CASTITAS

Chastity.

“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.

1. The condition or quality of being pure or chaste.

2. Abstention from sexual intercourse; virginity or celibacy.”


Right off the bat, not even going to hide it… I don’t feel I have any right to talk about this Virtue to be perfectly honest.

Along the lines of honesty… I don’t even know who to talk about.

I suppose I could make a shout out to those in my graduating class who got married… THEN popped out a kid (in a non-shotgun wedding sense)
Val, Jessica, Nancy, Hannah, Nic, and Wes.

Aside from their order of marriage and kids though, I can’t really say much else about them, because that would be infringing on their Chuppah (more on that to come). There is however one girl I know from a drama class that I took who has given her word of purity and swears that she has never even been kissed. THAT is will power. Rachel, you amaze me in this sense.


Contrary to popular belief, Christians are NOT against sex. God created sex. He also put certain rules that go with it. The reason marriage is so important in sex is that, when you have sex with someone, your souls merge together.

C.S. Lewis once said, “We don’t have a soul, we have a BODY, we ARE a soul”.
Think about it then, if what you are is a soul, and your body nothing more than a housing for that soul, and every time your body has intercourse with someone and your souls merge, that really means… YOU merge with that person. Jewish custom says that until someone is married, they are only half a person.

There is not much that I can say upon this topic that I don’t think Pastor Rob Bell has not covered in significant detail in his book, “Sex God”.



It has become one of my favorite books, in it you will learn what the Chuppah is all of you Goyim :)

There is so much I would love to say on this topic, I just really do not know how at this point in time.



I will say this much when it comes to myself:

#1 I am only like St. Paul in that I think myself the chief amongst sinners.

#2 I think a Jewish wedding would be awesome to have. Not just for the fun that goes into it, but also for the symbolism between it and the Bible and how our relationship to God can be displayed in the relationship between the bride and groom.

#3 Unlike certain friends… I am not going to do seminary (or at least not getting ordained) until I am married. Which… does create a bit of catch 22 in the sense that my primary target… kinda sorta has a thing about being a Pastors wife. Which makes it interesting since I don’t want to be a Navy Chaplain until after marriage. Sigh… FML.

#4 I sincerely hope that the Cuddy to my House (or whoever I end up with in the end) can focus on my present and future views on Chastity and not those of the past.


I do feel a tad bit like St. Augustine of Hippo however…