Sentences with phrase «not chastity»

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One other point about sex: I wonder if part of the problem is that the church has a tendency to teach people the importance of virginity, but not chastity.

Not exact matches

Michael Kierkegaard may have been brooding and domineering, but that doesn't» or doesn't have to» explain why he taught his children to practice the virtues of temperance and chastity.

Certainly it can do nothing for the confidence or the credibility of preachers who still invoke those norms in other areas of sexual behavior such as chastity, adultery, and, not least, homosexuality.

When the dust has settled, if it does settle, we will be doing something more comprehensive on the «heresy trial» of retired Episcopal Bishop Walter C. Righter for having violated church order by ordaining a homosexual not pledged to chastity.

The ambiguity of their position is the one we find memorialized in St. Augustine's famous prayer: «Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.»

The goal is to reverse the values of chastity, but in a situation like this, argument doesn't work.

The dictionary meaning of «chastity» hasn't changed, but the connotations and associations have gone upside - down.

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».

Chastity under vow is indeed a sign that sex is not love, and that love, of its very nature, transcends sexuality and the erotic function and pleasure.

It's no surprise then, that when the John Jay report (cited in the following answer) examined the causes of sexual abuse, it reported that «it is not clear why the commitment to or state of celibate chastity should be seen as a cause for the steady rise in incidence of sexual abuse between 1950 and 1980».

But chastity's call is much broader, and the new Thrill highlights that by addressing both men and women, and not just singles.

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.

Chastity, on the other hand, isn't about the state of your body, but the state of your soul; it's not just about whether or not you've had sex (although part of being chaste is having sex only in the context of marriage), it's about self - control, respecting your body, and enduring your trials with patience.

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.

I don't understand the term «false chastity».

Chastity in marriage does not mean abstinence (although abstinence is at times called for), but rather purification: seeking to ensure that what is sought above all is to show love for one's spouse and not mainly to satisfy one's own appetite for pleasure — even if that pleasure remains legitimate.

The crime of adultery is not only a grave sin against chastity but equally a grave violation of justice towards the other spouse and towards the children there may be.

«People are not about to take vows of poverty and chastity.»

A man who thinks that nothing is more important than the satisfaction of the sex urge can not understand the meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing of material things as the supreme end of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things of God.

The NRB makes a point of not challenging the discipline of celibacy for priests, choosing rather to stress that celibacy must mean celibacy, as in chastity.

What some think is a problem is that it does not explain the connection between that claim and statements that would seem to be at variance with Catholic teaching, such as the new way of defining chastity.

Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.

The document seems not to provide a sufficient rationale for Catholic teaching on chastity.

As a youth worker who presents chastity to girls (and boys) Crystalina does not omit any possible opinon.

The first of these is that such courses will not be primarily about sex but about chastity.

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.

As a Reformation Christian I also do not agree with the whole thing of monasticism and related vows to chastity, poverty etc..

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.

Christ teaches that chastity is possible, even in difficult cases because God's grace is more powerful than sin.3 Chastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprchastity is possible, even in difficult cases because God's grace is more powerful than sin.3 Chastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprChastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprivation.

If a young man was a horny fellow, couldn't get sex off of his mind, taking a vow of chastity would be VERY unwise!

Thus this false idea of chastity contributes significantly to the series» «girl porn» effect, despite the lack of actual sex - something that might not be apparent to men, but is all too clear to women.

Under the heading of «Continence Protects the Dignity of the Conjugal Act», John Paul II insists: «Continence consists in the capacity to dominate, control and direct drives of a sexual character... The role of conjugal chastity, and still more precisely that of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance and dignity of the conjugal act in relation to its procreative meaning.

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.

An image concerning sexual morality is not just about the moral value of chastity in itself.

Israel was thus vowed to God in poverty, chastity and obedience: in the denial of empire and power, in the purity of her marriage covenant that did not permit her to go after any other religion, and in the fidelity of her worship by an unwavering revealed Faith.

How can that knowledge — not the knowledge of doctrine, but the knowledge of human beings — comport with an antiquated definition of chastity and marriage?

As to the former, orientation essentialism has made ethical philosophy in this realm all but impossible: It has displaced the old marital - procreative principles of chastity without offering any alternative that is not entirely arbitrary.

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.»

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

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.

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.

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!»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).