Means to Live Holy Purity
Book Details
Author(s)Rev. Fr. John Portavella
PublisherCobrin Publishing
ISBN / ASINB0091USY3U
ISBN-13978B0091USY31
Sales Rank699,592
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
MEANS TO LIVE HOLY PURITY and HOW TO OVERCOME PORNOGRAPHY is a very readable collection of realistic pieces of advice on how to live a clean, wholesome and upright life in an environment often polluted with nudity and immoral erotic exposures.
In a straightforward manner, the author, Rev. John C. Portavella, looks at holy purity, lived in our present world, not only as something possible, but necessary if we are to live a full and truly happy life.
This booklet, already in its third edition in less than one year, has had an enthusiastic reception. Far from finding in it a heavy treatise on moral theology, many readers have found in it a guide, together with encouragement, to live a clean life in our modern world.
Based on his long experience in spiritual counseling and in pastoral work with very different kinds of persons, Rev. Portavella, a priest of the Opus Dei prelature who has been in the Philippines since 1967, shows a firm conviction that holy purity can be lived, and should be lived, in our 21st century as well as in the past.
Following the teachings of St. JosemarÃa Escrivá, the author looks at chastity as a joyful affirmation of love, and makes clear that, without any doubt, the best means to live holy purity is to have an intense interior life of love of God, a firm commitment to Jesus Christ and much devotion to the Mother of God.
The booklet also includes some clear suggestions on how to tackle the predicament of homosexuality affecting some persons.
The last portion is devoted to giving specific advice on how to react when faced with several sets of circumstances in which a person is bombarded with pornographic material.
Although recently published, the booklet has already elicited very positive reactions among its readers. Some have said things as, ‘it changed my life’, others that, ‘it helped me very much in my personal struggle’, and still others that, ‘it has proven to be useful not only to the youngsters, but to the older ones as wellâ€.
In a straightforward manner, the author, Rev. John C. Portavella, looks at holy purity, lived in our present world, not only as something possible, but necessary if we are to live a full and truly happy life.
This booklet, already in its third edition in less than one year, has had an enthusiastic reception. Far from finding in it a heavy treatise on moral theology, many readers have found in it a guide, together with encouragement, to live a clean life in our modern world.
Based on his long experience in spiritual counseling and in pastoral work with very different kinds of persons, Rev. Portavella, a priest of the Opus Dei prelature who has been in the Philippines since 1967, shows a firm conviction that holy purity can be lived, and should be lived, in our 21st century as well as in the past.
Following the teachings of St. JosemarÃa Escrivá, the author looks at chastity as a joyful affirmation of love, and makes clear that, without any doubt, the best means to live holy purity is to have an intense interior life of love of God, a firm commitment to Jesus Christ and much devotion to the Mother of God.
The booklet also includes some clear suggestions on how to tackle the predicament of homosexuality affecting some persons.
The last portion is devoted to giving specific advice on how to react when faced with several sets of circumstances in which a person is bombarded with pornographic material.
Although recently published, the booklet has already elicited very positive reactions among its readers. Some have said things as, ‘it changed my life’, others that, ‘it helped me very much in my personal struggle’, and still others that, ‘it has proven to be useful not only to the youngsters, but to the older ones as wellâ€.
