Month: February 2022
St. Philip’s Counsels on Remaining Pure
MAXIMS OF ST. PHILIP NERI FOR CONQUERING LUST, THE GRAMMAR OF THE REVOLUTION. • Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is actually necessary, because there is no better means of obtaining God’s graces than through His most holy Mother. • In order to preserve their purity, young men should frequent the Sacraments, especially confession, go to sermons, and be often reading the Lives of Saints. • He who conceals a grave sin in confession, is completely […]
Five Aids to Chastity by St. Thomas Aquinas
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ON HOW TO PRESERVE CHASTITY INCE CHASTITY is so difficult a virtue that, in Our Lord’s words, not all men “take it,” but those only “to whom it is given,” it is necessary for those who desire to live a life of continence, so to conduct themselves as to avoid all that might prove an obstacle in the prosecution of their design. Now there are three principal hindrances to continence. The first […]
The 15th Step in the Ladder of Divine Ascent—Overcoming Lust
FROM STEP 15 OF THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT: CHASTITY by St. John Climacus O BE CHASTE is to put on the nature of an incorporeal being. Chastity is a supernatural denial of what one is by nature, so that a mortal and corruptible body is competing in a truly marvelous way with incorporeal spirits. A chaste man is someone who has driven out bodily love by means of divine love, who has used heavenly […]
Balls and Dancing Parties Condemned by The Scriptures, Holy Fathers, and Holy Councils
You think, perhaps, that dances cannot hurt you, because you have been educated in the practice of Christian virtues, because you love virtue and fear evil, and because you are disposed to resist all the attacks of the tempter, and repress all the irregular motions of concupiscence; you are in error: all that you see at balls, all that you hear at them, all that you feel, will soon make you lose sight of the […]
A Sermon on the Morality of Unmarried Couples Dancing Together
The following is a sermon taken from a good and holy FSSP Priest Once I had a brother who was in a serious accident. This brother was in the military and was stationed in Virginia. He decided to visit a friend in New England over a long weekend. He planned to stop by the dormitory where I was going to college in Connecticut on his way back. Visitors weren’t allowed to go into the dormitory, […]
Dressing with Dignity Book
In this ground-breaking book, Colleen Hammond challenges today’s fashions and provides you the information you need to protect yourself and your loved ones from the onslaught of tasteless, immodest clothing. Colleen Hammond shares real-life examples of how women can accentuate the grace and beauty of their femininity, and she shows that modest definitely does not mean frumpy! Dressing with Dignity covers it all: The history and forces behind the changes in fashion. How to talk […]