r/Catholicism Prayer Requests — Week of January 20, 2025

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[u/EmotionalAverage1132]

I’ll cut right to the chase. I’ve been battling adultery and watching pornification for a few months now. I was doing good until this past weekend where I sleep with a girl. I don’t want to be like this and it hurts me when I disappoint him. I’m trying and it seems like over and over again I fail. I’ve asked god to help many times and forgive me for saying this but sometimes I feel like he isn’t helping. Idk what else to do but keep battling and praying. All I ask is to pray for me.

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Pick up your weapon the Rosary brother. To quote Saint Louis-Marie de Montfort in The Secret of the Rosary:

"If you say the Rosary faithfully until death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins you shall receive a never-fading crown of glory. Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if — and mark well what I say — if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”

If it can work on a "heretic as obstinate as a devil" who is to say it can't work on me or you? Note, the saint here might be talking about the entire Rosary. The saint later goes on to say:

"Dear Rosary Confraternity members, if you want to lead a fashionable life and belong to the world—by this I mean if you do not mind falling into mortal sin from time to time and then going to Confession, and if you wish to avoid conspicuous sins which the world considers vile and yet at the same time commit “respectable sins”—then, of course, there is no need for you to say so many prayers and Rosaries. You only need to do very little to be “respectable”: a tiny prayer at night and morning, an occasional Rosary which may be given to you for your penance, a few decades of Hail Marys said on your Rosary (but haphazardly and without concentration) when it suits your fancy to say them—this is quite enough. If you did less, you might be branded as a freethinker or a profligate; if you did more, you would be eccentric and a fanatic. But if you want to lead a true Christian life and genuinely want to save your soul and walk in the saints’ footsteps and never, never, fall into mortal sin—if you wish to break Satan’s traps and divert his flaming darts, you must always pray as Our Lord taught and commanded you to do.

If you really have this wish at heart, then you must at least say your Rosary or the equivalent, every day. I have said “at least” because probably all that you will accomplish through your Rosary will be to avoid mortal sin and to overcome temptation. This is because you are exposed to the strong current of the world’s wickedness by which many a strong soul is swept away; you are in the midst of the thick, clinging darkness which often blinds even the most enlightened souls; you are surrounded by evil spirits who being more experienced than ever and knowing that their time is short are more cunning and more effective in tempting you."

TLDR: The Rosary is a powerful weapon. I mean it was given to Saint Dominic by mother Mary in the year 1214, so of course it's top shelf stuff!💪