Rehabilitating Chastity

In today's episode, we talk all about chastity. We discuss why St. John Paul said we need to rehabilitate chastity, acknowledge why chastity is difficult in marriage, and talk about ways this virtue can change the way we give and receive love. Let’s jump in!

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Here are some things we mentioned in today's episode:

“Resentment consists in an erroneous, distorted relation to value. It is a lack of objectivity in assessment and valuation, a lack whose sources lie in the weakness of the will.” - Love and Responsibility

“The argument still circulates that “excessive chastity is detrimental to health, and that a young person should have a sexual outlet.” Above all, however, chastity and sexual abstinence are seen as dangerous opponents of human love, and therefore they are denied the right of citizenship in the human soul.”- Love and Responsibility

“we must bring about a certain rehabilitation of chastity. For this purpose, we must above all remove the enormous buildup of subjectivism in our understanding of love and of the happiness that love can provide to a man and a woman.”- Love and Responsibility

Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man’s belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift. (CCC, #2337)

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