https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUW6BTE3FQ
[1] Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; [2] And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. [3] But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: [4] Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks. [5] For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Saint Paul, Ephesians 5: 1-5
The Gospel of Christ saves us in this world and the next. May the mercy of God have been granted to this troubled young lady who led a life of living death. Only in God do we have a way to light our path through this Vale of Tears.
Only fans- sell your soul for quick money. She prostituted herself online and expected it to result in love and a family. How? Once again, when you take morality and God out of the equation, the result is empty and meaningless. What will it take for people to understand this. Surely this is not rocket science. When all else fails, go back to basics- God.
There are no substitutes for a true relationship with God.
The tempter has thousands if not tens of thousands of substitutes.
Alluring. Monetarily profitable. Honorable. Fashionable. Sophisticated. Famous.
All of his false God’s promises happiness, but never Joy.
Only Joy can sustain us through our trials. Joy is the realization that God Loves us. A deep tangible realization that He loves you.
The tempter can’t substitute that realization because the creation of our soul has the stamp from it’s creator on it. It is there. Once the conscience is deformed and unresponsive to the creator’s millions of attempts to awaken the conscience, then the pickings are easy for the tempter to collect it’s prey.
I hope and pray she asked God for forgiveness as she fell from the 22nd floor.
Every day I try to say a prayer for those involved in this industry or those who are consumers of their product. It just seems so empty and strips all value from the marital act.
Ezabelle-
Expected, probably not, but was so lonely that she hoped it would be enough, probably.
It’s hard to ‘go back’ to something you were probably never secure in in the first place, and part of the tactical isolation of people is to try to make them ignore that you can be forgiven. There’s a good chance that if someone did try to reach out to her, it was in the format where what she heard was that even the tiny comfort of ‘people like to look at my body’ would be taken from her, and she’d be even more alone and isolated than ever before.
The destruction of the family, and of friendships, and of properly oriented mate-finding, makes this not just a predictable result– but a tragically obvious one. The only route for companionship is by letting yourself be used.
It’s a lie, of course it’s a lie, but we have to recognize the shape of the lie to be able to correct it.
Sad indeed. Prostitution, pornography and sex trafficking is a scourge. I was reading the Catholic Herald this morning as I was attacking my paper wallow.. There was a good article on suicide. One of the points was that victims can now have a funeral Mass with burial in consecrated ground. Did this young woman even know about God? That there is an after life? Nominally Russia is 71% Orthodox Christian. Like many countries in the West the birth rate is down and life expectancy is short.
Supposedly the Russian Orthodox Church is out from the underground, alive and well. Putin has said he is a baptised Christian. Okay so the leader of Russian and its republics has publically professed his faith. Good but what is the Russian culture like now?
@Cam- to my knowledge, Russia and it’s former Soviet countries produced a lot of sex workers and escorts after communism was dissolved. My knowledge is that many worked in the Middle East. Many did so to support family back home. The destructive poverty that communism produced pushed them there to the point that these girls did anything for money. Anything. Even though Russia and it’s former Soviet nations are staunchly orthodox as you say (it’s a wonder Christianity survived communism there and even the poison of Islam). But I think as the years went on and the nations recovered and the people recovered (and still recovering) I’m not sure that many young women turned to prostitution as a source of income anymore. I would imagine being dirt poor is not the reason this girl did (I could be wrong) because she is from a generation who didn’t know the poverty of communism. She probably saw the quick money, and thought to use her beauty to make money. Only fans business model is to make quick money from home.
@foxfier- I hear you. It’s the “I’m not worthy for forgiveness” part that I would imagine she got stuck in. Otherwise she would have left that life. I guess it’s a problem with society that at least we should all know sometime in our short lives that the one who created us will not abandon us, deep down, christian or not. I mean our souls are programmed to know this. And surely, from a self-respect point of view, she knew what she was doing was taboo and would likely not lead to a conventional life like marriage and kids. Surely. Who knows now.
From “The Bump”:
Kristina as a girl’s name is of Scandinavian and Czechoslovakian origin meaning “follower of Christ”.
https://www.thebump.com/b/kristina-baby-name
From “The Priest Is Not His Own” by Fulton Sheen:
The line between sanctity and sin is a fine one. It is easy to cross, and the one who crosses can quickly gain momentum in either direction.
We can see the truth of the point if we compare Peter and Judas.
Our Lord warned both Peter and Judas that they would fall.
Why is one at the head of the list and the other at the bottom? Because Peter repented unto the Lord, but Judas unto himself.
Judas recognized that he had betrayed “innocent blood”, but he never wanted to be washed clean in it. Peter knew he had sinned and sought Redemption. Judas knew he had made a mistake and sought release—the first of the long army of escapists from the Cross.
One wonders if Judas, as he stood beneath the tree that would bring him death, ever looked across the valley to the Tree that would have brought him life.
On this difference of repenting unto the Lord and repenting unto self, as did Peter and Judas respectively, Paul would later comment in these words:
Supernatural remorse leads to an abiding and salutary change of heart, whereas the world’s remorse leads to death.
2 Corinthians 7:10
Judas was the type who said, “What a fool I am”; Peter, “Oh, what a sinner”. It is a paradox that we begin to be good only when we know we are evil. Judas had self-disgust, which is a form of pride; Peter had, not a regrettable experience, but a metanoia, a change of heart. The conversion of the mind is not necessarily the conversion of the will.
Judas grieved for the consequences of his sin, as a single girl might sorrow over her pregnancy. Peter was sorry for the sin itself because he wounded Love. Guilt without hope in Christ is despair and suicide. Guilt with hope in Christ is mercy and joy.
Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up Our Lord for any earthly thing, sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer want it. Having loved the best, we can be satisfied with nothing less. Divinity is always betrayed out of all proportion to its due worth. And the tragedy is that he might have been Saint Judas.
Quotermeister.
Thanks for your insights.
Very good.
Blessed Fulton Sheen’s quote was a diamond of great brilliance.
Great find.