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 […]

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 […]

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 […]