The
XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (CNS/Paul Haring
- see reference below)
Today,
reply is on appetite, celibacy, the flesh, and human sexuality.
Given sexual experience and expression are held to be personal and
private the errors that appear among Christians often include failure
to practice according to divine standards, not relying only upon
godly counsel and the practice of secrecy regarding our human needs
and problems. Thus, for example, many have taught that the word
“burn” in the counsel from the Apostle Paul (better to marry than
burn) may be replaced with “desire”, “endure frustration,”
and “lust” overlooking that it also means “despair”. That all
have sinned and come short of GOD’s
glory is true in part not simply because they have lost their
virginity; rather, it is because so many have experienced defilement,
loss of purity, and spiritual confusion through their own sexual
experiences. Even so, it is the faith of mature Christian believers
that through the grace of GOD in Christ along with redemption and
salvation believers can receive correction, healing, reconciliation,
restoration and willpower (mastery) over ones own human sexuality.
The fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” Religion and Spirituality
public forum who uses the ID “johnsmith2025
( Cavs Fan )” (Level 7 with 45,976 points, a member since October
14, 2007) posted the following:
Is
masterbation acceptable? (please read the details)?
Is
it okay if a single Catholic man of 35 masturbates?
If
he has a healthy libido and needs frequent ejaculations
(approximately 1,000 per year), and he is Catholic and happens to be
single, is it Catholically permissible for him to engage in such
masturbation for the relief he needs??
Update:
I accidentally misspelled it. Sorry about that.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in
the body. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Let
your conversation be without covetousness; and be
content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never
leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is
my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. (Hebrews
13: 3-6, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Gift Of GOD (10/15/2018); Knowing What To
Believe? (12/31/2017); Thoughts on Sexual Relationships (03/07/2017);
Why Is Lust Condemned? (07/20/2016); Flesh Against the Spirit?
(06/19/2016); On Controlling Lust (01/05/2016); The Mistakes In
Youth? (08/24/2015); Masturbation and Religion? (02/01/2015)
“johnsmith2025
( Cavs Fan )”, here are some points mature Christians are
challenged to consider when focusing on human sexual behavior:
(1.)
Among mankind the possibilities for existence and life on the earth
permit diverse forms of expression that are animal, human, and divine
(we say, anointed; Christlike; godly; sanctified) in their character,
makeup, purpose, and substance.
(2.)
Sexual desire gains strength and continues throughout ones
development until they complete their own mortality.
(3.)
Auto-eroticism (we say, masturbation; self-stimulation) and all
sexual feeling incorrectly are judged and condemned as “sin” by
many who acknowledge GOD through Christ. (For example, the counsel
from the Apostle Paul to couples regarding fornication (i.e.,
defilement of ones spirit makeup through sexual joining) and
premarital sex that often is used mistakenly to commend celibacy, “It
is better to marry than burn.”)
(4.)
Sexual expression as social behavior can be accounted (i.e., judging
others) as infantile (i.e., driven by curiosity, ignorance,
immaturity, and selfishness), or mature (balanced,
disciplined, purposeful, and stable).
(5.)
As explained by medicine and science, reproduction is both an animal
and human function generated within the flesh by such elements as
enzymes, hormones, organs, and tissues. Reproduction usually
requires the imparting and transfer of cellular material through
intercourse. However, the joining and outcomes that follow will be
on multiple levels: emotional; physical; psychological; and
spiritual.
(6.)
Godly sexual expression acknowledges multiple realities of divine
order, sacred intent, and eternal purpose. Included are family;
inheritance; joining spirit substance; priesthood; and reproducing
spirit substance. For desire responds to intellect and reasoning in
a fixed and reliable way only where there is strong discipline and
restraint.
(7.)
The animal operations of appetite for sexual fulfillment are like
those for hunger and thirst. They appear as aspects of ones carnal
being from before their birth, and will increase their influence and
presence within ones consciousness as well as their potency against a
person’s self-will (willpower).
In this way, sex operates like sin that opposes the continued
existence of divine law, the Lawgiver, and divine order throughout
the universe: There can be the domination of consciousness and
self-will.
(8.)
The operations of animal sexual desire (we also say, lust; passion)
are not simple. Desires that proceed as mechanical and natural
process may be aroused, yet, not be satisfied through mental activity
(e.g., fantasy; imagination; recall).
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (9.) The emotional, physical, and
psychological process of sexual development compares to the process
of new life in Christ for those “born again”, because both
require discovery that may be through trial and error, gradual
growth, focused practice, and even the enduring of disappointment,
hardship and suffering.) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
CNS
photograph/Paul Haring published with “Letters from the Synod-2018:
October 19” - Reports and Commentary, from Rome and Elsewhere, on
the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops by Xavier
Rynne II: downloaded 11: 38 AM, 10/19/2018 from the Catholic Herald
Internet site @
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2018/10/19/letters-from-the-synod-2018-october-19/
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