Your practicing of virtue does not protect you from the consequences of other people’s sin.
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Modesty is a virtue, but it does nothing to stop someone else from committing the sin of lust.
St. Maria Goretti was the poster girl for holiness when she was alive, super modest and charitable and all that jazz, but that didn’t stop porn-addicted Alessandro from trying to rape her.
Countless virgin martyrs, such as St. Agnes, were virtuous Christian women, but they were sexually assaulted for their faith and/or for choosing celibacy.
St. Dymphnia was killed for refusing to marry her unstable and incestuous father.
When modesty is discussed in Scripture, it is explained as an outward expression of inward holiness. When lust is discussed, it is explained as displaced sexual desire and attention to anyone who is not your spouse. When one subject is discussed, the other is not.
This is why people need to stop talking about how important it is for people – ESPECIALLY women – to dress in a way to prevent lust in men. That’s not how lust works. That’s not the function of modesty. A woman may act and/or dress in a way so as to purposely seduce someone, but dressing modestly in itself is not a defense mechanism to “protect” you from the lust of men. To say such a thing not only spits in the face of our spiritual sisters in Christ who were assaulted for their faith, but it also ignores the true purpose of modesty and the true seeds of lust. Covering up most of your figure and skin won’t stop someone from hiking up your skirt, or imagining what you might look like anyway.
There are many good reasons to practice modesty. Preventing lust is not one of them.
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Holy Love Message – 10/18/2018
Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know as
the Heart of God the Father. He says: “Children, trust carries you into
the inner recesses of My Paternal Heart. Trust is the virtue not always
seen by others, but confided to Me. The deeper the trust in the soul,
the more the soul can accept My Divine Will. It is then that My Divine
Will becomes one with the free will in the heart of the soul.”
“Challenges then become a way of showing a deep affection for My
Will. Temptations to sin are then seen as unacceptable and quickly
dismissed. The soul that trusts in My Will for him already shares in My
Victory.”
“My Victory is a foretaste of Heaven.”
Read Ephesians 5:15-17+
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise,
making the most of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not
be foolish, but understand what the Will of the Lord is.
+ Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note:
all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the
visionary. Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version –
Second Catholic Edition.)
“Do not claim to have acquired virtue unless you have suffered affliction, for without affliction virtue has not been tested.”
— St. Mark the Ascetic
Holy Love Message – 9/12/2018
Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary
Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know as the Heart of God the Father. He says: “The depth of virtue in any soul is commensurate with the depth of Holy Love in the heart. Holy Love is the foundation of all virtue. So you see, the stronger and more stable the foundation, the stronger and more stable the virtue. Personal holiness cannot deepen unless strides are made to deepen the Holy Love in the heart.”
“So many try to impress others with their holiness without trying to deepen the Holy Love within their heart. Virtue is not virtue if it is practiced to impress others. Great strides will be taken in any virtue if the soul loses sight of himself and places love of Me and others in his heart. Free will must choose this Holy Hiddenness.”
Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-3+
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
+ Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note: all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the visionary. Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition.)
“Many men sneer at virtue because it makes vice uncomfortable”
— Fulton Sheen
Holy Love Message – 7/30/2018
Once again, I (Maureen) see a Great Flame that I have come to know as the Heart of God the Father. He says: “I am Lord of the present moment. The challenge these days is to treasure each moment as a ‘present’ from Me. Too much time is spent upon self-fulfillment. But self is now becoming its own god. Time is the master of all good and evil. People do not realize this.”
“When I call souls to trust, it is not a temporary call but an always call. The same is true of every virtue. Keep your focus on the present and do not be distracted by the past or the future. This alone makes holiness easier.”
Read Hebrews 3:12-13+
Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
+ Scripture verses asked to be read by God the Father. (Please note: all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the visionary. Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition.)
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