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The sin of fornication has the property that it unites two bodies, albeit illegally, into one body (see 1 Cor. 6:16); for this reason, although he is forgiven immediately after repentance and confession, under the indispensable condition that the repentant leaves him, the cleansing and destruction of the body and soul from prodigal sin requires a long time so that the connection and unity established between the bodies, implanted in the heart, infecting the soul, wears out and is destroyed. To destroy the unfortunate assimilation, the Church allows those who have fallen into fornication and adultery very significant periods of repentance, after which it allows them to partake of the all-holy Body and Blood of Christ. Some argue that falling into prodigal sin with the body and falling into it with the mind and heart are crimes of equal gravity and significance. They base this opinion on the words of the Savior: “Whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28). Unfair opinion! This is said in addition to the Old Testament commandment, this is said to those who recognized one bodily fornication as a sin, not understanding that “evil thoughts,” which include fornication thoughts, “come from the heart... defile a person” (Matthew 15:19–20), “distend him from God” (Wisdom 1:3), and take away purity - a means of seeing God. Delight in lustful thoughts and sensations is fornication of the heart and defilement of a person, making him incapable of communicating with God, and fornication of the body is a change in the entire human being from mixing with another body (see 1 Cor. 6:16), there is a complete alienation from God, there is death, there is destruction. To get out of the first state, you must become sober; in order to emerge from the second, one must be resurrected, one must be born again through repentance. Prodigal passion teaches one to strive for impermissible copulation with foreign flesh and in those who obey it, even with the mere pleasure of unclean thoughts and dreams, it changes all the feelings of the heart, changes the structure of the soul and body. You might be interested in: