Posted on 09/28/2014 10:10:18 AM PDT by mlizzy
What first struck my mind [at rosary recitation, 40 Days for Life] were several women dressed very immodestly...In particular was a 14 year old young woman in very short pants and another woman next to her in leggings. After we prayed the Holy Rosary, I kindly explained how dressing immodestly causes men to want to have sex without wanting children, and if the woman gets pregnant, she may want to kill that baby.
I had assumed the woman next to her was her mother and I explained it very kindly, not accusing them of anything and saying that I know that they are not dressing immodestly to have sex. Well the young woman turned out to be the daughter of the organizer for 40 Days for Life from the Protestant church. She came over to me very very upset because I had caused her daughter to cry.
Father Carota is a Traditional Latin priest, and truly, one of a kind. God love him.
Modesty is one of the 12 Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Modesty – Produces moderation in external actions
Companion To: Counsel
Purity of heart requires the modesty which is patience, decency, and discretion. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. ~ CCC§2533
Thus…
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. ~ CCC§2522, emphasis added
Something, I’m sorry to say, is VERY MUCH LACKING in our over-sexed and depraved world. Would we put Ancient Rome to shame with our immodest-ies?
Thank you, Salvation! I agree with Father completely on this too; if only all priests, or even 10% of them, spoke up on this, it would be good.
Although I would agree with his examples of immodesty, the problem with “immodesty in dress” is the subjectivism associated with it. There are some who believe any pair of pants on a woman is sinful/immodest.
This should have been your clue that you're doing it wrong.
Probably the easiest and most effective implementation of mutual modesty is for every Christian woman, teener or mature, to dress such that attention is drawn to her face, especially in the time for assembly. Men need to take the stance with their eyes as did Job, "For why should I look upon a maid" (look it up). Look at a woman's eyes, to the ground, or to the middle distance. That is modest behavior.
Pants are oftentimes too tight and what Father is saying, is that men are really, REALLY weak, and I get that. There are sports, though, and it’s almost impossible to wear a dress while swimming laps. :)
“, I kindly explained how dressing immodestly causes men to want to have sex without wanting children, and if the woman gets pregnant, she may want to kill that baby. “
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Tell me you’re joking——please.
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It gets murkier in a place where many different cultures or subcultures mix, because what is "immodest" to one is not to the other.
Hey why don’t all of us women wear burkas?
Seriously, this just ticks me off. I was told that I was flaunting myself once, considering my outfit of choice is jeans and t-shirts, I’m still confused by that comment.
The rationale that I’m getting from this article and subsequent posts is the same one that islamists use to put women in burkas covered from head to toe.
But your self-appointed enforcement extends beyond the church (where of course church-appropriate attire should be worn) to the streets. Such as the street near the abortion clinic, where you approach someone else’s kid to explain your theories about “men wanting sex without children”.
Everybody is different I suppose, but from my own experience the meme "men are so very, very weak" is bumkus. Whether a woman is wearing an ankle-length skirt or jeans, or a string bikini as the case may be, its well within my feeble willpower to NOT feel even the slightest bit of lust whatsoever. It takes personality, a pecularly wry twist of the mouth, a certain way of walking/talking/laughing, a sharp wit, etc, to really cause need for prayerful lust-control.
The truth is men who lust do so because they want to, and they'll want to whether the object of lust is well-clad or not.
A couple of priests have spoken out that pornography is the #1 sin in the confessional. I would think that would decrease somewhat if women dressed more modestly.
Creeping out stranger children with your sex theories is probably not the best way to grow your movement. Just saying.
Pornography is an insidious evil, but it was distributed widely even back when people dressed more modestly in general. I’m not saying modesty isn’t a good thing to encourage, but I don’t think its an antidote to porn.
Yes, pants CAN BE tight. But they don’t have to be. So I’m really just saying that immodesty in dress isn’t so black and white.
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