Sentences with phrase «chaste lives»

Any sex and relationship programme must allow students to come to understand their sexuality, know what the Church teaches and learn how to ive chaste lives.

And so Courage was born, a spiritual and fraternal support group of Catholic lay men and women who aspire to live chaste lives in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Above all, we keep returning to the truth that living chaste lives in accordance with the Catholic Church's teaching truly does bring about a deep joy and peace to the soul, whatever one's sexual attractions.

This is not to say that everyone in those groups is engaged in illicit behavior: many of them lead chaste lives.

Of course there are chaste homosexuals in the Church who do live chaste lives and they need our respect and support.

According to its website, Courage was started in 1980 by the late Terence Cardinal Cooke in Manhattan «to form a spiritual support system which would assist men and women with same - sex attractions in living chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love.»

«to form a spiritual support system which would ass.ist men and women with same-s.e.x attractions in living chaste lives in fellowship, truth and love.»

One of the catechesis's virtues is the way it treats not only sex but also celibacy as open to this giving — and not just the celibacy of professed religious but the far more common celibacy of those who are unmarried but seeking to live chaste lives.

Living a chaste life on a college campus is difficult.

At the same time an effective support network for those who wish to live a chaste life in spite of homosexual temptations is necessary lest faithful people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.

The phrase «of chaste life» appears in a bill passed on June 25, 1886: Whoever induces any person under the age of eighteen years of chaste life and conversation to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, common jail, or house of correction not exceeding three years or by fine not exceeding one thousand...

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Men, women, and children, young and old have sought and found the grace of God in order to live chaste and humble lives.

St Augustine had much to say on this matter in De sancta virginitate where he insists that chaste virginity is the closest imitation of Christ open to us in this life.

Of course it is the case that there are many priests, whose orientation is homosexual rather than heterosexual, who live chaste and holy lives.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Such matters might best be handled by someone who can speak from personal experience of a chaste homosexual life e.g. as one might hope, a priest.

Consecrated virginity can not, of course, be simply an exterior discipline: without a chaste mind and heart, the life of the virgin would not be truly chaste.

In fact, Philip and Dunstan continued to live together, in a chaste, platonic relationship, following the guidance of their pastor.

At the same time, and as the NRB rightly notes, there are undoubtedly in the priesthood many men afflicted by same - sex attractions who are nonetheless good and faithful priests living lives of chaste celibacy.

The grandeurs of life are like the flowers in color and in fate; the beauty of these remains so long as their chaste buds gather and store the rich pearls of the dawn and, saving it, drop it in liquid dew; but scarcely has the Cause of All directed upon them the full rays of the sun, when their beauty and glory fail, and the brilliant gay colors which decked forth their pride wither and fade.

With regard to the lives of Christians, the Doctrine of Addai says that they were chaste, circumspect, holy and pure, since they lived like anchorites and chastity without spot.

Apparently under pressure from OutRage, David Hope, Anglican Bishop of London, has publicly declared his «ambiguous sexuality,» while averring that he has lived a life of chaste celibacy.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

Thus the instruction is not so much concerned with what might be called personality types but with people who act or are likely to act in ways clearly incompatible with living a life of chaste celibacy.

We continue to invite all qualified young men of either orientation who desire to lead a celibate chaste religious life to consider joining us on our mission.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

It implies that young people can not be chaste or respect each other before marriage; and insistently sends them the message that any desire to relate to others in a pure way or to live a chaste love, is impossible in practice and foolish in outlook.

Be mindful of the truth that chaste friendships are not only possible but necessary in a chaste Christian life and in doing so provide encouragement to one another in forming and sustaining them.

I innocently assumed that all of that work on both our parts to remain chaste would pay off with a hot, passionate sex life after we had finally said «I do.»

Celibrate Celibrate is an online community site for people living without sex, whether a virgin, asexual, chaste or celibate, for whatever reason.

Parallel to this, it follows his personal life, from his overbearing mother (Judi Dench) to his chaste & life - long relationship with ClydeTolson (Armie Hammer).

why civil partnerships have to be restricted to same - sex relationships akin to marriage: some siblings may choose to live together in a chaste relationship, but they will not be permitted to enter into a civil partnership or marriage.