I expresses the need for the Mystery of the Body (Mysterium Corpus: Christ’s Body Living in Human Bodies) meditatation daily for forty days; thereafter, on Mondays. Today, we are experiencing an increase in violations against the human body and its purpose. The human body is a Temple to the Body of Christ. Christ gave us His Holy Body to live within our bodies, and we may live in Christ's Body and have Life. The human body is designed to reflect the Holy Trinity whether virgin chaste, validly conjugal chaste, or committed chaste. From the beginning God designed women with a virginity membrane, because purity and chastity are of vital importance in God's Design for the human body and our communion with God. God further clarified His Design of our bodies and our relationships with Him in the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments make it clear that misusing our chastity and body would sever our relationship with the Heavenly Father that He named it a sin. God designed a pure and chaste woman with the virgin membrane that is gifted only once in her lifetime to signify the permanence of marriage. Adam explained God's Design of the human body, stating that the two become one flesh in Genesis 2:23-24. The Messiah clarified that the Design of our bodies in that the conjugal relationship creates from a man and woman one flesh. The Messiah stated that, “God made them male and female, and the two shall become one flesh.” (Mark 10: 2-12).
Christ was born not from any woman, but from the Virgin Woman and became One Flesh with Her. Therefore, after Christ was born, it became impossible for the Virgin Mary to seek to form a physical one flesh with Her spouse Joseph or anyone else, even after the hasty death of St. Joseph. Therefore, the Perfect Design of the Creator for our bodies is to always reflect the Holy Trinity either as a chaste virgin, validly conjugal chaste, or committed chaste person. Hence, the Commandment to keep the marriage vow Holy and pure assumes the couple entered into the marriage as Holy and pure. Additionally, the unity of the Eucharistic Holy Trinity in our bodies requires our bodies to be Holy and pure.
The Holy Catholic Church, following this teaching of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 7:25-40), has always considered the state of virginity or celibacy preferable in itself to the state of marriage, and the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIV, Can. 10) pronounces an anathema against the opposite doctrine. St Paul (1 Corinthians 7:25-40) declares that marriage is permissible, but that it would be better to follow his counsel and remain single. This perfect integrity of body, enhanced by a purpose of perpetual chastity, produces a special likeness to Christ, and creates a title to one of the three "Aureolae.” St. Thomas (Supplement, 96) wrote these "Aureolae" are particular rewards added to the essential happiness of Eternity. The three Aureolae points of resemblance to Christ: the Victory over the flesh in Virginity, the Victory over the world in Martyrdom, and the Victory over the devil in the preaching of the Truth. Adultery and sexual promiscuity causes a person to lose the valuable virginity which is a point of resemblance to Christ and break at least two of the Creator's Commandments, particularly the sixth and ninth. Therefore, followers of Christ should commit their chaste virginity either to Christ, or to valid conjugal chastity, or if the couple separate to committed chastity.
The world entices us to engage in immoralities as the accepted, joyful, and expected norm. Therefore, we need the assistance of the Rosary to help us live pure and chaste as God designed us to reflect His Holy Trinity. The Mysteries of the Body also draw our attention to meditate on Christ's body and to seek purity as Christ. We go to the Holy Mass to become Temples of the Body of our LORD. We go to the Perpetual Adoration to meditate on the Body of our LORD. We go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation to prepare our bodies to receive and bind to Christ's Body worthily. It is our ultimate aim to see God. Therefore, we must reflect the Image of God in our bodies as Christ taught in Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Thus, we should seek the help of the Holy Virgin Mary in prayers and meditation asking for the Grace of Her Holy Son to reflect in our bodies the image of the Holy Trinity. The Mysteries of the Body should help us make choices to construct our bodies as worthy Temples for our LORD, just as Christ’s Flesh lived within the Holy Temple of the Virgin Mary.
Therefore, the joyous, luminous, sorrowful, and glorious Mysteries of Christ are designed so that the mysteries of our bodies become Holy Temples worthy of our LORD's Flesh. Therefore, the life of Christ on earth cannot be limited to the thirty-three years that Christ spent on earth. Rather since the design of humans, the life of Christ extends to be reflected in the body of the chaste virgin man, chaste virgin woman, validly pure conjugal, chaste separated man, chaste separated woman, and the Christ living on earth in the Baptized and in those worthily nourishing on the Holy Eucharist. St. Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 6: 13 and 19 stating, “The body ... is ... for the LORD, and the LORD is for the body... and that you are not your own.” Thus, Christ would birth and shape the receiver into a new Ark of the Covenant. Therefore, the consecration of the Body is needed to help us to reflect on Christ's life in various forms on Earth, in the human body and the Eucharistic Body.
“Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its Purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.” (St. Francis of Sales, Doctor of the Church.)
“Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of True Love.” (Pope St. John Paul II)
“What is more comely than chastity, which makes one generated from impure seed pure; an enemy, a friend; and a man, an Angel? There is a difference, indeed, between a chaste man and an Angel, but in happiness, not in virtue; the Angel's chastity is more happy; but man's is more proved.” (St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Father and Doctor of the Church)
“Blessed the one who loves holiness like the light and has not defiled his body with dark deeds of the Evil one in the sight of the LORD.” (St. Ephrem of Syria)
“Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, ‘Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.” (St. Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church)
“You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.” (St. John Vianney)
“I tremble when I think of so many great men, who after their virtues had placed them among the stars, and almost fixed their habitation in Heaven, have miserably fallen into most grievous sins and died impenitent. We have seen, LORD, the great lights of Your Church fall from Heaven, being pulled from there by the infernal dragon; and, on the contrary, some that lay, as it were groveling on the ground, have been wonderfully elevated all at once by Your Almighty Hand.” (St. Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church)
“You cannot please both God and the world at the same time. They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.” (St. John Vianney)
“To virginity is awarded the tribute of the Highest Beauty.” (St. Thomas Aquinas)
“The more Pure and Chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him.” (Pope Pius XII, Sacra Virginitas, On Consecrated Virginity)
“More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason." (Our Lady of Fatima)
“The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.” (St. John Marie Vianney)
“The state of Grace is nothing other than Purity, and it gives Heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of Grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect Purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; Purity will make Saints of you! Everything lies in this!" (St. Peter Eymard)
“I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me." (St. Teresa Avila)
“Examine yourselves to make sure you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you acknowledge that Jesus Christ is really in you? If not, you have failed the test.." (St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 13:5)