chastity
Cards (21)
- sexuality in marriage: date to marry, family and procreation, future, union
- sexuality in live in: convenience, self centered, present
- sexuality- everything abt our being human that makes us either male or female
- sexuality - fundamental part of being human and one of god's gift to us
- reminds us that alone, we are incomplete
- god calls us from our aloneness and invites us to grow in a life of loving service to eo
- angels tgt - luciano de crescenzo
- good news abt sexuality - often lost amidst many forces
- challenge about the good news: self centeredness, used as mere object for pleasure
- sex: often seldom discussed by family hindering children to grow up as mature individuals
- many things come from friends or media that contains half truths
- virtue of chasity: can be likened to he virtue of truthfulness/ honesty
- honesty: puts order to what we say chastity: puts order to our sexual desires
- chastity: abstaining from sexual union which only finds meaning in the context of a loving marriage
- sexual union will not be done out of personal pleasure but through their marriage vows
- goal of sexual union: procreation
- old testament (2)
- you shall not commit adultery (ex 20:12)
- you shall not commit ur neighbors wife ( ex 20:17)
- new testament (1)
- blessed are the clean of heart for they will see god (mt 5:8)
- chastity - practiced by all, promise to be faithful to marriage ?spouse
- celibacy- promise by the ordined/ consecrated t not engage in sexual desires/ intercourse
- obstacles to growing in chastitylust - source of all obstacles, hidden desire for sexual pleasuremasturbation - abuse of sexual powers, preserving for procreationfornication - sexual union outside marriage/fubupornography - offense against marriage/ spouseprostitution - injures the dignity of a person, becomes only an instrument for sexual pleasurerape - forced violation of sexual integrity, evil actincest - rape committed by ur parents/ relativeshomosexual act - sexual activity done outside procreation