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米国サンディエゴの聖パトリックカトリック教会教区におけるエキュメニカル宣教

Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo

Saturday, August 31, 2019

How do we solve the problem of desire?

In the Face of Sexual Temptation, Repression Is a Sure-Fire Failure
In the Face of Sexual Temptation, Repression Is a Sure-Fire Failure
How do we solve the problem of desire? Christian asceticism offers an alternative way.
Rachel Gilson
My first relationship to desire was to give in to it. As a teenager in the early aughts, I believed that life was found by identifying my desires and rushing toward their satisfaction. I played this out in academics and especially in sexuality. My life beat to the pulse of Ariana Grande’s chant, “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.” The right response to desire was indulgence.
Unbeknownst to me as a nonChristian, the purity movement was running in parallel. Those who experienced ...
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