Chastity are virtues of Purity, Knowledge, Honesty, and Wisdom that is opposed the sin of Lust or "Luxuria".
The Virtues Meaning are:
- Abstaining from sexual conduct according to one's state in life; the practice of courtly love and romantic friendship.
- Cleanliness through cultivated good health and hygiene, and maintained by refraining from intoxicants.
- To be honest with oneself, one's family, one's friends, and to all of humanity.
- Embracing of moral wholesomeness and achieving purity of thought-through education and betterment.
- The ability to refrain from being distracted and influenced by hostility, temptation or corruption.
No, my dear brethren, this gracious virtue of purity is not known to those young men whose eyes and hands are defiled by glances and...Oh God, how many souls does this sin drag down to Hell...This beautiful virtue is not known to those worldly and corrupt girls who make so many preparations and take so many cares to draw the eyes of the world towards themselves, who by their affected and indecent dress announce publicly that they are evil instruments which hell makes use of to ruin souls--those souls which cost so much in labors and tears and torments to Jesus Christ. Look at them, these misfortunates, and you will see that a thousand devils surround their heads and their breasts. An even more astounding thing to understand is how their mothers endure them in a state unworthy of a Christian. I would tell these mothers they are worth no more than their daughters. -- St. John Vianney
Seven Last Words:
"Woman, behold your son...
son, behold your mother."
son, behold your mother."
