{"id":145,"date":"2010-03-13T13:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:35:22","slug":"beauty-or-object-of-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/beauty-or-object-of-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty or Object of Pleasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue with our discussion of the Seven Deadly Sins.\u00a0 Today we look at lust.<\/em>\u00a0 Lust<\/em> and love<\/em> are two different things.\u00a0 When we love someone we care about their needs.\u00a0 We do what we can to help them because we understand them to be a “person” with a special dignity given by God.\u00a0 We love someone for who they are, not what they look like.<\/p>\n

Lust, on the other hand, is largely based on physical traits.\u00a0 In lust, we look at the other person, not as a person, but as an object.\u00a0 <\/em>The object is mainly a means to achieve sexual pleasure as a physical act.\u00a0 We can “lust” for a person and still love them.\u00a0 Often, it is some one’s physical traits that initially attracts us to them.\u00a0 It becomes lust<\/em> when the physical is all we are concerned with.\u00a0\u00a0When we act out\u00a0lust, we are failing to treat the person as a person with dignity who deserves to be loved.<\/p>\n

Lust can dominate our actions and lead to sins of adultery and fornication.\u00a0\u00a0Sexual intercourse is meant to be between two people in a loving and committed relationship.\u00a0\u00a0Does lust\u00a0control your actions?\u00a0 Ask yourself, “when you meet a\u00a0new person (or\u00a0just hanging out with friends) do you\u00a0think about about their physical traits (i.e. how nice a body they have) or do you interact with them on a deeper level of conversation talking about who\u00a0they are and what is\u00a0important to them?<\/p>\n

What’s more important? What’s on the outside or inside?\u00a0 If you\u00a0only think about the\u00a0“outside of a person” then you need to learn to control your lust.\u00a0 When we see a beautiful person, it can be natural to be attracted to them.\u00a0 But we must control our thoughts to focus on the person, not just as an object, but as a child of God.<\/p>\n

Peace,<\/p>\n

Fr. Jeff\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue with our discussion of the Seven Deadly Sins.\u00a0 Today we look at lust.\u00a0 Lust and love are two different things.\u00a0 When we love someone we care about their needs.\u00a0 We do what we can to help them because we understand them to be a “person” with a special dignity given by God.\u00a0 We …<\/p>\n

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