If porn has been a struggle for your boyfriend or girlfriend, that doesn’t mean you have to break up with them the moment they confide in you.
For that hour of worship, the Church celebrates as one family. We stand eternally united and infinitely treasured, closer than ever before.
It then allowed me to see guys for who they really were, and if they didn’t treat me with respect, I didn’t crave that attention or affirmation from them… I just moved on.
I, the girl with a reputation for being a model Catholic, had been struggling with masturbation and pornography for years.
When I run far away like the prodigal son, my Heavenly Father waits for me patiently and welcomes me home with open arms.
In the presence of God is the only place I want to be while I’m a recovering sinner addicted to my own ideology.
And my faith and how I was living my life changed tremendously. This is because I have friends that pray with and for me.
The saints lived incredible, heroic, nearly unbelievable moments because their love for God was just as radical in those moments as it was in the most un-incredible moments of their lives.
Every Catholic that has ever lived — today or thousands of years ago, here or across the globe — is connected to us.