Mother Silouana (Vlad) talks about a common addiction among young people, the sexual addiction. There is a cure, there is a healer, there is God, Who heals us through regular confession and patience.
Contemporary Moral Issues Series
Subtitles: English, Romanian
Video source: https://doxologia.ro/evenimente/video-conferinta-iubirea-dependenta-emotionala-cum-le-deosebim-sustinuta-de-monahia
Mother Silouana:
“Love, at the time of falling in love, in this openness to the other person’s mystery, ends in a closing in the pleasure that is asked by curiosity, sometimes even forced with threats, like: “otherwise we break up”, and so on. So, this is the hardest addiction for you, for today’s youth, the addiction for sexual pleasure.
There is a cure, there is a healer, there is God, Who heals us… By going often to confession, that bath full of shame that you live not at the first confession, where it comes very natural, but at the second, tenth, twentieth, again, again and again…By having patience and by understanding that the wound is slow in healing and…
There are young people who write to me that they despair: “Why doesn’t God help me? I refrained myself, I avoided it for so many months, then again I fell… Why doesn’t God help me?” And then I asked Him, “Lord, why don’t You help them? What is happening here?” And I have found in the writings of a Holy Father that sometimes He lets us fall into a passion to which we are addicted, in order for us to get rid of another subtle passion: pride, vainglory… in order to teach us not to judge the others…”
I disagree. I think ur supposed to hate it but even more important is to not do it. Yes we are supposed to be humble and not have pride without a doubt but there are so many reasons why we fall back into it that she’s unaware of.
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Yes you can do this as an Orthodox Christian. although the man who created the program uses meditation, he does not expect the people that use his program to use meditation as well. you can use prayer as a substitute or the Bible or the Jesus prayer. Personally I'm gonna use the Bible and and meditation with some Jesus prayer while using the program. This is the best program there is out there for anyone addicted to sex. This is coming from a guy who's done insane amounts of research, and I never say things with this much certainty.
Thank you for this
Thank you Mother Silouana.
A prayer for the intercession of the Mother of God and st. Mary of Egypt really helps in one's struggle with this passion.
Thanks.
There is something called nofap.Its a great thing for us men,that seperets us from our perveted thoughts frees us from the things that captured us a long time.ago.It brings back our purpose,our strengt,our manhood and our self-respect,esstem and so on.Be the one whole rules your brain and actions and not your thoughts,bcs our thoughts influce our life.Never forget that you are in charge of yourself and no one else willhelp you but you.Joy, happiness and God are knocking on our door and it is on us to open them
Beautifully said, thank you
O iubesc pe Maica Siluana Vlad. Cum pot comunica cu ea, direct?
Incredible wisdom
It doesn’t seem that she is saying humility gets rid of this sin, she is saying God may want to deal with other passions first on the way to healing this one
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The fall into one's addiction with the purpose of curing other flaw like vainglory, pride is mentioned and discussed in the Ladder of Divine Ascent written by St. John Climacus
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