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🗓️ 14 September 2017
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Did you know we have the ability to write our own stories? So often we consider ourselves victims of our own passions, constantly giving in to them while thinking they’re too strong. In this video, Fr. Mike empowers us to live out the vow we make in our Act of Contrition to “avoid the near occasions of sin.” Who knows where the path of life may lead if we simply choose a path other than the one upon which we know temptation lurks?
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is the Sinship Presents. |
0:10.7 | So recently I've been talking with a lot of couples who seem to have kind of the same |
0:16.2 | some similar like issues right in their relationship and sometimes the issue that a lot of couples |
0:20.3 | have in their relationship is that they want, they want to be pure right in their relationship |
0:25.3 | they want to really truly love each other not use each other physically. |
0:29.2 | I mean they find themselves doing what they don't want to do right? |
0:32.4 | They find themselves getting into trouble like it's falling with each other essentially |
0:36.1 | and so a lot of times they'll either contact me or we'll meet here and say what do we do |
0:41.6 | because we feel so powerless in this we break up are we supposed to like what are we |
0:45.8 | supposed to do and I got a couple things to say about that. |
0:48.9 | Number one it's fantastic and phenomenal and really great that you're both united in |
0:53.7 | wanting to love each other not use each other well done. |
0:58.0 | Number two do we need to break up? |
1:00.8 | Not necessarily. |
1:01.8 | I mean if the rest of your relationship is really healthy you good for each other you |
1:05.8 | help each other out you leave each other closer to the Lord except in this one area then |
1:09.9 | it's this one area that needs to change maybe not the whole relationship right so so give |
1:14.1 | yourself a little breathing room here but something needs to change. |
1:19.0 | I'll talk to couples say we've been praying and we've been you know we heard a confession |
1:22.6 | we fall and like nothing we do helps this is where I come in nothing you do helps. |
1:32.3 | Well tell me they're script is the question I always ask like what's the script like where |
1:36.2 | are you and when is it when does it happen because it probably isn't happened just randomly |
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