Chastity, celibacy
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The term chastity is often used to refer to absolute continence, that is to say, total abstinence from carnal pleasures. It is also used, in The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me, to designate holy marital relations between spouses, without excess or disorders, oriented towards the total gift of oneself, one to the other, in God.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Chastity of spouses[1]
- The vow of Joseph: "I am a poor craftsman. I do not know letters and do not possess a treasure. But I lay at your feet, my treasure. Forever. My absolute chastity to be worthy to be near you, Virgin of God, "sister my spouse, closed garden, sealed fountain".[2]
- Chastity is always a source of clarity for thought.[3]
- Consecrated chastity: There is a higher state, before which the Angels bow who see its sublimity without being able to imitate it... It is the highest state separating the will from all that is not belonging to God alone, keeping for Him the chastity of the body and of the Heart to eternally have the luminous whiteness dear to the Lamb.[4]
- Early virginity of Mary – Her chastity.[5]
- Love. There is no other virtue greater and more like its Nature. If you love, you will practice all the Virtues without fatigue, beginning with chastity. And it will not be a burden to you to be chaste because by loving Jesus, you will not love anyone else immoderately.[6]
- Some prefer celibacy to be free to satisfy their vices. Others do so to avoid the possibility of sinning, by not being good husbands. But there are only a few to whom it is granted to understand the charm of being free from sensuality.[7]
- He who is saturated with chastity has no room for other movements that are not good. Corruption does not enter him. There is no room for it. Moreover, corruption does not enter from outside. It is not a movement of penetration from the outside to the inside. But it is a movement that from the inside, from the Heart, from thought, goes out to penetrate and invade the envelope: the flesh. That is why I said that it is from the Heart that corruption comes out in all its forms. ([8]-[9]) and [10]