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Author Topic: Are Consecrated Virgins only a Vatican II Church phenomenon?  (Read 3127 times)

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Re: Are Consecrated Virgins only a Vatican II Church phenomenon?
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2018, 05:40:40 PM »
The question of deacons is altogether another issue from consecrated virginity and so is not relevant to this thread; 
I did not mean to imply that the question of deacons had any direct bearing on consecrated virginity.  I only gave it as an example of the way that the post-conciliar Church equivocates with terminology.  

Re: Are Consecrated Virgins only a Vatican II Church phenomenon?
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2018, 02:41:45 AM »
I think a good starting point might be to study the docuмent Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago.

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/04/180704d.html


Re: Are Consecrated Virgins only a Vatican II Church phenomenon?
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2018, 03:40:02 PM »
I think a good starting point might be to study the docuмent Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago.

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/04/180704d.html
Thank you for this docuмent Poche. From this docuмent:
 . . .  two forms of celebration were composed and approved. The first is intended for women living in saeculo (in the world), that is, in their ordinary circuмstances of life, who are admitted to consecration by the diocesan Bishop. The second form is for nuns living in communities in which the rite is used, who are already perpetually professed or who make perpetual profession in the same celebration in which they receive the consecration virginum.

So the two forms of consecrated virginity are
1.  Nuns.
2.  A woman living in the world consecrated by the diocesan Bishop.
This clarifies the problem of Atila Guimaraes acting as if he is the diocesan Bishop by encouraging a young woman to abandon her plans of becoming a nun in order to be a "consecrated virgin" under the auspices of Mr. G's Tradition in Action. Under the "guidance" of Mr. G, she wrote a three-part articles publicly proclaiming her "consecrated virginity."
https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/c041rpSingle_1.html
Insight in Mr. Guimaraes' possible motivation for taking the role rightfully belonging to the Bishop and his thoughts on his disgust with the marital act:
In the human body the organs that are the most shameful are those that are used to discharge the filth produced by the body; they are the penis, the vagina and the anus. The last is more shameful than the first two because it discharges solid detritus, while the others discharge liquid detritus, but these organs also are disgusting and shameful. Now then, the male and female sɛҳuąƖ functions are put into practice by these shameful organs. Therefore, it is undeniable that they share something of the same disgusting character of their other function.
https://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/c048-Single_8.html

Taking that to heart might make some people want to find refuge in perpetual virginity.