2023年7月16日 星期日

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 By the vow of poverty we renounce external goods in order to seek everlasting ones; by the vow of chastity we renounce the delights of the flesh, in order to cling to God spiritually .


Usually men think that the more riches they acquire the happier they will be .

But the inspired writer also confesses:" I saw in all things vanity..."

Such a man is not a ruler, but a slave, and he never enjoys true peace and tranquility.


It is the office of the virtue of chastity, therefore, to curb the flesh so that what has been implanted in the human body for a good end, may serve only this end, and that every pleasure not according to the Divine law, be suppressed.

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