Yesterday, Sunday, February 16, San Francisco director of vocations Father Cameron Faller, 32, spoke at Star of the Sea parish of a plague more deadly than coronavirus.
Watch his 9-minute homily here.
Go to the 5 minute 15 second marker of the video:
“I know that there’s many people who struggle deeply with this. I know that there’s many people who are trying to break free of this. For many people of my generation, it’s really in a sense not our fault. We were born into this.”
That is an important and needed homily. I pray this issue is addressed in more and more parishes. As much as we don’t like to admit it, Catholics, in our pews every Sunday, struggle with pornography. Thanks be to God for the hope, freedom, forgiveness, deliverance and healing that we have in Jesus Christ and for the gift of the sacrament of Confession.
Well, bless Fr. Faller! A fine young priest! Every single day, I have prayed to God about these horrific moral issues, since the Devil began his evil chokehold on our Church and country, in the 1960s– long before this fine young priest was born! Can God send him, to help answer all our sad prayers?? From the day these evils started– all my family and friends, put our feet down staunchly– refusing ALL of the 1960s filthy books, clothes, records, TV shows, movies, and later, computer garbage, etc.!! No exceptions! We have our own culture! — the “pre-1960s America,” and older Church, too! Nothing else! Period! We have nothing in common, with “1960s hippie leftist-liberals” and their filthy TRASH! GET LOST, all of you!
Many today, seem to have NO IDEA of what it takes, to effectively deal with human weakness– and SIN!! I recall, when young, doing a summer internship on an Indian reservation. We all were also daily Mass-goers. I worked in the hospital. This once-great culture of Native Americans was now hopelessly corrupted– nearly every single one of them deeply scarred with every type of addiction, abuse, crime and sin– with no future! Many of the young people were dying of drugs and alcoholism, in the hospital! Hopeless! Next– we saw our once-great country torn to pieces by horrific SIN, in the filthy 1960s! Same thing! The jaws of Death, everywhere! No “smarts” with our religious and civic leaders! And yes– SIN KILLS! St. Paul is correct about that! MORTAL SIN can kill an entire Nation!
I will give one more example, of how Mortal Sin can kill a great Nation! China was once a great Nation– until the evil scourge of the lucrative opium trade began to destroy it, starting in about the 6th or 7th century. Finally, members of the ruling family began to fall ill and die, due to opium addiction– and later, China was overtaken by Communist rule. Communists claim that opium addiction was finally eradicated in Red China, in the 1950s– with use of strict Communist tactics! Could that ever happen— in America??
It has been said, historically– that dope addiction will bring once-decent people down to the lowest criminal level– and finally, destroy them! All the other sins will quickly follow! That is what happened in America– starting in the filthy, violent “hippie 1960s!”
“For many people of my generation, it’s really in a sense not our fault. We were born into this.”
More victimization?
Of course it is our fault.
Its an active choice of action
and the more we indulge ourselves in unacceptable pleasurable activity,
the harder it is to let go (smoking, drugs, porn, gayness)
The brain’s pleasure circuits don’t want to feel deprived.
The younger we start, the harder to overcome.
If you play with fire, you get burned.
Then we try to justify it by hormones or circumstances
All children should be taught and warned.
Will power is often a weak opponent against addiction.
Prayer and Dependence on God since we can do little by ourselves
E, if that’s the only flaw in this young priest’s homily, I think he did a fine job and should be commended for it.
Deacon, As you know, website often snip the words of a speech and then recap it with their own title. For example “….It’s not our fault – we were born into this”
Although the original sermon was great and effective,
its backpedaling and mitigatory remarks can unfortunately end up as the take-home message
by websites readers or by us church goers who zone-in and out during the sermon.
And also since probably more people read Cal-Cath then those who attended this homily / youtube video, Its best to be undeviating in direction and message.
A great homily on pornography, the great American epidemic. It has immense corrupting influence and many avoid even admitting it exists.
I recall many years ago, in high school, when several Catholic boys we grew up with, were telling my siblings and I, that they snuck into the movies, and saw a “”Condemned” film– this was when we had the Legion of Decency, before Vatican II. These boys were very nice, and good students, too– and told us anxiously, how deeply they regretted seeing that movie– and how embarrassed they were, at the sex scenes! They couldn’t live with their consciences–and quickly ran off to see the priest, for Confession! I am so used to dealing with good people, with good moral consciences– who would never dream of going near the Satanic Evils present in today’s horrific society! No way! Today, people have no sense of right and wrong– and many ignorantly get deeply trapped in the worst Mortal Sins in the world– lost souls! And why on earth, do they say they are “addicted” to pornography?? Nobody ever used to say they were “addicted” to such trash Only criminals spent many long hours, doing filthy, horrible things! Not normal people, with many responsibilities! But were criminals “addicted” to committing their crimes?? No! They committed definite, willful acts of SIN– and got arrested and punished!
I can just see a so-called “pornography addict” complaining of “withdrawal symptoms,” even maybe needing emergency hospitalization– for quitting his “addiction,” by going “cold turkey!” I can just see him calling up the San Francisco Heroin Needle Exchange Program, telling them tearfully, that he will soon “die,” without his “fix!” Nonsense!