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Purity requires modesty, an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity.
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Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one's choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet.
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There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies.
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The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person.
It's nice to do some research and find something in your own church that strikes you as so correct.
4 comments:
This is really good stuff. I wish my boys dated more modest girls.
I don't get over here as often, glad I did.
I hope my Kit will BE a modest girl! (I also hope any future sons or daughters will be modest-- a lot of the definition of 'bad boy' is just being immodest.)
Kind of boils a huge part of the troubles in modern life down to a couple of paragraphs, doesn't it?
Road Dawg, do you talk to your sons about what modesty is (and is not), and try to help them see the long-term ill consequences of cavorting with immodest girls?
One of my nephews has fathered a child out of wedlock. From things he has said, he clearly wants to protect his daughter from being some guy's "fling" or strumpet when she grows up ... yet he seems not to see the absurdity of treating his daughter's mother as a strumpet.
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