The Lie: Carnal Desire & Pleasure Are "Beautiful Natural Gifts of GOD, Implanted in Human Nature From Creation"
Hear me, brethren, and tremble!
Do not be deceived by what the world calls natural!
Do not be seduced by what men call a blessing!
The measure of true humanity is Christ the Lord!
The standard of human life is the Blessed Virgin, preserved from all stain from the first instant of her conception!
He took flesh—yet no concupiscence stirred in Him!
She bore Him—yet no wound of desire touched her womb or her heart!
Behold, brethren! In the New Adam and the New Eve, we see what humanity was made to be:
virginity, continence, and purity of body and soul—this is the natural state of man!
Not concupiscence! Not carnal pleasure!
Christ reveals it by nature assumed; the Virgin confirms it by grace preserved.
Carnal desire is not a natural gift from the Creator, but a consequence of fallen nature.
Carnal pleasure is not a blessing of God!
They are the wound of the Fall,
a rebellion of the flesh against reason,
a law in the members warring against the law of the mind!
Do not crown the wound!
Do not call fever a blessing!
Do not call shadow light, disorder grace!
They are tolerated, yes, for the weak.
They are permitted, yes, for the fallen.
But they are not gifts of God in creation!
Look to Christ! Look to the Virgin!
In them, the flesh bore no wound, felt no stirrings, required no obedience!
Their humanity was pure, undisturbed, whole—the measure of what man was made to be!
Let all men understand: virginity, continence, perfect chastity—this is the proper, natural state of man, restored and revealed in the New Adam and the New Eve!
Measure all things by them, not by the stirrings of the flesh, not by indulgence, not by custom!
Carnal desire and carnal pleasure are shadows of corruption!
They are tolerated, yes, but they are not gifts of God!
Blessed are those who see this truth,
who walk by this measure,
who long for what is whole, what is pure, what is ordered to God!
For when the flesh is healed, when desire is subdued,
when disorder is removed,
then God shall be all in all!
To Christ our Lord, to the Father, and to the Holy Ghost, be glory forever and ever. Amen!