When I was a kid there was no cell phone, no computers, no internet, no video games. We basically watched TV and play inside and outside. I came from a poor and devoted Catholic family, my parents had 3 daughter, I am the middle one. My mom did not let us to watch TV all day. We had only one tv, black and white, and we watched as a family, we had only 3 channels and the channels back then were very into family and values. We did not have many toys, we did not have books either, sometimes we had to make our own toys and our own games, it was fun, specially when the electric power was out in our neighborhood (it happened a lot), we run outside to see the beautiful stars in the sky ! And I as said, we did not have many books, the only books we had at home were the school boys and the Bible. And when I was around 9 or 10 I started to read the Bible, I loved to read the nice stories in the Old Testament, also I enjoyed to read the New one. As a teen I was so fascinated by the Bible, and i was disappointed that our reality and our modern times the things were so different from the Bible, I wish I was lived in that era, Bible times.
The reason I am writing this is that...can you imagine if I was raised in the modern 21 century, with 100 plus channels, evil television programs, with a lot of gay TV shows, and internet full of porno and evil stuff?? maybe I was to be devoted and had the Faith! The times now for a real and good Catholic are very hard times! We have to be strong in Faith to fight against the evil. I am not saying that everything online is evil, we still can find very good and traditional and good values websites here, and internet has become a library where we can find all information that we are looking for, but we have to avoid what is evil. If we don`t know what is evil, we have to pray for the Holy Spirit to teach us, to guide us, to show us what is evil and what is good.
Also we have to be careful with chat room. We can easily meet people at chat rooms. Some have good intentions and are good Christians, but some are evil intentions, some are predators and/or are abusive people. And some are anti Christian values, liberal people who does all kind of immorality, you have to avoid these people.
"Bad company corrupts good character."(1 Corinthians 15:3)
'Now and then, I am amazed at the evil one bad
companion can do, -- nor could I believe it if I did not know it by experience,
-- especially when we are young: then is it that the evil must be greatest. Oh,
that parents would take warning by me, and look carefully to this!' --
St. Teresa of Jesus
Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a
poisonous snake. If you keep good companions, I can assure you that you will
one day rejoice with the blessed in Heaven; whereas if you keep with those who
are bad, you will become bad yourself, and you will be in danger of losing your
soul. -- St. John Bosco
If
I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about
the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result
from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse
than what is better.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
My dear, also be careful in what you watch online. Don`t go into sites that can damage your soul. Some websites are so evil and full of demons, that it can bring them to your house. Some people also have become addicted to dirty and porno sites and addicted to internet in general. Nothing that make anyone happy, there is no peace in their soul, because they have become slaves on bad websites. May God protect your soul and keep yourself away from all that.
I will post soon on very good morals and Catholic websites that you can trust.
