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No grace at all.

Just another man made rule promulgated by Rome to deny them God’s good gifts.

Many saints took this vow and kept it. Even married ones.

Are you saying, then, that chastity is not a virtue? I think the Bible disagrees.

Catholic Word of the Day: VOW OF CHASTITY, 01-10-15
The Virtuous Life
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Humility is Greater Than Unity. – A Meditation on the Story of the Tower of Babel
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Pope: Shame is a true Christian virtue

The Seal of Confession and The Virtue of Religion
The Virtue of Temperance [Michael Voris video]
The Virtue of Justice [Michael Voris video]
Virtue of Prudence [Michael Voris video]
Back-to-School Virtues: Three qualities that help your child succeed in class and in life
How to Make All Our Conversations Virtuous [Ecumenical]
Catholic Word of the Day: VIRTUE OF HOPE. 07-07-10
Catholic Athletes for Christ urges virtue instead of Olympic sexual license
The Sinner's Guide - Ch 17. The Sixth Privilege of Virtue: The Confidence of the Just
The Sinner's Guide Ch 16. The Fifth Privilege of Virtue: The Peace of a Good Conscience

Advent -- A Season of Hope
Modesty En Vogue [Another one of the virtues]"
Prudence: Mother of All Virtues
The Virtue of Confidence
Is Courage a Masculine Virtue?
Cardinal Virtues: Obama and the Real American Infrastructure – Part One
Cardinal Virtues: Obama and the Real American Infrastructure — Part Two
Morality is Habit-Forming: The Cardinal Virtues
The Cross Exemplifies Every Virtue [St. Thomas Aquinas]
Living the Virtue of Humility

Genesis 2:18-25 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,

“This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Marriage and sex were God's ideas and they were good for man.

I don't have a clue what the Catholic church's objection to sex is, but it pervades most of their teaching the way they harp on it for priests, nuns, Mary and Joseph, etc. contrary to God's intent for mankind.