Is there a religious vocation where they don't take the vow of chastity?

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phil19034 said:
Did you mean a vow of celibacy?
  • A vow of chastity would mean the person is making a vow to avoid sexual sin (not avoid sex if married).
  • A vow of celibacy would mean the person is making a vow not to get married.
  • A vow of continence would mean that the person is making a vow never to have sexual relations.
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the terms vows of celibacy and vows of continence do not exist, we speak of vows of chastity to designate the practice of a perpetual continence with a view to God, ordinarily this continence is done in the celibacy state, but we can exceptionally practice it in the marriage (like Mary and Joseph).
A vow is a promise to God to do a better thing. Thus one can not make a vow to practice the sexual act in the marriage, because when one has a legal sexual activity in the marriage, one practices the chastity in its lowest degree, whereas the vows concern the practice of a virtue in its highest degree
 
dochawk said:
But the church takes care of that itself for priests and full time deacons.
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Priests get a salary that is a fraction of their worth. Deacons, unless employees of the diocese in another capacity, are racking up points in Heaven because they don’t get a dime for all of their work.
 
We are all called to chastity according to our state of life, married people are called to chastity !
 
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