Pope Francis said this in the catechism dedicated to lust at the general audience on Wednesday sexual pleasure “is a gift from God” undermined “by pornography” and underlined that “true love is given” because “it is not possessed”.
Falling in love, he explained, It is one of the purest feelings “a vital experience in people’s lives” and “one of the most surprising realities of existence”.
The Pope during his catechesis dedicated to lust. Photo: ReutersFrancisco said that “nobody knows” why to fall in love so central to human life. “One person falls in love with another, falling in love comes” and describes the “strength and beauty of love”.
“In Christianity there is no condemnation of the sexual instinct. “A book of the Bible, the Song of Songs, is a wonderful poem about the love between two lovers.”
In Christianity there is no condemnation of the sexual instinct
The Pope described the “garden of wonders” which makes the lover become generous, enjoy the gift, stop thinking about himself to project himself fully towards the other”.
The demon of lust
But that garden “could be contaminated by the demon of lusta particularly hateful vice.”
Lust “devastates relationships between people, as everyday news shows. “How many relationships, which started in the best way, then turn into toxic relationships, into possession of the other, disrespect”, highlighted the Argentine pontiff.
He was missed in those loves chastity“a virtue that should not be confused with sexual abstinence but with the will to never possess another”.
“Love is respecting others, seeking their happiness, cultivating empathy for their feelings.” Lust, on the other hand, “makes fun of all this, plunder, steal, consume quickly and considers all courtship boring.
The Pope underlined that “sex involves all the sensesit lives in the body as in the psyche, but if it is not disciplined with patience, if it is not part of a relationship and a story in which two individuals transform it in a love dance, it becomes a chain that deprives man of freedom.”
Jorge Bergoglio underlined that “sexual pleasure is a gift from God, which is undermined by pornography: satisfaction without a relationship that can generate forms of addiction”.
Sexual pleasure is a gift from God, which is undermined by pornography
As “we must defend love, the love of the heart, of the mind, of the body, the pure love in giving oneself to the other and this is the beauty of the sexual act”, explained the Pope.
The pontiff encouraged to fight lust, underlining that “preserving” “the beauty that makes us believe that building a story together is better than embarking on an adventure”.
The Pope concluded his catechesis by stating: “True love is not possessed, it is given. Serving is better than conquering. Because if there is no love, life is sad loneliness”.
Source: Clarin
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