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Raoul76 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 22, 2009, 01:52:28 PM »

Good answers Matthew

Spouseofjesus almost singlehandedly destroyed the entire medical profession... Let's leave the baby in there because we wouldn't want to look where we shouldn't! :roll-laugh2:

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2009, 10:51:17 PM »

I didn't say so, I just asked a question.

Caio di Corea · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2009, 03:06:41 PM »

There is no doubt of St. Paul's being always spotless in purity. His maxims on the point of treating with the opposite sex deserves attention. "As long as our bones are covered with skin, there is reason to be afraid." He states that many persons, advanced in years, even though meritorious in most walks of life, have fallen into sins for want of caution. Beautiful and practical were the rules laid down for the custody of this virtue. His advise to priests and religious was: Let your conversation with ladies be brief and stiff. One fruit seen everywhere the saint had been was that his penitents could be distinguished from their companions by their modesty in dress and deportment. He performed miracles more than once to save female modesty from the surgeon's knife and many were deprived of his friendship because they would not come up to his standards of decorum.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2009, 04:36:31 PM »

St. Paul sounds a little Jansenistic but it can't hurt to be too careful.

I also read in Butler's Lives of the Saints about many saints who would only be drawn into conversation with females through duress. For instance, if one of them was going to donate money to build a monastery and first wanted to discuss things at length with the monk, as bored females are wont to do.

At church there are a couple girls who float about and to keep safe I huddle together with other men, although in my case marriage is still an option. I am actually more afraid of getting married than a passionate sin of the flesh ( which doesn't appeal anymore ). I don't think it would be right for me. On that St. Paul and I agree -- the unmarried life is superior to the married.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2009, 04:39:11 PM »

"On that St. Paul and I agree" -- oh brother, another slip of the tongue.

I was thinking of your comment about the surgeon's knife. That seems a bit extreme. Of course I "agree" with everything else he said or did, being a great saint.