"How Do I Break Free from Pornography?" (Special Podcast Highlight)
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Madrid has a candid conversation with Jorge, a 27-year-old who’s rekindling his Catholic faith after a 17-year hiatus. Jorge’s struggle? Overcoming the grip of porn addiction and other bad habits formed during his years away from the Church.
🌟 Key Points from the Conversation:
Rediscovering Faith: Jorge shares his journey back to Catholicism, filled with love for his newfound spiritual path, but he’s battling long-standing bad habits, particularly porn addiction.
Taking Radical Steps:
Be Ruthless: Patrick emphasizes a no-nonsense approach, referencing Jesus' teaching about plucking out the eye if it causes you to sin (metaphorically, of course).
Eliminate Triggers:
If the smartphone is the problem, ditch it for a simpler device.
Load up accountability software on necessary devices to prevent access to inappropriate sites.
Building Accountability:
Patrick encourages Jorge to find an accountability partner, someone whose knowledge of his struggle would motivate him to stay clean.
Cultivating Virtue:
Replace lust with purity and chastity. This involves practical steps like custody of the eyes—training oneself to look away from potential temptations.
Community Support:
Patrick recommends Catholic in Recovery, a 12-step program that’s Jesus-centered and parish-based, helping individuals overcome addictions.
Spiritual Weapons:
Pray the Rosary daily.
Stay close to Jesus through the sacraments.
Avoid giving any “slack” to bad habits; even a small allowance can lead to a major setback, akin to an alcoholic taking a sip.
Practical Analogy:
Patrick likens the fight against porn addiction to lifting weights: initially hard and painful, but persistence builds strength and resilience.
Moral Imagination:
Visualize the most embarrassing person knowing about the porn habit and use that as a deterrent and accountability check.
Jorge’s resolve to overcome his addiction through faith and rigorous discipline serves as an inspiring testament to the power of spiritual commitment and community support. Never give up! Victory over vice is possible.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How about Jorge now in Georgetown, Texas? Good morning, Jorge. Hi. I had a question regarding, well, |
| 0:06.9 | I grew up a casual Catholic, you know, participating in baptism when I was young. When I was 10 years |
| 0:12.9 | old, I had my comedian. We never met back for whatever reason. So enough of a Catholic to give me |
| 0:18.0 | to that point. After 17 years, since I was 10, some 27 now, I decided to go back to my faith for a multitude of reasons, |
| 0:26.1 | I'm in love with it. |
| 0:27.3 | But one of the things I'm struggling with right now, especially since I jumped back in four months ago, |
| 0:32.2 | I believe, to this day, three months, is a lot of the bad habits I developed in those years, especially those 17 years |
| 0:39.3 | being away from the faith, that I was struggling to break. |
| 0:42.9 | And I'm especially scared about them since I know some of the habits have led me to mortal |
| 0:47.7 | sin. |
| 0:48.4 | And so I'm just wondering how I need to go about breaking these habits. |
| 0:53.4 | It seems like, you know, this image that I have of how I'm supposed to interpret it is I'm supposed to go cold turkey. But at the same time, you know, one of them, yes, one of them is to deal with that. Okay. And yeah, I just, I don't want to have to be going to confession every soon as day I can to deal with these. and but at the same time again it's's, you know, I'm like, you know, I'm thinking in this kind of realm of like, well, it's, you know, it's 17 years of habits. Like, is it truly realistic to expect to snap out of it so soon? And, you know, especially into my journey back to the state. Well, you're in a lot better situation to be able to kick the habit now than you were, |
| 1:29.9 | as you already know, during the 17 years of wandering in the wilderness, right? |
| 1:34.2 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:34.9 | Okay. |
| 1:35.6 | So I look at it this way. |
| 1:37.7 | What did Jesus say? |
| 1:38.8 | He said, if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. |
| 1:42.6 | If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. |
| 1:46.0 | For it's better to enter into eternal life missing an eye or a hand or a foot than it is to |
| 1:51.4 | have your whole body intact and be thrown into the fires of hell. So you notice that the Lord |
| 1:56.9 | offers a very radical and ruthless way of dealing with this. And obviously, he doesn't mean |
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