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Today would have been Archbishop Fulton John Sheen's 119th Birthday. His writings are amazing! Since I have been on the modesty/purity/chastity topic, I will share some of what he had to say regarding these topics.
"Chastity is not an impossible virtue. Even those who have it not, may yet possess it. St. Augustine calls Mary Magdalen "the arch-virgin." Think of it! The "arch-virgin." He puts her next to the Blessed Mother in virginity; Magdalen, this common prostitute of the streets! She recovered purity, we might almost say, by receiving in anticipation of the Eucharist, the night she bathed the feet of our Lord with her tears. That day she came in contact with purity, and she so lived out its implications that within a short time we find her at the foot of the cross on Good Friday. But who stands beside her? It is no other then the Blessed Mother. What a remarkable companionship! A woman whose name a few months ago was synonymous with sin, and the Blessed Virgin! If Mary loved Magdalen, then why cannot she love us? If there was hope for Magdalen, then there can be hope for us. If she recovered purity, then it can be recovered by us. But how, except through Mary, for why is she called Mother Most Pure except to make us pure?"
(From The Cross and The Beatitudes, Lessons on Love and Forgiveness by Fulton J. Sheen)
Today would have been Archbishop Fulton John Sheen's 119th Birthday. His writings are amazing! Since I have been on the modesty/purity/chastity topic, I will share some of what he had to say regarding these topics.
"Chastity is not an impossible virtue. Even those who have it not, may yet possess it. St. Augustine calls Mary Magdalen "the arch-virgin." Think of it! The "arch-virgin." He puts her next to the Blessed Mother in virginity; Magdalen, this common prostitute of the streets! She recovered purity, we might almost say, by receiving in anticipation of the Eucharist, the night she bathed the feet of our Lord with her tears. That day she came in contact with purity, and she so lived out its implications that within a short time we find her at the foot of the cross on Good Friday. But who stands beside her? It is no other then the Blessed Mother. What a remarkable companionship! A woman whose name a few months ago was synonymous with sin, and the Blessed Virgin! If Mary loved Magdalen, then why cannot she love us? If there was hope for Magdalen, then there can be hope for us. If she recovered purity, then it can be recovered by us. But how, except through Mary, for why is she called Mother Most Pure except to make us pure?"
(From The Cross and The Beatitudes, Lessons on Love and Forgiveness by Fulton J. Sheen)
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Venerable Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, pray for us!
God bless!
~littleromanJMJ
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