that I was watching porn. She said something very simple: "imagine it was me in that situation, selling my body for money". That was enough to change my opinion on it forever (because I loved her on a level that wasn't simply Eros). So I say to those who are addicted to porn, imagine your sister, or mother, or anyone else who you truly love was involved in it; would you still watch it?
Thank you for a realistic assessment of our problems today. There is no need to despair. But there is reason for hope and prayer, repentance and new starts. One of the best videos on the topic.
"Yet most men either shun this work [Confession], as being a public exposure of themselves, or else defer it from day to day, I presume, more mindful of modesty than of salvation; just like men who, having contracted some malady in the more private parts of the body, avoid those more private relevelations to a doctor - and so perish with their own bashfulness."
For whoever is struggling with this, I just wanna assure you that you can break free. It’s possible and the freedom that comes with it is phenomenal, way better than remaining in that miserable cycle. We fool ourselves into believing that we need it but in reality we don’t, what we need is authentic love and a purpose. Trust me, you’ll become the best version of yourself so long as you break free. Sticking to porn will only slow down or completely stop your progress. May God almighty help you. Now read 1 Corinthians 10:13
3:38 "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged." Unquote, needless to say.
I quit in the strangest way, by visiting a strip club. Didn't really enjoy it, and lost the desire to watch porn afterwards. Still don't understand it.
I've struggled with it for about a decade and a half. However, I do believe in the power of Christ to break strongholds. Lately, what I've been doing is deliberately recording every time I falter, and the date. I've been trying to reach the two-week clean mark, which is well below Brian's challenge of a month. I do feel a substantial lessening of its power over me compared to when I faltered daily in addiction. I'm still addicted and struggling but I'm at the ten day mark by the grace of God. All glory be to Christ.
I wonder whether you have an open dialogue with your wife about your sexual needs and how good is your sexual life with her. I don't actually want to know, of course, that's none of my business, but: after becaming a Catholic, I stopped masturbating and told my wife I needed a more frequent and open sexual life with her. That helped, one and a half year later I haven't masturbated once.
I spent years trying to stop and could not. Confession was what changed everything for me. It's not in you. You need strength from without, and the grace is there for you. I stopped and have not been back for 7 years now. I will pray for you now. God bless you.
@@christianRafaelCasti thank you brother. I actually go to confession regularly and started feeling like I’m just a fraud. I go to confession and within weeks I give in again
@martypopeye8236 man, I get you. I wanted to stop so bad. God has another route for you for some reason. When I went to confession I also broke up with the girlfriend I was living with and basically lived on the street ending up at an aunts where I started to get way into prayer. If you don't do the rosary, get one and do the rosary. If you persist in the rosary you will not sin. If you will sin do the rosary. I do all the mysteries everyday right when I wake up, then in the car, then when I drive back and in the afternoon. Like a song that gets stuck in your head you will have our blessed mother with you always. 2 years later she returned to Catholicism and we were celibate until marriage. I will pray to God for you for the next 9 days, God Love you.
I think its safe to say 99% of us struggle with forms of lust and the majority is porn. As hard as I try to stop once a week or every two weeks flashes of porn girls and video pop in my head and they wont go away until i give in, it usually takes 3 to 10 days of it popping in my head before i give in
I'm absolutely heartbroken, cuz i finally caved after 4 months... and the worst part is that I'm not a Catholic yet, so I don't even have the opportunity to go to confession. im so bummed.
Yes, that is how you stop watching it but what you are left with is the addiction. Dealing with that is a little more difficult. Watching anything by Matt Fradd is a good start. Calling an addiction degrading doesent help either as a person in active addiction is already tortured by guilt and shame.
Learn how to practice silent prayer and do it. Trust me it is more indispensable than you think I recommend reading chapter 12 of Jordan Aumann's spiritual theology
Had to pause this video when Brian mentioned not needing a data plan for his mobile. I would argue that its the complete inverse. You only need the data plan, not any 'minutes'. Even your traditional phone and text messages are increasingly done through the data plan. Any time you hear things like 'HD Voice' or 'Digital Voice', thats using the data plan. These also bypass the traditional nation state plans as well, since its just data. Doesn't matter whether its across the USA and CA border, or across the ocean. There's a reason why every single phone plan these days offers unlimited voice and text with a capped data plan. The messaging platforms that use the normal Internet have far more robust feature sets than old SMS messaging while offering increased security. The only people still using SMS texts are boomers.
Read the psalms, one for each day you don't watch porn, if you relapse, you start all over, if you complete psalms, you can say you've quit. It works, at least for some.
By the grace of God I was able to quit cold turkey about four years ago. It was a key part of my conversion actually. As soon as I began to simply acknowledge God and pray, after a lifetime of denial, I couldn't possibly do it anymore. another key factor was realizing that pornography is a weapon. One thing I did do to help myself out was to set up some keyword blocking on my modem that would not allow me to access the most common sites. So even if my fingers strayed in a thoughtless moment I would still not be rewarded by it. Relatively quickly, the impulse to navigate to those sites faded. So much changed in my understanding of women, advertising, manipulation, evil over the next year or so as I began to see just how much our culture is defined by consumption and markets, and how my weakness towards sex and the image of the female body is promoted and weaponized against me. Now I Just can't even watch steamy scenes in R-rated moviEs because all I can think about is what a creepy bastard the director is for trying to Weaken and titillate me to sell ticketS. The challenge now is that it's so ubiquitous that its impossible to move around the world and not be bombarded with lustful imagery (not to mention how that's trickled down to women's everyday 'fashion'). Because I'm wounded, there's always going to be a part of me that can't help but leer, and that's my current battleground in the fight for perfect grace.
What’s degrading about not being able to go a month without masturbating? Some people’s libidos are very high. I’m some people. It’s a biological compulsion that seems encouraged by natural selection, and I feel that believing it is degrading or shameful ended up fueling my “giving in and repentance” shame cycle that continues to be wired into my brain in some ways
Sometimes I feel the only way would be a lobotomy. How can you say get away from it like a drunk getting away from a bar, would have to become a totally isolated hermit for that, in this hyper sexualized society, and hope no unwelcome thoughts ever enter your mind either. More useless self help advise here as always, that's all anyone can provide on this topic.
I watched the video and wholeheartedly agreed with everything except for one concession: I don't believe that using web-blockers is a good solution for porn addiction. Truly being free from addiction is like having a chocolate on your desk in front of you, and you can resist the urge to not eat it. In this modern age, that "chocolate" will be everywhere regardless of the measure you take to make it go away. If a fat person bans chocolate from his home, what happens when someone offers him some, and he hasn't built up the will to say no? It is for this reason that I believe training your ability to deal with each encounter in a Christian way is far more conducive to full porn recovery, and no, I don't mean averting your gaze while frantically chanting prayers under your breath. St. John Paul II got it right, I would say, when it comes to dealing with sexual sin.
My brothers and sisters in Christ. This challenge is one that the Lord knew we’d face. Stay strong. Get married and spread the gospel! Raise warriors and queens that serve the Lord! Peace be with all, thank you Brian 💪🏽❤️🔥
I've quit porn, but I still struggle with sexualizing and lusting after women in my life. Did I mention I'm married? Yeah, not good. Eros is the false idol I am constantly turning towards. It helps me to remember that God created Eros, He created sex, and nothing God has created will go to waste, all will be taken up and redeemed. Every longing in heaven shall be fulfilled. I know there is a higher, untwisted and unfallen version of myself and of sex to be had if I can follow God.
As a young-earth creationist, I recognize that these porn stars are our distant cousins, and we shouldn't be getting gratification from watching them commit sin and debase themselves.
@@niemand7811 I'm not sure where you heard that from. Do you have any verses to support that? In Genesis, God commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply *before* the fall.
*No* not friends, parents, family. It should be your spiritual director *only* as he is the one divinely appointed *only* to help you deal with *any* spiritual problem. Pray the Rosary (as much of it as you can even if it's only 10 or 7 hail marys but you should find time it's very important), consecrate yourself to Mary the Immaculate and *only* all pure one, become a slave to her to replace your slave to sin, make her your love. Then you'll unite yourself more fully with God. When tempted pray "Mary may your Immaculate pure presence give me the purity I need to overcome" Edit: If anyone thinks what I'm saying is not right this is what the saints, such saints as St Catherine of Sienna, St Faustina etc. Don't complain to me, complain to these saints themselves.
I cannot be helped, I am addicted and fully consumed by pornography and masturbation. My gaze continues to only objectify and enjoy the figure of women. I have tried prayer, rosaries, novenas, strive, covenant eyes, and I constantly go to confession. Every time, my genuineness in contrition has been shrinking. If I have to be celibate and chaste without disordered sexual behavior to keep the faith, I can’t be Catholic anymore. Ultimately I cannot and will not change. I thought that God would be able to change me, but I think there are something things that not even God can do for someone whose soul can’t be saved. And before you say anything, recognize that i have tried everything and have begged God. Goodbye.
Yes, all of this. But it’s worse than what you’ve said. Porn industry has ties to sex trafficking. Majority of sex trafficked people have some type of connection to the foster system. 😢 It just feels like we’re living in a total system failure.
Humbly, Lust and it's attendent behavioral choices-Masterbation and Fornication are mortal sins...if you die with these sins unforgivion by the sacrament of reconciliation one can be condemned to hell. I'm not sure relegating sins of the flesh to the status of lesser is proper guidance.
Sadly, the western society has usued this lifestyle to promote sin in schools, entertainment and clothing. Should we admire the Amish societies for their rejection of modernism?
Mass in Italian churches has always been cringy and felt foreign after Vatican II. Churches have just become a place for the elderly to meet in and feel like a community. Any young person would feel out of place and the songs played are in no way appealing to anybody but old people. It just doesn’t feel holy, it feels like a mockery of what mass once was. Gregorian chants and Latin are nowhere to be found, and the only churches in which the traditional Latin mass does take place are few and out of reach. No originality is to be found in the common mass anymore, it just feels like a party for elderly people with a twist of Christianity and the priest’s homily. Today’s Church isn’t the one it once was, and it is a stranger to the times of the Crusades and of the Counter-reformation.
I offer this as a thought to have during an urge to sins of the flesh. Ponder the scourging of Christ at the pillar, for he allowed himself to be stripped of most of his clothes and scourged most cruelly. The scourges had bits of bone, metal, stone and tore his flesh apart. Then turn your thought to the suffering he underwent especially for the sins of the flesh. The most beautiful man to walk the earth, fully God and man, stripped and turned unrecognizable from the sacred wounds and blood pouring from his sacred head and body. In the midst of the this, He deeply desires to ASSIST us with his grace to overcome our slavery to our sexual urges. We must accept this grace and become converted wholly to him.
But aren't sexual sins, among others, grave and mortal? Fornication, masturbation, etc. are all serious and grave. Adultery, sodomy. How are these less serious than others if they break our relationship with God?
That's a weird argument. Watching porn is a mortal sin, saying it's not as bad a sin as other mortal sins doesn't help at all. Those who watch porn are not allowed to receive the Body and Blood of Christ's, isn't that enough to describe how terrible it is? Also, carnal sins don't just lead to spiritual sins, they often work together and may be the consequences of spiritual sins: in fact, to be able to watch porn we often lie and show we privilege our own needs over those of our spouses'.
In and of itself it is lower on the spectrum, it just has a lot of barbs that hook a lot of other sins along the way. It’s like burdock, light (relatively speaking) and clingy, and it’s everywhere. Hell has layers, and your “dime-a-dozen” lustful thoughts are not going to get you as deep as murderous thoughts or schism or presumption, which are more like rocks, heavy, but not nearly as clingy.
There is a distinction between nature and gravity. Lust almost always manifests as a grave sin. But its nature comes from a weakness to control base desires. Compare that with something like sloth, which is almost always venial, but stems from an apathy towards God. So while committing sins of lust pose a more immediate risk to your salvation, weakness is actually an easier obstacle to overcome spiritually. Apathy is a monumental obstacle to overcome in the spiritual life, even though its sins likely won't prevent your salvation. As Catholics, our ultimate goal is sanctity, not merely abstaining from grave sins. Those who only need to overcome weakness, as opposed to apathy or malice, are actually quite close to sanctity. As an analogy, consider the goal of having a healthy body. An athlete with a small patch of skin cancer has a grave condition. But removal of that cancer will bring them to complete health. A morbidly obese person might not be in immediate danger of death, but they have a long road to traverse before reaching bodily health. For more information on this topic, I recommend reading a book called Manual for Conquering Deadly Sin.
What?!?! Our Lady revealed to Jacinta the sheperd child of Fatima that most souls in hell are there for sins of the flesh. Not only that, but willfully viewing pornography is a MORTAL SIN! Sins of the flesh are just as "bad" as "spiritual sins"! A mortal sin is just as devastating as any other mortal sin. Anyone reading this: do not be deceived by anyone preaching a false teaching! Sins of the flesh that are grave in nature, willfully entered into, under full consent are dangerous and, if one neglects to repent and confess these sins, hell is waiting for them.
I disagree, both are mortal sins and worthy of damnation, yet carnal sins, that are the sins of the flesh are not as bad as spiritual sins, because spiritual sins such as the offence of Pride, distorts a higher good whereas something like gluttony perverts the lower good of food. Both are mortal yet different in gravity. No one would make the claim a lustful thought is the same as adultery or the same as Murder. Yet all of these are mortal sins. I think St.Thomas Aquinas addresses this issue.
Spiritual sins can be worse... BUT doesn't mean lust doesn't "get more people" into Hell. There ARE circles of hell... it makes sense the fact that it's easier to fall to LUST means it is less grave than PRIDE... which lands you lower down in hell because it's arguably 'harder' to commit.
@@Tttb95 Bryan's tone seemed slightly indifferent in the video I might have agreed with the OP - but when he brings up cancer you get his reasoning. But his delivery is quite 'light'.
I respect a lot of what you say. But saying things like: " no one needs a data plan" is just immature. You do not possess sufficient knowledge of every person's day to day to make that judgement. Do not fall into the trap of thinking because you can't handle something without abusing it, then no one else can either
Saying "no one" in that context is meant as hyperbole, I think. He's not arguing that everyone should have a completely mobile-data-free life (even though that is possible for just about every single person in the world, if they really wanted to do it), but to think about the choices we make and consider that we don't need to be connected every single moment to have a good life.
All sin is addiction. Some sin is worse than other. But the solution is the same: you must totally submit yourself to God and be willing to lose all comfort in your life and carry your cross forever; even if that means you never again feel pleasure associated with that sin. Freedom comes by a willingness to let things go.
Not in the slightest. There is a difference between proper relations within the context of marriage and improper actions outside of this context. A natural desire for physical relations is just that, natural and ergo, good. The action that follows this is where the desire becomes good or bad. If good, it leads to the natural use of it within marriage. If bad, it is because leads to unnatural (and lustful) actions such as the topic of this video. It all depends on whether we direct the desire to a good end or we allow it to direct us to bad ends.
I recommend Pint's with Aquinas video on Lust vs Sexual desire, he breaks it down in the context of marriage. If you are attempting to derive solely your pleasure, it is definitely immoral because it is self-seeking and thus not love. Whereas Love in the eros form, will the good of the other and their pleasure as well, it is not self-seeking but wishes their enjoyment as well. This does not mean however there are not inappropiate forms of physical contact but this is just a brief thing to help you.
Addictions can only be under control with a focal point on the Lord God. Fall in love with Jesus! We are human, and we mess up a lot. But the more you have your life focused on the Lord God, and the more you pray, and the more you do things for Him and less for the world you will eventually get rid of some of this addiction. The world is pulling you in by happy little things, but they often lead to this. I would recommend people transform their lives with THE WORD. Daily Scripture. Sacraments, planed contemplative prayer. The fruits of the Holy Spirit. Start working to change the world. I would say our examples should be Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verastigui, and Tim and Sound of Freedom. They have a cause and it’s the cause of Jesus Christ do something like that, and you will be totally distracted from any addiction.
Well said Bryan, but I broke apart from the "Catholic" church and joined the latter-day movement. I must say however, your church is interesting. But I feel like all the chants and icons are nothing but an appeal to flawed doctrine. I am not bashing you friend, I am only saying I disagree with the mediums we impose to purify or sanctify ourselves. Forgive me for the lack of knowledge but the Bible says that Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life, no one comes to the father except through Him. Also, for there is only one mediator between God and man, and that man is Jesus Christ...Call no man father...et cetera. It's clear and plain as day that in order to purify ourselves, we're going to have follow clear doctrine. Our main objection to catholicisms old and corrupt doctrine is that preisthood authority faded away with the death of the apostles. Which in all truth makes sense for reasons I don't even want to begin to explain. Simple put it's old and lies and ruins...the good news here Bryan is that the church has been restored and you too can become a latter day saint. It's not blasphemy or apostasy to forget about the past, especially in things that weren't ever true to begin with. Look friend, all I'm saying is that don't let 2000 years of torment manipulate your mind. That's how I felt as a Catholic and I no longer profess that faith. Thanks man if you have anymore questions ask an elder or bishop of this church. I'm sure they can have in depth conversations about the restored gospel and you can challenge them if need be. I'd like to see this on your channel. Thanks Bryan!
There is only one meditator between God and man. Amen. We are referring to Christ as the unique sole meditator who is the God-Man who frees us from sin. As noted in Timothy 2:6. Each of us however, plays a different type of meditation and support because we pray for one another (1 Timothy 2:1). Call no man father is hyperbole. In the OT it talks about honouring your mother and father and in the NT, 1 corinthains 4:15, Paul speaks about become a spiritual father. Our Lord taught clearly, "the gates of hades will not prevail against it."
@@whitevortex8323 Not quite sure how to answer or where to start, nor am I a fan of starting conversations with people over social media, but if I had any objections they're as follows. First off, in my opinion, the practice of praying to saints is offensive because God should clearly be the main focus, for obvious reasons. Next, saints don't have that power you're supposing because they're not all powerful so they're not truly at your disposal. Which is actually quite scary because if you're not truly praying to God then who are you praying to? I think that's just a way of saying you're afraid or guilty of approaching almighty God. My advice here is to not be afraid of the idea that you're committing apostasy by rebuking what you believe to be true. It's really sad finding out that you're actually being tormented and manipulated by the devil to believe these things when scripture is very clear. Thou shall love the lord thy god with all your heart, mind, and spirit.
Joseph Smith was a grifter. Funny how part of his teaching was basically "btw god said ingest to have sex with all the women I want." I'm convinced Mormonism and Islam were inspired by the same demon. There foundation stories are so similar.
It looks like you're completely uninterested in Bryan as a person and launched into a monologue that blanked out anything he said. You're turning people off what' you're selling.
Struggling. Pray for me. 😞
It's been 2 hours. How're you doing?
@@mateopribyl9218 why?
@@Jon-dh3ki
Are you seeking an answer? Because if you are, you're not going to learn in a chat.
@@mateopribyl9218stop praying to humans. Pray to God. And read the word of God
Me too its the most difficult sin for me personal, it is so hard sometimes to overcome lust, i will pray for you maybe i need some prayers too, love ya all
What’s interesting to me is that I can go months without watching it. But the times that I do watch it, I’m just like whatever. It’s bad and I know I should be better. Please pray for me. I would appreciate it!
I will brother.
Dear @Maria_Miciano_5, yes, you have my prayers. Please pray for me as well.
Just know you aren't alone and you can be forgiven. Continue to desire to grow in virtue and work toward that. My prayers are with you, God bless you!
Although watching pornography may not be the most serious sin, the failure to see the sex trafficking & slavery that produces pornography is a very serious sin.
This has actually been a deterrent for me.
Nearly fell back to it today, thanks to God i said a prayer and i got control of it... Now what's mind blowing is this video that poped up now a few hours later... Exactly like you said in 07:37 that's what happened.
I had been baptized around a month ago, I had instant, and I mean this quite literally, been empowered spiritually to completely overcome my lustful temptations, and for the first time since puberty I had been able to comfortably resist lust immediately after my baptism. However, within the last day and today, I had failed, and I willingly (without strong resistance) gave in. I feel ashamed and defeated, but this video appeared on my feed, and I am most grateful. I now understand how the Lord draws goodness out of evil, and used my own sin and evil as an opportunity to humble me, but then teach me humility. I am greatful, I will go to confession tomorrow, God bless you! Merci!!! 🇻🇦❤️🔥🇫🇷❤️🔥
Perfect response on your part -- go to confession!!
My dear fellow pilgrim, you are at the start of a journey from the created world into a World beyond our wildest imaginations! At first, Jesus carried you. What else would you do for a baby?
But now He has set you down to walk beside Him. The first steps are hard, because your feet are deep in the mud. Your muscles need to be exercised. But He is there, as you well know, and you can grab His hand in confession!!
I start my week with confession and adoration, makes all the difference.
Dear@@RickW-HGWT, excellent! Being Catholic (being Christian) is a lifetime project. No, a better comparison would be to say, it's like a marriage. There are things you have to do to keep the marriage -- saying "I love you", giving smiles and kisses, being courteous, being attentive -- and there are things to deepen the marriage -- the long, deep conversations, the fights that end in greater understanding... it's very simple to love God, but at the same time, it involves every aspect of your life, so all our own complexities enter in.
So you are doing something very great, though it seems so simple! Thank you for sharing this
Similar to you, I started to wean myself off of sinful material in preparation for baptism, had the watershed experience as you described, and had a few false steps back afterwards. But your instinct is right and I tell you 10 years later it is an easy and light yoke! Jesus heals us just like when He walked the earth.
The last battle front you will face is waking up in the middle of the night already “circling the drain”. That is the hardest one to beat, and usually shows up when you start thinking you’ve kicked the habit. As hard as it is, you just got to get up and drag yourself into a prayerful cold shower.
I'll add a fairly common bit of advice people give when trying to quit an addiction. Find something else to occupy yourself with. Get involved in sports, join a martial arts dojo, take up an instrument, pick up a hobby, make something. Just as long as it's not destructive. Something that improves yourself physically and mentally, and which, importantly, takes your mind off the thing you're trying to quit. Sitting around thinking about not doing it is not only not helpful, but is liable to put you in a space where it becomes easy to break and give in.
Especially for an addiction like pornography. Which actually produces the same mental positive stimulus when you think about it, as you do when engaging with it.
For me, doing just more school made it better. If I'm spending all my time studying and doing what I actually like, learning, then I don't have time to do anything other than what I like.
Sport is not an answer for the lust, it's even one part of that problem of lust. Evil spirits use our mind and sinful memory, and cleaning of memory in our brains is not just simple thing to do. The best way to combat lust is to read Holy Bible and pray. If that's not enough you should take time to fast or to pray and go into wildernes like Christ did. Pilgrimage is useful and many times forgotten way to grow spiritually, and care our relationship with Christ. Jesus wants to live with us, so knowing his presence alltime and making things to remember it (crusifix on the wall etc), helps too. You wouldn't like to make pagan rites (porn is mostly as pagan rites) knowing that Jesus with holy angels are there with you. Repent and cut all ties with demons (Luc*fer, Lilith and Leviathan etc). And we pray this freedom from slavery of those sins through the precious blood of Christ, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
So to free myself from one addiction I need to fall for another? That seems a quite common advice and tactic among modern influencers. Like quitting gaming. Instead become addicted to hiking, sport, dating, tourism etc.
Adding structure is a form of discipline. A fruit of the spirit.
Ive mostly cut porn out of my life, but i still struggle with impurity.
About a year ago, I was completely addicted, and than i had to dedicate serious time to the habit, and had to almost work to even get anything. But now that I'm making an active effort to cut it all off, it only takes a second to be caught in sin.
It's so frustrating.
Haven’t even watched the video yet but… Based
Don’t have addiction to porn, but I spend waaaay too much time on the internet. Figured this video will help any addiction.
FIRST. I am a sinner.
Bollocks.
@@bazbarrett8103impressive. You can spot a sinless person. I never meet one in my life.
@@HoradrimBR another idiot being told how to think.
The prayer of St. Benedict has helped me resist the temptation of the sins of the flesh quite a few times now, and I haven't fallen since I started to pray it every time I have strong urges of this kind.
Sancte Benedicte, ora pro nobis.
Viva Cristo Rei!
I needed this. Thank you Brian
Thank you Brian!
I am not sure if I will get canceled here for saying this, but I am not a believer, still I couldn’t stop nodding to what Brian was saying in this video. This goes for a lot of his videos too, even though I disagree with him on certain major things, his content is still worth watching each time since there always seems to be some advice in it that can improve my life or that I can relate to. Yes, if you let these “sins” and weaknesses control your life, then you are creating these “handles” on yourself for malicious people to grab and manipulate you by.
Good post, well said not insulting at all, looking forward to more from you, God bless.
All of the greatest strides I've made in forsaking p*rn have been through mindset adjustments rather than changes to my lifestyle or piling up on blockers. It's not enough to merely recognize the fact that something is wrong, you must seek to *feel* that it is wrong. I recommend anyone who is suffering from habitual sin to read Book VII of the Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle, his dissertation on continence and incontinence
For me the only thing that has worked in my battles with lust was joining a 12 step program. I highly recommend SA's version of the blue book the white book as well as Ron J's impossible Joy & the lust virus, Nate Larkin's Samson and the pirate monks.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference
I'm glad Brian that you're not afraid to speak against the spirit of this world, keep going brother
Once I stopped making quitting my top priority and instead focused on finding if God is real, I started going to Mass 5-7 times a week. Since the moment I started going to daily Mass, I've gone the longest without PMO and with the greatest ease. Not necessarily super easy, and I may yet hit stumbling blocks, but for the first time since I can remember I'm not totally at the mercy (well, lack thereof) of this sin. I hope I can one day genuinely believe and give thanks.
Go to Mass every day you can, Angelus prayer 3 times a day, constant prayers of thanks giving and contrition, ask for faith and humility, Bible and Rosary every day. Make it enjoyable by listening to interesting Catholic podcasts and music and having a good translation of the Bible, finding or printing nice icons, praying with candles, etc whatever you need - experiment. Get a portable copy of the Gospels to read instead of browsing your phone when you're bored. Ramp it up gradually piece by piece - in the beginning I could barely handle getting up on Sunday mornings and had no chance the moment an urge struck, but however long it takes to get better is worth it.
For me, the tipping point was no longer feeling uncomfortable at Sunday Mass and looking forward to it enough to be able to make the disciplinary commitment to weekday Mass. If you can, please try it.
Loneliness is a big part of it, how do we solve that? It's easy for someone who is married to say "not to watch porn." I agree obviously, but the problem of loneliness is NEVER addressed!
Feeling lonely implies you desire to be loved by a person other than yourself, more specifically from what pleasure that you receive from it. So it isint an issue of having a companion its more an issue of being attached to pleasure. Because you can be completely surrounded by companions and still feel lonely or you can only have yourself but not feel loneliness. But notice in some cases although they are married one or both still struggle with pornography.
@@LumenaYT This is an unhelpful answer; it’s just dismissive! There’s currently a loneliness problem among young men that even the mainstream media is talking about. It’s just a mere figment of our imaginations as you seem to be suggesting.
LumenaYT did not write that the loneliness issue was an illusion but that the company of another human being was not the solution. The root of the issue is lack of spirituality : plenty of people have struggled with celibacy in history but they were never really alone as they kept God in their heart. The same goes for couples, who should put God first before each other.
@@MarieE-we1tl Okay, I stand corrected, but how do you "put God first before each other." That seems like a vague statement, what exactly does that mean?
Some marriages come under severe pressure because of pornography. The innocent party can feel betrayed (as in infidelity). It can also invoke shame on the guilty partner's side, helplessness, lack of trust, estrangement and separation in a worst case scenario.
I'll tell you my story about how I broke free of porn. Long before I had converted to Catholicism, I had a girlfriend I was sexually active with. One day, she figured out that I was watching porn. She said something very simple: "imagine it was me in that situation, selling my body for money". That was enough to change my opinion on it forever (because I loved her on a level that wasn't simply Eros).
So I say to those who are addicted to porn, imagine your sister, or mother, or anyone else who you truly love was involved in it; would you still watch it?
Thank you for a realistic assessment of our problems today. There is no need to despair. But there is reason for hope and prayer, repentance and new starts. One of the best videos on the topic.
Thank you for all these suggestions and for the encouragement you are giving by addressing this common problem!
I let my spat with unemployment distract me. I lost discipline over my time since work wasn't there and fell off the wagon. Pray for me to recover.
You hit the nail on the head. Its about replace one harmful habit with a beneficial one. You cant expect to break the vice living in a vacuum.
Why even replace one habit with another? Why not just let go and enjoy some freedom instead?
thank u so much for your advices!
"Yet most men either shun this work [Confession], as being a public exposure of themselves, or else defer it from day to day, I presume, more mindful of modesty than of salvation; just like men who, having contracted some malady in the more private parts of the body, avoid those more private relevelations to a doctor - and so perish with their own bashfulness."
Who’s quote is this?
For whoever is struggling with this, I just wanna assure you that you can break free. It’s possible and the freedom that comes with it is phenomenal, way better than remaining in that miserable cycle. We fool ourselves into believing that we need it but in reality we don’t, what we need is authentic love and a purpose. Trust me, you’ll become the best version of yourself so long as you break free. Sticking to porn will only slow down or completely stop your progress. May God almighty help you. Now read 1 Corinthians 10:13
It’s disgusting how prevalent this sin is in our world, absolutely disgusting.
3:38 "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged."
Unquote, needless to say.
True. But you should probably say who you're quoting lol. Al Goldstein
John 8:44 👀
@@sengan2475 Let them #notice for themselves, no?
Doesn't take much to notice who's really behind it anymore
@AveChristusRex how would they notice if you don't provide the name of the person quoted?
God bless you Brian !
I quit in the strangest way, by visiting a strip club. Didn't really enjoy it, and lost the desire to watch porn afterwards. Still don't understand it.
Thank you. Very helpful. Please pray for me 🙏🏻
Please do a bookshelf tour of the shelves behind you.
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Excellent aside and request.
It'd be funny that the books are cardboard boxes.
_Pay no attention to those books on the formica shelves._
Unrelated question Brian, but have you seen the movie "Sound of Freedom"? If so, what did you think?
I've struggled with it for about a decade and a half. However, I do believe in the power of Christ to break strongholds. Lately, what I've been doing is deliberately recording every time I falter, and the date. I've been trying to reach the two-week clean mark, which is well below Brian's challenge of a month. I do feel a substantial lessening of its power over me compared to when I faltered daily in addiction. I'm still addicted and struggling but I'm at the ten day mark by the grace of God. All glory be to Christ.
Porn, hookers, cheating. I struggle with it all and I’m married. It’s a problem I can’t seem to control
I wonder whether you have an open dialogue with your wife about your sexual needs and how good is your sexual life with her. I don't actually want to know, of course, that's none of my business, but: after becaming a Catholic, I stopped masturbating and told my wife I needed a more frequent and open sexual life with her. That helped, one and a half year later I haven't masturbated once.
Can't or won't? Have you tried a 12 step programme for sex addiction? Or psychotherapy to find the root cause?
I spent years trying to stop and could not. Confession was what changed everything for me. It's not in you. You need strength from without, and the grace is there for you. I stopped and have not been back for 7 years now. I will pray for you now. God bless you.
@@christianRafaelCasti thank you brother. I actually go to confession regularly and started feeling like I’m just a fraud. I go to confession and within weeks I give in again
@martypopeye8236 man, I get you. I wanted to stop so bad. God has another route for you for some reason. When I went to confession I also broke up with the girlfriend I was living with and basically lived on the street ending up at an aunts where I started to get way into prayer. If you don't do the rosary, get one and do the rosary. If you persist in the rosary you will not sin. If you will sin do the rosary. I do all the mysteries everyday right when I wake up, then in the car, then when I drive back and in the afternoon. Like a song that gets stuck in your head you will have our blessed mother with you always. 2 years later she returned to Catholicism and we were celibate until marriage. I will pray to God for you for the next 9 days, God Love you.
I think its safe to say 99% of us struggle with forms of lust and the majority is porn. As hard as I try to stop once a week or every two weeks flashes of porn girls and video pop in my head and they wont go away until i give in, it usually takes 3 to 10 days of it popping in my head before i give in
One of your better videos
very encouraging, thank you brain.
Fantastic video
I'm absolutely heartbroken, cuz i finally caved after 4 months... and the worst part is that I'm not a Catholic yet, so I don't even have the opportunity to go to confession. im so bummed.
Continue fighting bro. Wake up from the fall dust yourself and continue the journey that's what Christian life is all about.
Yes, that is how you stop watching it but what you are left with is the addiction. Dealing with that is a little more difficult. Watching anything by Matt Fradd is a good start. Calling an addiction degrading doesent help either as a person in active addiction is already tortured by guilt and shame.
I’m ngl, these videos just make me think of p*rn and get tempted... I think the best way to break free from p*rn is NOT TALK ABOUT IT
It’s good you know that about yourself.
Learn how to practice silent prayer and do it. Trust me it is more indispensable than you think I recommend reading chapter 12 of Jordan Aumann's spiritual theology
Had to pause this video when Brian mentioned not needing a data plan for his mobile. I would argue that its the complete inverse. You only need the data plan, not any 'minutes'. Even your traditional phone and text messages are increasingly done through the data plan. Any time you hear things like 'HD Voice' or 'Digital Voice', thats using the data plan. These also bypass the traditional nation state plans as well, since its just data. Doesn't matter whether its across the USA and CA border, or across the ocean. There's a reason why every single phone plan these days offers unlimited voice and text with a capped data plan.
The messaging platforms that use the normal Internet have far more robust feature sets than old SMS messaging while offering increased security. The only people still using SMS texts are boomers.
I'm young and gladly use SMS on the occasion. : )
Read the psalms, one for each day you don't watch porn, if you relapse, you start all over, if you complete psalms, you can say you've quit. It works, at least for some.
By the grace of God I was able to quit cold turkey about four years ago. It was a key part of my conversion actually. As soon as I began to simply acknowledge God and pray, after a lifetime of denial, I couldn't possibly do it anymore. another key factor was realizing that pornography is a weapon. One thing I did do to help myself out was to set up some keyword blocking on my modem that would not allow me to access the most common sites. So even if my fingers strayed in a thoughtless moment I would still not be rewarded by it. Relatively quickly, the impulse to navigate to those sites faded. So much changed in my understanding of women, advertising, manipulation, evil over the next year or so as I began to see just how much our culture is defined by consumption and markets, and how my weakness towards sex and the image of the female body is promoted and weaponized against me. Now I Just can't even watch steamy scenes in R-rated moviEs because all I can think about is what a creepy bastard the director is for trying to Weaken and titillate me to sell ticketS. The challenge now is that it's so ubiquitous that its impossible to move around the world and not be bombarded with lustful imagery (not to mention how that's trickled down to women's everyday 'fashion'). Because I'm wounded, there's always going to be a part of me that can't help but leer, and that's my current battleground in the fight for perfect grace.
not sure about this, St. Alphonsus says even if these are not objectively the most serious sins, they are the ones that lead most people to hell.
Food and phone are my addictions.
When i was 18 i met a famous pornstar and 5 years later she passed away in her sleep from an overdose
you good for this one
Much needed
The two biggest sins men fall into Pride and Lust.
What’s degrading about not being able to go a month without masturbating? Some people’s libidos are very high. I’m some people. It’s a biological compulsion that seems encouraged by natural selection, and I feel that believing it is degrading or shameful ended up fueling my “giving in and repentance” shame cycle that continues to be wired into my brain in some ways
hi Brian, what is the name of the chant at the intro and the end of the video please, i would like to have it.
Pray the Rosary. How can you ask Mary to pray for us and then use porn? I speak as a male.
Demonic retaliation is how.
What's the name of the chant
Sometimes I feel the only way would be a lobotomy. How can you say get away from it like a drunk getting away from a bar, would have to become a totally isolated hermit for that, in this hyper sexualized society, and hope no unwelcome thoughts ever enter your mind either. More useless self help advise here as always, that's all anyone can provide on this topic.
I watched the video and wholeheartedly agreed with everything except for one concession: I don't believe that using web-blockers is a good solution for porn addiction. Truly being free from addiction is like having a chocolate on your desk in front of you, and you can resist the urge to not eat it. In this modern age, that "chocolate" will be everywhere regardless of the measure you take to make it go away. If a fat person bans chocolate from his home, what happens when someone offers him some, and he hasn't built up the will to say no? It is for this reason that I believe training your ability to deal with each encounter in a Christian way is far more conducive to full porn recovery, and no, I don't mean averting your gaze while frantically chanting prayers under your breath. St. John Paul II got it right, I would say, when it comes to dealing with sexual sin.
The blockers aren't there to make you free, they're there for the times where you falter
@@markpugner9716 this is true. Perhaps I should re-evaluate my stance
@@therageknight8546 I for one am very appreciative of content blockers. It's like a speedbump to cause myself to rethink what I'm doing.
My brothers and sisters in Christ. This challenge is one that the Lord knew we’d face. Stay strong. Get married and spread the gospel! Raise warriors and queens that serve the Lord! Peace be with all, thank you Brian 💪🏽❤️🔥
I've quit porn, but I still struggle with sexualizing and lusting after women in my life. Did I mention I'm married? Yeah, not good. Eros is the false idol I am constantly turning towards. It helps me to remember that God created Eros, He created sex, and nothing God has created will go to waste, all will be taken up and redeemed. Every longing in heaven shall be fulfilled. I know there is a higher, untwisted and unfallen version of myself and of sex to be had if I can follow God.
Blessed, Checked, and Christ-pilled.
Haven’t gotten on the hub or other porn websites in 3 years ✌️ Deo Gratias
Pray for me.
As a young-earth creationist, I recognize that these porn stars are our distant cousins, and we shouldn't be getting gratification from watching them commit sin and debase themselves.
By that logic your wife is also your distant cousin, and so you shouldn’t get gratification from watching her.
@@JesseDriftwood A wife isn't committing sin by having sex with her husband.
@@sethmoking Hm. According to the bible humankind was meant to have sex as a means to symbolize the sinful nature of humankind as such.
@@niemand7811 I'm not sure where you heard that from. Do you have any verses to support that? In Genesis, God commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply *before* the fall.
*No* not friends, parents, family. It should be your spiritual director *only* as he is the one divinely appointed *only* to help you deal with *any* spiritual problem.
Pray the Rosary (as much of it as you can even if it's only 10 or 7 hail marys but you should find time it's very important), consecrate yourself to Mary the Immaculate and *only* all pure one, become a slave to her to replace your slave to sin, make her your love. Then you'll unite yourself more fully with God.
When tempted pray "Mary may your Immaculate pure presence give me the purity I need to overcome"
Edit:
If anyone thinks what I'm saying is not right this is what the saints, such saints as St Catherine of Sienna, St Faustina etc. Don't complain to me, complain to these saints themselves.
I have way too many phones on my app too. Sorry.
most people unfortunately do need data plan for their job
I think use of porn necessitates some pride, like Thomas Aquinas said pride is the queen of all sins.
I cannot be helped, I am addicted and fully consumed by pornography and masturbation. My gaze continues to only objectify and enjoy the figure of women. I have tried prayer, rosaries, novenas, strive, covenant eyes, and I constantly go to confession. Every time, my genuineness in contrition has been shrinking. If I have to be celibate and chaste without disordered sexual behavior to keep the faith, I can’t be Catholic anymore. Ultimately I cannot and will not change. I thought that God would be able to change me, but I think there are something things that not even God can do for someone whose soul can’t be saved. And before you say anything, recognize that i have tried everything and have begged God. Goodbye.
Got Detoxify on my phone rn
Yes, all of this. But it’s worse than what you’ve said. Porn industry has ties to sex trafficking. Majority of sex trafficked people have some type of connection to the foster system. 😢
It just feels like we’re living in a total system failure.
Humbly,
Lust and it's attendent behavioral choices-Masterbation and Fornication are mortal sins...if you die with these sins unforgivion by the sacrament of reconciliation one can be condemned to hell. I'm not sure relegating sins of the flesh to the status of lesser is proper guidance.
Sadly, the western society has usued this lifestyle to promote sin in schools, entertainment and clothing. Should we admire the Amish societies for their rejection of modernism?
Mass in Italian churches has always been cringy and felt foreign after Vatican II. Churches have just become a place for the elderly to meet in and feel like a community. Any young person would feel out of place and the songs played are in no way appealing to anybody but old people. It just doesn’t feel holy, it feels like a mockery of what mass once was. Gregorian chants and Latin are nowhere to be found, and the only churches in which the traditional Latin mass does take place are few and out of reach. No originality is to be found in the common mass anymore, it just feels like a party for elderly people with a twist of Christianity and the priest’s homily. Today’s Church isn’t the one it once was, and it is a stranger to the times of the Crusades and of the Counter-reformation.
Diventa Papa fra
Would it be too on the nose to ask for prayers against porn in this comments section?
I wonder. Since you adress the lust for porn as a sin, how much you regret lying to us in all your other videos. Lying is a sin too. Right?
I offer this as a thought to have during an urge to sins of the flesh. Ponder the scourging of Christ at the pillar, for he allowed himself to be stripped of most of his clothes and scourged most cruelly. The scourges had bits of bone, metal, stone and tore his flesh apart.
Then turn your thought to the suffering he underwent especially for the sins of the flesh. The most beautiful man to walk the earth, fully God and man, stripped and turned unrecognizable from the sacred wounds and blood pouring from his sacred head and body.
In the midst of the this, He deeply desires to ASSIST us with his grace to overcome our slavery to our sexual urges. We must accept this grace and become converted wholly to him.
But aren't sexual sins, among others, grave and mortal? Fornication, masturbation, etc. are all serious and grave. Adultery, sodomy. How are these less serious than others if they break our relationship with God?
That's a weird argument. Watching porn is a mortal sin, saying it's not as bad a sin as other mortal sins doesn't help at all. Those who watch porn are not allowed to receive the Body and Blood of Christ's, isn't that enough to describe how terrible it is? Also, carnal sins don't just lead to spiritual sins, they often work together and may be the consequences of spiritual sins: in fact, to be able to watch porn we often lie and show we privilege our own needs over those of our spouses'.
In and of itself it is lower on the spectrum, it just has a lot of barbs that hook a lot of other sins along the way. It’s like burdock, light (relatively speaking) and clingy, and it’s everywhere. Hell has layers, and your “dime-a-dozen” lustful thoughts are not going to get you as deep as murderous thoughts or schism or presumption, which are more like rocks, heavy, but not nearly as clingy.
There is a distinction between nature and gravity. Lust almost always manifests as a grave sin. But its nature comes from a weakness to control base desires. Compare that with something like sloth, which is almost always venial, but stems from an apathy towards God. So while committing sins of lust pose a more immediate risk to your salvation, weakness is actually an easier obstacle to overcome spiritually. Apathy is a monumental obstacle to overcome in the spiritual life, even though its sins likely won't prevent your salvation. As Catholics, our ultimate goal is sanctity, not merely abstaining from grave sins. Those who only need to overcome weakness, as opposed to apathy or malice, are actually quite close to sanctity.
As an analogy, consider the goal of having a healthy body. An athlete with a small patch of skin cancer has a grave condition. But removal of that cancer will bring them to complete health. A morbidly obese person might not be in immediate danger of death, but they have a long road to traverse before reaching bodily health.
For more information on this topic, I recommend reading a book called Manual for Conquering Deadly Sin.
Maaaan, wtf, what's with the judgemental staring at the first seconds of the video😥
Eradicate all sexual desire... that is my goal.
I'm not Roman Catholic but I love this channel. Great video!
Free two of 3 months
What?!?! Our Lady revealed to Jacinta the sheperd child of Fatima that most souls in hell are there for sins of the flesh. Not only that, but willfully viewing pornography is a MORTAL SIN! Sins of the flesh are just as "bad" as "spiritual sins"! A mortal sin is just as devastating as any other mortal sin. Anyone reading this: do not be deceived by anyone preaching a false teaching! Sins of the flesh that are grave in nature, willfully entered into, under full consent are dangerous and, if one neglects to repent and confess these sins, hell is waiting for them.
I disagree, both are mortal sins and worthy of damnation, yet carnal sins, that are the sins of the flesh are not as bad as spiritual sins, because spiritual sins such as the offence of Pride, distorts a higher good whereas something like gluttony perverts the lower good of food. Both are mortal yet different in gravity. No one would make the claim a lustful thought is the same as adultery or the same as Murder. Yet all of these are mortal sins.
I think St.Thomas Aquinas addresses this issue.
Spiritual sins can be worse... BUT doesn't mean lust doesn't "get more people" into Hell.
There ARE circles of hell... it makes sense the fact that it's easier to fall to LUST means it is less grave than PRIDE... which lands you lower down in hell because it's arguably 'harder' to commit.
Thank you both, I guess this is a topic I need to study on.
Brian literally gave the example of cancer types in the video. In no way shape or form did he suggest lust is not serious.
@@Tttb95
Bryan's tone seemed slightly indifferent in the video I might have agreed with the OP - but when he brings up cancer you get his reasoning.
But his delivery is quite 'light'.
I respect a lot of what you say. But saying things like: " no one needs a data plan" is just immature. You do not possess sufficient knowledge of every person's day to day to make that judgement. Do not fall into the trap of thinking because you can't handle something without abusing it, then no one else can either
Saying "no one" in that context is meant as hyperbole, I think. He's not arguing that everyone should have a completely mobile-data-free life (even though that is possible for just about every single person in the world, if they really wanted to do it), but to think about the choices we make and consider that we don't need to be connected every single moment to have a good life.
All sin is addiction. Some sin is worse than other. But the solution is the same: you must totally submit yourself to God and be willing to lose all comfort in your life and carry your cross forever; even if that means you never again feel pleasure associated with that sin. Freedom comes by a willingness to let things go.
So is it a sin to have physical contact with the wife/husband every time they turn the other on? Is that person being a slave to them!
What on earth are you talking about?
@@marvalice3455 logic!
@@marvalice3455 Who knows
Not in the slightest. There is a difference between proper relations within the context of marriage and improper actions outside of this context. A natural desire for physical relations is just that, natural and ergo, good. The action that follows this is where the desire becomes good or bad. If good, it leads to the natural use of it within marriage. If bad, it is because leads to unnatural (and lustful) actions such as the topic of this video. It all depends on whether we direct the desire to a good end or we allow it to direct us to bad ends.
I recommend Pint's with Aquinas video on Lust vs Sexual desire, he breaks it down in the context of marriage. If you are attempting to derive solely your pleasure, it is definitely immoral because it is self-seeking and thus not love. Whereas Love in the eros form, will the good of the other and their pleasure as well, it is not self-seeking but wishes their enjoyment as well.
This does not mean however there are not inappropiate forms of physical contact but this is just a brief thing to help you.
Addictions can only be under control with a focal point on the Lord God. Fall in love with Jesus!
We are human, and we mess up a lot. But the more you have your life focused on the Lord God, and the more you pray,
and the more you do things for Him and less for the world
you will eventually get rid of some of this addiction.
The world is pulling you in by happy little things, but they often lead to this.
I would recommend people transform their lives with THE WORD. Daily Scripture.
Sacraments, planed contemplative prayer.
The fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Start working to change the world.
I would say our examples should be Jim Caviezel, Eduardo Verastigui, and Tim and Sound of Freedom.
They have a cause and it’s the cause of Jesus Christ do something like that, and you will be totally distracted from any addiction.
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Well said Bryan, but I broke apart from the "Catholic" church and joined the latter-day movement. I must say however, your church is interesting. But I feel like all the chants and icons are nothing but an appeal to flawed doctrine. I am not bashing you friend, I am only saying I disagree with the mediums we impose to purify or sanctify ourselves. Forgive me for the lack of knowledge but the Bible says that Jesus is the truth, the way, and the life, no one comes to the father except through Him. Also, for there is only one mediator between God and man, and that man is Jesus Christ...Call no man father...et cetera. It's clear and plain as day that in order to purify ourselves, we're going to have follow clear doctrine. Our main objection to catholicisms old and corrupt doctrine is that preisthood authority faded away with the death of the apostles. Which in all truth makes sense for reasons I don't even want to begin to explain. Simple put it's old and lies and ruins...the good news here Bryan is that the church has been restored and you too can become a latter day saint. It's not blasphemy or apostasy to forget about the past, especially in things that weren't ever true to begin with. Look friend, all I'm saying is that don't let 2000 years of torment manipulate your mind. That's how I felt as a Catholic and I no longer profess that faith. Thanks man if you have anymore questions ask an elder or bishop of this church. I'm sure they can have in depth conversations about the restored gospel and you can challenge them if need be. I'd like to see this on your channel. Thanks Bryan!
There is only one meditator between God and man. Amen. We are referring to Christ as the unique sole meditator who is the God-Man who frees us from sin. As noted in Timothy 2:6. Each of us however, plays a different type of meditation and support because we pray for one another (1 Timothy 2:1).
Call no man father is hyperbole. In the OT it talks about honouring your mother and father and in the NT, 1 corinthains 4:15, Paul speaks about become a spiritual father.
Our Lord taught clearly, "the gates of hades will not prevail against it."
@@whitevortex8323 Not quite sure how to answer or where to start, nor am I a fan of starting conversations with people over social media, but if I had any objections they're as follows. First off, in my opinion, the practice of praying to saints is offensive because God should clearly be the main focus, for obvious reasons. Next, saints don't have that power you're supposing because they're not all powerful so they're not truly at your disposal. Which is actually quite scary because if you're not truly praying to God then who are you praying to? I think that's just a way of saying you're afraid or guilty of approaching almighty God. My advice here is to not be afraid of the idea that you're committing apostasy by rebuking what you believe to be true. It's really sad finding out that you're actually being tormented and manipulated by the devil to believe these things when scripture is very clear. Thou shall love the lord thy god with all your heart, mind, and spirit.
Joseph Smith was a grifter. Funny how part of his teaching was basically "btw god said ingest to have sex with all the women I want." I'm convinced Mormonism and Islam were inspired by the same demon. There foundation stories are so similar.
It looks like you're completely uninterested in Bryan as a person and launched into a monologue that blanked out anything he said.
You're turning people off what' you're selling.
The way I quit it was that I'd wrap a rosary around my right hand (usually what I do it e
With) then I'd feel ashamed doing it and stop.
Masturbation is a normal activity. It is good for your health.
Cool story bro