Chastity

Sex has a profound sense; it is the instrument of the expression of conjugal love and of procreation. All the time that sex is used before or outside of marriage, of whatever form it maybe it is a sin against chastity.

Chastity is a moral virtue

It is also a gift of God, a grace, a fruit of the spiritual work (Cf. Gal 5:22-23). The Holy Spirit concedes the gift of imitating the purity of Christ what was regenerated through the waters of Baptism (CCC §2345) Chastity signifies the correct integration of the sexuality in the person and, with this, the unity of the man in his corporal being.

For one to live a chaste life it  is necessary to learn dominion over himself; or the man commands his passions and obtains peace. or he allows himself to be subjugated by them and become unhappy. For one to live according to chastity it is necessary to resist the temptations through the ways that the Church teaches us, flee from temptations, obey the commandments, living a sacramental life, especially frequenting always Confession and Communion and living a life of prayer. There is much help in this the praying of the Holy Rosary of Our Lady and the devotion and help of the saints (cf. CCC §2340)

Over matrimony, Benedict XVI asks for Chastity “inside and outside” of marriage. “God calls you to respect yourself, also in love and in courtship, for the conjugal life that through divine disposition, is destined to the married  is only a font of happiness and peace in the measure in which Chasity is known, inside and outside of matrimony, a bulwark of your future hopes,” says the pontiff.

More than three millions adolescents in the United States are infected each year with some form of sexually transmitted disease. The United States has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy among the developed nations and youth that abort constitute 20% (close to 260 million) of the 1, 300,000 abortions that happen every year in that country.

The United Nations estimates that approximately 33 million persons may be carriers of the HIV Virus. The study reveals that close to 2 million persons died of AIDS last year, the majority adults. The United Nations estimates that 7,400 persons may be infected daily by AIDS in the world, 45% of are between 15 and 24 years old.

St. Augustine says that “Chastity rearranges us, leading us to this unity that we may have lost when we were scattered in multiplicity.” (Confessions 10,29,40) The virtue of chastity is commanded through the cardinal virtue of temperance, that makes one depend on reason over passions and over appetites of the human sensibility. (cf CCC §2341) The man that lives giving in to his carnal passions, in truth lives upside down; his scale of values is inverted; making him weak. He is no longer a man,  but a character of a man. Unfortunately  society today teaches the youth to give in to and satisfy all the lower instincts; this “education” is a form of animalizing the human being, for it puts his instincts on top of reason his reason and his spirituality.

The dominion of one self is fundamental for the person to be capable of giving himself to others. Chastity enables the practioner to  love his neighbor and to be a testimony of the love of God. Whomever does not fight to have dominion over oneself is an egotist; is not capable of loving. Therefore, chastity is the school of charity. The Church teaches that “All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian ” vests himself in Christ” (cf Galations 3:27) the model of all chastity. All the faithful of Christ are called to a life of chastity according to his specific state in life. In the moment of Baptism, the Christian commits himself to his affection in Chastity (CCC §2348)

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