Sentences with phrase «chastity which»

We try to contribute to the renewal of these treasures of salvation in the lives of Gods people through a renewed clarity of understanding of Gods plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.

Not exact matches

My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a piece today on The Public Discourse in which he outlines how Princeton's Anscombe Society has had success in responding to the hook - up culture on college campuses: by arguing for chastity, marriage, and the family on rational grounds.

In another cartoon» which appeared in the Minneapolis Star - Tribune» the Roman collar is shown floating above a metal chastity belt.

Holloway links priestly loving, chastity and the Eucharist in a manner which throws light upon this.

Holloway prefers «vowed chastity» to «celibacy» which he points out is the natural vocation of all the unmarried (TPL p. 5).

John Boyle FAITH Magazine July - Aug 2007 Finding ways of helping parents to take on board their role as primary «educators in chastity», and to be aware of the practical ways in which...

I will respond simply to two of his points which touch the central point of the original article: first, whether or not vowed chastity (or «celibacy») can enable a fuller living - out of the loving of Christ the priest and second, whether the Council Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis intended more than simply defending celibacy in the Latin rite as a «useful discipline».

It is important to say at the outset that the consecration of virginity is the consecration of an existing state of virginity and not a prospective vow of chastity, even if the two have the same practical effect concerning the future; a further important distinction is that consecrated virginity is a permanent state from which one can not be dispensed.

The «new monasticism» means that if you want to be Christian and are «gay» you can't have any sex, i.e. it puts you back into the monastary with its vows of chastity, especially to become something holy, all of which the reformation did away with.

This is a really bizarre take on chastity — which is about respecting yourself and others.

I was delighted to find in the March / April 2013 edition of Faith magazine James Parker's article «Chastity and Same - Sex Attraction», which highlights the support available for those who endure same - sex attraction.

As such it requires a degree of maturity, both spiritual and psychological, in the individual undertaking it; she must have lived long enough as a virgin in adulthood to be «serene in the practice of chastity by which she is able to fulfil her resolve to remain in the virginal state over a lifetime» (Archbishop Burke op cit para 17).

Dear Father Editor Congratulations on your July issue — which seriously addresses the virtues of chastity and the danger in schools when immoral sex education is taught.

In a 1932 essay «Christianity and Communism» (The Listener), Eliot argued that only the Christian scheme made a place for those values «which I maintain or perish, the belief, for instance, in holy living and holy dying, in sanctity, chastity, humility, austerity.»

A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger — will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.

Some most flagrant and wicked desires are allowed free play at present by the secret judgment of God... Moreover, it is possible that those Christian women, who are unconscious of any undue pride on account of their virtuous chastity, whereby they sinlessly suffered the violence of their captors, had yet some lurking infirmity which might have betrayed them into a proud and contemptuous bearing, had they not been subjected to the humiliation that befell them in the taking of the city [Whitney J. Oates, editor, Basic Writings of Saint Augustine, vol.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

You all remember his half - pagan, half - Christian bringing up at Carthage, his emigration to Rome and Milan, his adoption of Manicheism and subsequent skepticism, and his restless search for truth and purity of life; and finally how, distracted by the struggle between the two souls in his breast, and ashamed of his own weakness of will, when so many others whom he knew and knew of had thrown off the shackles of sensuality and dedicated themselves to chastity and the higher life, he heard a voice in the garden say, «Sume, lege» (take and read), and opening the Bible at random, saw the text, «not in chambering and wantonness,» etc., which seemed directly sent to his address, and laid the inner storm to rest forever.

It has long been held that sexual virtue requires chastity and marriage, that the reproductive flourishing of human beings is best accomplished by spouses committed to one another and to their children, and that actions which frustrate this flourishing — adultery, abandonment, and so on — are for that reason both irrational and immoral.

It is this conclusion that has been met with questioning among some reputable U.S. Catholic moral theologians and among a number of gay and lesbian Catholics in the U.S. Still, there is a growing movement in this country of support groups like Courage for Catholics, which are attempting to adhere to the church's requirement of celibate chastity.

As with the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, virginity is a radical orientation towards Christ, living the Gospel in the here and now, which is thereby an efficacious sign in the present of that final salvation which will be fully realised in the eschatological Kingdom at the end of time.

If people took up arms for the Emperor, they would be defending this kind of thing: «You would burden yourselves with the chastity of pope and cardinals... a special type of chastity transcending the common spiritual kind... about which they tested as though it were a game of cards... I am not lying.

They can live a radical Eucharistic life, poured out for God and for others, a life centred on Jesus Christ which can take on many aspects of poverty, chastity and obedience, and sometimes much more heroically than consecrated religious.

Livingitout.com includes a series of short films in which participants speak about living as Christians with same - sex attraction, chastity, finding identity...

In this way they are called to chastity as to a state of life «according to the Spirit» which is proper to them (cf. Rom 8:4 - 5; Gal 5:25).

He did so in a series of 129 catechetical lectures which drew together in a new way the Church's message on the integrity of the human person and the virtue of chastity.

Aquinas defined chastity as the virtue which moderates the desire for sexual pleasure in accordance with right reason.

I refer to the chastity, obedience, and poverty which the monk vows to observe; and upon the heads of obedience and poverty I will make a few remarks.

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.

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.

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.

Efforts to remove chastity requirements from gay PCUSA clergy had met defeat last year during an eventful summer which saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote in August to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, following the Episcopal Church's reaffirmation in July of its openness to noncelibate gay priests.

On Tuesday, the Twin Citites Area presbytery, which covers Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, became the 87th presbytery - and the deciding vote - to approve an amendment that will remove the constitutional requirement that all ministers, elders and deacons live in «fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness.»

In fact, an entire discourse was written on salads in 1698 by John Evelyn, who allowed, «By reason of its soporiferous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues, the principal foundation of the universal tribe of salads, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties» (which included a beneficial effect on morals, temperance, and chastity).

The 45 - year - old actress carried the «Chastity» clutch from Alexander Wang, which features cowhide leather, a two - way zip top, bar feet at the base, and a chain strap.

Rather than push more jokes about its narrative formulas, Pitch Perfect 3 proceeds with a halfhearted, ginned - up rivalry between the Bellas and an intimidating, snobby rock band, the filmmakers» ideas of which are downright bizarre: girl - group rhyming names (Chastity, Calamity, etc.) and circa - 2004 punk - pop.

Becoming Chaz (Directors: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)-- Born biologically female, Chastity Bono invites the viewer into a deeply personal journey as he transitions from female to male, embracing his true self, which is Chaz.

Hot on the heels of recent releases such as The House of Him, The Ghastly Loves of Johnny X, Extraterrestrial, Bedlam, Nightmare, Chastity Bites and The Culling, which collectively took our selection of -LRB-...)

Dynamite owns and controls an extensive library with over 3,000 characters (which includes the Harris Comics and Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt.

Alexandra Munroe writes «her nets, which she claims separate her from people and reality, are a kind of imposed chastity veil which keeps her from real life, the man's world.»

If that is the butt room, the next room is the belt room with chastity belt sculptures and a beautiful blue sky painted on the walls; one which Hamilton remembered from travelling over Vauxhall Bridge to Tate Britain in June.

Across this side of the room is strung a washing line from which hang five chastity belts into which art nouveau patterns by Hector Guimard are cut.

On the other side of the brick wall, meanwhile, a second Hamilton installation surrounds us with a bright summer sky, in front of which hangs an array of beautiful chastity belts.

Among the works included in the exhibition: Katharina Fritsch's Still Life 7 (2017), in which a statue of St Aloysius, an Italian aristocrat who renounced his wealth and took a vow of chastity and poverty, is joined with an over-sized apple, a strawberry, and a seashell, which for Fritsch are female symbols, on a specially made pedestal.

This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality).

Amazon assures me that the Echo is not my own personal Chastity Pariah and that it's just another example of how it can't recognize my library, which gives me mixed feelings.