“O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.”
(Douay-Rheims Bible: Book of Wisdom, Chapter 4, verse 1)
That which called forth this cry of admiration was the sight of those who, in the midst of this corrupt world, whatever may be their vocation, keep their hearts innocent and pure.(Fr. Alfred Yenveux)
Would that we could identify this “chaste generation” today!
St. Margaret Mary can teach us more by example than by precept about Chastity in the Religious Life. This Visitandine Visionary remarks about her experience, ” During the annual retreat of 1678, my Divine Master said to me: ‘Keep in all purity the temple of the Lord, for wherever it shall be God will assist it with a special presence of protection and of love.’
“The whiteness of the Host, she adds, teaches us that one must be a pure victim to be immolated to Jesus.. pure in body, in heart, in intention and in affection.”
This understanding proposes as a model for chastity the very purity of the Heart of Jesus in the Host, and it demands as practice the imitation of the Eucharistic sanctity. What a Divine model is shown to generous souls.
Source: Religious and the Sacred Heart by Fr Alfred Yenveux