Church: consecrated virginity

What do we know about the consecrated virginity according to the principles of church? For the church the word Virgin Mary identifies: the mother of Jesus as a pure person and therefore a virgin at the moment of conception. Believing that Mary was a virgin at the time she conceived Jesus is still today a reason for doubt among the faithful. Her virginity has been celebrated in the Christian tradition and in the prayers of the church since its foundation.

The church seems that, continues to reiterate the concept of consecrated virginity as something that is necessarily linked to the name of the Virgin Mary, to love, and finally at the wedding. Many controversies, for popular traditions, this obsession for many people faithful to the Catholic Church is discouraging. In a certain sense, the church affirms that: the "sex"Is bad and we should preserve our virginity, until the moment of marriage according to the religious rite.

The cult of virginity, for the church, is not limited only to Mary but also extends to holy women. Like ours St. Catherine of Siena, which at first was defined as "Virgin", Only later was it defined"Martyr". The Saint had contracted marriage and had benefited from motherhood. The same is not true for men who have become saints, even if they have taken a vow of chastity and have never had sex in their life they are not defined as "virgins".

The word virgin traditionally, it has been applied to women who have never had sexual intercourse. It is also true that the veneration of virginity is not just a Catholic invention. It goes back up to ancient Rome and to the worship of the vestal virgin, he has always placed virgins on pedestals.

Church: to whom is consecrated virginity addressed?

What does the Church say to women who are not virgins? What does it say to women are you married? All widows? At divorced? Well virginity is consecrated for married women if they did not have intercourse before marriage. It is consecrated for widows, for the same speech as married ones. It is consecrated for the divorced, even if the sin for the latter results only for not having kept the promise of marriage forever before the church and before God. Obviously for those who are not virgins they are in the "sin". Christians honor the Virgin Mary, simply because she is the mother Jesus, not because of her perpetual virginity on this concept many doubts have arisen