Teens fight for a chaste Valentine's

The Diluth News Tribune ^ | Tue, Feb. 14, 2006 | STEPHANIE SIMON

[klossg]

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[Izzy Dunne]

Teens fight for a chast Valentine's

Perhaps you mean "chased".

;->

[mlc9852]

There is still hope for this generation. When my daughter was in high school a few years ago, they had the informal "V Club", for virgin. They would ask each other if they were still a member of the V Club.

[klossg]

Yes Chaste!

It should read "Teens fight for a chaste Valentine's"

[Salvation]

**Hundreds of teenagers across the country will join Ally in wearing white today to signal a commitment to abstinence.**

Some teenagers are ahead of their parents in this category. God bless them.

[Salvation]

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[Ashamed Canadian]

Wow. Looks like the backlash is coming against the 60's generation of sexual liberationist homo-promoting flower child losers is finally here.

[klossg]

I agree. We are moving toward responsibility along with freedom, instead of just freedom and who knows what happens next.

If someone wants to love truly, they must accept the responsibility or they understand that what they have chosen is weak and will end. Read Love and Responsibility by K. W. Written during the flower child "revolution." It takes flower children seriously and meets their questions head on, without fear and amazingly answers that love needs responsibility or it is less than love. Go Canada! See you in the Olympic Women's Hockey final.

[SaltyJoe]

Perhaps it's easier to honor chastity by calling the day by it's proper name:

SAINT Valentine's Day

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm

At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.

Saint Valentine's Day

The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day
Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest to be found is in the 34th and 35th Ballades of the bilingual poet, John Gower, written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor:


And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion.
Shortly after the young lady herself wrote a letter to the same man addressing it "Unto my rightwell beloved Valentine, John Paston Esquire". The custom of choosing and sending valentines has of late years fallen into comparative desuetude.

[Ashamed Canadian]

Right on. The US is looking sharp, as is the men's, although I don't get a hell of alot of pleasure having playing you guys in the final, because I like both teams. If Canada's out then I automatically root for the US. If we beat you guys, it's not nearly as much fun as beating the Russians.

[Bigg Red]

How wonderful! Gives me hope for today's teens.

[Coleus]

National Day of Purity - February 13, 2004

 

Day of Purity Counters Peer Pressure

[little jeremiah]

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Klossg - what's your ping list about? Sound similar to the Moral Absolutes list.

[klossg]

The Theology of the Body is a reply to the sexual revolution, on its own terms. It does not play down the draw of our normal and good human sexuality. Yet, it is based on the Scriptures and a Phenomenological study of the human body in its male and female forms.

Most of us Christians view purity, chastity and temperance as a harsh battle. Theology of the Body takes the battle and lifts it up on Christ's shoulders because he is the one who made the body and died for all of us. The Theology of the Body helps one, through God's grace, to move from the "Battle" into a "desire for goodness." Through scripture and phenomenological analysis and a true look at the graces of the redemption, The Theology of the Body helps us realize that false sexual temptation is a twist on our ultimate goal of realizing the True, Good and Beautiful (God himself).

It is a twist of what God created originally as a way of offering oneself completely for another. Rightly directed and alive marital sexuality points to Christ's love, his offering on the cross for us. It allows a husband to say, "this is my body, given up for you." It allows a wife to say, "do unto me according to your word." But, if not for this purpose in a marriage, sex uses the body to lie and offer the anti-word. That is a lame introduction to the Theology of the Body.

Check out Christopher West's site for more information.

This was first introduced by John Paul II in the early 1980s and is based on a long line of beautiful Christian teachings.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks. Sounds as though the Moral Absolutes ping list and yours have some overlap. Maybe wagglebee and MillerCreek might want on your list, or you on theirs (was mine but I'm lending it out right now.)

[AppyPappy]

The concept that teens are like farm animals and cannot resist having sex is one of the great lies of our society. I find it ironic that society treats kids like unfettered beasts who cannot control themselves but expects them to instantly become creatures of reason just before sex and deploy a condom.

[klossg]

Most excellent point AppyPappy. Beasts of Reason!

And every teen/collegiate knows the whole point of college is to get drunk and get laid. (It is the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Marriage, twisted in a very sick and pessimistic way. Seeing the true, good and beautiful but using it like a pinata to get at the "goodies.")

[wagglebee]

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[TAdams8591]

I thought the pill was the solution to out-of-wedlock births. In the day and age of oral contraception AND abortion, there are more out-of-wedlock births than before the pill and Roe vs. Wade. Of, course it's a fact which the left NEVER mentions.

The real solution is abstinence.