YOUCAT Question n. 145 - Part X. Why does Jesus want there to be Christians who live their whole lives in poverty, unmarried chastity, and obedience?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) God is love. He longs for our love also. One form of loving
surrender to God is to live as Jesus did — poor, chaste, and obedient. Someone
who lives in this way has head, heart, and hands free for God and neighbor.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 933)
Whether their witness is public, as in the religious state, or less public, or
even secret, Christ's coming remains for all those consecrated both the origin
and rising sun of their life: For the People of God has here no lasting city,…
[and this state] reveals more clearly to all believers the heavenly goods which
are already present in this age, witnessing to the new and eternal life which
we have acquired through the redemptive work of Christ and preluding our future
resurrection and the glory of the heavenly kingdom (LG 44 § 3).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment)
In every age individual
Christians let themselves be completely taken over by Jesus, so that “for the
sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 19:12) they give everything away for God—even such wonderful gifts as
their own property, self-determination, and married love. This life according
to the evangelical counsels in poverty, chastity, and obedience shows all
Christians that the world is not everything. Only an encounter with the divine
Bridegroom “face to face” will ultimately make a person happy.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 944)
The life consecrated to God is characterized by the public profession of the
evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, in a stable state of
life recognized by the Church. (CCC 945) Already destined for him through
Baptism, the person who surrenders himself to the God he loves above all else
thereby consecrates himself more intimately to God's service and to the good of
the whole Church.
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