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The Slavery to Sin
by Fr. Ed Broom, OMV – Fr. Broom’s Blog:
Physical slavery is one thing, but there is an even
more serious slavery—it is the slavery to sin. Jesus Himself calls sin
slavery. Sin can make us true slaves to moral evil; and this is the
worse form of slavery.
St. John the Baptist was made a slave of
imprisonment under the wicked King Herod. However, the Baptist
experienced the true freedom of the sons of God. Even though King Herod
experienced exterior freedom, interiorly he was a true slave of his
disordered passions and sin—lust, greed, gluttony, and insecurity.
In the United States we boast of the freedom that
we experience, especially on the 4th of July by blowing off fire-works,
admiring fire-rockets and guzzling down beer barrels! But do we really
experience the true freedom that Jesus came to give us, the freedom of
the sons and daughters of God?
What might be one of the major obstacles to freedom
and the major form of slavery? Anybody who utilizes simple reason will
quickly be brought to the conclusion: the Capital sin of lust. The
flagrant, pervasive and universally promoted promiscuity in the realm of
sexuality must be touted as the modern binding force of slavery far and
wide.
 The
expressions of sexual promiscuity are many, but for sake of brevity we
will mention only three. First, it must be stated that all that God
created was good, is good and always will be good. However, the problem
is in the abuse of the goods of creation. One of the most exalted gifts
of God’s creation is the proper use of human sexuality. The expression
of human sexuality has its plan, purpose and divine blessing only in
this context: a man and woman sacramentally married and in their
conjugal union being open to the possibility of life, or
procreation—that is to say, being ready to collaborate with God in
bringing forth new life into existence. Man and woman provide the
material reality; God infuses the immortal soul! Let us now proceed to
list three of the modern slaveries in the field of lust and the abuse of
human sexuality.
- SAME-SEX UNIONS. Even though the Supreme Court has
recently approved and legalized the union of the same sexes and calling
it marriage, it is not in the eyes of God. Even though you call a
banana an apple, still the banana is a banana. The Government might call
same-sex unions marriage, but it is not and it will never be. Why? God
has told us! Listen! “God created them male and female and for this
reason and man will leave his father and mother and be united with his
wife. What God has united let no man rent asunder.” Then God gave the
first order to the man and woman: “Increase and multiply.”—in other
words, have children! The acceptance, the promotion and practice of
sodomy is wrong and it always will be morally reprehensible!
- PLAGUE OF PORN. Honestly we must admit it: we live
in a pornographic society. On almost every corner we turn we are
bumping into the crude but all pervasive reality of pornography. In a
certain sense, we can use this powerful but so true image: we are being
surrounded by a pack of ravenous wolves (pornography) that is intent on
devouring us. Indeed if we do not take extreme measures this ravenous
wolf can grip on to us, bite into us and rip us apart—the way wolves do
to their prey. It would be more than safe to say that pornography is the
number one addiction in the United States as well as in other
countries. Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton made an incredible prophecy more
than two hundred years ago. She said that a black box would enter into
the homes and families in the United States and ruin numberless
families. Could it be that this prophecy of the insidious and poisonous
“Black box” is both the television as well as the Internet connected to
the “Black box” of the Computer, what to do you think?
- TRIAL-MARRIAGES/FREE-UNIONS/COHABITATION.
It is all but a plague today among many so-called Catholics,
Christians, to start off their life together by simply living together,
free-union, “Shacking out” as they used to say in the 60’s! This
expression of sexual promiscuity is becoming so common, pervasive and
relevant to the modern world that believers, even practicing Catholics,
are becoming desensitized to this immoral phenomena. The reasons behind
this are multiple, but all immoral! Many say that they have to try it
out to see if it works; others say that we have to see if we have good
chemistry; still others, say that they do not want to take such a
serious step of getting married in the Church and to make a wrong
decision. In the mean time they are more than willing to offend God,
live in mortal sin on a permanent basis, give bad example, better yet,
give scandal to their children and to pave their way to the loss of
their immortal souls for all eternity.
In conclusion, let us lift up our minds, hearts,
souls and desires in prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the holy
and chaste Saint Joseph. Let us beg them fervently for ourselves, our
family members as well as the whole world for the grace to be free from
the slaveries of the present world, especially the all-prevalent slavery
of lust. Let us beg both Our Lady through her most pure and Immaculate
Heart and the most pure heart of Saint Joseph for the grace to live out
this challenging but freeing Beatitude: “Blessed are the pure of heart
for they will see God.” (Mt. 5:8) If done we will not be slaves, but
truly free sons and daughters of our heavenly Father!
 from Courageous Priest
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