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By: Nancy Escalante
Virginity needs the presence of the Living God inside the consecrated person’s heart.
We are used to listening and even talking about the value of virginity, but sometimes we have a very limited concept about what virginity means and implies as a whole.
It is for this reason that I consider it very important to mention that VIRGINITY means a total consent of God’s power, and the full and exclusive presence of the Lord. That is why God is the final mystery and total explanation of virginity [1].
In spite the complementary nature of man and woman, when God lives completely inside a virgin heart, the need for man-woman complementarity ends because that heart is fully occupied and fulfilled.
In this sense, when God does not occupy totally a consecrated heart, the need for complementarity appears in the consecrated person. This is because virginity without God becomes a complete absurd for the human person; it loses its spiritual and supernatural connotation, turning out into a repression life where the lack of sense of virginity and chastity becomes a source of emotional instability instead of a source of peace and encounter with the Living God. Only God is capable of lighting the greatest flame of love and harmony in a lonely and silent heart. It is here, where God gives the gift of freedom to the consecrated person. This is the reason why a consecrated heart where the real presence of God lives, is not dependent of any human being and it is the only way in which the virgin and chaste heart is able to love and devote deeply and completely and remain in God [2].
Therefore if God is the mystery and explanation of virginity, we can say that the more the virginity and chastity, the more capacity of experimenting the living presence of God and therefore the more capacity to love universally. Therefore virginity and chastity are fullness and freedom.
“Mary is a deep lonely virginity inhabited completely by her God. God occupies her heart completely. That human figure that appears in the Gospels, so full of maturity and peace, attentive and helpful with others is the result of the perfectly lived virginity and chastity”.
Bibliography
[1] Cfr. Larrañaga, Ignacio. “El silencio de María”, “Ediciones Paulinas”, Bogotá, 1990, pp.99-101, p.214.
[2] Ibidem.
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