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Author Topic: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body of ☧” (2016)  (Read 4858 times)

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Re: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body of ☧” (2016)
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2019, 08:47:48 AM »
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The other penitentials Flandrin studied prescribe more days of abstinence before Communion (and sometimes after), ranging from four to fourteen days.
Hold on now, we receive Communion every week. Abstinence of any length over 7 days, much less 14 days, would mean permanent abstinence. So there's no way that would ever even be suggested, as the point of marriage is to have children which would be completely impossible under such a rule. Therefore I think there's a lot of important context here you must be leaving out. 
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Re: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2019, 08:50:13 AM »
It was also common before Pope St Pius X's reign (early 1900s) to only receive Holy Communion once a week.  I could see how a couple/family could prepare their weekly schedule to revolve around Sundays and so prepare for Holy Communion with such conjugal fasts.  Then St Pius X came along and encouraged daily communion.  How then could a couple plan their week around daily mass, or even a spur-of-the-moment "I'm going to wake up tomorrow and go to early mass at 6am before work"?  I think it's a great idea, but not sure how it works, practically.
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Re: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2019, 09:02:58 AM »
Quote from: Anonymous on April 25, 2019, 08:47:48 AM
we receive Communion every week
Before the reforms of St. Pius X even this was rare in many places.
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Re: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body of ☧” (2016)
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2019, 09:07:23 AM »
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It was also common before Pope St Pius X's reign (early 1900s) to only receive Holy Communion once a week.  I could see how a couple/family could prepare their weekly schedule to revolve around Sundays and so prepare for Holy Communion with such conjugal fasts.  Then St Pius X came along and encouraged daily communion.  How then could a couple plan their week around daily mass, or even a spur-of-the-moment "I'm going to wake up tomorrow and go to early mass at 6am before work"?  I think it's a great idea, but not sure how it works, practically.
Good point. I know we are traditional Catholics, but not everything needs to stay the same. The world is indeed a different place than the 1700s or 1800s. The reign of St Pius X having occurred is just one of those examples. Maybe this advice worked back then, when immodesty wasn't literally everywhere, and most men worked in physical labor jobs which took a lot of their energy. You can't just transplant ancient practices into a different time and place.
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Re: Slyke, “Abstinence from Conjugal Relations Before Reception of Body of ☧” (2016)
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2019, 09:10:01 AM »
I don't know about this... either sex in lawful marriage is a good thing, designed by God, or it's evil and we shouldn't do it. Puritans and other heretics said that sex and the whole human body was evil. What is the difference between their heresy and this thinking?
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