You will be Called a "Freak" but Don't be Afraid to Follow God's Best for You

Teresa Neumann : Jan 31, 2012
Christine Dhanagom - Life Site News

Archbishop Timothy Dolan says chastity protects the "awe and wonder" of sex against a culture that "at times has reduced it to animal rutting," or a "popular contact sport."

(New York, NY)—Catholics in a sex-saturated society need to "regain the upper ground," and preach "the ancient wisdom of chastity and purity," New York Archbishop and Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan told his congregation last Sunday.

In a powerful sermon delivered at St. Patrick's cathedral, Dolan reflected on the second reading from that Sunday, in which St. Paul tells the Corinthians that the body is a "temple of the Holy Spirit," and exhorts Christians to avoid sins of the flesh.

Contending that many "still seem nervous about preaching chastity and purity," he continued by saying chastity is often "mis-represented as anti-sex." and ridiculed as "freaks."

According to a LifeSiteNews report, the Archbishop defined chastity as, "the virtue by which we integrate God's wisdom about the joy and the beauty the responsibility and the nobility of sexual love."

"Sexual love is so sacred, so noble, so powerful, so awesome, that it actually reflects God's passionate, personal love for us," he said.

"Human sexual love should have the very same characteristics as Divine love—namely it's forever, it is faithful, and it is life-giving. Thus the Lord intends that sexual love occur only within the life-long, life-giving, faithful living bond of a man and woman in marriage."

"It is chastity and purity that liberates us, while immorality ensla