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Courageous Love #1 - Reflection

Program 1: The Good News about Chaste Love (on Formed.org) It is interesting to listen to these very real people, who are part of  Courage , share their story on their own personal experience of same sex attractions. Sexual attractions can easily grow into "using" for our own self pleasures. "I realized that the people I used to idolized turned to being sexualized instead." One interesting thing one of the members shared was, "Doing it (sex) was a distraction from the guilt that I was doing ." As the readings these past few days has been pointing out, sin begets sin. Although we know the goodness of the Lord, yet we still very much sin in ways of the flesh. St. Paul wrote " In my inmost self I dearly love God’s Law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles against the law which my reason dictates. This is what makes me a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body." (Rom 7:22-23) Indeed, the temptations