True Love Waits - Pure Hearts

Like drug and alcohol dependency, enslavement to sexual pleasure can take a variety of different forms. What they all have in common is the inability to exercise control over one’s sexual impulses and the exalting of pleasure as the highest good.

“After reading about the Movement of Pure Hearts in your magazine, I gave the matter some thought. After a few more days’ reflection I decided to come out of my selfishness, to entrust myself to God and allow myself to be healed in His ‘clinic for pure hearts.’” Joanna

I have been very cautious in approaching the testimonies of Love One Another’s readers, especially the testimonies dealing with self-abuse. Know why? Because...

Every year I travel throughout the United States and speak with millions of teenagers. Meeting them has taught me a great deal. Before I began organizing speaking tours with young people, I worked for nine years in a family crisis center for pregnant women in Chicago and Minneapolis.

I want to tell you about the most wonderful event of my life – about a great sinner’s encounter with Divine Mercy. At the age of thirteen I fell into the sin of self-abuse. It began as an innocent “pleasure.” Before long, “that most normal of things on the road to maturity” (way to go, editors of Bravo and Popcorn magazines!) degenerated into an obsession and monstrous addiction.

It all began six years ago when I was twelve years old. By chance I picked up a women’s magazine with an article on sex in it. Fascinated by the contents and photos, I began to masturbate for the first time. After that, I began a feverish search for similar material in other publications and glossy magazines.

Only love gives meaning to life, suffering and death. Only through love can Jesus lead us to eternal life. That is why God became a real man, and why, since His death and resurrection, He remains with us in the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist.