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by Peter Howard –
\nThat\u2019s why Satan attacks purity first because then we can\u2019t see God (\u201cBlessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God\u201d). Lack of purity (moral impurity) results in loss of holiness and that lack of holiness leads to division in relationships, which results in lack of communion of life, which results in not transmitting life and love. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s the oversimplified, but nonetheless true, breakdown how impurity leads from a culture of life and love to a culture of death and self-centered immorality.<\/p>\n
And the world \u2014 and many in the Church \u2014 have rejected the call to purity, embraced immorality and abandoned God, calling this insanity \u201cfreedom.\u201d The result? The most wounded world history has ever seen.<\/p>\n
the world \u2014 and many in the Church \u2014 have rejected the call to purity, embraced immorality and abandoned God, calling this insanity \u201cfreedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Two generations are now deeply wounded by the \u201csexual revolution\u201d \u2014 which was nothing more than a rejection of purity for \u201cfree love\u201d and \u201cfree sex\u201d. This woundedness was anticipated by God Who called the Church and the world back to His Divine Mercy, which is the remedy for any and all wounds \u2014 no matter how great the sin!<\/p>\n
Jesus proclaimed through St. Faustina: “Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity.” by Peter Howard – That\u2019s why Satan attacks purity first because then we can\u2019t see God (\u201cBlessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God\u201d). Lack of purity (moral impurity) results in loss of holiness and that lack of holiness leads to division in relationships, which results in lack of communion of life, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,177,15,130,58,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-false-teachers","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-church","category-roman-catholic","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nExcerpts from: SpiritualDirection.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"