Sentences with phrase «chastity catchings»

Nor can a man do without a woman... Nature does not cease to do its work when there is voluntary chastity.

Holding a lighted candle in his hand, Luther said aloud in front of the whole community: I, Brother Martin, do make profession and promise obedience to Almighty God, to Mary the Sacred Virgin, and to you, the prior of this cloister as representative of the general head of the order of Eremites of the holy bishop, St Augustine, and his rightful successors, to live until death without worldly possessions and in chastity according to the rule of St Augustine.»

Their stance for chastity and monogamy, often labeled as «unrealistic,» is actually much better suited to African culture, especially in its present troubled condition, than are modern Western teachings about sexuality emphasizing personal freedom and individual development.

Understanding my sexuality is one of the reasons why I'm willing to take a vow of chastity for the rest of my life.

Catholics and other Christians too can look to Mary, just as her child Jesus did, and see in her purity and chastity a verification of the ideals of the Jewish tradition of «tower of David, tower of ivory, house of gold, ark of the covenant.»

The virtues of the «religious» life — poverty, chastity and obedience — were the formal signs of the special life of prayer and dedication, but they had somehow ceased to be its raison d'etre.

The texts flowed, The Persons related by Consanguinity and Affinity who are Forbidden to marry by Scripture (1522), The Estate of Marriage (1522), An Exhortation to the Knights of the Teutonic Order that they lay aside False Chastity and assume True Wedlock (1523), That Parents should neither compel nor hinder the Marriage of their Children and That Children should not become engaged without their Parents» Consent (1524).

This was an Order founded in the Netherlands in the previous century, intended to provide a way of dedicating one's life, with the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience but without becoming a priest.

The rule discouraged extreme asceticism, but enjoined a poverty which forbade personal possessions, commanded chastity and obedience, and included labor (for idleness was held to be an «enemy of the soul»), communal worship, private meditation, and the reading aloud of religious books at meals.

Their members took the customary monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

He ignored warnings and even thought of a chaste marriage (though chastity was not particularly high in his thought at that point).

In 1539 under authority of Henry Parliament passed a statement endorsing transubstantiation, the celibacy of the clergy, private masses, the observance of the vows of chastity taken by men and women, and auricular concession, and declaring that Communion in both kinds was not necessary.

In 1534 a little band of seven took the three-fold vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience.

UCE counts about 300,000 signed chastity pledges over the past decade.

This comment suggests that many Catholics, both church - going and not, do not fully understand that marriage is both unitive and procreative; that marriage is a calling, chastity a virtue and its opposite a sin.

This being the case, he continues, «young Catholic women have quite sensibly decided that, if they wish to do good works or be political activists while dressing like middle - class professionals and living in apartments, there is little reason to bind themselves, even in an attenuated way, to the classic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience - each of which has undergone a radical reinterpretation in the LCWR congregations.

St Augustine too invokes Gal 5:17, particularly in relation to chastity: «Listen well to these words, all you faithful who are fighting.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.

It was about chastity, and had tips that might be found in any Catholic leaflet: modesty in dress, the danger of pornography, the importance of friendship, even confession to their bishops.

So it is not marriage itself but marital chastity that remedies concupiscence.

That no force should arise in his body resisting chastity.

These schools are complying with government requirements (at the time of writing, see Eric Hester's «Sex Education or Chastity Education: Church Teaching and Civil Law», in Faith, July 2007) to teach SRE, at the same time as upholding their Catholic ethos and protecting children from premature details about sex.

St Augustine insists that this virtue is a gift of God; an idea that he stresses elsewhere with special reference to marriage: «The very fact that conjugal chastity has such power shows that it is a great gift of God» (Contra Julianum, 3:43).

He promoted almost unconsciously the great and hard to believe truth that to grow in chastity is the only way to grow in genuine human love.

It is a challenge to love and a work of chastity.

Without delay, then, and with all the fervor there was in him, joyous of heart, and burning with love, he made his vow of perpetual chastity.

With that connection broken, men have less need to learn self - mastery (chastity).

In the Christian view, chastity remains a gift of God, one that is only achieved through prayer.

We learn of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession of sins, his attention to the needs of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn of his very deep understanding of how life is transformed through chastity for married and single alike.

In the Catholic view of things, chastity is not a dreary string of prohibitions but a matter of loving - with - integrity: loving rather than «using;» loving another for himself or herself.

The husband grows in respect for his wife and how wonderfully she has been made, and when periods of abstinence are called for in their discernment, he learns self - mastery and the virtue of chastity is strengthened within him.

And I'm pretty sure purely male society is an enemy to chastity.

Unless, of course, as I do not think is the case, Mr. Steinfels thinks that men who intend to do, and approve of doing, things that the Church teaches are gravely sinful should be allowed to take solemn vows of perfect and perpetual chastity.

Yet full time membership in a Zen monastery or center is an extremely demanding enterprise, leading in some cases to vows of chastity and poverty.

When I first came through the door, one of the brothers glided up to me and said, «I know what you're thinking: «If this is poverty, I can't wait to see chastity!»

From the third - century church father Cyprian, through Vatican II, the prevailing Roman Catholic interpretation has been that those who preserve their virginal chastity are vanguards of a realm where people will be like sexless, pure angels.

What I was trying to argue in my article was this: the celibacy to which some are called by special vocation and the chastity to which all are called by baptism are not two distinct things.

Moreover, the rigid laws governing women's chastity, the severe penalties meted out for harlotry, (Genesis 38:24.)

A chapter entitled «Groping Toward Chastity» helps define the oft - misunderstood word in terms relevant to any reader — single or married.

On another occasion Holmer angered his California audience by exalting chastity, condemning adultery and quoting Plato to support his case.

a rather pointed open letter implicitly, but very clearly, characterizing Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage (and, perhaps, on abortion as well, though that is a little less clear) as «repression,» and implicitly characterizing the Archbishop himself, who is a strong defender of marriage, chastity, and the sanctity of human life, as an oppressor.

There are chapters on discretion, renunciation, desire, the vices, changeableness of the soul, prayer, chastity, perfection, friendship, spiritual knowledge, making promises.

The monasteries, for example, emphasized personal poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they did not denounce communal wealth, and some of the monastic religious orders wound up in the pre-Reformation days with incredible wealth in land holdings, much of it confiscated in the battles between the various crowns and the papacy.

2) What have you found to be effective pastoral strategies in addressing issues of chastity, marriage, and the family?

The norm of chastity (now a taboo) does the same.

She doesn't realize that chastity requires an emotional discipline rather than a physical technicality.

In Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about a self - directed year of chastity, she doesn't actually pursue chastity in the full sense but simply avoids «last base.»

Further, Putin & Co. have abandoned ideological chastity, being rather wanton about the political company they keep.

Title XX — the «chastity» law — passed by Congress in 1981 provides funds to groups, including certain church groups, that support programs of sexual abstinence among youth.

The issue of chastity is only one aspect of the larger sexual conundrum that confronts teens.