The Meaning of Chastity as One of the Evangelical Counsels  

              Chastity is the gift of grace. Chastity liberates the human heart in a unique way and causes it to burn with grater love for God and all mankind. It is quite thrilling to hear that chastity has something to do with the human heart; it liberates and causes it to burn. But that is what the gift of invisible grace of God. Chastity is basically friendship with Christ or marriage with Christ. Pope John Paul II in his consecrated life says: The evangelical counsel of chastity, assumed on behalf of the kingdom of God, and being a sign of future life and the source of an abundant fruitfulness bears with it the duty of perfect continence. Chastity is resulted in the fruitful charity towards God and towards others.