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501 5 | efficaciously: first of all, negatively, by refusing any immoral
502 10| order that they may not neglect, through stupidity or a
503 | next
504 3 | the greatness, beauty and nobility of that life which begins,
505 2 | It is not, however, the nobler and more important part
506 | Nonetheless
507 13| examination and to a new norm the very order established
508 | nothing
509 8 | bring up the child, who, notwithstanding their precautions, might
510 9 | incapable of continuous heroism. Nowadays, for many a reason,—perhaps
511 1 | forces and irrational agents obey, but of laws whose execution
512 9 | calm firmness. ~It will be objected that such an abstention
513 8 | popular publications, but upon objective science and on the authoritative
514 8 | husband and wife from the obligatory, positive debt for a long
515 8 | according as their intention to observe constantly those periods
516 5 | divine law, so that it may be observed without excess or defect. ~
517 5 | removing as far as possible the obstacles, even if external, which
518 4 | urgent as the good to be obtained or the evil to be avoided
519 11| is what we said on that occasion: "Let it not be forgotten:
520 2 | the divine precept: Non occides: do not kill. Such a defensive
521 8 | husband and wife do not offend the nature of the act and
522 2 | economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial
523 13| transgression of this law is as old as original sin. But in
524 3 | house, your children as olive shoots round about your
525 8 | a positive action may be omitted if grave motives, independent
526 12| kingdom the Lord has said:"Non omnes capiunt verbum istud, sed
527 5 | His goodness, wisdom and omnipotence, according to the Angel'
528 9 | conclusion. To convince oneself of this it suffices to invert
529 3 | cooperate effectively at the opening of the flower, of which
530 11| that it could not admit the opinion of some recent authors who
531 11| afterwards, to correct opposing opinions, the Holy See, by a public
532 7 | dispense. ~As far as you can, oppose, in your apostolate, these
533 11| long afterwards, to correct opposing opinions, the Holy See,
534 9 | necessity or even at times oppressed by injustice—heroism is
535 11| wife. The conjugal act, ordained and desired by nature, is
536 11| the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission
537 7 | act but should affect the organism itself to deprive it, by
538 10| is a result which remains outside, or, at the most, on the
539 3 | care for the child; but to overcome the suggestions of fearfulness
540 3 | unites them: the more the pain has cost her, so much the
541 5 | acceptance of motherhood painful. ~If recourse is had to
542 3 | finally answered. ~Even the pains which, after original sin,
543 5 | Concipies in utero et paries—you will conceive and bear
544 5 | exercise of this function, partaker of His goodness, wisdom
545 9 | In such a manner, from partially true premises, one arrives
546 13| further enlightenment on some particular point, it is your duty to
547 8 | the other days the other party would not even have the
548 9 | possible of referring to a passage of St. Augustine, teaches: "
549 2 | imposes on you the duty of passing on to others the knowledge,
550 3 | was the affirmation of the paternity and the authority which
551 5 | condition the woman walks in the path traced out by the Creator
552 3 | pen of the Apostle, St. Paul, the Holy Ghost also points
553 13| are sufficient to give peace to the tender conscience
554 8 | which gives rise to the peculiar value of their state, the
555 3 | the world." Through the pen of the Apostle, St. Paul,
556 11| possible to achieve visual perception. ~It was precisely to end
557 8 | those who are obliged to perform it, show that its performance
558 13| to sin in the way it is performed. ~The transgression of this
559 8 | the marriage contract is a permanent, uninterrupted and continuous
560 7 | direct sterilization, either perpetual or temporary, in either
561 11| form is from the beginning perpetually impossible, the object of
562 9 | powers, without sincerely and perseveringly seeking divine help, will
563 12| Yet one which does not pertain to the ~essence of a complete
564 7 | in your apostolate, these perverse tendencies and do not give
565 3 | not authorize anyone to pervert ideas, to despise values
566 8 | with equal right by the petitioner—in this case, mankind. ~
567 3 | expressed with the insuperable poetry of the Psalm: "Your wife,
568 11| the order of those ends, pointing out what the very internal
569 3 | Paul, the Holy Ghost also points out the greatness and joy
570 11| tradition, what the Supreme Pontiffs have repeatedly taught,
571 8 | shall not be based upon mere popular publications, but upon objective
572 5 | immoral cooperation secondly, positively, by turning your delicate
573 13| at a reciprocal gift and possession of the married couple in
574 2 | born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years
575 3 | committed him. If the Lord praises and rewards the faithful
576 3 | examples the echo of suppliant prayers and then the songs of grateful
577 8 | who, notwithstanding their precautions, might be born, would not
578 5 | life, regardless of the precepts of the moral order? To accede
579 1 | likeness of God, how can the precious contribution which you give
580 11| visual perception. ~It was precisely to end the uncertainties
581 5 | the task of removing those preconceived ideas, various fears or
582 6 | The conjugal act ~Our Predecessor, Pius XI, of happy memory,
583 3 | burden" of children is predominant. Inasmuch as this mentality
584 13| serious dangers and grave prejudice to the primary duty of husband
585 9 | manner, from partially true premises, one arrives at a false
586 13| intense the pleasure in the preparation and in the performance of
587 2 | must, when called upon, be prepared to defend resolutely, and
588 9 | heroism stop at the limits prescribed by the passions and the
589 2 | defensive function is sometimes presented as most necessary and urgent.
590 9 | continence ~Perhaps you will now press the point, however, observing
591 9 | impossible, and it may be presumed that no reasonable legislator
592 12| affective error, capable of preventing and stifling good and lofty
593 9 | these extreme cases every preventive practice and every direct
594 5 | but unequivocal "no" that prevents the transgression of God'
595 8 | the married couple through private consultation or serious
596 13| the mutual esteem which it produces, is one of the strongest
597 5 | appreciate the honor of producing a new life, whose coming
598 10| opposed to the clarity, profundity, and seriousness of Christian
599 8 | of their state, the bonum prolis. The individual and society,
600 13| the "generatio et educatio prolix," namely the accomplishment
601 3 | of divine blessings, the promise to fulfill with devout affection
602 2 | constructive, and tends to promote, edify and strengthen. ~
603 9 | utter servitude under the promptings of nature, but to the exercise
604 11| was then in due measure promulgated by the Code of Canon Law.
605 8 | an unjust and unbecoming propaganda. But in this field also
606 11| nature of the agents and the propriety of the act, is the expression
607 4 | said up to now concerns the protection and care of natural life,
608 8 | performance is inopportune, or prove that it may not be claimed
609 3 | children are a 'blessing" to provoke contradiction and even derision
610 3 | insuperable poetry of the Psalm: "Your wife, as a fruitful
611 7 | necessity of expressly and publicly declaring that direct sterilization,
612 3 | sterility is very often the punishment for the sinner. Hearken
613 13| strongest elements of a pure love, and for this reason
614 1 | here it is not a case of purely physical or biological laws
615 10| possible, strictly speaking, to put such a problem aside. But,
616 9 | reason of their duties or qualifications, are ever ready to bring
617 10| mother and wife and are questioned on the more secret desires
618 12| capiunt verbum istud, sed quibus datum est—Not all can accept
619 3 | Immediately after birth, be quick to place the child in the
620 13| propagation of the human race, has also decreed that in
621 3 | Unfortunately, cases are not rare in which it is sufficient
622 8 | such as those which not rarely arise from medical, eugenic,
623 13| enjoyment; they do not permit rational man to let himself be mastered
624 9 | objection raised; you will read it everywhere. Even those
625 2 | others, can appreciate and realize what human life is in itself,
626 13| instructing, guiding and reassuring. In general, common sense,
627 5 | apostolate will be: to maintain, reawake and stimulate the sense
628 5 | the Angelus, after baying recalled to mind Mary's acceptance,
629 10| It may happen that you receive the confidences of the mother
630 4 | life, which the newly born receives with Baptism. In the present
631 | recent
632 5 | the word. Therefore, when reciting the Angelus, after baying
633 3 | table! Children are the recompense of the just, as sterility
634 8 | service of maternity is reconcilable with the ever more general
635 8 | sufficient to guarantee the rectitude of their intention and the
636 11| of its realization. ~To reduce the common life of husband
637 13| the whole moral law were reduced to the normal performance
638 8 | natural sterility does not refer to the right itself but
639 9 | necessary and possible of referring to a passage of St. Augustine,
640 13| repel the attack of this refined hedonism void of spiritual
641 13| they regard as immoral and refuse what nature offers and what
642 5 | first of all, negatively, by refusing any immoral cooperation
643 11| threatened to diffuse errors regarding the scale of values of the
644 5 | preservation of this life, regardless of the precepts of the moral
645 9 | sufficient security, or must be rejected for other reasons. Now,
646 10| importance. ~Now, if this relative evaluation were merely to
647 1 | human life, it is for man to release its loving force, for nature
648 1 | respect its progress in a religious manner, a duty which forbids
649 9 | wishes to master himself relying only upon his own powers,
650 3 | the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for her joy
651 13| profession, do your utmost to repel the attack of this refined
652 5 | message the Virgin Mary replied: "Behold the handmaid of
653 5 | the faithful immediately reply: "And the Word was made
654 5 | order? To accede to such requests would be to debase your
655 3 | praise, what reward will He reserve for the father, who has
656 2 | upon, be prepared to defend resolutely, and when possible, protect
657 5 | How can there be a ready response to the call of duty in such
658 13| itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever way it is done,
659 13| Christian—a dignity—which restrains the excess of sensuality. ~
660 3 | apostolate at the cradle where rests the newly born child, it
661 11| just in personal values resulting from matrimony and its realization?
662 10| of husband and wife there results a new life, it is a result
663 11| the natural disposition reveals. We showed what has been
664 3 | If the Lord praises and rewards the faithful servant for
665 2 | never forget this: there rises above every human law and
666 3 | children as olive shoots round about your table. Behold,
667 1 | of man, no less than the rules and the laws to which both
668 9 | the risk of maternity be run, a risk which in certain
669 13| affection, sanctified by the Sacrament of Matrimony, worthy of
670 2 | of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt
671 13| the act remains morally safe, it is possible to sin in
672 13| expression of mutual affection, sanctified by the Sacrament of Matrimony,
673 4 | for the adult to obtain sanctifying grace and to supply the
674 13| desire for pleasure and sanctions it in the lawful marriage,
675 13| sensuality. ~No; the gravity and sanctity of the Christian moral law
676 11| domestic hearth, the family sanctuary, into a biological laboratory.
677 13| restraint to the way of satisfying the instinct than by considering
678 2 | illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is
679 3 | salvation: "Yet women will be saved by child bearing". ~This
680 4 | incapable of helping or saving himself with his own powers;
681 7 | widely applied, the Holy See saw the necessity of expressly
682 11| Indeed, the Holy Scripture says of God that He created man
683 10| sense of shame or unfounded scruples, that which God, Who also
684 11| in the first, but in the second degree of the scale of values. ~
685 5 | any immoral cooperation secondly, positively, by turning
686 10| are questioned on the more secret desires and intimacies of
687 2 | fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible.
688 12| omnes capiunt verbum istud, sed quibus datum est—Not all
689 11| married woman who comes to seek your advice about the values
690 9 | necessity a negative one, but seeks an approval of a "technique"
691 | seems
692 5 | cultivate in them this interior sentiment the readiness to welcome
693 11| Therefore, in Our allocution of September 29, 1949, to the International
694 10| clarity, profundity, and seriousness of Christian thought. Here,
695 3 | and rewards the faithful servant for having yielded him five
696 13| substituted a license to serve blindly and without restraint
697 10| place assigned, that of serving the "person" of the married
698 9 | in the sense of an utter servitude under the promptings of
699 5 | life, to protect it and set it on its way towards its
700 13| and the proper value of sexuality and of its realization,
701 10| stupidity or a false sense of shame or unfounded scruples, that
702 3 | suckles at her breast; to make shine in her eyes and heart the
703 3 | your children as olive shoots round about your table.
704 11| disposition reveals. We showed what has been handed down
705 13| the risk that one may lose sight of the fundamental principle
706 11| of its very nature, also signifies the total devotion of parents
707 3 | greater than all the gold and silver of the world? ~Your apostolate,
708 3 | with moving and profound simplicity: "A woman about to give
709 11| is a personal action, a simultaneous and immediate cooperation
710 5 | rights there corresponds the sincere internal acceptance of the
711 9 | his own powers, without sincerely and perseveringly seeking
712 11| itself a condition of the sincerest care of the offspring and
713 7 | were to concern not only a single act but should affect the
714 3 | often the punishment for the sinner. Hearken to the divine word
715 5 | your knowledge and your skill by becoming accomplices
716 6 | December 31, 1930, once again solemnly proclaimed the fundamental
717 3 | suppliant prayers and then the songs of grateful happiness of
718 13| dominate passions; and this sooner or later cannot but turn
719 3 | about to give birth has sorrow, because her hour has come.
720 8 | and of motives foreign to sound ethical principles. ~
721 13| matrimony as the origin and source of life. ~Unfortunately,
722 9 | you ask, how can one still speak of an apostolate in the
723 3 | Undoubtedly nature's voice speaks in her and places in her
724 11| abnormal cases arising from special internal or external conditions,
725 8 | judgment of conscientious specialists in medicine and biology.
726 10| of their works, even the specifically sexual act has its place
727 5 | that nascent life follows spontaneously. This is unfortunately not
728 10| of love, are composed to spread these ideas, to illustrate
729 13| your best to prevent the spreading of a literature which considers
730 8 | observance of the natural sterile periods may be lawful, from
731 12| capable of preventing and stifling good and lofty sentiments,
732 | stop
733 10| are not furnished with the strength of character needed to uphold
734 2 | tends to promote, edify and strengthen. ~
735 3 | forms, that voice must be strengthened and take on, so to say,
736 13| produces, is one of the strongest elements of a pure love,
737 11| Creator carries with it in a stupendous degree of perfection the
738 10| may not neglect, through stupidity or a false sense of shame
739 13| the world and threaten to submerge in the swelling tide of
740 13| lawful. For the pleasure is subordinate to the law of the action
741 13| addition there would be substituted a license to serve blindly
742 3 | unconditioned security. If you succeed in carrying out your apostolate
743 3 | she bears in her arms and suckles at her breast; to make shine
744 3 | original sin, a mother has to suffer to give birth to her child
745 9 | convince oneself of this it suffices to invert the terms of the
746 8 | periods is or is not based on sufficiently morally sure motives. The
747 3 | child; but to overcome the suggestions of fearfulness in all its
748 3 | many examples the echo of suppliant prayers and then the songs
749 4 | sanctifying grace and to supply the lack of baptism; to
750 13| in fact, it is usual to support in words and in writing (
751 13| threaten to submerge in the swelling tide of thoughts, desires
752 13| is your duty to give them tactfully an explanation in conformity
753 3 | must be strengthened and take on, so to say, a supernatural
754 3 | having yielded him five talents, what praise, what reward
755 9 | apostolate, by this great talk of impossibility. Do not
756 5 | your delicate care to the task of removing those preconceived
757 11| Pontiffs have repeatedly taught, and what was then in due
758 3 | after having longingly and tearfully implored the grace of motherhood,
759 8 | publications on the biological and technical aspect of the theory, without
760 7 | sterilization, either perpetual or temporary, in either the male or the
761 7 | XI on marriage. Thus when ten years or so ago sterilization
762 7 | apostolate, these perverse tendencies and do not give them your
763 11| married love in its power and tenderness is itself a condition of
764 13| satisfaction of the sexual instinct tending only to pleasure and enjoyment;
765 9 | it suffices to invert the terms of the argument: "God does
766 10| need to respect such are a theme which, over the last twenty
767 9 | facts and therefore not a theological but a medical question;
768 10| relations. ~According to these theories, your dedication for the
769 | therein
770 2 | God created all earthly things for man; and man himself,
771 1 | Their Profession ~When one thinks of this admirable collaboration
772 13| in the swelling tide of thoughts, desires and acts the whole
773 13| hedonism invade the world and threaten to submerge in the swelling
774 11| uncertainties and deviations which threatened to diffuse errors regarding
775 4 | grave danger or at death's threshold. ~Undoubtedly this duty
776 | thy
777 13| submerge in the swelling tide of thoughts, desires and
778 3 | child only make her draw tighter the bond which unites them:
779 8 | continuing to satisfy to tile full their sensuality, can
780 | together
781 11| nature, also signifies the total devotion of parents to the
782 5 | woman walks in the path traced out by the Creator towards
783 11| handed down by Christian tradition, what the Supreme Pontiffs
784 11| organic function for the transmission of seed would be but to
785 3 | to despise values and to treat with contempt the mother
786 9 | doctrine of the Council of Trent, which, in the chapter on
787 13| sooner or later cannot but turn out to be a danger to morals,
788 5 | secondly, positively, by turning your delicate care to the
789 10| theme which, over the last twenty years or so, has been considered
790 8 | the natural act and its ulterior natural consequences. It
791 3 | children, nevertheless these unavoidable and exceptional cases do
792 8 | drawn into an unjust and unbecoming propaganda. But in this
793 4 | of baptism; to the still unborn or newly born this way is
794 13| of life. ~Unfortunately, unceasing waves of hedonism invade
795 11| was precisely to end the uncertainties and deviations which threatened
796 13| moral law do not admit an unchecked satisfaction of the sexual
797 3 | for incipient life with unconditioned security. If you succeed
798 5 | duties ~At the moment she understood the Angel's message the
799 5 | This requires a calm but unequivocal "no" that prevents the transgression
800 10| false sense of shame or unfounded scruples, that which God,
801 5 | full development, you can unhesitatingly lend your help; but in how
802 8 | contract is a permanent, uninterrupted and continuous right of
803 13| subordinated and ordered to that unique, great law of the "generatio
804 3 | gracious crown of children united around the father's table!
805 3 | draw tighter the bond which unites them: the more the pain
806 13| work of man and woman, by uniting them in matrimony, for the
807 8 | yourselves to be drawn into an unjust and unbecoming propaganda.
808 8 | their intention and the unobjectionable morality of their motives. ~
809 | unto
810 13| spiritual values and thus unworthy of Christian married couples.
811 11| but the procreation and upbringing of a new life. The other
812 10| strength of character needed to uphold what you know to be true
813 | used
814 13| present, in fact, it is usual to support in words and
815 5 | s message: "Concipies in utero et paries—you will conceive
816 13| your profession, do your utmost to repel the attack of this
817 9 | not in the sense of an utter servitude under the promptings
818 2 | that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct
819 8 | the use of the right, the validity of the marriage does not
820 5 | those preconceived ideas, various fears or faint excuses,
821 12| said:"Non omnes capiunt verbum istud, sed quibus datum
822 13| it derives, and not vice versa—the action to the law of
823 13| whence it derives, and not vice versa—the action to the
824 8 | from the medical point of view, in regard to this new theory
825 8 | be lawful, from the moral viewpoint: and it is lawful in the
826 3 | Your wife, as a fruitful vine within your house, your
827 3 | in which parents without violating God's law can avoid the "
828 5 | the Angel's message the Virgin Mary replied: "Behold the
829 5 | the call to motherhood! A virginal maternity, incomparably
830 11| institution of nature, in virtue of the Creator's will, has
831 4 | supernatural happiness—the beatific vision of God—are impossible. An
832 11| never be possible to achieve visual perception. ~It was precisely
833 11| contract is essentially vitiated. This is what we said on
834 13| of this refined hedonism void of spiritual values and
835 1 | effects are entrusted to the voluntary and free cooperation of
836 5 | this condition the woman walks in the path traced out by
837 9 | is clear: he who does not want to master himself is not
838 5 | often the child is not wanted; worse still, it is dreaded.
839 9 | but while He commands, He warns you to do what you can and
840 13| Unfortunately, unceasing waves of hedonism invade the world
841 10| of your mission, to give weight to truth and right order
842 3 | Welcoming the newly born ~Infuse into
843 11| devotion of parents to the well-being of their children, and married
844 | whence
845 6 | it is not a simple human whim, but the expression of a
846 13| and without restraint the whims and instincts of nature
847 | whom
848 | Why
849 3 | the Lord!", while of the wicked it is written: "May his
850 7 | sterilization came to be more widely applied, the Holy See saw
851 9 | concerns your apostolate for winning married people over to a
852 2 | few years ago, can in no wise be justified. Therefore,
853 9 | impossibility. But for husbands and wives long periods of abstention
854 3 | the ancient Romans were wont to do—but with a spirit
855 10| writers. In many of their works, even the specifically sexual
856 5 | the child is not wanted; worse still, it is dreaded. How
857 13| Sacrament of Matrimony, worthy of praise and reward before
858 10| considered more and more by writers. In many of their works,
859 13| support in words and in writing (and this by Catholics in
860 3 | while of the wicked it is written: "May his posterity be given
861 3 | faithful servant for having yielded him five talents, what praise,
862 | yours
863 12| sentiments, especially in youth which is still without experience