shalt not commit adultery " (Ex 20, 14, Dt 5, 17).
"You have heard it said: 'Do not commit adultery." But I say: Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart "
(Mt 5, 27-28).
"L irio of virtue and chastity, which makes men like angels. Nothing is beautiful if it lacks purity, and purity men is called chastity. This virtue also receives the name of honesty, and practice it, honor " San Francisco de Sales
1 .- Sexuality in God's Plan
God has endowed man with the gift of sexuality. Through this gift, having been created in the Image and Likeness of God, man is a sharer in creative work. This reflects the loving plan of God: the transmission of life in an act of love and devotion.
2331 'God is love and live in itself a mystery personal loving communion. Creating it in his image ... God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility of love and communion '(FC 11).
'God created man in His own image ... male and female he created '(Gn 1, 27). 'Be fruitful and multiply ' (Gn 1, 28), 'the day that God created man, made him the image of God. Created them male and female, blessed them and called them 'man' on the day of its establishment '(Gn 5, 1-2).
God wanted to share their creative work with humans. The man, except in cases of illness or birth, has inscribed in human nature the capacity to transmit life to the natural propagation of mankind. God has arranged the transmission of life is through the Sacrament of Marriage, as well, wished that his biological being, in its being material, is on record.
A person who takes herself eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven (Mt 19, 12) person will remain in that capacity, regardless of the will of celibacy for the love of God. This call does not extend to all people. St. Paul will say:
1 Corinthians 7, 7-9 : My wish is that all men were like me, but everyone has his own special gift of God: one of one kind, others another. However, I say to the unmarried and widows: Well I will stay as is. But if they can not contain, let them marry is better to marry than to burn
celibacy is a vocation given by God.
Nor can the man can not choose their own discretion what to do with that capacity, being treated so immoral that it is sterile, because that puts his will to the Will of God. God is the master of creation, and therefore of our being, body and spirit.
2 .- The integrity of the person and chastity
The two realities of man, the corporeal and spiritual, can not be separated or divided :
2332 Sexuality embraces all aspects of the human person, in the unity of his body and soul . Concerns particularly the affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate and, more generally, the ability to establish bonds of communion with another.
2333 is up to each man and woman, acknowledge and accept his sexual identity . The difference and complementarity physical, moral and spiritual are oriented toward the goods of marriage and family life development . The harmony of the human couple and of society depends in part on how they are experienced gender complementarity, mutual need and support.
Chastity plays an important role in human life, because:
2337 Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person, and thus the inner unity man in his bodily and spiritual . Sexuality, which expresses man's belonging to the bodily and biological world, it becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of person to person, in the gift complete and lifelong mutual men and women.
Chastity is a virtue Baptized which all must fight. It involves learning self-control. It is a work in progress, since there is obtained once and forever. The man thus freed from the slavery of the passions.
2341 The virtue of chastity is part of the cardinal virtue of temperance, which tends to permeate rationality the passions and appetites of human sensitivity.
Since Chastity is a continuous learning, the effort to achieve can be affected by the imperfection or sin. It is also a social and cultural effort, because people do not living in isolation. Salvation has always been regarded as a communal reality (Encyclical Letter "Spe Salvi" 14) .
The Sixth Commandment, as understood the tradition of the Church covers the whole of human sexuality.
3 .- Respect where it does
Thus man should not despise his bodily nature, loved by God, through which states that capacity to love and be capable of God.
At the beginning of Christianity arose a heresy known as encratism, who despised the bodily part of man, as his idea derives from the Neoplatonic and Gnostic concept of matter as a principle of evil.
2346 Charity is the form of every virtue. Under its influence, chastity appears as a school of the gift of the person. Self-mastery is ordered to the gift of himself. Chastity leads to the practice to be a witness to our neighbor's faithfulness and tenderness of God.
4 .- Regimes of Chastity
"is up to the man how to live their sexuality? Natural Law, inscribed in the hearts of men, governs the conduct in the exercise of sexuality. Being the Natural Law as follows:
1954. Man participates in the wisdom and goodness of the Creator who gives him mastery over his acts and the ability to govern with a view to truth and goodness. The natural law expresses the original moral sense which enables man discern by reason that are good and evil, truth and lies:
natural law is written and engraved in the soul of each and every one of the men because it is human reason that orders do good and forbids sin ... But this prescription of human reason could not become law if it were the voice and interpreter of a higher rate at which our spirit and our freedom must be submitted. (Leo XIII, enc. "Libertas praestantissimum).
As mentioned, it is the duty of every baptized:
2348 All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ" (Ga 3, 27), model of all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to a chaste life according to their particular state of life. At the time of his baptism, the Christian undertakes to manage his emotions in chastity.
Chastity Each person lives according to their status: those dedicated to the living God through celibacy. Single people living in the abstinence and married in married life. It should be noted that chastity is not focused solely on the corporal. Since covering the whole person, Chastity governs all actions of the person: moderate their desires and rejects everything that is opposed to natural law. It is something that exists in all aspects of human life. Thus, the Church also pronounced couples in their way of knowledge:
2350 Grooms are called to live chastity in continence . In this test have to see a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity and hope of receiving one another from God . They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that conjugal love. They will help each to grow in chastity.
5 .- Offenses Chastity
1 Corinthians 6, 15-20: Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? And I had to take Christ's members and make them members of a prostitute? No way! Do you not know that anyone who joins the prostitute becomes one body with her? As is said: The two shall become one flesh. But he that is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee fornication All sin man commits is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body . Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you have from God and not your own? have been bought! Glorify, then, God in your body.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the following breaches of Chastity:
Lust: which is an inordinate desire or enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, separate from the purposes of procreation and union.
The Masturbation: which is the deliberate stimulation of the genitals in order to derive sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is sought for itself, and it is morally illicit. Constitutes an abuse of the given capacity in man. Should take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that reduce or even nullify the moral guilt.
Fornication: that is carnal union between a man and a woman outside marriage.
Pornography: that is to show sex acts, actual or simulated, from the intimacy of the protagonists, displaying them to third parties deliberately. It offends against chastity because it perverts the sexual act. Grave injury to the dignity of those involved in it.
Prostitution: that violates the dignity of the person who engages in, as is reduced to sexual pleasure is taken out of it. It is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, destitution, blackmail, and social pressure can attenuate the attribution of failure.
The Violation: that is the forcible violent sexual intimacy of a person. Injury to justice and charity. The violation deeply wounds the right of everyone to respect, freedom, physical and moral integrity. More serious still is the rape committed by parents or teachers with the children entrusted to them.
not just wonder what the status of a person with homosexual tendencies. The Church welcomes children always so loving, and as a mother understands that a person in that situation presents a particular challenge very large. Homosexual acts are always contrary to natural law, and family affection between two people of same sex affection is not straight, as it is against their dignity and sexual reality, who must accept.
The Church understands this and treats them with compassion, love and respect. Avoid discrimination. As we all are called to fulfill God's will and can unite their sufferings to the Cross of Christ (Lk 9, 23) .
6 .- Married life: marriage and transmission of life
The duty of transmitting life " has always been for spouses, free and responsible collaborators of God the Creator" (Encyclical Humanae Vitae , 1).
1601 "The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership for life, ordered by its very nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring was raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized "( ⇒ CIC, can. 1055.1)
Marriage involves two inseparable and irreplaceable for: union and procreation.
As the man image and likeness of God, is in his nature to love. In the state of marriage, the spouses give each other is a donation of all eprsona (body and spirit) to form the two "one flesh " (Gen 2, 24) . Married life is made for the good of the spouses, and that's where it is consumed the sacrament itself.
2361 "Sexuality, by which man and woman give each other the acts proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something purely biological, but concerns the innermost being of the human person as such. It is realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of love with which man and woman commit themselves totally to one another until death '(FC 11).
This release should be provided as such, not selfishly seek their own pleasure and satisfaction:
Tobias 8, 4-9: Tobias got up from bed and told Sara, 'Come, sister, and pray and ask our Lord to have mercy on us and save us. " She got up and began to pray and ask to be spared. He began by saying: 'Blessed are you, God of our fathers ... You created Adam, and he created Eve his wife for support and help , and both came to the race of men. You said, "is not good that man should be alone, let us make a helper fit for him." I do not take my sister to this impure desire, but with good intentions. Have mercy on me and her and we get old together. " And they said in unison, 'Amen, Amen'. and went to bed for the night
The love between husband and wife set a bond, fidelity, same promise before the altar, having a union blessed by the Creator and human life has meaning.
2365 Fidelity expresses constancy in keeping word. God is faithful. The Sacrament of Marriage does enter the men and women in the mystery of Christ's faithfulness to his Church . By the conjugal chastity bear witness to this mystery to the world.
St. John Chrysostom suggests that young husbands make their wives reasoning: 'I have taken in my arms, I love you and I prefer my life. For the present life is nothing, my wish is to be with you so that we can be sure of not being separated in the life reserved for us ... I place your love above all, and nothing I will be more painful than not having the same thoughts that you have ' (Hom. in Eph. 20, 8).
consecuancia The Procreation is the delivery of that total, about a love that is unselfish and does not reserve anything, thus showing the desire of the spouses to fulfill God's Will .
2366 Fertility is a gift, an end of marriage, for conjugal love naturally tends to be fruitful . The child does not come from outside in addition to the mutual love of spouses, springs from the heart of that mutual giving, as its fruit and fulfillment. Therefore the Church, it is' for life '(FC 30), teaches that whole' marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life ' (HV 11). 'This doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium, is founded upon the inseparable connection, willed by God and that man can not break on its own initiative, between the two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive and the procreative meaning "(HV 12; cf Pius XI, enc. "Casti connubii).
Thus:
2369 'safeguarding both these essential aspects unitive and procreative, the conjugal act preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its ordination to the supreme vocation of man to parenthood '(HV 12).
7 .- Offenses married life
Adultery:
2381 Adultery is an injustice. The perpetrator renege on their commitments. Injured the sign of the covenant which the marriage is . Violates the right of the other spouse, and undermines the institution of matrimonio, violando el contrato que le da origen. Compromete el bien de la generación humana y de los hijos, que necesitan la unión estable de los padres.
El divorcio atenta contra la intención original del Creador que quería un matrimonio indisoluble (Mt 5, 31-32; 19, 3-9; Mc 10, 9; Lc 16, 18; 1 Co 7, 10-11) . El Matrimonio que ha sido consumado es ya totalmente indisoluble. L que Dios ha unido, no lo sepre el hombre.
Sin embargo, dado algunas circunstancias, hay que contemplar lo siguiente:
2383 La separation [physical] of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided by Canon Law (CIC can. 1151-1155).
If civil divorce remains the only possible way of ensuring certain legal rights, the care of children or the protection of inheritance, can be tolerated without creating a moral failure.
If divorce and one spouse is bound to another person, commits adultery.
Matthew 5, 32: Well I say: Anyone who divorces his wife except for unchastity, makes her an adulteress, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Cohabitation a situation in which people live together, committing fornication. Therefore it is an immoral practice which constitutes a grave sin. Polygamy also violates God's original design.
Any act or omission that harms or prevent the two ends of marriage is morally illicit and contrary to Sacramento and to the dignity and good of the spouses. They are an illegal form of birth control through contraception:
Humana Vitae Encyclical Letter, 14: In accordance with these fundamental principles of human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again declared to be absolutely excluded as licit means to regulate births, the direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and especially the directly willed and procured abortion , even for therapeutic reasons.
Equally to be excluded, as the Magisterium of the Church has frequently declared , direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary, whether of man and woman ; excluded is every action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, as an end or a means, to render procreation impossible.
The Church considers it lawful use of birth control, when there are serious causes (such as extreme poverty), methods that make use of infertile periods in women.
The use of contraceptives also poses a risk to the dignity and the essence of conjugal love:
Humana Vitae Encyclical Letter, 17: straight men can still be convinced of the consistency of the doctrine of the Church in this field if reflect on the consequences of methods of artificial birth control. Consider, first of all, easy and comprehensive way would be opened to conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality. No experience is needed to understand the human weakness and to understand that men, especially young, so vulnerable at this point they need encouragement to be faithful to the moral law y no se les debe ofrecer cualquier medio fácil para burlar su observancia.
Podría también temerse que el hombre, habituándose al uso de las prácticas anticonceptivas, acabase por perder el respeto a la mujer y, sin preocuparse más de su equilibrio físico y psicológico, llegase a considerarla como simple instrumento de goce egoístico y no como a compañera, respetada y amada.
Todo acto dentro de la relación conyugal que impida directamente la procreación, consumado el acto, también es considerado como intínsicamente inmoral, well, a practice known as "coitus interruptus " or anal sex, which prevents fertility coming exclusively to the obtaining of sexual pleasure. Every act must remain open to life.
2377 practiced within the family, these techniques [homologous artificial insemination and fertilization] are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act . The founding of the existence of the child is no longer an act by which two people find each other, but that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children '(cf CDF, instr. "Donum Vitae 82). "The procreation is deprived of its proper perfection, from the moral standpoint, when it is desired as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is, the specific act of the union of the spouses ... only respect for the connection between the meanings of the conjugal act and respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation in conformity with the dignity of the person ' (CDF, \u200b\u200binstr. "Donum Vitae" 2, 4).
no moral fault is not the situation of involuntary infertility of either spouse, even if one is aware of it on his person, and hides his partner, is a cause of nullity of marriage (marriage never consummated). The spouses in this situation, puedn contribute greatly to the good of humanity:
2379 The Gospel shows that physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who, after exhausting legitimate medicine, suffering from infertility, should be associated with the Cross of the Lord, source of all spiritual fecundity. can express their generosity by adopting abandoned children or performing services dedicated to the benefit of others.
Thus, spouses are fruitful in the love of neighbor.
also constitutes a failure when the spouse is your partner as a means of obtaining pleasure, damaging the unitive purpose.
Children are not a right of spouses but a gift from God. The child does have rights, as the fruit of love is born of their parents.
Prepared by: Abraham Eliseo Cruz Herrera
Sources:
- Catechism of the Catholic Church.
- Encyclical Letter "Humanae Vitae."
- Encyclical Letter "Spe Salvi."
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