Chastity: 6th Commandment, Part 4 - Jun 07 - Homily - Fr Terrance

Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jun 07, 2022, on how the key to personal freedom is practicing chastity as called for in the 6th Commandment, as counterintuitive as this seems to modern thinking.

Everyone is called to chastity which is a virtue but also a gift because it gives integrity to the soul and gives us the ability to have the freedom, joy, and excitement of being able to love, to be selfless.

Chastity is to control our desire for sexual pleasure. To give in to our base desires is to enslave ourselves to our passion and thus sell ourselves into slavery.

The chaste person focuses on what to give to others, to respect others and themselves.

Chastity involves maturity

CCC 2339 self-mastery and freedom

CCC 2342 This takes time grace and perseverance but leads to happiness

Self-knowledge: what are my near occasions of sin? Not having too much self-confidence or complacency

Ascesis: Asceticism - practicing self-discipline

Obedience to the 10 Commandments

Practicing Moral virtues: put reason in control, not emotions or passions

Prayer: spend time with God asking him to give us strength,

Ave Maria!

Mass: Tuesday 10th Week of Ordinary Time - Wkdy
1st: 1ki 17:7-16
Resp: psa 4:2-5, 7-8
Gsp: mat 5:13-16

[mazikode]

Praise be Jesus and Mary. Thank you Father Terrance much better to enter heaven without the iphone. God bless you and all the Fransiscans..I can never thank you enough everytime I listen to you.

[boojasmine]

Praise to Jesus for your priesthood Fr. Terrance.

[lindamartin]

Thank you, Father Terrance! Love the little bits of humour without compromising on the truth, in all its seriousness and depth. Continued prayers for you and all of our clergy. God bless!

[marymaher]

Thank you so much for this very important message and Homily, Fr Terrance! 🙏Self control is very, very important; otherwise, we're slaves to sin and death itself.

[PAT]

I am married to an undisciplined man and can attest to everything you said. He has negatively affected our relationship by living his life for his pleasures. Mother Mary has her work cut out with him because I appeal to her intercession as I continue my efforts to drag this man to heaven!

[maureendoherty]

My surname is torrens please father please pray for me and my family we nead a family tree mass i I think we are related please pary for me a my family 🔥❤🙏