Often, I have the temptation to type in the password to override the protection. I put a hard-to remember password on the software, and then put the password in my safety-deposit box at the bank. One note–you will need to also have an email account with the same difficult password. If you click in “forgot password” on K9, it sends and email with your password to that email account.

I’m encouraged to see more talk like this coming out in the open. The battle for our world is a battle for men. The battle for men is a battle for their hearts. Let us perservere as Devin says! He stands in the same tradition of St. Teresa of Avila, who identified perseverance as the key to prayer because all other difficulties will be overcome by he who never gives up.

Ad majorem dei gloriam.

Reproduced in full below:

Three Hail Mary’s a Day Keeps Mortal Sin Away
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http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2010/10/three-hail-marys-day-keeps-mortal-sin.html

One of the greatest and most powerful Marian devotions is the practice of reciting three Hail Mary’s every day in honor of the three Divine Persons of the Trinity and for the grace avoid all mortal sins, specifically sexual sins.

The Blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary taught the “Three Hail Mary Devotion” to St. Mechtilde about the year 1270. It’s rather simple. Pray the three Hail Mary’s in honor of the Holy Trinity who lavished so many graces upon Mary and then end with: “O my Mother, preserve me this day (or night) from mortal sin.”

The great doctor of the Church, Saint Anthony of Padua practiced the Three Hail Mary’s devotion and exhorted others to do so, as well. The other great Franciscan missionary St. Leonard of Port Maurice (1675-1751) also openly exhorted his listeners to practice this devotion as a remedy against sexual sins.

The doctor of the Church St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori, in his book The Glories of Mary, says the following about the devotion:

“Each morning and each night, when arising and when going to bed, say three Hail Mary’s prostrate on the ground, or at least kneeling, and to each Hail Mary add the short aspiration: ‘By thy pure and Immaculate Conception, O Mary, make my body pure and my soul holy.’

Pope Leo XIII later indulgenced the daily Three Hail Mary’s. Why not add this easy and simply devotion to your spiritual tool belt.

And don’t forget, the daily Holy Rosary is the greatest weapon you have against concupiscence, sin, and the devil.

It is not something easily overcome, and it doesn’t help that few Catholic males are in line during confession while the rest of us think it’s only us few that struggle here. I’ve had to go to confession multiple times a month for years, which has helped tremendously, but I’m still not “free”. And it really is hard going this alone, since our society at large (not just the devil) is against us.

One of the most important things I’ve learned (the hard way) is that you must eliminate something the Church has traditionally called “the near occasion of sin,” meaning anything that puts you in danger of falling into sin. One thing that helped me tremendously is to stop watching TV almost entirely (except when I’m at someone’s house and it’s on). Same thing for renting movies. There is sexual stuff on tv on virtually every other commercial and channel, regardless of how “family friendly” it is. TV is a very real near occasion of sin and when it’s removed, it cuts direct temptations down by over 90%!!!!!!!!!!

What’s also hard is that men naturally have an “urge,” so this can build up over time (even weekly), and it’s not easily dealt with (and too often leads to giving in). This is a particular struggle of mine since I can be fine all week until this ‘urge’ hits and I cannot subdue it.

Another thing is give up any venial sinful habits, especially cussing. I found out that I didn’t have a problem cussing too much since I saw it as only venial…but there is a long standing understanding of the Church and teachings of the saints that unchecked venial sins greatly assist in falling into mortal sins.

Lastly, the internet is probably the next biggest killer after TV, but TV is worse in my opinion because it continuously and directly brings the temptations to you. At least on internet, you have to seek it out. Some advice on the internet I have found (again the hard way) is to not go on after 9pm or 10pm.

Secondly, http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ is a FREE internet filter you can get that you can do various good things with such as (1) restrict what time you can be online, so it’s impossible to get on after 10pm or whatever, (2) force “safe searches” to be the only thing allowed, (3) block a huge number of adult categories, (4) block individual key terms such as ‘sex’ and ‘xxx’ and ‘bikini’ from sites with that in the address.
AS FOR A PASSWORD, this is a bit more tricky, since if you know the password, you can get around the block. Even if you know the password, just having the filter makes it HARDER to “accidentally” search out something or give into temptations and search something which would LEAD UP TO actual porn or whatever. This is like a barrier of protection that protects you from tempting yourself.
Possible ways to help even further is to make the password very hard to remember, so write it down and hide it somewhere in your house or even copy and paste it into an email to yourself. At this step, you dont KNOW the password directly, and must make an effort to seek it out. This “delay” can save you, since it’s effort that you don’t always want to put in or can cause the temptation to pass.

Ultimately you can also get rid of your computer/internet, which is a very hard thing to let go of (I’ve not done so), and I consider any guy who has to be a saint in the making.

Prayer is extremely important, and without prayer the Christian is a sitting duck. I’m thoroughly convinced the DAILY Rosary will root out these sins, and that’s why Satan’s made it hell for me to get good solid daily prayer in my life. When I’m praying well, I am stronger, and when I fall I often realize I haven’t been praying worth squat.

Two other quick points I’d make: When you fall, try to limit how badly. If you masturbate once, dont “go all in” and do it multiple times. Easier said than done, but reducing the number of times greatly facilitates in Confessing it and reduces the habit. Secondly, don’t be afraid to go to Confession once a week, even if you don’t “need it,” this will help you fight urges. Unfortunately, I need it almost once every 10 days or so.

FINAL THOUGHTS: NEVER GIVE UP. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve fallen, you can be forgiven IF you get up. God knows this is not easy, God knows people fall repeatedly with this cross. I’ve been to Confession twice in a week a few times. Giving up only lets the devil win, and I tell myself that even if I don’t consider myself worthy of forgiveness that I’d rather be humiliated with going again to confession rather than letting Satan win out. I wont give satan that gratification, after all the hell he’s put me though, even if I don’t act for the glory of God I’d rather not let satan win. That’s my motivation.