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The Norbertines are great. Old Catholic married guy here. Struggled for years with lust and shame even while attending Mass Sundays and holy days and receiving Jesus in Eucharist when in a state of grace. Started attending TLM, more frequent confession, daily Rosary, Angelus 3x per day, consecration to Jesus through Mary with annual renewal and Covenant Eyes on device with accountability partner. These have changed my life. Thank you Jesus.
I broke all that bad habit by custody over where I put my eye focus. Busted the bad habit in about 3 years. Just keep trying until you get there and then it's easy.
“Take very thought captive” is one very useful verse and “the Devil finds work for idle hands” is a very useful saying. By the way, I like the way that you have the discussion set up, with the crucifix in the middle and each of you on either side of it. What we see is very significant - fill your houses with holy images. The Eastern Orthodox have learned this lesson - they love to surround themselves with holy images. Shocking to Protestants and considered “overkill” by most Catholics, nevertheless, it does mean that our eyes are set on holy things, leading to holy thoughts.
This has got to be one of my favorite videos of all time. Such short interview but great topics were covered. You two really hit it very well. A part 2 would be awesome.
Congratulations Cameron, we know this video was a great project for you. It was great!! The story of the family looking for a house and being helped by St. Joseph was hilarious 😂 God bless you, thanks for this wisdom!
Thanks for the comment :) I think there is a difference between being tired from stress throughout the day and being tired because of hard physical exertion. The former usually leads to lust, the second does not. Do you agree?
This really is very good. Very helpful - especially about the long-game exhortations. I think about all the revelation that the devil hates potential. That's why he goes after children so intently. Fr. Sean Kilcawley has quite a great take on successfully pursuing and accomplishing purity as well.
@@CameronRiecker indeed, continue to speak to the young men and men in general. I’ll also have the interview we did up soon. A small delay with a move into a new apartment.
19:40 that's super important. I've been cheated on in short relationships. Thank God I never slept with any of them. But now I simply cannot marry a non-virgin. I just can't deal with that uncertainty anymore.
I thought I'd sit down to listen to this, starting eith the devotion part since I don't really have issues with the first part now. I'm really struggling to continue to listen though. My family prayed for a new house, that our bid for one would help us get a new home, in fact right down the street from my wife's parents where she grew up. But when our realtor called, they told us we came in 30,000 over, with no appraisal contingency. It was the same number you said was a blessing to your family, but it was a curse to us. And the whole chain ended up in us not getting that house, and moving into a house that ended up having structural problems and a massive mold problem. This of course is the problem of evil so has no answer. But it makes it really hard for me to want to continue to listen to this.
You two have a similar story. Maybe that's what St. Joseph did to your real estate agent to give you that 30K discount. What made you chose to live where you're living right now Cameron?
Wonderful video. I am not sure about masturbation being less problematic. You can not masturbate normally without fantasy, and it also is a mortal sin by itself. My advice would be to nip it in the bud together with pornography, and i say this out of my experience. Any door you leave open to mortal sin is bad imo.
Wisdom of Solomon 13 But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are those who give the name “gods” to the works of human hands, gold and silver fashioned with skill and likenesses of animals or a useless stone, the work of an ancient hand. 11 A skilled woodcutter may saw down a tree easy to handle and skillfully strip off all its bark and then with pleasing workmanship make a useful vessel that serves life’s needs 12 and burn the cast-off pieces of his work to prepare his food and eat his fill. 13 But a cast-off piece from among them, useful for nothing, a stick crooked and full of knots, he takes and carves with care in his leisure and shapes it with skill gained in idleness;[b] he forms it in the likeness of a human being 14 or makes it like some worthless animal, giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red and covering every blemish in it with paint; 15 then he makes a suitable niche for it and sets it in the wall and fastens it there with iron. 16 He takes thought for it so that it may not fall, because he knows that it cannot help itself, for it is only an image and has need of help. 17 When he prays about possessions and his marriage and children, he is not ashamed to address a lifeless thing. For health he appeals to a thing that is weak; 18 for life he prays to a thing that is dead; for aid he entreats a thing that is utterly inexperienced; for a prosperous journey, a thing that cannot take a step; 19 for money-making and work and success with his hands, he asks strength of a thing whose hands have no strength.
