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Show 197: The 7 Principal Virtues and vices, Chastity and Unchastity · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome this week's show. We'll
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continue the series we've been doing on the seven virtues
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and their opposite vices. Today will be getting into everybody's
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least favorite virtue. I think it's chastity. At least it
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is the hardest one for me, There's no doubt about that.
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But to start with, we'll go with a couple questions
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and answer some radio replies. We keep this brief because
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Father Sprago's section on chastity and on chastity is actually
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fairly long. So the questionaire asks the priests being tied
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to dogma, are you not the least fitted of all
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men to speak about religion? And they answer no. Other
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men give their personal opinions, which are not necessarily any
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better than the opinions of their fellow men. I am
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able to give the exact doctrine of Christ. And Christ said,
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my doctor is not mine, but he has sent me.
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The Catholic Church also says, my doctrine is not mine,
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but that of Christ, who sent me. One who has
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the infallible Catholic Church as a guide to save him
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from mistakes, is best fitted of all men to speak
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about religion. Person continues, do you honestly give your own
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opinion or the opinion of your church? And they answer it.
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In matters of history, I state historical facts, and since
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they are facts, they are my own belief. One question
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of faith, and on question of faith and morals, if
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the church has given any definite teaching, I give that teaching,
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and since it is true, it is of course my
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own conviction. Where the church has no definite teaching but
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leaves it to a free matter, I give what I
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consider the most probable explanation. Person says, why not preach
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charity instead of speaking always with self satisfaction of your
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only right dogmas? And they answer, with so many conflicting churches,
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it is a vital matter to find the truth. If
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the Catholic Church were self satisfied, she would be content
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to have the truth herself and not bother about those
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without it. As for charity, it is better to exercise
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charity than to talk about it. And there can be
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no greater charity than to point out the right road
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to those who have missed the track. Boy, that's something
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our culture has opposed to these days. One of my well,
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I guess she's still a friend girlfriend for a while
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turned out to be very liberal. She'd tell me that upfront,
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and a Lutheran and things fall apart for obvious reasons.
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But she thinks that I'm horribly judgmental for pointing out
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such things, as you know, the Bible says homosexuals aren't
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going to heaven. The Catholic Church teaches that it's a
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sinful behavior to engage in homosexual sex, or divorce. She
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thinks it's horribly judgmental that the Catholic Church forbids divorce.
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And I'm like, well, okay, what's better here? What do
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you think God would have us do? And what would
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you do in this situation? You see a blind person
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walking toward traffic or a cliff and they're about to die?
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Do you warn them or do you stay silent on it?
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If you stay silent on it, aren't you culpable. She
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can't accept that, cannot accept that whatsoever. And it's a
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shame because she's a beautiful little Barbie doll. I mean,
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she really is absolutely gorgeous, is what she is. But
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that's that all right now, moving on to Father spiago
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on under the topic of Chassi Chassis consists in preserving
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the mind and body, free from anything that might stain
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their innocence. Saint Stanislaus Costka left the room immediately if
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a single objectionable, objectionable word was uttered in his presence.
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Saint Alice wishes to the same. Many persons have given
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up all they had, even their lives, in order to
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preserve the virtue of chastity, witness Joseph in Egypt, Saint Agnes,
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Saint Agatha, and other saints. Chastity is a superhuman perfection.
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In other words, we can't do that one without God.
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It goes so against human nature. It is divine in
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its origin, for God brought it to earth from heaven.
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Those who practice the virtue are like the lily and wellchanticals.
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What's that song of song of Solomon? Song of songs?
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However you want to call it? Canicals two to one.
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Every tiny insect that rests upon the snowy petals of
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the lily mars its dazzling whiteness and disfigures its beauty.
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So the mere thought of evil is a stain upon
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the mind of a man who lives chastely. Rough handling
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spoils the fair lily because it causes it to wither.
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So the man who lives chastely suffers from indiscriminate intercourse
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with others around him hope, which she just means conversation.
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Of course, the lily grows upright straight and slender, so
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the man who lives chastely must ever look upwards and
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tend towards heaven. The lily fills the whole house with
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its fragrance. So the good man who lives chastely edifies
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all with whom he associates by his good example. Those
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who lead a chasse life resemble the angels and are
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most pleasing in God's sight. Those whose life is pure
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are angels in human form. Chastis is an angelic virtue.
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By it, men become like angels. Chase souls are in
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fact superior to the angels because they have the flesh
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to combat, which the angels have not. They preserve angelic
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purity in spite of the continual temptations of the devil.
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What differentiates an angel from men is not their virtue,
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but their bliss. The purity of the angels is more blissful.
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That of man is stronger because there's a result of struggle.
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We learn from the lives of saints that the angels
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delight in their company, that the angels delight in the
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company of chase mortals, thus proving that they regard them
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as their equals. The devil knows that through chastity man
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recovers the angelic dignity which he lost. Hence they strive
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assiduously to instill impure thoughts into his mind. Men who
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live chastly are extremely pleasing to God. God, when on
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the earth, showed a predilection for chase souls, he chose
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a pure virgin for his mother, a man of angelic
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purity for his falster father. The Baptist, who is purified
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in his mother's womb, was his precursor. The chase John
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was his favorite disciple, privilege at the Last Supper to
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rest upon his breast. At the foot of the cross,
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two pure innocent souls stood, and he loved little children
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because of their innocence. He that loveth cleanness of heart,
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shall have the King for his friend. Proverbs It's twenty
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two to eleven. God calls the chase soul by enduring
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title friend, sister, or spouse, and again Canticles for six
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through eight. The son of God so delighted in virginity,
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that he chose to be born of a virgin and
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to give to man an example of it in his
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own person. The pure also enjoy the esteem of their
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fellow men in a high degree. Even the heathen respects chassis.
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The Romans had their vestal virgins, who, during their service
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in the temple a period of thirty years, lived in celibacy.
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When they appeared on the streets, public honor was shown them,
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and if they chanced to meet a criminal on the
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way to execution, he was immediately pardoned. If pagans respected
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the daughters, if pagan's respected those of their daughters, who
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preferred virginity to the marriage, state ought the Christian to
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look with contempt upon the virgin who, from supernatural motives
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does not marry. Oh, how beautiful was the chaste generation
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with glory, for the memory of it is immortal, because
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it is known both with God and with men. That's
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wisdom for one. Those who lead a life of chassis
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possess the sanctifying grace that the Holy Spirit in abundant measure.
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They will be happy here on earth and will enjoy
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special distinction in heaven hereafter. Purity of heart is health
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of the soul. It also gives light to the understanding.
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The chaste are like a crystal without a flaw, or
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a clear, gently flowing stream in which the face of
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Heaven is mirrored. Purity of heart, interior brightness, and angelic
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freedom aid to the attainment of wisdom and imparts knowledge
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to servants and teachers, to philosophers and theologians. It was
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through his spotless purity that Saint John the Divine penetrates
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so deeply into the sublime mysteries of the faith, that
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in the commencement of his Gospel he soared us on
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Eagle's pinions to gaze upon the Godhead. Purity enables man
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to gaze undazzled upon the Son of Justice. It also
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endows the soul with heroic courage. Judith, the Weak Woman,
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displayed such heroism of the Siege of Bethulia that she
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went into the enemy's camp and beheaded Holofernes. Holy Scripture
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says of her, for thou hast done manfully, and thy
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heart has been strengthened because thou hast love chastity. That's
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Judith fifteen eleven. Oddly enough, I've found out recently that
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a lot of Protestant Bibles don't include the was it
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the Book of Judith? Yeah, yeah, I think they have Ruth. Yeah,
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they got Ruth, but no Judith. That's really strange because
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I mean even when I was a Protestant, I mean,
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we had a lot of old Bibles in the family
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and it was in ours, so you know, as far
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as I remember. Yeah. Anyway, the pure of heart easily
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acquires other virtues that are happy even in this world.
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Chastity possesses an indescribable attraction and intrinsic sweetness. It affords
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enjoyments far more delightful than sensual pleasures. Purity is also
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a health to the body. Virtual purity is an earnest
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and foretaste of the immortality of the glorified body. He
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who is chastely generally enjoys better health than lives to
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an advanced age. Sometimes God and his wise providence withdraws
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pure souls from earth and their youth. If so, he
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takes them away lest wickedness should alter their understanding or
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deceit beguile their souls. Wisdom four eleven. Another book the
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Protestants don't have in their Bible. You really would wish
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to have the Book of Wisdom, the Wisdom of Solomon,
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to whom it's attributed. Why wouldn't you want wisdom in
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your Bible. It's just I can't figure out why they
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threw that one out. But Martin Luther also wanted to
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get rid of the Book of James in the New Testament.
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He hated James for he wanted to get rid of
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revelations or the Apocalypse as he used to be called.
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He hated it. What are you going to do? Those
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who lead a chase life will enjoy special distinction heaven.
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Virginal souls will be near the throne of God. They
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will stand around the lamb and follow him whithersoever he goeth.
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They will singing a new chnicle that no man can say,
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that's apocalypse or Revelation fourteen. I believe God will crown
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the chase souls canticles four eight. Recently a Protestant told
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me that the Song of Songs or Songs of Solomon
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or canticles had no place in the Bible. He thought
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it was pornographic and should be taken out of the Bible.
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Aren't you glad we have an intact Bible at a
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church to guarantee it. I think it was. St. Augustine
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said he wouldn't even believe the Bible was true unless
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the Catholic Church guaranteed it. And that's because Jesus gave
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his authority to the Apostles, to the Catholic Church. He
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didn't leave us a Bible, he left us a church. Yeah.
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I had an interesting conversation with some Protestants over the
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past couple of days. They totally reject the authorities of
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the Apostles, even when you point out those words to them,
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And he ask them, how do you know the Bible's true?
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And they said, because it's the word of God. Who
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told you that? Who told you that? Well, it was
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a preacher. It was their parents who told them that.
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It was a preacher at their parents. All right, let's
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keep going back. Who originally told Christians that the Bible
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was the word of God would be the ones who
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wrote the books of the New Testament, and then of
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course the Council that officially I mean Saint Jerome, I
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mean he didn't even translate the whole Bible into a
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common language until the late three hundreds. I think it
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was like maybe four to twenty three or so. Was
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an Icea, where they said, this is the official Bible,
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and as the Catholic Church, we guarantee this to be
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the word of God. Their Protestants don't even have a
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religion without the Catholic Church. I mean, think about it,
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they'd have no Bible, but no one told them it
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was true without the Catholic Church. It's just bewildering, honestly,
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especially when you're talking with people from like fringe, really
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fringe groups. You know, these like Torah Observant and Seven
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day ad Venison, various ones, Church of God, and I
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mean some of their thinking is so twisted and weird.
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One of them we talked for probably a good hour,
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and I was proving to him that Christians go to
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church on Sunday using the early church fathers. And he
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said he could not believe that we weren't still bound
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by the law of Moses. So I went through Acts
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and Corinthians and all the book. I gave him quote
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after quote after quote after quote saying Christians aren't bound
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by the law of Moses, the Jewish law. And he said,
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but you know, I believe what the Bible says. I said, well,
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what does the Bible say is the pillar and foundation
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of the truth. He would not answer the question. And
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I said, well, Jesus, I mean the Bible says it's
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the church. This was St. Paul said. And I said,
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then Jesus said, if a man would not listen to
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the Church, let him be into you as a heathen.
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And he came back, that's not even in the Bible.
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And I said, Matthew and gave him the chapter and
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verse and he blocked me. And that was the end
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of the conversation. I mean, that was it. I said,
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you really don't know your Bible as well as you
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think you do. And see that's the problem. Anyway, Those
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who leader chase life will enjoy special distinction in heaven.
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Virginal souls will be near the throne of God, and
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they will stand around the lamb and follow him. Oh,
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we already do that whithersoever he goeth. Yes, I remember
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saying that God who crowned the chase soul, that is,
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he will confer upon them a special and singular glory.
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The chase generation, triumph, triumpheth forever wisdom four two. The
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virginal soul will have their portion with the blessed Virgin.
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Even here on earth, God chooses them as recipients of
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his revelations. To them, he discloses his seeks to their petitions.
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He turns a gracious ear queen esther obtained from her
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royal consort all that she asks because of her fidelity
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and attachment to him. So the heavenly spouse grants the
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petition of all chased souls. It is the bound in
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duty of every man to preserve chastity inviolate until he
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embraces the married state. Maybe the bound in duty, but
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I think ninety nine percent of us fall short that
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would say yes. This is enjoined by God and the
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sixth commandment of the Decalogue. Among the Jews, a breach
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of chastity was punished by stoning. Due Toonomy twenty two
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to twenty one. The Romans buried alive any vestal virgin
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who violated the vowel virginity. See how severe a penalty
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the law of Jews and Pagans inflicted upon those who
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outrage chastity. The following means should be employed for the
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preservation of chastity. We should be temperate a customer, selves
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to the extra self control, receive the sacraments frequently, pray
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devoutly to the Mother of God, meditate love, to meditate
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upon the truce of religion, especially upon the presence of
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God and the four last Things. Finally, we should observe
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moderation in frequenting the ballroom the theater, and be guarded
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in our intercourse with persons of the opposite sex. Saint
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Augustine declares that the preservation of chastity is the greatest
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victory achieved by the Christian and requires the hardest struggle.
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The fathers of the Church call it a martyrdom, a
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bloodless martyrdom, a white martyrm as they call it, it
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is true, but not on that account the less sublime.
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That's bloodless, it means it's still a martyrdom. It's still
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really good for the martyr's agony is short and admits
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him immediately to celestial glory. Whereas a safeguarding of chastity
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demands a prolonged and lifelong conflict. Self control has been
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enlarged upon under the head of the means of attaining perfection.
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In general, we may particularize the necessity of bridling the
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tongue and observing custody of the eyes. Saint Augustine says
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that tattlers and busybodies are in great danger of losing
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their purity. Death comes up into the soul through the
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window of the eyes. I guess it's Jeremiah nine twenty one.
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The lion is said to be tamed by blindfolding him,
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So we can subdue our evil proclivities by strict custody
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of the eyes. Fasting is another aid to the preservation
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of purity. The flesh is tamed just as animals are,
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by depriving them of food. Be not drunk with wines,
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says the apostle, wherein is luxury Ephesians five eighteen. Feasting
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foster's fleshly lusts, says Saint Ambrose Try, saying that five
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times fast and wine heats the blood and inflames the
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passion of young men. Prayer and sacraments are a means
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of grace, without which is impossible to conquer one's self.
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It is a mistake, says Saint John Christostom, to imagine
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that one can, in one's own strength, vanquish concupiscence and
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preserved purity. By God's mercy alone can the passions of
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nature be controlled. No man can otherwise be continent unless
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God give it to him Wisdom eight twenty one. That
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may be why Martin Luther hated the Book of Wisdom. Yeah,
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he was really big on extramurial affairs. He was probably
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an adulter himself. He encouraged his followers to commit adultry
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and accuse Jesus of committing adultery. And that's the founder
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of Protestantism. Yeah, real nice guy. Through confession and communion,
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the will of strengthened and the man as enabled to
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avoid sin. The adorable sacrament of the altar is the
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corner of the elect and a wine springing fourth and
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a wine springing forth Virgin zach Raiah nine seventeen. The
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wine of earth is prejudicial to purity. The wine of
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Heaven produces purity. Devotion to the Mother of God. God
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is also most efficacious to how many young people has
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it proved the means of maintaining themselves in innocence like
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the angels. Singary speaks of a disolete youth whom a
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priest and the confessional told to recite three ave marias
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every morning in honor of the immaculate purity of our lady.
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After some years, the young man returned the priest and
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informed him that to this practice he owed his complete conversion.
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Meditation upon the truce of religion destroys the taste for
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sensual pleasures. Walk in the spirit, and you shall not
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fulfill the loss of the flesh Galatians five sixteen. Those
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who delight themselves in God care for no other joys
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after tasting spiritual joys. Those of the earth are insipid
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and even abhorrent. He who remembers that God is present
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everywhere and sees everything will not do what is displeasing
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his sight. Witness the conduct of Joseph Genesis thirty nine
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to nine. I believe, and Susannah Dan thirteen thirty five.
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Do not deceive yourself with the hope your sins will
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remain hidden. For God is on the present, and from
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Him nothing can be concealed. In all ways, in all
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that works, remember Thy last in, and thou shalt never
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sin Ecclesiasticus seven. If the flame of impurity blazes up
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within you, think of eternal fire, and that thought will
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quench it. Saint Martina Martinian I guess a hermit and Palestine,
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was tormented by temptations, thrust his feet into the fire,
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And when he screamed with pain, he asked himself, since
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he could not bear that feeble flame, how could he
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endure the everlasting burning of hell fire. The subject of
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dancing and theater going has been treated of unrestrained and
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familiar intercourse with persons of the opposite sex. Too many
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are too many a source of danger. Undue familiarity between
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young men and women is likely to inflame the passions,
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as straw is to blaze up when brought into contact
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with the fire. One cannot be too careful in this respect.
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Love your own fireside. If a candle is to be
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kept alight, says Saint Thomas Aquinas, it must be put
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into a lantern. So if you mean to live chastely,
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beware of going too much abroad. And now we'll discuss
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the opposite of chassity, which is unchasty. Unchastity consisted thoughts, words,
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and deeds which are destructive of innocence. If the chase
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resembled a lily, the unchase resemble a thornbush, which tears
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one to pieces. It was in order to expiate the
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sins of impurity, that the Redeemer of the world suffered
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himself to be cruelly scorged and crown with thorns. Unchased
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persons are like the brute beasts. They are unlike God
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and displeasing to him, and are regarded with contempt by man.
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Impurity degrades man to the level of brute beasts. The
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unchas prefer the gratification of their lust to the joys
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of paradise. To them. The words of the Psalmists may
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be applied. Man, when he was in honor, did not
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understand he that hath been compared to senseless beasts and
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made like them. I don't remembers alm. That is pride
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is the sin of angels, Avarice the sin of man,
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and lasciviousness that of the brute. It is the most
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degrading to humanity, which is brought so near to the
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deity by the incarnation of the Son of God, to
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be unduly subject to any dominion but that of God.
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By unchasty, man loses his likeness to God. Through this sin,
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man defiles the image of God in which he was created,
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and commits a grievous offense against the most High. It
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is because no other sin defiles a man as this does,
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that is called by the name of impurity or uncleanliness.
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The unchased are extremely displeasing to God. In primitive ages,
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when mankind fell into various sins, even that of idolatry,
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God bore with them patiently. But when they fell into
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impurity and sank even deeper in that vice, their wickedness
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was so abhorrent to him that it repented him that
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he had made man upon the earth Genesis six six.
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Saint Philip Neary possessed the gift of discerning the chase
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from the unchased by the sense of smell to the
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former of sweet odor attached, whereas the latter stunk in
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his nostrils. Those who violate their chassis are thus spoken
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of by the prophet Jeremiah. How is the gold become
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dim the finest color has changed? The noble son of Simon.
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They were closed with the beath's gold, and they are
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esteemed as earthen vessels. They that were fed delicately have
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died in the streets Lamentations four, one, two five. The
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unchased lose the esteem of their fellow men. They are
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trodden upon as dung upon in the way Ecclesiasticus nine
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to ten. Unchased persons do not possess sanctifying grace at
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the holy ghosts. They are severely chastised by God in
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this life and after death are condemned to eternal perdition.
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The indulgence of evil lusts is a bate the devil
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throws out, and those who swallow the alluring morsel are
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drawn by him to destruction. The end of this sin
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is as bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a
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two edged sword Proverbs five to four. Saint Jerome declares,
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the fruits of the sin are more bitter than gaul
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since the unchased, or without the light of the Holy Spirit,
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their understanding is completely darkened. When man descends to the
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level of the beast, he loses that intelligence which extinguishes
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him from the brute. He becomes like the horse and
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the mule, which have no understanding Psalms thirty one to nine.
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The sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of
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the spirit of God one Corinthians two fourteen. Through yielding
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to this sin, King Solomon lost his wisdom and was
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so blinded by folly that he turned aside to the
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gods of the Heathens. Third Kings eleven. The will is
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weakened by the sin of impurity. It creates a sort
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of paralysis in regard to good works, and thus amendment
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is rendered most difficult with the unchased as a prisoner
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who has forged iron fetters for himself impurity as a
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sneer of the devil, and those who are caught in
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this net can hardly ever escape from its meshes. It
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leads moreover to many other sins jealousy, hatred, murder, et cetera,
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et cetera. The terrible consequences of this sin are seen
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in the case of Henry the eighth. It was the
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cause of his rupture with Rome and the apostasy of
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the English people. On Chassis is severely punished. In this life,
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peace of mind is lost. The bodily health has impaired.
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Every sin that a man doth is without the body.
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But he that committeth, But he that committeth fornication sinneth
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against his own body one Corinthians six eighteen. The voluptuary
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soon loses the bloom of youth and becomes prematurely aged.
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Special chastisements moreover overtake those who violate chassis. The dels
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was sent on earth on account of that sin. Genesis
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sixty seven, and the Lord rain down brimstone and fire
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upon Sonom and Gamara, because of the transgressions of the
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inhabitants in the same respect have become exceedingly grievous to
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him Genesis eighteen twenty. And if in the present day
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God does not visit impurity with the same condinned punishment,
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it is because as an infinitely fiercer fire, an infinitely
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more rigorous chastisement is reserved for sinners in our own time. Fornicators,
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we are told, shall not o possess the Kingdom of
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God first Corinthians six point nine. Neither fornicators nor unclean
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hath inherits in the Kingdom of Christ of God Ephesians
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five to five. Of the heavenly Jerusalem has said that
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there shall not enter into it anything defiled Apocalypse or
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Revelations twenty one twenty seven. The soul of the fornicators
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shall be taken away from the number Ecclesius nineteen thirty
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nineteen three. If you live according to the flesh, you
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shall die Romans eight thirteen. The gratifications momentary, the penalty
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is eternal. The best means of avoiding the sin of
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impurity is flight. Remember how Joseph acted in Genesis. What
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is that? Thirty nine? I think there are other means
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of avoiding the sins, such as the reception of the sacraments,
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devotion to the Mother of God. Yet best of all
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is instant flight from temptation, the Apostle said. The Apostle
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says that we ought to resist all temptations of sin,
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but from impurity. He bids us flea fly fortification First
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Corinthians six point eighteen. In battling with sensual temptations, cowards
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game the victory. They seek safety in flight. All right, y'all,
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we'll leave it there. We got one more virtue to go,
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and that'll be the next show, and it's zeal in
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what is good. That's the opposite of sloth, by the way,
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So we're about to wrap this one up. Have a
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great week, and I watad next time.