Welcome, Catholic Pilgrims. Wherever you are in the world, I hope you are having a good day.
When I was a teenager, I pretty much watched, read, and listened to whatever I wanted. Because I am naturally draw to beautiful expressions of art—be that music, movies, or books—for the most part, I entertained myself with mostly okay things.
However, I still engaged in whatever entertainment I wanted and it negatively affected me. I spoke like a sailor and I was crude. Entertainment influenced me whether I would have admitted it or not.
When I was 18, my then boyfriend and I rented the movie “Faces of Death.” If you don’t know what that is, they are a series of movies that document real life death situations. You see a person get shot. You see a person get hit by a train. It’s truly a horrific thing to have out there and it sickens me that I ever watched it.
My dad happened to see that we were going to watch it and he said to me, “Amy, this isn’t something you want to feed your mind with.” I brushed him off, but deep down I knew he was right. The intent of the show was to desensitize death and make money off of people’s tragedies. It was and is poison.
St. Francis is going to talk to us today about modesty in conversation and making our lives reverent. Let’s open our books to Chapter Twenty-Seven of the Third Part.
