Some Readers might recognize the Title (and subtitle) of this post as a pair of books written in the 1940's to help parents instruct their children on purity, modesty, and chastity. These two little books are excoriated by Miss Happy Catholic (Laura Vander Vos) and David (surname unknown) in a JooToob video entitled "Sex & the Eucharist: Pt 1 of 2 - What Purity Culture Didn't Tell You - A Conversation with David". (The title is very self-explanatory.) Before shoveling through this hot steaming mess, this Wolf feels it is important to review, albeit briefly, the Traditional Catholic teaching concerning marriage, the marital embrace, modesty, and continence.
The Traditional View of Marriage can be gleaned from the following verses of the Holy Bible: "I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin." [Job Chapter 31, verse 1] "For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power." [Tobias Chapter 6, Verse 17] "Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none [1 Corinthians Chapter 7: Verses 26 to 29, inclusive]
Keep in mind that the act of intercourse transmits the guilt of original sin from the seed of the man to that of the woman. This is reflected in the following two passages from scripture: "'Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: If a woman having received seed shall bear a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, according to the days of the separation of her flowers...But if she shall bear a maid child, she shall be unclean two weeks, according to the custom of her monthly courses, and she shall remain in the blood of her purification sixty-six days. [Leviticus Chapter 12] The act of intercourse, in man and animals, is heavily tainted with the fall of creation and the corruption of the "virgin earth" and of all flesh by the sin of Adam.
Moreover, the Marital Embrace should always be for procreation, and should never be initiated if the chance of conception is slim to none. The marital embrace, in the Divine Economy, is one of those unpleasant things that must be done from time to time, like putting down a suffering dog, or cleaning the chicken coop. The corruption of the Marital Embrace is the Crown Jewel of Hell, and many Satanic rituals exalt in it, consisting of the most disgusting and repulsive acts imaginable, desecrating the bodies both of animals and of men.
Opposed to the Traditional Catholic understanding is Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" which is a putrid mix of gnosticism, pelagianism, and manichaeism. As the years go by, this appears to be what JP2 will be remembered for- his revolution concerning the Sacred Institution of Holy Matrimony, where sanctifying grace is transmitted between husband and wife through their mutual practice of true Christian Charity, and not the marital embrace. People deluded by JP2's noxious teaching actually seem to think that engaging in intercourse often increases grace and their love for each other, totally apart from procreation, and they adhere to the notion that the conjugal act enhances and deepens the marital bond the more often it is consummated. Copious examples follow.
The first truly outrageous statement David makes is that..."the catechism defines chastity as the right order of sexuality; a person can have sex twice a day forever and be just as chaste as a completely celibate Monk." He goes on to say that... "We're married; it's okay... We won't be blamed for it... You got to have somewhere to have an outlet... The catechism doesn't use the language anymore (of) 'a remedy for concupiscence'. They went from that to describing it as the right ordering of sexual desire. It's a lot more positive of a thing instead of like sex as a medicine because you're broken. Actually (intercourse is) a positive good." Here, of course, we have a classic example of the vagaries of the Conciliar Church. In the "New Catechism" they do not flat out say that the old teaching has changed, but rather that new insights have led to a new way of looking at things.
And how! David makes a distinction between looking at a beautiful woman lustfully and looking at her to admire her beauty. This Wolf will admit it is quite possible for a man to look at a beautiful woman- even one scantily clad- and not be immediately aroused. But most normal men know all too well that a prolonged gaze on a beautiful woman and the contemplation of her is going to, in the very least, arouse concupiscence. We have, of course, the example of David and the wife of Urias and the Two Old Men who tried to seduce Susanna as chronicled in David. And these are but just two examples in Holy Writ of the unfortunate ends of men who did not practice what is traditionally called "custody of the eyes" and "custody of the heart". Needless to say, JP2 in his "theology of the body" is departing profoundly from received Catholic doctrine, and forgetting that all men are saddled with "The Concupiscence of the Flesh" and "The Concupiscence of the Eye", two of the wounds of original sin which are not remedied by Holy Baptism, but remain with us until our dying breath.
Now it is Laura's turn to engage in some convoluted thinking: "The whole of society... is saturated with sex. Before I got married I (thought sex) must be addictive. I was scared of it. I thought (that) once I get married and I experience (it) I'm probably going to be 'hooked' on it. I'm going to be dependent and I'm going to be 'crazy' like everybody else. So I'm trying to be this good girl and not think about things I shouldn't think about because I'm not married and I shouldn't think about that stuff. (However, it's) part of your being even if you never get married. So it's not bad to understand it or to appreciate it [whatever on earth that exactly means- this WOlf is not sure...]. We're (a) composite of soul and body totally integrated. We're not like soul over here body over here just trying to ignore each other and I'll just put up with (my body) until I die and then I can be rid of (it). God is a unity in Himself of Persons and he made us for communion with God and that gets to be realized in you."
Laura now goes with Pope Frantic to Infinity, and Beyond. "The latest Vatican document Dignitas Infinita digitus (cites) Genesis Chapter 1 verses 26 and 27 and says biblical Revelation teaches that all human beings possess inherent dignity because they are created in the image and likeness of God. God said let us make man in our image after our likeness. There are two different kinds of thought when it comes to the marital act. Sexual relations between spouses images the Trinity. When the two join together there's the love in between them. (In) much the same way the Father loves the Son and then there's the love in between them which is the Holy Spirit. Satan's (is) going to hate marriage because (he) goes after the Trinity."
Now Laura will go off the deep end. She is going to totally flip St Paul's script and tell us how "sex reveals the Eucharist". "Love between man and wife should image Christ's love." She is now going to quote St Paul's letter to the Ephesians Chapter 5, verse 22 to the end, then she continues... "When we look at conjugal love we can see how it images or should image the Eucharist. A little bit of biology here: what happens during the carnal union (is) the man literally gives his entire Essence over to his wife. His entire DNA makeup he gives that over to his wife. Just from a purely biological standpoint that (occurs) during the sexual embrace. When else do we receive the entirety of somebody else? (Holy) Communion!"
First off, this Wolf thinks the DNA Molecule is Fake and Ghey. But let us just assume this Masonic Dogma for the moment. If you want to stick to the decretals, the sperm of a man contains only twenty three chromosomes, only half of his alleged forty six. Moreover, the man is not transmitting his soul, only a small specimen of his corrupted flesh. So, no Laura, the marital embrace is not like Holy Communion. Moreover, she is conflating the marital act with the charity of which St Paul is speaking. When St Paul bids husbands to love their wives, he is insisting they respect them as human persons, body and soul, and not see in them merely an object for intimacy. "Romantic Love" and "Funny Interior Feelings", dramatic though they be, are not expressions of Supernatural Charity, but merely the natural consequence of fallen human nature. Now, it is wonderful for those who preserve romantic feelings for the duration of their marriage, and this can be a blessing from God. But for those in which they fade, persevering in the marital bond may become a cross, and the source of even richer blessings.
Laura would have been much better served recalling some of the verses earlier in that chapter: "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks. For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. Be ye not therefore partakers with them."
Meanwhile, Laura goes on to imply that the Fathers of the Church were a bunch of celibate ignoramuses and then along comes JP2 to liberate Holy Mother Church with a new type of thinking that is going to revolutionize how we view Holy Matrimony. Then she says that going to Mass is like Marital Intercourse, because in both we experience the Divine Intimacy. "Sex reveals the Eucharist. 'The nupal Covenant between God and His People Israel'- Laura is quoting JP2- 'had prepared the way for the new and Everlasting Covenant in which the Son of God by becoming incarnate and giving his life has united Himself in a certain way all mankind saved by him thus preparing for the wedding Feast of the lamb.'" (That is the famous line from JP2 hinting at universal salvation. So much for Our Lady of Fatima and the vision of Hell!)
To be fair, Laura will go on and say that in Mel Gibson's Movie, "The Passion" we can see how a husband is supposed to love his wife. She then insists that this love should be a good example to the children that they will want to emulate when they get married. And these are very good and valid points. (And a good reason why all children should be spared the horrors of the classroom and the "bullyocracy", and preferably be raised by both parents in a sustainable household, where everybody partakes of various chores and responsibilities are divvied out.)
Laura then delves into the old canard that the Old Testament was full of do's and don'ts but then Our Lord Jesus Christ gave us the Law of Love. Well, not exactly. The first "Law of Love" Our Lord Jesus Christ gave us is encapsulated in Deuteronomy Chapter 6, verse 5: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. This is reiterated several times in the Old Testament. Our Lord only adds the admonition to love our neighbor as ourselves. Meanwhile, in St John Our Lord says: "He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them; he it is that loveth Me." Our Lord did not annul or dispense anyone from the Ten Commandments. They remain the foundation of Christian morality.
This post should be evidence that the "theology of the body" is a very corrupting influence in the Conciliar Church. It completely distorts not only the Sacrament of Holy matrimony but fundamental theology. It completely ignores Original Sin, the unhappy state of the unbaptized and the reprobate, and the seriousness of sin. In the World of JP2, the Divine Mercy dissolves everything, and God is always calling us back to Himself with no need of compunction, contrition, penance, and mortification. The Conciliar Church is just a Happy Meal and a Wedding Feast, where the participants go Whee, whee, whee! all the way home to the Pit of Hell.
Be Ye Not Partakers With Them.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!