Modest or Immodest?

by **Poem** on Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:02 am

From 1944 Notebook, chapter on the martyr Perpetua and Felicita.

"The only concern, 'for whoever is holy is holy in everything' was to preserve modesty. At that moment, they are concerned not about the wound, but about the disheveled clothing. For, if the are not virgins, they are still modest. True Christianity always provides spiritual virginity. It maintains this beautiful purity even where marriage and offspring have removed the seal which makes virgins angels."

"The human body washed by Baptism is a temple of the Spirit of God. It should not be violated, then, with immodest fashions and immodest customs. From the woman--especially from the woman--who does not respect herself there can come only profligate offspring and a corrupt society, from which God withdraws and in which Satan plows and sows his torments making you despair."

by **Poem** on Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:54 am

From 1944 Notebook Chapter on Stand the World's System on It's Head

"But the world was saved by them. If you have become the beasts you are, after such an example and such a lavacre of purifying blood, what would you have become--and from what point on--without the holy and blessed generation of my martyrs? They kept you from plunging into Satan long before your lusts stired in you. They still invite you to halt and get back onto the ascending way, leaving the path plunging downward. They speak words of salvation to you. They speak them with their wounds, with their words to tyrants, with their acts of charity, with their concern for modesty, and with their patience, purity, faith, and constancy. They tell you that the necessary science is one alone. The one issuing from eternal Wisdom.

Peace be with you always

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