List of points
Your chastity cannot be confined to avoiding falls or occasions… In no way can it be a cold and mathematical negative.
—Haven’t you realised that chastity is a virtue and that as such it should grow and become more perfect?
—It is not enough, then, to be continent according to your state. You have to be chaste, with a heroic virtue.
The bonus odor Christi, the fragrance of Christ, is also that of our clean life, of our chastity — the chastity of each one in his own state, I repeat — of our holy purity, which is a joyful affirmation. It is something solid and at the same time gentle; it is refined, avoiding even the use of inappropriate words, since they cannot be pleasing to God.
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