Friday, May 2, 2008

1Cor 7, 30-31 The world in its present form is passing

(1Cor 7, 30-31) The world in its present form is passing
[30] those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, [31] those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.
(CCC 2348) All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ" (Gal 3:27), the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity. (CCC 2349) "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single" (CDF, Persona humana 11). Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence: There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others.... This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church (St. Ambrose, De viduis 4, 23: PL 16, 255A).

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