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JESUS LIVING IN MARY - HANDBOOK OF THE SPIRITUALITY OF ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT


Links to the articles in Jesus Living in Mary:
Acknowledgements
Preface/Forward
Adoration
Angels/Demons
Apostles
Associations
Baptism
Beatitudes
Beauty
Bible
Brothers of St. Gabriel
Canonization
Charisms
Childhood
Church
Company of Mary
Consecration
Covenant
Creation
Cross
Daughters
Discernment
Disciple
Ecumenism
Education
End Times
Eucharist
Faith
Family
Fidelity
Freedom
French School
Friendship
God
Holy Spirit
Hymns
Iconography
Incarnation
Inculturation
Jesus Christ
Last Things
Legion of Mary
Love of Wisdom
Liturgy
Love
Magnificat
Man
Marie Louise
Mary
Milieu
Mission
Model
Montfort
Montfort Spirituality
Mortification
Mystic
Noels/Christmas
Oxford Movement
Path of Perfection
Peace
Penance
Pilgrimage
Popes/Bishops
Poverty
Prayer
Priest
Providence
Psalms
Reign
Reparation
Retreats
Rosary
Saint
Salvation
Secret of Mary
Sacred Heart
Sick
Silence
Sin
Slavery of Love
True Devotion
Tenderness
Trinity
Triptych
Virtues
Wisdom
Zeal

21 posted on 04/28/2010 8:54:34 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Moral aspects of the heresy of the Albigenses

Moral

The dualism of the Albigenses was also the basis of their moral teaching. Man, they taught, is a living contradiction. Hence, the liberation of the soul from its captivity in the body is the true end of our being. To attain this, suicide is commendable; it was customary among them in the form of the endura (starvation). The extinction of bodily life on the largest scale consistent with human existence is also a perfect aim. As generation propagates the slavery of the soul to the body, perpetual chastity should be practiced. Matrimonial intercourse is unlawful; concubinage, being of a less permanent nature, is preferable to marriage. Abandonment of his wife by the husband, or vice versa, is desirable. Generation was abhorred by the Albigenses even in the animal kingdom. Consequently, abstention from all animal food, except fish, was enjoined. Their belief in metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, the result of their logical rejection of purgatory, furnishes another explanation for the same abstinence. To this practice they added long and rigorous fasts. The necessity of absolute fidelity to the sect was strongly inculcated. War and capital punishment were absolutely condemned.

(NOt something I would want to agree with.)

22 posted on 04/28/2010 9:13:06 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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