Posted on 07/07/2018 3:43:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
An increasing number Catholic women are taking life-long chastity vows in order to “dedicate themselves” to God, according to the Vatican.
Consecrated virgins are unmarried women who pledge to remain celibate for their entire lives, eschewing romantic or sexual relationships to devote themselves exclusively to being mystical “brides of Christ”.
Unlike nuns, they take on no role within the church. Instead of joining a religious order, they continue to live in their own homes and work in conventional jobs.
While rare and little-known even within the church, the lifestyle is considered to be Christianity’s oldest form of total devotion to God, with roots in ancient Rome.
During the Middle Ages, the practice all but disappeared following the emergence of communal forms of consecration, such as convents.
But in the 1960s the Vatican revived the ancient Order of Virgins, which reintroduced the concept of women being betrothed to God while living alone or with families rather than in religious communities.
“Since this form of consecrated life was reintroduced in the church, there has been a real revival of the Ordo virginum [Order of Virgins],” said Archsbishop Jose Rodríguez Carballo, secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
“The phenomenon appears to be very significant, not only for the number of women involved, but also for its diffusion throughout all continents, in many countries and Dioceses and in very diverse geographic areas and cultural contexts.”
Last year three women committed to lifelong chastity at a consecration ceremony at Detroit’s Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
“I felt like it was an opportunity to take my relationship with Christ one step further,” said one of them, Theresa Jordan, 40,
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The priests do that but it hasn’t worked out so good for some boys.
Sick and unnatural. Jesus never commanded this, thats a Paul thing.
Hasn’t worked out so well for girls, either. They’re not all “homos”.
Good for them. But I had no idea there was such a thing outside taking nun’s vows.
Alot better than all the endless sinfulness of sexual obsession as in our society now that leads to very unhappy children.
This may be a positive choice for some women.
If it’s someone’s free choice, so be it. Marriage and relationships take work, absorb a lot of time and energy. If they don’t want that, then so be it.
“Sick and unnatural.”
Jesus would recommend something sick and unnatural?
Matthew 19:12.
“Jesus never commanded this, thats a Paul thing.
No, that’s a Jesus thing. Again, Matthew 19:12. And the women following Jesus’ recommendation are doing it voluntarily. Get a clue.
Amen to that.
I think my wife missed her calling.
Shouldn’t this be in the “Religion” forum rather than “News Activism”??
Another dumb$hit idea!
Was going to post that verse. Not many folks read nor use Mt19:12 as a teaching. They sort of glaze over it but Jesus taught it. Not for everyone but some women and men do appear to do better being single and asexual.
Cue Divinyls “I Touch Myself” song...
Happens a lot. A while after marriage, women swear being celebate is in the marriage vows. Men sigh...
Fifty-five years ago I worked with a girl whose father delivered heating oil somewhere in Massachusetts. She told me that one of his customers was an orphanage for children of nuns and priests.
So who in this thread is Ann Barnhardt incognito?
So who in this thread is Ann Barnhardt incognito?
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