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HenryV
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How do you prepare for a vow of chastity?
I mean a private one as a layman.
I mean a private one as a layman.
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baltobetsy
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In consultation with one’s spiritual director. This is a very serious thing to consider, and should not be undertaken without a period of discernment and consultation.
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HenryV
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That’s done. I’ll make this vow in a few weeks time and I’d like some (name removed by moderator)ut from others who have done this.In consultation with one’s spiritual director. This is a very serious thing to consider, and should not be undertaken without a period of discernment and consultation.
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PhilotheaZ
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I shared baltobetsy’s concern, so I hesitated to respond. But assuming you have been through an appropriate discernment process with a good spiritual director, perhaps this excerpt from The Spiritual Life by Adolphe Tanqueray will help. Sections 1100–1126 of Tanqueray’s work, which you may want to locate and read, cover the following introduction in much more detail:
1107. … Chastity is a frail and delicate virtue that cannot be preserved unless it be protected by other virtues. It is, as it were, a citadel that requires for its defence the raising of outward ramparts. These are four in number: 1° humility, which produces self-distrust and prompts to flight from dangerous occasions; 2° mortification, which by waging war against the love of pleasure, reaches the evil at its roots; 3° devotion to the duties of state, which protects one from the perils created by idleness; 4° love for God, which by filling the heart, prevents it from giving itself over to dangerous affections. Within these four ramparts the soul is not only able to repulse the onslaughts of the enemy, but also to grow in purity.
1107. … Chastity is a frail and delicate virtue that cannot be preserved unless it be protected by other virtues. It is, as it were, a citadel that requires for its defence the raising of outward ramparts. These are four in number: 1° humility, which produces self-distrust and prompts to flight from dangerous occasions; 2° mortification, which by waging war against the love of pleasure, reaches the evil at its roots; 3° devotion to the duties of state, which protects one from the perils created by idleness; 4° love for God, which by filling the heart, prevents it from giving itself over to dangerous affections. Within these four ramparts the soul is not only able to repulse the onslaughts of the enemy, but also to grow in purity.
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