Sentences with phrase «vow of chastity for»
Understanding my sexuality is one of the reasons why I'm willing to take a vow of chastity for the rest of my life.
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This would be «to canonise defeat and disaster» for it would among other things to undervalue the sign and gift of the loving of vowed chastity for the Church and society.
But «chastity under vow» is when a person consciously and personally dedicates all the powers of body and soul to God, for the sake of His Kingdom.
She insisted that it would be «disastrous» for a single woman to make a vow of chastity simply because she was unwed and thereby forbidden by the church to engage in sexual relations («Virginity is More Than Singleness,» Catholic World, September, 1960) Like Augustine, Dohen asserted that intentionality is crucial to the vocation of the consecrated virgin.
The quest for holiness within the religious families taking the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, was interpreted in terms of the paradigm of other - worldly salvation.
Franciscan Whereas Keep Watch takes refuge in an overabundance of images and metaphors to make up for unsubstantial content mired in unescapable vagueness, Sr Patricia takes refuge in the idea of charism over consecration as the main aspect of religious life: «While every Christian is called to make visible the characteristic features of Jesus, Religious, through a vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience, do this in a specific way through the charism of their Institutes» (p. 28).
It was once called «monk's pepper» because it was believed to lower libido, so chefs at monasteries used to grind it up as a replacement for pepper and serve it to the monks to help them stay true to their vows of chastity.
Cue much soul - searching for the Templar as he wrestles with vows of chastity.
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.