Chastity
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Chastity is one of the supreme virtues that direct single, celibate and married persons to a healthy, integrated use of their sexuality. It directs us to the proper use of our sexuality and helps us develop healthy relationships. In the CDF, the passages concern chastity with the whole personality, as regards for both interior and outward behavior. For some, chastity means virginity sanctified to God; for others, it will be determined by moral law. Virginal and married love are the two forms in which the person's call to love is fulfilled. In order for both to grow, they require the commitment to live chastity, in agreement with each person's own state of life. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says sexuality "becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and mutual lifelong gift of a man and a woman" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2337). In order to grow in love and dignity, one must discipline themselves of the feelings, passions and emotions that leads us to self-mastery. If a person is not master of self, through the virtue of chastity, he or she "lacks that self-possession which makes self-giving possible" (The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, 22). Chastity is the divine control which frees love from selfishness and aggression...