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1001 32 | as We have already said, revealed by our Divine Redeemer and
1002 24 | and virginity the Apostle reveals his mind, and especially
1003 58 | brings the soul to show due reverence to the body, as being a
1004 48 | conquer and receive his reward."73 ~
1005 42 | their circumstances, produce rich and salutary fruits as a
1006 29 | feel themselves moved to rise above the pleasures of sense.
1007 55 | therefore they should "take the risk" and put their chastity
1008 58 | us to expose ourselves to risks, demands the avoidance of
1009 60(104)| S. Clemens Rom., Ad Corinthios, XXXVIII,
1010 49 | saying of Chrysostom: "the root, and the flower, too, of
1011 18 | aloft my shining lamp I run to meet you, my Spouse."30
1012 23(43) | Petrus Dam., De coelibatu sacerdotum, c. 3; PL CXLV, 384. ~
1013 17(26) | Cf. Sacramentarium Leonianum, XXX; PL LV, 129;
1014 49 | according to Ambrose, is as a sacrificial offering, and the virgin "
1015 56 | laws,99 whose purpose is to safeguard sacerdotal sanctity from
1016 47 | whom it is given"69 more safely and successfully to the
1017 60 | is a great good in the saints of God, extreme vigilance
1018 54(91) | lect. 3; S. Franciscus Sales. Introduction a la vie devote,
1019 64 | animated by this devotion is salutarily inspired to constant vigilance,
1020 42 | circumstances, produce rich and salutary fruits as a witness to their
1021 3 | later Ignatius of Antioch salutes the virgins,6 who together
1022 23(42) | Lev. XV, 16- 7 XXII, 4; I Sam. XXI, 5-7; cf. S. Siric.
1023 21 | marriage is ennobled and sanctified by a special sacrament,
1024 49 | to conquer the wiles of Satan. How true is that saying
1025 19 | Him."34 It would hardly satisfy their burning love for Christ
1026 53 | that with this warning Our Savior demands of us above all
1027 53 | heart. And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast
1028 57 | remain in a Seminary or Scholasticate where they receive a sound
1029 57 | acquired? Seminarians and scholastics are surely to be considered
1030 59 | boys and girls into the secrets of human generation in such
1031 6 | demanded from members of Secular Institutes,11 it also flourishes
1032 18 | fastened to the cross be securely fastened to your hearts."28
1033 58 | whenever he is tempted by its seductions. ~
1034 42 | fittingly writes: "To sow the seeds of perfect purity and to
1035 62 | to everyone who asks, the seeker will find, to the importunate
1036 50 | make candidates cease from seeking a state of perfect chastity,
1037 | seem
1038 | seemed
1039 53 | from vigilance and internal self-control. ~
1040 13 | marry because of exaggerated self-interest, or because, as Augustine
1041 29 | great price," for which one "sells all that he has, and buys
1042 57 | they have not yet acquired? Seminarians and scholastics are surely
1043 41 | boys and girls away from Seminaries and Religious Institutes,
1044 56 | of His Apostles, "I have sent them into the world;"96
1045 18 | too is in harmony with the sentiments and resolutions which the
1046 59(103)| Magis quam mentis, d. 23 Sept., a. 1951; AAS XLIII, 1951,
1047 37(60) | Institutorum Religiosarum, d. 15 septembris 1952; AAS XLIV, 1952, p.
1048 65(115)| S. Augustin., Serm. 51, c. 16, n. 26, PL XXXVIII,
1049 27 | neighbor. To such also the servants and spouses of Christ, especially
1050 51 | impossible, but in commanding serves notice that one do what
1051 3 | men and women, sixty and seventy years old, imbued from childhood
1052 | Several
1053 53 | matter no diligence, no severity can be considered exaggerated.
1054 58 | with persons of the other sex, since it brings the soul
1055 4 | in the faithful of both sexes the firm resolution of dedicating
1056 59 | to offend their sense of shame. But in this matter just
1057 39 | is their source, and Who shares with them His divine life,
1058 43 | perform the function of a good shepherd, who knows his flock and
1059 18 | chaste, and holding aloft my shining lamp I run to meet you,
1060 50 | they should be persuaded to shoulder. And so priests, who are
1061 3 | increased notably, as We have shown more at length in Our apostolic
1062 58 | impure or loose talk, it shrinks from the slightest immodesty,
1063 72 | are of great value in the sight of God for the restoration
1064 30 | while loving its mystic signification."55 ~
1065 59 | equivalent to a perpetual silence on this subject, nor as
1066 22 | perfect chastity.40 And "if a similar law," as Our predecessor
1067 64 | no doubt that whoever is sincerely and earnestly animated by
1068 23(42) | I Sam. XXI, 5-7; cf. S. Siric. Papa, Ep. ad Himer. 7;
1069 74 | Virgin Mary, 1954, in the sixteenth year of Our Pontificate. ~
1070 3 | testifies, "many men and women, sixty and seventy years old, imbued
1071 12 | heaven more surely, and with skillful efforts to lead others more
1072 49 | with a spiritual weapon we slay fleshly desires in our hearts."77
1073 53 | us anything that can even slightly tarnish the beautiful virtue
1074 5 | for themselves even the smallest part of the holocaust they
1075 3(6) | Ignat. Antioch., Ep. ad Smyrn., c. 13; ed. Funk - Diekamp,
1076 3 | the Christian community of Smyrna. In the second century,
1077 59 | as allowing no place for sober and cautious discussion
1078 43 | distinction as to race, social rank, or religion, are not
1079 16(21) | evangelica, q. 3, a. 3, sol. 5. ~
1080 48 | exhortation, stirring on His soldiers to the prize of purity.
1081 23 | do not renounce marriage solely on account of their apostolic
1082 20 | would have you to be without solicitude. . . But he that is with
1083 64 | course of centuries, is solid and fervent devotion to
1084 39 | personal sanctity than the solitude of the heart, as they term
1085 | sometimes
1086 41 | opportune, moreover, to touch somewhat briefly here on the error
1087 43 | with their miseries and sorrows, and affectionately drawn
1088 39 | mutual help,"63 which is sought in Christian Marriage, is
1089 57 | Scholasticate where they receive a sound and careful education which
1090 42 | Ambrose fittingly writes: "To sow the seeds of perfect purity
1091 11 | words the divine Master is speaking not of bodily impediments
1092 18 | strongly inspires her to spend her life and strength in
1093 19 | holy virginity is wedded spiritually, by whom holy virginity
1094 29 | souls, often admire the splendor of their transparent purity,
1095 54(91) | Alphonsus a Liguori, La vera sposa di Gesu Cristo, c. 1, n.
1096 16 | virginity does not possess the stability of virtue unless there is
1097 10 | said to Him: "If the case stands so between man and wife,
1098 29 | of sense. When St. Thomas states "that to virginity is awarded
1099 53 | internally, and that we steadfastly remove far from us anything
1100 48 | it were an exhortation, stirring on His soldiers to the prize
1101 46 | were faithful spouses and stood out as an example of excellent
1102 57 | indeed but weak, to violent storms in order that they might
1103 26 | gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked,
1104 8 | since there are some who, straying from the right path in this
1105 37 | their married state, and it strengthens the bonds of mutual affection
1106 29 | these men and women give a striking proof that the mastery of
1107 18 | it is the same love that strongly inspires her to spend her
1108 54 | but especially that in struggles of this kind we lift our
1109 48 | exhorts all "that each one study his own powers, whether
1110 50 | they cannot hope to follow sturdily and happily to its end.
1111 8 | Church's teaching on the sublime state of virginity, and
1112 35 | concupiscence, but that we subordinate it to reason and the law
1113 49 | teaches that perfect chastity substitutes for martyrdom: "Now, though
1114 47 | given"69 more safely and successfully to the evangelical perfection
1115 62 | reason Jerome wrote these succinct words, "It is given to those,107
1116 17 | And St. Ambrose, writing succinctly of the consecrated virgin,
1117 68 | educators of youth who have succumbed to errors in this matter,
1118 72 | realize that their pains, sufferings and prayers are of great
1119 39 | life, and thus personality suffers no loss, but gains immensely.
1120 61 | neither vigilance nor modesty suffice. Those helps must also be
1121 65 | Mary that her life alone suffices for the instruction of all. . .118
1122 59 | 59. Modesty will moreover suggest and provide suitable words
1123 4 | Augustine, and many others, have sung the praises of virginity.
1124 32 | of celibacy and of their superiority over the married state was,
1125 48 | God and then, from God, supernatural help and grace.71 Our Divine
1126 73 | service, We implore God with suppliant prayer to sustain, strength
1127 43 | offer to God prayer and supplication but immolate themselves
1128 26 | consecrated persons, who supply in so far as they can for
1129 16 | and St. Bonaventure,21 supported by the authority of Augustine,
1130 37(60) | Allocutio ad Moderatrices supremas Ordinum et Institutorum
1131 67 | today, the heart of the Supreme Pastor is greatly comforted,
1132 61 | also be used which entirely surpass the powers of nature, namely
1133 24 | the Church, holy virginity surpasses marriage in excellence.
1134 58 | immodesty, it carefully avoids suspect familiarity with persons
1135 73 | with suppliant prayer to sustain, strength and console them.
1136 18 | else but love of Him that sweetly constrains the virgin to
1137 49 | bend not the neck to the sword, yet with a spiritual weapon
1138 33 | danger to his vital nervous system, and consequently without
1139 | taking
1140 58 | not like impure or loose talk, it shrinks from the slightest
1141 30 | this, that virgins make tangible, as it were, the perfect
1142 53 | anything that can even slightly tarnish the beautiful virtue of
1143 64 | Virgin of virgins and the "teacher of virginity," as Ambrose
1144 59 | times however there are some teachers and educators who too frequently
1145 54 | Lover,"93 St. Augustine tells us. ~
1146 59 | But in this matter just temperance and moderation must be used,
1147 22 | that they may be freed from temporal cares, that the Latin Church
1148 33 | and the deepest of human tendencies, and to conclude from this
1149 39 | solitude of the heart, as they term it, of virgins and celibates.
1150 71 | are suffering bitter and terrible persecutions in not a few
1151 55 | put their chastity to the test in order to show whether
1152 3 | second century, as St. Justin testifies, "many men and women, sixty
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1154 16 | And the masters of Sacred Theology, St. Thomas Aquinas20 and
1155 | thereby
1156 15 | only at the divine, to turn thereto the whole mind and soul;
1157 60 | lest it be plundered by thieving pride. No one therefore
1158 14 | unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord,
1159 55 | understand their way of thinking and feeling. But it is easily
1160 26 | you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink;
1161 58 | chastity. For modesty foresees threatening danger, forbids us to expose
1162 6 | the subject of one of the three vows which constitute the
1163 3 | times this virtue has been thriving and flourishing in the garden
1164 4 | and of persevering thus till death, or to strengthen
1165 20 | youth like St. John Bosco, a tireless "mother of emigrants" like
1166 26 | enough the missionaries who toil for the conversion of the
1167 26 | was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you covered
1168 21 | why souls desirous of a total consecration to the service
1169 73 | every part of the world are totally dedicated and consecrated
1170 32 | But recent attacks on this traditional doctrine of the Church,
1171 55 | method of educating and training the clergy to acquire the
1172 26 | begets not for an earthly and transitory life but for the heavenly
1173 29 | admire the splendor of their transparent purity, and feel themselves
1174 18 | this earth and all worldly trappings I have valued as worthless
1175 58 | He who possesses the treasure of Christian modesty abominates
1176 1 | among the most precious treasures which the Founder of the
1177 25 | enhanced; for "by the fruit the tree is known."49 ~
1178 27 | offered for others and the trials willingly and generously
1179 29 | virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty,"54
1180 69 | But if this be a source of trouble, sorrow or regret, let them
1181 42 | correct, if, instead of trying to distract from a life
1182 57 | must be separated from the tumult of the world before entering
1183 25 | 25. Turning next to the fruitful effects
1184 20 | demands: "They shall be two in one flesh."37 For spouses
1185 43 | spiritual progress in this twofold way. ~
1186 52 | lists,86 the basest and ugliest vices of man. ~
1187 55 | minded to help them should understand their way of thinking and
1188 26 | have thus been enabled to undertake and carry through admirable
1189 36 | from harming the normal unfolding of man or woman, on the
1190 23 | Redeemer so loved the flower of unimpaired modesty that not only was
1191 37 | of mutual affection that unite them; but the purpose of
1192 72 | their countries and in the universal Church; may they be most
1193 5 | preserved their virginity unspoiled, others after the death
1194 61 | consideration: to preserve chastity unstained neither vigilance nor modesty
1195 | until
1196 26 | who will care for him with unwearying devotion; the orphan, the
1197 8 | particular manner declare and uphold the Church's teaching on
1198 51 | will has been weakened by upset nerves and whom some doctors,
1199 18 | the love of Christ that urges a virgin to retire behind
1200 17 | like the rite the Church uses in our own day in the marriage
1201 60 | and which creates in us utter abhorrence for the slightest
1202 41 | Venerable Brothers, how utterly false and harmful is such
1203 58 | clergy would render a more valuable and useful service, if they
1204 18 | worldly trappings I have valued as worthless for love of
1205 42 | zeal at their command the vast numbers of those who live
1206 54(91) | Alphonsus a Liguori, La vera sposa di Gesu Cristo, c.
1207 2 | this way of life on the Vestals only for a certain time;1
1208 29 | those who are captives of vice, at the contact of virgin
1209 47(70) | S. Ambros., De viduis, c. 12, n. 72; PL XVI, 256;
1210 54(91) | Sales. Introduction a la vie devote, part. IV, c. 7;
1211 54(92) | S. Hieronym., Contra Vigilant., 16; PL XXIII, 352. ~
1212 20 | such as the merciful St. Vincent de Paul, a zealous educator
1213 68 | go forth to cultivate the vineyard of the Lord. ~
1214 57 | choice indeed but weak, to violent storms in order that they
1215 26 | covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and
1216 33 | life without danger to his vital nervous system, and consequently
1217 68 | countries the number of vocations to the priesthood and to
1218 22 | sacred ministers that they voluntarily oblige themselves to observe
1219 53 | and so control them by voluntary discipline in our lives
1220 69 | young women whom I knew wanted to be virgins were forbidden
1221 54 | more effective than open warfare: "Therefore I flee, lest
1222 43 | necessary, moreover, to warn that it is altogether false
1223 51 | also whose will has been weakened by upset nerves and whom
1224 35 | obscuring our reason and weakening our will. But Christ's grace
1225 52 | ourselves, because of our weakness. "Watch and pray, that you
1226 49 | sword, yet with a spiritual weapon we slay fleshly desires
1227 42 | numbers of those who live in wedlock to promote apostolic works
1228 | where
1229 | whereby
1230 | whither
1231 35 | law of grace, by striving wholeheartedly after what is noblest in
1232 24 | means for devoting oneself wholly to the service of God, while
1233 53 | But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to
1234 18 | because of Whom you have willed to have not husbands? Let
1235 52 | temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."84
1236 56 | promulgated appropriate and wise laws,99 whose purpose is
1237 40 | reason the Church has most wisely held that the celibacy of
1238 38 | freedom to the soul which wishes to give itself over to spiritual
1239 41 | chastity, are, as it were, withdrawn from human society. No one
1240 23 | He born from a virginal womb, but was also cared for
1241 28 | Redeemer, that there is little wonder if it bears abundant fruits
1242 20 | a missionary such as the wonderful St. Francis Xavier, a father
1243 62 | have desired it, who have worked to receive it. For it will
1244 18 | kingdom of this earth and all worldly trappings I have valued
1245 26 | condition, and when they fall worn out or sick, they bequeath
1246 18 | trappings I have valued as worthless for love of Our Lord Jesus
1247 17 | fact, as is clear from the writings of the same Doctor of Milan,25
1248 55 | proper to their calling is wrong and harmful. For "he that
1249 62 | For this reason Jerome wrote these succinct words, "It
1250 56(99) | cath. Haerent animo, AAS, XLI, 1908, pp. 565-573; Pius
1251 49(74) | De virginitate, 80, PG XLVIII, 592. ~
1252 23(42) | Cf. Lev. XV, 16- 7 XXII, 4; I Sam. XXI,
1253 56(96) | Io. XVII, 18. ~
1254 54(92) | Contra Vigilant., 16; PL XXIII, 352. ~
1255 17(26) | Sacramentarium Leonianum, XXX; PL LV, 129; Pontificale
1256 55(95) | Epist. 211, n. 10; PL XXXIII, 961. ~
1257 6(11) | art. III, section 2; AAS XXXIX, 1947, p. 121. ~
1258 37(61) | d. 1 aprilis 1944, AAS XXXVI, 1944, p. 103. ~
1259 | yourself
1260 42 | were to exhort with all the zeal at their command the vast
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