A Struggle for Chastity: How to use this web blog?

Friday, April 5, 2024

How to use this web blog?

MAY THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU!

WELCOME!

My name is Augustine Dela Cruz.

Here is my Best Chastity Practices & Principles. This link is where you can find and download my unpublished book "A Struggle for Chastity: A Sexual Addict's Story of Despair and Freedom" in four parts.

The side column has so many announcements, quotes, prayers, and links about sexual addiction that might benefit you. Here is where another blog of mine A Journal of Healing can be found.

I have degrees in philosophy, psychology, theology, education, but not in counseling. I have said also my reason why I hide my identity. That said you can email me if you need so.

May the Blessed Virgin Mary always guide us towards our salvation in Christ!

St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Therese, St. John Paul II, St. Jude, St. Raphael, Ven. Bruno, pray for us!

Prayer

O Virgin most pure, well known as VIRGEN PURISIMA, I come to thee, begging with all the ardor of my soul that thou help me, that thou assist and strengthen me in the conflict I must wage to keep unspotted and undefiled the emblem of my dedication the thee, Virgin most holy. Show me how best to conquer the temptations that assail me; hear my plea and if in moments of weakness, I should be careless, do thou strengthen me so that I may be faithful to my God, to thee, and loyal to the better promptings of my nature.

Begin Again: The Spiritual Legacy of Ven. Bruno Lanteri with Fr. Timothy Gallagher

“I will not allow myself to be discouraged, however I may fall. If God is for me, who can be against me [Rom 8:31]? Though I fall a thousand times, each time… I will rise again as peaceful as if it were the first, knowing my weakness and knowing, Lord, your great mercy.” “And so,” Bruno exclaimed, “if I should fall even a thousand times a day, a thousand times, with peaceful repentance, I will say immediately, Nunc coepi [Now I begin], my God, my God!” “Holiness does not consist in never failing, but in rising immediately, recognizing our weakness and asking God’s forgiveness, and in doing this with peace of heart without letting ourselves be troubled…"