Welcome to daily Rosary meditations with Dr. Mike Schurselik, where you learn how to meditate and establish a daily habit of prayer while discovering the truths of the Catholic faith. Is there someone you know that could benefit from daily prayer?

Share this meditation with them. Welcome to our next episode in our series on marriage love, family and sexuality.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

So why does the church consider sexual sins grave matter?

The Catholic Church doesn't judge other people's souls

so the church never says anybody is going to hell.

She never says that a particular person is in mortal sin. But the

church does say that certain actions are gravely wrong. Like it's gravely wrong to have an innocent person executed or to swindle people out of their life savings.

To say that something is gravely wrong is just to say that it's a really bad thing to do and most

people would recognize that some sexual crimes are really bad like if it's

non-consensual or if it's non-consensual, or if it's against a minor, for instance.

But they don't understand why the church makes such a fuss about so many sexual sins.

Why does the church teach that so many sexual misdeeds are gravely wrong?

The answer is that sexual sin destroys such great goods, like marriage and families and kids and whole societies.

And this has terrible consequences for oneself and for others.

Our father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name,

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us,

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,

Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee,

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