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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Avoid ‘misuse of sex’ in marriage, Canadian bishops warn | Holy Post | National Post
Avoid ‘misuse of sex’ in marriage, Canadian bishops warn | Holy Post | National Post: "Married people living chastely can have vibrant sex lives. In the relationship between a man and a woman, chastity helps them love each other as persons rather than make each other an object of pleasure or satisfaction. Despite what the media and Hollywood suggest, the value of sexual intercourse does not lie in recreation, or physical gratification. Any physical pleasure should lead toward the ultimate expression of love between husband and wife, the total self-giving of one person to another. Sexual intercourse in marriage can be so intimate that it becomes an emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual experience. It strengthens and completes the bond of marriage. That is why the sexual act has to be unitive and procreative and why some kinds of sexual activity are not chaste. Though pleasure may be present, some acts are a misuse of sex when the fall short of what God intends."
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1. How would they (the bishops) know?
ReplyDelete2. They're really stretching the dictionary definition of the word "chaste" to its extreme.
3. Do they define the "some kinds of ... activity" which are not chaste?
4. If they get off (intended) this much on telling couples what they're allowed/not allowed to do within marriage, it's no wonder they become apoplectic over the extra-maritals.