Thank you, for you have helped me to stop my adiction. You have also helped me increase my love toward Dios, Maria and the Santa Madre Iglesia. It is thanks to you that I have changed my ways of life and have returned to the breast of the Holy Church. Dios te bendiga y la Virgen te acompa~e! It would be a good idea if you would translate your videos to other languages so that others could also hear the Word of God through you.
Wow GREAT video! I love this guy!! I'm a woman and I AGREE with this guy when he says that we must dress modestly!! I take NO OFFENSE to him saying this. I have a teenage daughter and she will not dress any other way but MODESTLY!! It's hard to find modest clothing these days for teens but we manage by getting creative with the clothes we find. And there is some stuff out there thank God, that is modest!
AMEN!! We should pray for that priest who speaks heresy. Also, women are to dress like Mary, a veil and a long skirt not how society has taught us and not wearing pants that kind perhaps incite lust within men-yes jeans and dress pants. Our church doctors like Augustine, Chrysostom and Ambrose have all said that women are to veil all the time. A veil is not a women's yoke but her crown! Perhaps this is an area we can learn from our Muslim sisters.
I also struggled with porn and lust. What did I do? I went to confession various times and one does get grace through it. But I DID NOT go to Mass every single day because time will not allow it. I would only go to Mass on Saturday or Sundays (the weekly obligation). So what did I do? Without any one telling me, I read the book by St. Louis de Montfort "The Secret of the Rosary" I prayed every day 1 X the rosary. By praying the rosary, I ceased with porn, lust, masturbation everything.....
Also men, what happens if you went to Mass, and prayed the rosary earlier that day and then while trying to fall asleep, you get extremely tempted? Call out the names Jesus and Mary, if temptation continues, by will, force your self to pray the Rosary. But that test that Christ allowed, you will have received graces to overcome the other temptation and I believe merits stored in heaven.....
Yet, by even with praying the rosary, and receiving communion, the thoughts run wild. The mind is a beautiful thing that absorbs everything and even the porn that was watched is stored in mind. What I do when sexual thoughts harass me, I pray a Hail Mary and they cease but men always be on guard with your senses and your thoughts. Our Lady has revealed to the seer Jacinta that during OUR times the Rosary is has new efficacy meaning that EVERYTHING can be solved through the recitation of the.....
rosary. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary is the most powerful form of prayer. During these times, which lust, homosexuality, sex-addiction, bestiality, and other things, the Rosary is very much needed. And anyone struggling with these temptation, needs to know that there is relief, cure, and it is through the Rosary. Woe, to the Protest-ants and those who reject Mary, because ALL graces come through the hands of Mary. All who take recourse to Mary, will be saved.
Great advice! Especially confession. Without His Grace we can do nothing. I would add only this: Do penance that involves mortifying the flesh. Through fasting, Our Blessed Lord has given me such strength in the area of sexual temptation. Pax Christi!
Good question! I am out right now and I will respond when I get home, but I wanted to reply to ask those viewing this comment to not respond an allow me to answer it... I ask this because this questiom really strikes at the heart of the meaning of human life and after ai answer feel free to add anything I might be missing as it is a great topic. God bless you and God love you. Thanks for your patience medalhead
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I am just now able to get back to answering emails. I really like your question because it is like a veil... hidden behind your question are several other questions like "Why did God give man a penis?" "Why is masturbation objectively wrong?... It feels good, it doesn't appear to harm anybody... Then why not play with it.... the answer is simple, but unimaginably deep.... Your penis is not a toy and you are not just an animal. I will explain...soon
... I get to the end of each day and I thank God for that grace. It's day by day. Yes, there have been difficult days. In the beginning, I fell. When we fall, as you say, we must immediately pray. The Devil does not want us to do that, he wants us to fell far from God, to turn away from God in shame.
But we are surrounded today by so much temptation. I have learned simply not to look at women I might find attractive, who are dressed provocatively. It is tough, but easier than the alternative.
Our Lady is helping me every day to be free from pornography through the Holy Rosary, Yes, you have to work hard, but not at fighting pornography, but to let God's grace deliver you from pornography. It is God's grace that delivers us - if we think it is us, we will fall.
I realised I had a choice. To be a slave to pornography, or be a free servant of God.
I cannot say I will never sin again. What I can say is that a rosary a day is getting me through every day...
I have struggled with Chastity for so long, and in the beginning I had (like millions of people today) sunk into despair that I could never achieve the virtue of Chastity.
God through our Blessed Mother will plant that tiny mustard seed in your soul if you just ask. Just say 'God I would like to be Chaste'. Even if you think it is impossible...all you have to do is say yes, and he will work WONDERS IN YOUR SOUL.
I thank you for your comments. They are very helpful, very practical and theologically well-based. Many people indeed suffer from this, and I tell people to frequent the Sacraments, as you do, but you add more practical elements which I had not considered. As St. Paul stresses, we console others with the consolations God has given to us. I am proud of your courage and your response to Christ. I'll pray for you, and I hope you are thinking about the priesthood. God bless, Fr. Francesco Giordano
Wow! Father what an honor and blessing to recieve such kind feedback! May God bless you and keep you and shine His Euchsristic face upon you all the days of your life. All who read this let us pray 3 Hail Marys in thanksgiving for this man without whom Jesus' would have died in vain, but now acts in him to save our souls from hell and to divinize us by giving us God in Holy Communion. Thank you Father and may all come to know and appreciate the awesome dignity of the priesthood.
Thank you for your kind words, words upon which I reflected as Our Lord's Eucharistic face shined upon me during my Holy Hour and Adoration this morning. I remembered you in prayer, and I thank you for your prayers. Indeed, we are instruments in His hands, collaborating with Him for the salvation of souls through our fidelity to prayer and to study. My confession lines here in Rome are long, and I confess for hours.That is my hope as a priest: when I see souls growing closer to Christ.God bless!
I forgot to mention something. I often highly recommend people to follow a very old practice that many saints followed for purity: 3 Hail Marys in the morning before doing anything and 3 Hail Marys in the evening before sleeping. Getting on your knees (even with two fingers under the knees to do penance) and turning to Our Lady first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening, asking her to protect you under her mantel, is a great virtue to acquire. In Domino, Fr. Giordano
Great video. Daily confession would be great, but I know where I live, that would be just about impossible, so from my experience weekly works wonders as well!
You can fet them online. The Philomena cord is a white and pink/red cord rubbed on the relics of st philomena. You say a daily morning prayer to st philomena concerning assistance with purity and cinsecration to Jesus and Mary and she helps you with prayers for you purity. Also she will knock three times at some point in the day as a reminder/help... that part always freaks me out but it helps to remind me of the reality of the supernatural realities. Normally happens while I am driving.
St Jospeh cord also available online. I also made my own hybrid version. His cord traditionally has seven knots in it and is white w/ a prayer in the morning but w/ no relics involved. My version is a cord that I took with me to the adoration chapel and I dipped it in the wax of the candle next to the st Joseph statue as a visible sign of my reliance on his prayers of intercession before the throne of God. Again worn under the clothes. One time a young girl said excuse me ur cord is showing
wow. they both sound like beautiful sacramentals! sigh. another thing about our amazing Church to swoon over. i can't imagine what the girl was possibly reasoning what the cord was for, haha.
thanks so much for the info and all of your evangelization efforts. they're clearly blessed by God! i will pray about getting a cord now :)
I'll just ad that if you have to pray for those who makes the pornography you aslo should pray for those who die or are in the purgatory with teh same flesh sins you've done. They will help you after there delivrance.
okay so i have a question, since you have to be clean of mortal sin to make it to heaven what if you have been good all your life, and go to confession but you make 1 mortal sin and get shot and killed without going to confession... you still go to hell just because you didn't get a chance to die in a hospital slowly where you can ask for forgiveness?
If that person was repentant and intended to go to confession, it's possible they made it to heaven. The key is to preserve ourselves in a state of Grace.
He's talking about the Ordinary Means of forgiveness. Extreme cases like you bring up do merit a serious answer. The Church has always taught that God will not refuse a penitent sinner. Prime example is the good thief. The trick is you have to really mean it. You have to truly be sorrowful for the sins, and while we humans generally can't tell, nothing is hidden from God. I pray that I get one final chance to see a priest because I doubt the earnest nature of my own penitence sometimes.
Dony wait to repent. Like I said in the video make a good act of contrition and firmly resolve to go to confession asap! Most people dont die a slow painful death with plenty of time to reflect think bout it. if you are drowining ur thinking I need air if you are about to wreck you think ahhhh crud!! If you are chocking ur thinking somebody help cant breath!!! Neve in a near death experience have I ever had the time or clArity of mind to make an examine of conscience
If I am not mistaken: one can obtain absolution without confession IF there is sincere and full contrition: sorrow for one's sins based solely on the love for God (I hope you realize how hard that is).
Pray for an end to pornography.
Lawborn2 6 months ago
Thanks
kc9gpj 1 year ago
the rosary is the one prayer that satan cannot bare to here he hates it , any prayer dedicated to the mother of god he hates it
mufc1970ok 1 year ago 2
wow, I needed to see this. thanks.
tmh726 1 year ago
A video that is definitely called for! I wish more people would pay attention to the harmful addiction that is pornography.
Lawborn2 1 year ago 4
Truly satan's most powerful weapon.
JR2O1OJR 1 year ago 3
Thank you, for you have helped me to stop my adiction. You have also helped me increase my love toward Dios, Maria and the Santa Madre Iglesia. It is thanks to you that I have changed my ways of life and have returned to the breast of the Holy Church. Dios te bendiga y la Virgen te acompa~e! It would be a good idea if you would translate your videos to other languages so that others could also hear the Word of God through you.
SkellingtonKing1 1 year ago 2
Thanks for your message of encouragement and urgency in regards to breaking an addiction to pornography. I agree whole-heartedly.
DefendingMormonism 1 year ago 2
Hey, someone had to say it. Thanks.
SeptemberCatholic18 1 year ago 2
extraordinary useful. Thank you and God bless
aldousjove 1 year ago 2
praise the lord...i wish every young person in this world would watch this....
johnjosey 1 year ago 3
Can you post the websites you are saying? Thanks
notimpossible24 1 year ago
I love how radical u r. Porn degrades life. God bless you.
Jeremiah5063 2 years ago
Excellent. I will be sharing this with many others. You've done us a great service in making this video. God bless!
ThankYouStFrancis 2 years ago
Great video brother. God bless you.
baguazhang77 2 years ago
AMEN!!!
Wow GREAT video! I love this guy!! I'm a woman and I AGREE with this guy when he says that we must dress modestly!! I take NO OFFENSE to him saying this. I have a teenage daughter and she will not dress any other way but MODESTLY!! It's hard to find modest clothing these days for teens but we manage by getting creative with the clothes we find. And there is some stuff out there thank God, that is modest!
1Hope4All 2 years ago
AMEN!! We should pray for that priest who speaks heresy. Also, women are to dress like Mary, a veil and a long skirt not how society has taught us and not wearing pants that kind perhaps incite lust within men-yes jeans and dress pants. Our church doctors like Augustine, Chrysostom and Ambrose have all said that women are to veil all the time. A veil is not a women's yoke but her crown! Perhaps this is an area we can learn from our Muslim sisters.
syg33142 2 years ago
i my self agree that woman should ware a veil
hellmaster5000 2 years ago
That priest who said it was not a mortal sin will pay for THAT sin that he told you it was okay. :( very sad indeed.
1Hope4All 2 years ago
I also struggled with porn and lust. What did I do? I went to confession various times and one does get grace through it. But I DID NOT go to Mass every single day because time will not allow it. I would only go to Mass on Saturday or Sundays (the weekly obligation). So what did I do? Without any one telling me, I read the book by St. Louis de Montfort "The Secret of the Rosary" I prayed every day 1 X the rosary. By praying the rosary, I ceased with porn, lust, masturbation everything.....
syg33142 2 years ago 4
Also men, what happens if you went to Mass, and prayed the rosary earlier that day and then while trying to fall asleep, you get extremely tempted? Call out the names Jesus and Mary, if temptation continues, by will, force your self to pray the Rosary. But that test that Christ allowed, you will have received graces to overcome the other temptation and I believe merits stored in heaven.....
syg33142 2 years ago
Yet, by even with praying the rosary, and receiving communion, the thoughts run wild. The mind is a beautiful thing that absorbs everything and even the porn that was watched is stored in mind. What I do when sexual thoughts harass me, I pray a Hail Mary and they cease but men always be on guard with your senses and your thoughts. Our Lady has revealed to the seer Jacinta that during OUR times the Rosary is has new efficacy meaning that EVERYTHING can be solved through the recitation of the.....
syg33142 2 years ago
rosary. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary is the most powerful form of prayer. During these times, which lust, homosexuality, sex-addiction, bestiality, and other things, the Rosary is very much needed. And anyone struggling with these temptation, needs to know that there is relief, cure, and it is through the Rosary. Woe, to the Protest-ants and those who reject Mary, because ALL graces come through the hands of Mary. All who take recourse to Mary, will be saved.
syg33142 2 years ago
I love the book secret of the Rosary! I ordered 1000 copies from tan books at .50 each! I give them out everywhere I go! Great Book!
kolbe1019 2 years ago
God bless your soul, true child of the Blessed Mother.
Don't forget to pray for the Holy Father, as he receives much distress from the enemy.
totustuusmaterdei 2 years ago
Great advice! Especially confession. Without His Grace we can do nothing. I would add only this: Do penance that involves mortifying the flesh. Through fasting, Our Blessed Lord has given me such strength in the area of sexual temptation. Pax Christi!
ThanksSaintJoseph 2 years ago
God created Adam with a penis right?
Adam had a penis before eating the forbidden fruit right?
Before Adam ate the forbidden fruit he was without sin right?
Why would God create Adam with a penis that is so nice to play with? and than tell him that you are not allowed to play with it?
PLEASE REPLY...
themetalhead101 2 years ago
Good question! I am out right now and I will respond when I get home, but I wanted to reply to ask those viewing this comment to not respond an allow me to answer it... I ask this because this questiom really strikes at the heart of the meaning of human life and after ai answer feel free to add anything I might be missing as it is a great topic. God bless you and God love you. Thanks for your patience medalhead
kolbe1019 2 years ago
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I am just now able to get back to answering emails. I really like your question because it is like a veil... hidden behind your question are several other questions like "Why did God give man a penis?" "Why is masturbation objectively wrong?... It feels good, it doesn't appear to harm anybody... Then why not play with it.... the answer is simple, but unimaginably deep.... Your penis is not a toy and you are not just an animal. I will explain...soon
kolbe1019 2 years ago 4
... I get to the end of each day and I thank God for that grace. It's day by day. Yes, there have been difficult days. In the beginning, I fell. When we fall, as you say, we must immediately pray. The Devil does not want us to do that, he wants us to fell far from God, to turn away from God in shame.
But we are surrounded today by so much temptation. I have learned simply not to look at women I might find attractive, who are dressed provocatively. It is tough, but easier than the alternative.
tigerbaiter1 2 years ago
Our Lady is helping me every day to be free from pornography through the Holy Rosary, Yes, you have to work hard, but not at fighting pornography, but to let God's grace deliver you from pornography. It is God's grace that delivers us - if we think it is us, we will fall.
I realised I had a choice. To be a slave to pornography, or be a free servant of God.
I cannot say I will never sin again. What I can say is that a rosary a day is getting me through every day...
tigerbaiter1 2 years ago
Amazing....God Bless u...
johnjosey 2 years ago
Brilliant. Br-ill-i-ant!
I have struggled with Chastity for so long, and in the beginning I had (like millions of people today) sunk into despair that I could never achieve the virtue of Chastity.
God through our Blessed Mother will plant that tiny mustard seed in your soul if you just ask. Just say 'God I would like to be Chaste'. Even if you think it is impossible...all you have to do is say yes, and he will work WONDERS IN YOUR SOUL.
FOLLOW THIS VIDEO AND IT WILL WORK.
God Bless!
mariemarie1980 2 years ago
Wow, God Bless you and may he continue to enlighten you in prayer!
jesustheexorcist 2 years ago
8:13 FINALLY!!! Someone says something!
HomieG75 2 years ago
I thank you for your comments. They are very helpful, very practical and theologically well-based. Many people indeed suffer from this, and I tell people to frequent the Sacraments, as you do, but you add more practical elements which I had not considered. As St. Paul stresses, we console others with the consolations God has given to us. I am proud of your courage and your response to Christ. I'll pray for you, and I hope you are thinking about the priesthood. God bless, Fr. Francesco Giordano
FrGiordano1 2 years ago
Wow! Father what an honor and blessing to recieve such kind feedback! May God bless you and keep you and shine His Euchsristic face upon you all the days of your life. All who read this let us pray 3 Hail Marys in thanksgiving for this man without whom Jesus' would have died in vain, but now acts in him to save our souls from hell and to divinize us by giving us God in Holy Communion. Thank you Father and may all come to know and appreciate the awesome dignity of the priesthood.
kolbe1019 2 years ago
Thank you for your kind words, words upon which I reflected as Our Lord's Eucharistic face shined upon me during my Holy Hour and Adoration this morning. I remembered you in prayer, and I thank you for your prayers. Indeed, we are instruments in His hands, collaborating with Him for the salvation of souls through our fidelity to prayer and to study. My confession lines here in Rome are long, and I confess for hours.That is my hope as a priest: when I see souls growing closer to Christ.God bless!
FrGiordano1 2 years ago
I forgot to mention something. I often highly recommend people to follow a very old practice that many saints followed for purity: 3 Hail Marys in the morning before doing anything and 3 Hail Marys in the evening before sleeping. Getting on your knees (even with two fingers under the knees to do penance) and turning to Our Lady first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening, asking her to protect you under her mantel, is a great virtue to acquire. In Domino, Fr. Giordano
FrGiordano1 2 years ago
This is a topic not talked about enough. Thanks for sharing.
lrusko 2 years ago
Thank you for breaking the silence.
Havocsaddler 2 years ago
good witness! Keeping you in prayer!
ATXLATIN 2 years ago
Great video. Daily confession would be great, but I know where I live, that would be just about impossible, so from my experience weekly works wonders as well!
steckle77 2 years ago
thank you for this!
one thing... you mentioned St. Philomena's chord or St. Joseph's chord... what exactly is that? how do you use it or wear it? where can you get one?
sabrinerweener 2 years ago
You can fet them online. The Philomena cord is a white and pink/red cord rubbed on the relics of st philomena. You say a daily morning prayer to st philomena concerning assistance with purity and cinsecration to Jesus and Mary and she helps you with prayers for you purity. Also she will knock three times at some point in the day as a reminder/help... that part always freaks me out but it helps to remind me of the reality of the supernatural realities. Normally happens while I am driving.
kolbe1019 2 years ago
St Jospeh cord also available online. I also made my own hybrid version. His cord traditionally has seven knots in it and is white w/ a prayer in the morning but w/ no relics involved. My version is a cord that I took with me to the adoration chapel and I dipped it in the wax of the candle next to the st Joseph statue as a visible sign of my reliance on his prayers of intercession before the throne of God. Again worn under the clothes. One time a young girl said excuse me ur cord is showing
kolbe1019 2 years ago
Great video....I really believe Pornography is a systematic tool Satan uses to destroy souls. It is mental poison.
God Bless You
PaulsGoodFight 2 years ago 3
wow. they both sound like beautiful sacramentals! sigh. another thing about our amazing Church to swoon over. i can't imagine what the girl was possibly reasoning what the cord was for, haha.
thanks so much for the info and all of your evangelization efforts. they're clearly blessed by God! i will pray about getting a cord now :)
sabrinerweener 2 years ago
Thanks for an amazing battle plan against pornography!
Catholicdrummer 2 years ago 2
Daily Mass and the Rosary saved my life. Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Great video Kolbe.
NujeLessons 2 years ago 3
Infinite thanks for saying things which truly need to be said.
genjlcgettys 2 years ago 2
What a great video Kolbe!! Thank you so much for this video!
tbar51 2 years ago 3
Your such a wise young man. :)
eklera 2 years ago 3
Thanks so much! I will try these things. I'll say a Rosary for you.
eklera 2 years ago 2
don't assume only the majority of guys are affected, and it's probably harder for a girl to go to confession to talk to a male priest....
food for thought on your next vid...
like your work, cheers!
nta982 2 years ago 2
:) thanks!
theEyes4life 2 years ago
God Bless You!
3peekaboo3 2 years ago 2
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
DivineMercy2009 2 years ago 13
amen!
TheEcumenator 2 years ago 2
Thanks for this thruthfull and humble video !
You are so right !
I'll just ad that if you have to pray for those who makes the pornography you aslo should pray for those who die or are in the purgatory with teh same flesh sins you've done. They will help you after there delivrance.
Deo Gratias !
Sorry for my english....
PaxetBonum2 2 years ago 7
Beautiful! Thank you!
kolbe1019 2 years ago
i really admire you for speaking out on this!
bravo!
TheEcumenator 2 years ago 2
"a rosary a day keeps Satan away"
Grand phrase.
Thanks and God bless
BlackCappa 2 years ago 3
Awesome, God bless you
mmorrtt 2 years ago 3
Thank you sir! God Bless You.
wintersdemise 2 years ago 3
okay so i have a question, since you have to be clean of mortal sin to make it to heaven what if you have been good all your life, and go to confession but you make 1 mortal sin and get shot and killed without going to confession... you still go to hell just because you didn't get a chance to die in a hospital slowly where you can ask for forgiveness?
stan1234655 2 years ago
If you had the intention of going to confession that's enough. A repentant heart and intention goes a long way.
wintersdemise 2 years ago
If that person was repentant and intended to go to confession, it's possible they made it to heaven. The key is to preserve ourselves in a state of Grace.
mmorrtt 2 years ago
He's talking about the Ordinary Means of forgiveness. Extreme cases like you bring up do merit a serious answer. The Church has always taught that God will not refuse a penitent sinner. Prime example is the good thief. The trick is you have to really mean it. You have to truly be sorrowful for the sins, and while we humans generally can't tell, nothing is hidden from God. I pray that I get one final chance to see a priest because I doubt the earnest nature of my own penitence sometimes.
BaronvonKorf 2 years ago
Dony wait to repent. Like I said in the video make a good act of contrition and firmly resolve to go to confession asap! Most people dont die a slow painful death with plenty of time to reflect think bout it. if you are drowining ur thinking I need air if you are about to wreck you think ahhhh crud!! If you are chocking ur thinking somebody help cant breath!!! Neve in a near death experience have I ever had the time or clArity of mind to make an examine of conscience
kolbe1019 2 years ago
but what if you're drowning and you're in a state of mortal sin? do you go to hell just because you didn't have time to repent?
stan1234655 2 years ago
Memento mori.
Eternity is too long to not take it seriously.
If I am not mistaken: one can obtain absolution without confession IF there is sincere and full contrition: sorrow for one's sins based solely on the love for God (I hope you realize how hard that is).
BlackCappa 2 years ago
@stan1234655 Yes
syg33142 2 years ago