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Seven Keys to Chastity

This Rock Volume 19, Number 6   July-August 2008     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   If You Want Justice, Work for Chastity By Gregory R. Beabout and Randall Colton   What Does "The Personal Significance of the Body" Mean?   How the 800 Martyrs of Otranto Saved Rome By Matthew E. Bunson   Real Men Love Their Wives as Christ Loves His Church By Leon Suprenant   Seven Keys to Chastity   Witchcraft 101: Five Things Apologists Should Know By Michelle Arnold   The Catechism on Witchcraft   Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel   Further Reading   Damascus Road Our Marathon of Grace By Randall Colton   By the Book Is It a Doctrine or a Discipline? By Jim Blackburn   Eyes to See Make Room for Grace By Michael Schrauzer   Truth be Told The Day the Church Altered Time By Matthew E. Bunson   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

1. Self-knowledge. The more we know ourselves, including our weaknesses and propensities, the better we are able to avoid occasions of sin.
2. Fleeing temptation. If we find ourselves confronted with a temptation to sin against chastity, the manly thing is to run, not fight.
3. Self-denial. Chastity is a grace, but it’s also the fruit of spiritual effort and discipline, known as asceticism.
4. Fidelity to prayer. Our relationship to Christ gives us the grace we need to strive for greater purity each day.
5. Obedience to God’s Commandments. We cannot be men of integrity if we persist in sexual sin.
6. Spiritual resilience. Getting right up after a moral lapse, great or small, and trusting in God’s superabundant mercy is crucial in our journey to spiritual maturity.
7. Eucharist. Our Lord desires to strengthen us in chastity through the gift of his body and blood.