Chateau-Gonthier (In Anljou), Council Of (Concilium apud Castrum Gontheam), was held in 1231, by the archbishop of Tours and his suffragans; who- published thirty-seven canons or regulations, of which the’ following are of most consequence: 1. Against clandestine marriages, ordering that those persons who have been so united be separated. 3. Exacts an oath from … Continue reading “Chateau-Gonthier (In Anljou), Council Of”
Chateau (Or Chasteau In Ital. Castello), Guillaume
Chateau (Or Chasteau In Ital. Castello), Guillaume a French engraver, was born at Orleans, April i8, 1635, and was instructed in the school of John Frederick Greutet. He died in Paris, Sept. 15, 1683. His principal plates are, The Repose in Egypt; The Virgin, with the Infant Jesus Embracing a Cross; The Miraculous Draught of … Continue reading “Chateau (Or Chasteau In Ital. Castello), Guillaume”
Chasuble (Chesible, Or Chesuble)
Chasuble (Chesible, Or Chesuble) We give additional particulars respecting this important clerical garment: laymen as ecclesiastics in very early ages; but in later times its use has been confined exclusively to bishops and priests, and it has become -the distinctive official. vestment of the holy eucharist. Its primitive form was perfectly round, with an aperture … Continue reading “Chasuble (Chesible, Or Chesuble)”
Chasuble
chasuble (Latin: casula, little house) The principal Mass vestment, covering all the rest. It is made of silk, or other material such as velvet or cloth of gold, usually embroidered, and hangs from shoulders to knees, front and back, with an opening for the head. It may be Gothic in form, draping over the shoulders; … Continue reading “Chasuble”
chastity, vow of
chastity, vow of Forbids all voluntary sexual pleasure. It constitutes a matrimonial impediment. If the vow be a simple one, which may be anyone of four kinds (of virginity, of not marrying, of receiving Sacred Orders, or of entering religion), it is a hindering impediment, rendering a marriage unlawful although valid, unless a dispensation be … Continue reading “chastity, vow of”
chastity, virtue of
chastity, virtue of (Latin: castigare, to chastise) So called because its exercise is the chastising of the flesh and its special concupiscence. It belongs properly to all Christians. To be saved one must subject the flesh to the spirit, and consequently that strongest of the desires which war against the soul. All spiritual writers agree … Continue reading “chastity, virtue of”
CHASTITY-IMPURITY
CHASTITY-IMPURITY (A) CHASTITY Deu 5:18; Job 31:1; Pro 5:20; Mat 5:28; 1Co 7:1; 1Th 4:3 Tit 2:5; Rev 14:4 –SEE Celibacy, SELF-DENIAL Purity, INNOCENCE (B) IMPURITY, sexual (1) General References to Mat 5:28; Rom 1:24; Rom 6:19; Eph 4:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:7 Heb 13:4; 2Pe 2:10 –SEE Adultery, HOME (2) Fornication Mat … Continue reading “CHASTITY-IMPURITY”
Chastity (Roman)
Chastity (Roman) was a virtue deified by the Romans, and represented on the reverse of a medal of Faustina the younger, sitting, and dressed in the habit of a Roman matron, holding a sceptre in her hand, with two doves at her feet. Juvenal sarcastically says she was once upon our earth in the reign … Continue reading “Chastity (Roman)”
Chastity
CHASTITY Purity from fleshly lust. In men it is termed continence. See CONTINENCE. There is a chastity of speech, behaviour, and imagination, as well as of body. Grove gives us the following rules for the conservation of chastity. 1.To keep ourselves fully employed in labours either of the body or the mind: idleness is frequently … Continue reading “Chastity”
Chastisement
Chastisement The subject of chastisement and chastening is frequently mentioned in the OT and the NT. The NT terms are and , which correspond to and of the OT. In classical usage these words refer to the whole of the education of the , including the training of the body. Sometimes they are used of … Continue reading “Chastisement”