Tag: Chastity

Power Rangers and Bikinis

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Power Rangers and bikinis?! Well, that has to be the most random title for a post in the history of this blog (and that’s saying something). Below is a video of Jessica Rey talking about the history of the bikini:

If Jessica looks familiar to you it’s quite possibly because she is a former Power Ranger, from Power Ranges: Wild Force. Although she no longer helps Zordon defend the earth from alien baddies, she helps make it a better place by designing modest swimwear. She is also a chastity and modesty speaker.

That special something…

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Today I would like to return again to the subject of discernment. In my previous post I wrote about some of the things I’ve wrestled with during my current discernment process. I explained that I find the call to be holy and the call to Holy Orders rather difficult to distinguish from one another and I expressed my frustration that many people seem to assume that the former necessarily implies the latter….

 

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Those who become monks and nuns take vows of (1) poverty, (2) chastity and (3) obedience. These three are known as the Evangelical Counsels. I’ve found that a lot of discernment material, when you really boil it down, focuses upon these three areas. The problem is that the Church teaches that all Christians are called to live out these counsels!

“Christ proposes the evangelical counsels, in their great variety, to every disciple”
– Catechism of the Catholic Church, #915

I guess this does affirm something that I’ve thought for some time – that there are many common threads which run through all the vocations. There are also common graces which all people are reliant upon to live out their vocation, regardless of what that vocation might be.

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