![]() What is Gospel Virginity?ġ. “ Gospel virginity is a privileged sphere of the sacred.”įulfilling the ancient Hebrew understanding of holy or sacred, qadosh, we are chosen by the Lord to be set apart from the ordinary creation, consecrated in a special manner “for the sacred sphere of a complete preoccuption with God” (33). Celibacy does not extinguish one’s sexuality, but rather sublimates it to a higher purpose.Ĭelibacy is a rechanneling of unique sexual gifts – from its immediate goal to serve a higher, more beautiful purpose. ![]() Our discussion on celibacy must attend to our relation with human sexuality.īecause a person’s sexuality extends to every level of his being – each of us feels, thinks, wills as a man or as a woman.Ĥ. Only one who is in love gives up everything for the beloved.ģ. This is why the Christian virgin is to be a lover before anything else. Virginity takes this for granted” (27).Ģ. “ You and I are to be head over heels in love with God.” “There is no resting, no fulfillment, no enthrallment, no completion anywhere short of an immersion in the Triune life. Chrisitan celibacy can be seen as the most effective way to quench our thirst (see Luke 18:29-30), for it is intimately connected with drinking at the divine Fountain, here and hereafter” (27). Any vocation must respond to the need for quenching. Yet we will differ in how we seek to slake our thirst. ![]() We are born this way and will die this way. We are thirsts in the flesh, incarnated thirsts. Every single choice we make all day long proves that we seek, we desire, we want, we lack. “We are thirsty with a thirst that nothing, absolutely nothing finite ever quenches. We will appreciate the surpassing beauty of gospel celibacy ONLY when we appreciate the premises on which it rests… A career is a means of securing a livelihood by giving advice, time, concern, expertise, but not the person.ģ. A vocation is a permanent, full-time matter. A career is simply a matter of looking about and “choosing what I would like to do in life.”Ģ. A vocation is a love matter, a self-gift to another. Vocation, Not Careerġ. A vocation is a result of both God’s divine initiative to a state in life and our searching for the divine will. Thomas Dubay, Ignatius Press, 1987.ĭubay states that his book “aims to meet the needs of young people who wish to give themselves entirely to God… and those of their elders who wish to grasp more adequately what their consecration means” (13). And You Are Christ’s – The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life by Fr.
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