Module 3: Chastity: Journey Toward Wholeness and Holiness

It is conforming your body and your sexual self to God's vision of human
sexuality --- for married people, fidelity, and for unmarried people, abstinence.

Chastity

Through our differences we see that...

men and women are created for each other.

What is chastity to growing adolescents?

Grow in awareness and mastery of our sexual drives and energies.

What is chastity to married people?

Genuinely loving one's spouse with exclusive
and permanent faithfulness.

1. Our sexuality is a...

good and beautiful gift from God.

2. Male and Female He Created Them The Gift...

of Sexual Difference.

It affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul.

Sexuality

It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and
in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.

Sexuality

The virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite.

Chastity

A form of the virtue of temperance, which controls according to right reason the desire for and use of those things which afford the greatest sensual pleasures.

Chastity

Through our _________, we _______ loving relationships (family and
community) as young men and women.

sexuality, nurture

As male or female, our differences __________ each other and allow us to relate to one another in profoundly personal ways.

complement

We express our sexuality through

clothes we wear, the way we speak, how we relate to others.

When we express our sexuality, it becomes the service of...

authentic love and life as persons-in-community.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of...

true love.

Who said the famous quote about chastity?

St. John Paul II

What is chastity to youth and single adults:?

Abstaining from sexual union

What is chastity to priests, religious sisters and brothers?

Channel their sexual energies toward mission and work of serving God and others.

Chastity is not rejection of human sexuality but rather...

defends love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness.

The act of arousing oneself by touching one's sexual organs or other similar means.

Masturbation

Why is the Church aganst masturbation? It reinforces the notion that
sex is merely for...

one's personal gratification.

Why is the Church aganst masturbation? One's sexuality is reduced to...

an object for personal gratification.

Having sexual intercourse outside of marriage.

Premarital Sex

The Church always taught that sexual act is...

holy and sacred. It is a gift.

Sex should be for the purpose of expressing...

conjugal love.

Sex should be for the purpose of generating...

offspring.

It is any material (pictures, periodicals, films, websites, etc.) that violates the private and intimate nature of human act by exposing it to other persons and leads the viewer to sexual excitement.

Pornography

The act of engaging in the sexual act for money.

Prostitution

Sexual attraction of a person toward members of the same sex.

Homosexual Orientation

Having sexual intercourse with person of the same sex.

Homosexual Act