Pocket-sized supplicatory service
to the Humble Victor over Carnal
Passions; an aid to escape their destructive impact on the soul. Includes a prayer against internet pornography.
32 pgs.
Excerpts from the introduction:
… With great skill, Satan exploits this passion of sexual lust in a variety of ways, seeking to destroy the keystone of our civilized society: the traditional family….
My brothers and sisters in Christ, our society is super-saturated with pleasure-arousing attractions: provocative movies, TV programs with commercials that openly glorify promiscuity; graphic, unchristian sexual education materials which many public middle schools are using in their “health” classes (alas! Even in some grammar schools); a plethora of pornographic websites, which are easily accessible to our youth; and cell phone apps created specifically for sexually active teenagers. The pornographic lifestyle assaults the senses wherever we look…
The fruits of this corruption are being harvested in a nation that is replacing the worship of God with the worship of fulfilling one’s desires. …
From the prayers:
Behold my sorrow and the groaning of my heart, O venerable one! Behold the imprisonment of my life! Save me from my sin, and take pity on my soul by thy mediations before the Lord!
Ode 9
