Wannabe priest.
Please take everything said here with a grain of salt, I'm not an authority on anything and I have had troubles with sin for years now.
What greater punishment is there than knowing you offended He who loves us more than we do ourselves? That lacerating sorrow is the main consequence of our sins, but our hearts are hardened, and so we are threatened with hell.
Today's saint is Prosdocimus, First Bishop of Padua.
He was sent by Peter himself to preach the gospel in the still pagan city of Padua.
Not much else is known about him, except that he was spared martyrdom under the then Emperor Nero, and that he converted Saint Justina.
The problem of sin is that you're damned either way:
If you don't feel pleasure, you have betrayed yourself for nothing, and if you do feel pleasure, then it's even worse, because you take delight in your own destruction.
@AGiurispru80537 Well we can do an act of charity if we don't want to abstain from eating meat on Friday
But I think most people just don't know much about these rules
Catholic men in their pursuit of a saintly woman to marry are especially unfortunate, because they compete not only against other men but against Jesus Himself in nunhood.