Today in Porn, Godspy Edition
Brian Pessaro has a new essay up. It's brief, just the way the Internet likes it. Sample line:
"You don’t just put down a 19-year porn addiction like yesterday’s newspaper and walk away from it."
Unless?
posted by Matthew Lickona | 10:39 AM
8 Comments:
I cannot possibly agree more....I pray the rosary every day (at least try to) because I would not be functional as a mother without Mary's constant companionship, help and support. It can be grueling at times, I have told stories about times where I literally pace around the house saying it because I cannot sit still to pray it.
I am always conscious that without it I begin to slide....but even more significant than all of this, I recently joined a little rosary group-we moms get together and pray it every Monday morning. We have in our group an Episcapalian (not sure of spelling?) who has never prayed the rosary before. She was the first of us to offer an intention, for her husband who is extremely anxious about a job prospect. When we met yesterday, she said, that his anxiety suddenly and "mysteriously" subsided coinciding with last Monday's rosary. Mary acts quickly and powerfully, and I now see that praying the rosary in small groups can be all that much more powerful! Mary is so so good. mcm
So true.
The rosary is so easy, yet so...well, as he said, excruciating. (And I like his choice of "excruciating" over any other synonyms!) It is also easy and efficacious. And just like my NordicTrack, which also fits those three criteria, you need only to do it. Not necessarily 'enjoy' it. :)
I like to leave the cube once a day to walk around the building. I pray it on my fingers, or along with Rosary Army podcast of the proper mystery.
Instead of sleeping clutching a loaded 45, I wrap my longer rosary around my hand three times and wrap the crucifix such that I am able to hold it in my sleep. It looks kinda like a bandage. So if I wake during the night I can pray for whomever pops into my mind. Typically my friends on the west coast. Try wrapping a rosary around your hand, it can keep you mindful of the living force while you sleep.
During the bitter watches, I like to pray the divine mercy chaplet and the Jesus Prayer. Fatigue and all. If one focuses enough you can pray the simpler prayers in your sleep (not joking).
Another thing I do is pray the Jesus prayer on my rosary while my children read to me out loud each night. The purpose is to associate their education with the sacred. At least they see me holding it.
mcm,
Please consider writing more on prayer. There is a lot of power and grace in your writing.
thanks cube. when i write about mary and about praying the rosary, i try so hard to convey the power of her intercession. that's difficult to do in an anonymous setting. sometimes i think it would be helpful if people knew me and could see how much i need her! ( i mean that slightly humorously) that way it would even more reflect mary's greatness. if you and anyone, see anything good in my writing, it's entirely attributable to her power. mcm
I love the quote in the article from St. Therese about how difficult she found it to pray the rosary. That describes my struggles exactly. I suppose that means I should pray it more often.
I am reminded of the clinical study on prayer and masturbation undertaken by Wilhelm Reich in "The Mass Psychology of Fascism:"
"A girl of some seven eyars of age...who was consciously brought up without any idea of God suddenly developed a compulsion to pray. It was compulsive because she didn't really want to pray and felt it to be against her better judgment. The background of this compulsion to pray is as follows: The child was in the habit of masturbating before going to sleep every night. One night ,for some reason, she was afraid to do so; instead she had the impulse to kneel down in front of her bed and to recite a prayer...'If I pray, I won't be afraid.' It was on the day she reounced masturbation for the first time that fear appeared."
This was quoted by E. Michael Jones in his "Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control" - a textbook for anyone wanting the ugly underbelly of modern culture - and he goes on to say, "What Reich discovered in the girl's behavior was a fundamental truth of sexual politics, one discovered by the Catholic Church long ago. It can be formulated in either of two ways: either masturbation destroys yoru prayer life, or prayer destroys your ability to enjoy masturbation. The two forms of activity are psychically mutually exclusive."
Interesting, no? And first (re)discovered by an atheist...
JOB
"You don’t just put down a 19-year porn addiction like yesterday’s newspaper and walk away from it."
Lucky bastard, on one hand.
That's the power of the Immaculate Heart, on the other.
We need about...I dunno, millions upon millions of the same scenario if we're going to save the concept of Christian marriage. It's time to start enrolling men wholesale in the order of whatever scapular they want. Or the Miraculous Medal.
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