Moving Away from God → Enslavement of the Soul → Spiritual Age -5
What happens in the soul?
Mortal sin becomes habitual and remorse ceases to exist. The repetition of sin has deeply weakened the conscience. The person no longer simply experiences a repeated fall: the person has begun to adapt the person’s life to that which enslaves the person.
How do you live?
Vices acquire an increasingly greater place. Decisions, relationships and desires can be organized around pleasure, power, pride or evasion. In extreme cases, other people may begin to be used as means to gain pleasure or power.
The prayer
There is an almost total abandonment of the sacraments and the life of the Church, accompanied by a clear aversion to the Eucharist. The prayer may be superficial or mechanical, or have been abandoned.
The great danger
In the previous age there was still remorse; here that internal signal has disappeared. The person can continue doing what destroys them without experiencing the same inner resistance.
Signs that may accompany this age
• Habitual mortal sin
• Absence of remorse
• Almost total abandonment of the sacraments
• Abandonment of the life of the Church
• Clear aversion to the Eucharist
• Serious vices such as lust, anger or greed
• Desires oriented to pleasure, power, pride or evasion
• Freedom conditioned by the dominant passion
• Superficial, mechanical or abandoned prayer
• In extreme cases, use of other people for pleasure or power
A phrase to remember
“When sin stops hurting, the chains become stronger.”
Where does it lead
If slavery continues to deepen, the passions can completely dominate the person.