Cue much soul - searching for the Templar as he wrestles
with vows of chastity.
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.
Not exact matches
Holloway is in line
with other theologians like Jean Galot, in grounding the
vowed chastity of the priest in the priestly character
of Christ that he is given in ordination.
Such questions may arise because people confuse the vocation
of consecrated virginity
with the taking
of vows of celibate
chastity by religious and the consecration to celibacy
of the secular priesthood.
As a Reformation Christian I also do not agree
with the whole thing
of monasticism and related
vows to
chastity, poverty etc..
When Jesuit priests and brothers complete their training, they make
vows of poverty,
chastity, obedience and a special
vow to the pope «
with regard to missions»; that is,
with regard to places the pope wishes to send us.
We take
vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience and live in communities
with one another.
Without delay, then, and
with all the fervor there was in him, joyous
of heart, and burning
with love, he made his
vow of perpetual
chastity.
This was an Order founded in the Netherlands in the previous century, intended to provide a way
of dedicating one's life,
with the traditional
vows of poverty,
chastity and obedience but without becoming a priest.
Its main activity is the life
of prayer under
vows of poverty,
chastity, and obedience,
with such formal and personal ministries as are compatible
with it.
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.