Temperance: Moderates the pleasures of touch, in particular those activities ordered to the preservation of the life of the individual and the species, namely the pleasures involved : :Temperance: Moderates the pleasures of touch, in particular those activities ordered to the preservation of the life of the individual and the species, namely the pleasures involved : in eating and drinking (individual); and in sexual activity (species).


Slide 2:Be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But fornication and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is fitting among saints. Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no fornicator or impure man, or one who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ST. PAUL (Eph 5:1-5)


Slide 3:THE ROLE OF TEMPERANCE Restrains and silences the “passions which make us pant for those things which turn us away from the laws of God.” ST. AUGUSTINE (On the Morals of the Catholic Church, Chapter 19)


Slide 4:The real needs of this life constitute the rule of reason that makes temperance a virtue. Measure of temperance: Order of reason, or reason enlightened by faith. See ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (S. Th., q. 141, a.6)


Slide 5:Needs of the present time determine the mean of reason.


Slide 6:But there are other needs appropriate to place and time, and in keeping with those among whom one lives (so long as they are not a hindrance to health, both bodily and spiritual). See St. Thomas Aquinas (S. Th., 141, a.6, ad 2)


Slide 7:Rejecting pleasure derived from necessary things


Slide 8:Intemperance strays from the order of reason “Childish vice” St. Thomas Aquinas (S. Th., q. 142, a.2)


Slide 9:The glutton does not eat to live, but lives to eat.


Slide 12:one flesh union procreation Sex act


Slide 13:Fornication Adultery Masturbation Sodomy Bestiality Necrophilia Natural Consummated Sins Some Unnatural Sins


Slide 14:INTERNAL SINS OF LUST: 1. IMPURE IMAGINATION (delectatio morosa) 2. IMPURE MEMORY (gaudium peccaminosum) 3. IMPURE DESIRE (desiderium pravum)


Slide 15:INTEGRAL MEANING


Slide 16:MARRIAGE IS THE CONTEXT WITHIN WHICH THE TRUTH OF THE SEXUAL ACT IS EXPRESSED AND PRESERVED.


Slide 17:What is willed for the other makes the difference between a genuine love and a disordered love. BUT MUST BE AN EXPRESSION OF DISINTERESTED LOVE


Slide 18:ECSTATIC JOY ENDURING JOY OF A DISINTERESTED AND HOLY LOVE DIFFERENT FROM EMOTIONAL COMPLACENCY THROUGH UNION WITH A PLEASURABLE OBJECT http://www.flickr.com/photos/netsrot/


Slide 21:Moderate love of one’s own excellence Inordinate love of one’s own excellence Deficient love and of one’s own excellence “Humility observes the rule of right reason whereby a man has true self-esteem.”


Slide 22:“Wherefore meekness above all makes a man self-possessed.”


Slide 23:Excessive modesty ?


Modesty of Apparel :Modesty of Apparel


Immodesty :Immodesty


Modesty in movement :Modesty in movement


Modesty in speech :Modesty in speech


Slide 28:“A man is said to be pleasant through having a happy turn of mind, whereby he gives his words and deeds a cheerful turn.” Modesty in fun or play The virtue of pleasantness


Slide 29:“A thing may be becoming according to the senses, but not according to reason.” See St. Thomas Aquinas (S. Th., q. 141, a. 2 ad 3 & q. 141, a. 8 ad 1)


Slide 30:Temperance brings about a spiritual beauty. THE BEAUTY OF AN UNSELFISH HEART