Listen: Venus Verticordia

 

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Readings: 

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“Jerome was a marvelous advocate of chastity: yet hear his confession: “O, how often have I thought myself to be in the midst of the vain delights and pleasures of Rome, even when I was in the wild wilderness.” Again, “I, who for fear of hell had condemned myself to such a prison, thought myself oftentimes to be dancing among young women, when I had no other company, but scorpions and wild beasts. My face was pale with fasting, but my mind was inflamed with desires in my cold body: and although my flesh was half-dead already, yet the flames of fleshly lust, boiled within me, etc.”
― Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians

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“She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”

― Anatole France

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Meditation: 

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When some desire comes, consider it.

Then, suddenly, quit it.

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Contemplations: