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Week Thirty-Nine. Clean Heart. Chastity is Important.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

Chastity is important because sexuality affects our ability to form healthy bonds with other people. It affects the unity of our body and soul, including our capacity to love and to procreate. Chastity is important because this is how we live with our bodies ordered to God. Before the Fall, all the physical senses were in complete harmony and controlled by reason. Temperance is loving my body, keeping it clean and pure, moderating taste, exercising continence in touch, and remaining chaste in all the senses. Infused with the theological virtue of love, we see the fruit of chastity.

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Week Thirty-Nine. Clean Heart. Love at the Center.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

When I seek and find God’s goodness day by day in my life, I live with a new attitude and mindset. I choose faith as a habit that keeps my heart drawn to what is important. Reforming my life is moving beyond the ego’s narrow concerns and making God and love the center of my life. 

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Week Thirty-Nine. Clean Heart. Good Fruit.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

What comes to mind when you hear the word Chastity or the act of being Chaste? I’ve often struggled with this somewhat archaic language but the deeper I dive into learning its meaning, God grants me the understanding of its beauty and goodness. 

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Week Thirty-Eight. Integrity. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

What is Spiritual Integrity? Author Jac O’Keeffe, author of How to Be a Spiritual Rebel, gives us some words to ponder this week as we look for God’s goodness, day by day. 

Spiritual integrity is the combination of a state and a quality. Spiritual integrity is the state of being undivided together with the quality of brutal self-honesty. It demands a considerable depth of self-awareness and an uncompromising willingness to be authentic.

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Week Thirty-Eight. Integrity. God’s Goodness.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

Are you drawn towards the light and the goodness of God? As we surrender to a higher state of being, God fills our soul with clear knowledge of what is necessary to live a good life. A life of integrity with ourselves and others, in body, mind, and spirit.

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Week Thirty-Eight. Integrity. To Be Human.

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

If integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles and uprightness, we are called to look at ourselves with the same eye as we do others. Many of us find it easier to see the fault in others and are adept at ignoring it in ourselves. This judgmental behavior breeds a separateness and superiority between us rather than fostering an understanding of our common humanity and humanness. 

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Week Thirty-Eight. Integrity. Blessed. 

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

We are given divine warning signs when we get off track but do we pay attention? The Beatitudes give us the playbook on how we are called to a life of integrity, to be Christ-like and blessed. 

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Week Thirty-Eight. Integrity. Hocus Pocus. 

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Valuing My Body. Temperance with love leads to chastity.

Recently I visited my daughter. It was a long overdue visit and good for the soul. The soap dispenser in her bathroom is a pumpkin with the words “Hocus Pocus” written in black lettering. As I washed my hands one time, I thought about the magic of integrity. 

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