Chastity is the lily of virtue makes men like angels. Nothing is good if not pure, the purity and chastity of men. Chastity is given the name of honesty, and preservation of honor and integrity and is also called the reverse corruption. It enjoys very special because it's glory the beautiful and wonderful virtue of the soul and body.
never be allowed to take lewd pleasures of our bodies, no matter how. Li only legitimate marriage, by his holiness, compensates for the stigma inherent in pleasure. Even in marriage must take care that the intention is honest, because if there were any impropriety in the pleasure they take, there is always the honest intention that it sought.
The pure heart is like the pearl, which can only receive the drops of water fall from the sky as it can accept only the pleasures of marriage, which comes from heaven. Out of this should not even tolerate the thought voluptuous, voluntary and prolonged.
As a first degree in this virtue, Philothea, look in you not to accept any kind of pleasure unacceptable and prohibited, as are all those who take out of wedlock, or even in marriage, if you take against the rules of marriage.
As a second grade, size, to as much as you can, even the useless and unnecessary pleasures, although permitted and lawful.
For the third, not to tie your affection to the pleasures and satisfactions that are controlled and prescribed, it is true that we must take the necessary pleasures, ie those which are tied to the end and the very nature of holy matrimony, but not you have to commit in them the heart and soul.
After all, everyone has a great need for this virtue. Those living in widowhood chastity must have a brave, who not only despise the present and future opportunities, but resist the fantasy that the pleasures lawful tested in a marriage may create in their minds, which are more sensitive to suggestions that dishonest.
E 'this is the reason why S. Augustine admires the purity of his dear Alipio, who had completely forgotten about and did not take any account of the pleasures of the flesh, he had known, at least in part, in his youth. Get a comparison of the results: a healthy and whole fruit can be stored or straw or sand or their leaves, but once tarnished, it is impossible to keep without making them jam by adding honey or sugar, so the case for chastity and not yet contaminated wound: there are many ways to preserve it, but once dented, can save you only a great devotion, as I have often said, is the authentic soul of honey and sugar.
virgins need a simple devotion and delicate, and banish from their hearts all sorts of curious thoughts, and delete with a total contempt for every kind of pleasure that unclean, to be honest, do not deserve even to be considered by men, since donkeys and pigs that are beyond their control in this area.
Let us beware those pure souls, without a doubt will always be assured that chastity is incomparably much better than everything that is opposed, the enemy, in fact, says S. Jerome, strongly urges the virgins to the desire to experience pleasure. To this end it is their much more attractive and charming than it is, this crowd the lot, says that the Father, because they think they do not know what is sweeter.
The little butterfly there is a teacher: Seeing the flame so beautiful want to try if it is not as sweet, and, driven by this desire does not give up until the first test, we have left. Young people act the same way: you leave so beguiled by the false and empty glitter of the flames of pleasure that, after having turned around with a thousand thoughts curious, they end up falling and getting lost. This is the most foolish of butterflies, because those, to some extent, have reason to believe that the fire is also good because it is really nice, while those who know what they want is dishonest, but not cut the estimated crowds exaggerated and that of pleasure.
For those who are married say it is safe, even if ordinary people can not think that their chastity is very necessary, for it is not totally nell'astenersi in the pleasures of the flesh, but in its ability to moderate. Now, in my opinion, the command: Be ye angry and sin not, it is more difficult than this one: Do not become angry at all. Is easier to avoid the wrath that control it. The same can be said of the carnal pleasures: that abstinence is easier to be moderate.
It 's true that the grace of the sacrament of marriage gives a special power to mitigate the fire of lust, but the weakness of those who use it easily passes the permissiveness, then the break, use the abuse.
Many rich people are thieves, not for need but for greed. So many people steal married disordered pleasures only for lack of mastery and lust, even though they have a legitimate field large enough in which to move, their lust is like false lights, dancing here and there without stopping anywhere.
It 's always dangerous to take medicine too strong, because if it takes more than the right dose, or even if the medicine was not well prepared, there is the damage: the marriage was established, in part, as a remedy of lust, certainly is a good remedy effectiveness, but be careful, because it is very strong, so it can be very dangerous if not used with discretion.
added that the situations of life, in addition to long illnesses, often separating husbands from wives. That's why The spouses have need two kinds of chastity: the first, to be able to live in absolute abstinence when they separated, on the occasions that I just mentioned, the second to be able to moderate, when they live together.
S. Catherine of Siena saw among the many who were tormented in hell with a particularly cruel torture to have defiled the sanctity of marriage, and this was their captain, he said, not for the seriousness of sin in itself, because the murders and blasphemies are more serious, but because those who had committed it had acquired the habit without noticing, and so had persisted in the same for a long time. See
So that chastity is necessary at all. Prosecution to be at peace with everyone, says the Apostle, and has the holiness without which no man shall see God now, for holiness, according to S. And Jerome S. John Chrysostom, means chastity.
Philothea, it is true, no one will see God if it is chaste, no one will dwell in his holy tent if it is not pure in heart, and, as the Savior Himself: Dogs of sensuality and sinners will not be included, and blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God
(from "Philothea: Introduction to the Devout Life")
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