Sentences with word «concupiscence»

We suffer too from concupiscence of the mind, where our mental capacity and apprehension of the truth become clouded or enslaved to sin.

Holloway follows the traditional notion of the «remedy for concupiscence», saying that it is permitted to seek sex «for the tempering of disordered natural desire», [7] «in remedium concupiscentiae», as long as this is done in such a way as not to thwart the primary end of the act.

There's another mysterious, elliptical modern work that speaks of concupiscence in young girls and the wet, jarring biology hidden beneath its sometimes - thin clapboard surfaces: Wallace Stevens's «The Emperor of Ice Cream.»

Even now, Holloway argues, growth in holiness and the «sedating» of sexual concupiscence can lead a couple to be able only to seek thesexual act when they are seeking it in its full meaning.

However, we still suffer from concupiscence which is the tendency to sin, even after Baptism.

Carnal concupiscence on the other hand, also present in marriage, tends in its self - centered forcefulness to disturb the loving relationship which should exist between husband and wife, and so can easily prevent marital sexuality from being completely at the service of love.

As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).

He is without sin, it is true, and this includes all the effects of original sin that reverberate throughout our spiritual and physical being - often called concupiscence.

As has been noted, Holloway argues that a proper appreciation of how sex should be used needs to bear in mind the fact that our present experience of it is coloured by concupiscence.

And yet, if depression can be chalked off to chemistry, then why not concupiscence?

Although concupiscence at times appears to overwhelm us, there is a far greater reason to reject it as evidence.

Sex Before the Fall If the primary purpose of sex is for children rather than for making love, how would this have been experienced before the Fall, before concupiscence?

Concupiscence however is not simply disordered sexual urges, but addictive cravings, the fomes peccati (the tinder which can set sin o), «the whirlwind of desire».

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

He concluded that what we would term concupiscence was in fact a manifestation of the totally sinful condition which burdens humanity: «carnal, sold under sin.»

We can therefore say that while the Apostle, in his characterisation of marriage on the human side... strongly emphasises the reason concerning concupiscence of the flesh, at the same time, with no less strength of conviction, he stresses also its sacramental and charismatic character.

St. Thomas, discussing the issue of whether marriage confers grace, takes up and answers a proposed objection - that insofar as marriage tends to increase concupiscence, it can not be a vehicle of grace.

Clearly, to curb or repress concupiscence is not quite the same as to «remedy» it.

The presence of lust or concupiscence within marriage itself is undeniable.

Concupiscence wants to have and use the other person.

To deny the order of nature is an utter destruction, greater than the damage of coarseness and concupiscence caused by sin.

[t] he very concupiscence of non-concealment is not modest: it experiences somewhat which is no mark of a virgin, - the study of pleasing, of course, ay, and (of pleasing) men.

With the sin of Adam and Eve concupiscence or lust made appearance.

Manifested as a «coercion sui generis of the body», concupiscence reduces self - control and places an interior limit on it.

«Concupiscence entails the loss of the interior freedom of the gift.

Insatiable desire, appropriation instead of communion, taking instead of giving, possessive self - love overshadowing donative love toward the other... all are major disruptions which concupiscence now inflicts on the lost harmony of the marital sexual relationship.

Here he draws out how marriage can be a «yes» to the healing of concupiscence without the latter being an intrinsic «end» of the sacramental union.

Human concupiscence, along with every other kind of self - seeking attachment, brings death in its wake.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification [that you should be sanctified], that ye should abstain from fornication [not participate in sexual immorality]: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel [control his body; be master of it not slave to it] in sanctification and honour -LSB-... of God's Will]; Not in the lust of concupiscence [not in passionate lust like the heathen], even as the Gentiles which know not God:

She has a kewpie doll concupiscence that is supposed to camouflage her steely, star - in - the - making resolve.

The difference between matrimony and celibacy is not to be understood in terms of a legitimate outlet for concupiscence on one had and the repression of it on the other.

In other words, marriage legitimises sexual concupiscence or lust.

He turns the objection around and says that grace is in fact conferred in marriage precisely to be a remedy against concupiscence, so as to curb it at its root.

There arose a new (and perhaps not sufficiently qualified) emphasis on the dignity of the physical sexual relationship in marriage - but without any attempt to examine the problems posed by the continuing presence of carnal concupiscence.

Sin as concupiscence is the turning of the self in upon itself, the cor incorvatus in se.

We suffer from what used to be called concupiscence or «disordered desire», an imbalance in all our desires, not least the experience of the erotic.

But then, much earlier, the late Harold Smith, a former Oxford - trained British colonial official in Nigeria, had come up with a rather unflattering picture of Okotie - Eboh as allegedly venal, with rather low personal morality, bordering on concupiscence.

We recall the title - «Marriage under the regime of sin» - under which the Catechism insists that the harmony and ease of the original communion between man and woman have been ruptured by a «disorder [that] we notice so painfully»: the disorder of concupiscence which takes over when mutual sexual attraction, instead of being filled with respect and love, is «changed into a relationship of domination and lust» (1607).