2349. “People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single.”135 Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:
There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others…. This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.136
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524. What is required by the eighth commandment?
209. What is meant by the term “heaven”?
189. How do the lay faithful participate in the priestly office of Christ?
417. Is such a law perceived by everyone?
362. What is eternal happiness?
123. Why does Jesus call upon his disciples to take up their cross?
140. What does it mean that the Spirit “has spoken through the prophets”?
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