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Exploring Modesty and Chastity in Relationships

Dive into the essence of modesty and chastity, understanding their roles in relationships through readings, discussions, and thoughtful reflections on language of the body.

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Exploring Modesty and Chastity in Relationships

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  1. Theology of the Body for Teens Seventh Grade Curriculum 5.2 Sex, Love, and Chastity

  2. Bellwork • Think: • Modestyis keeping your attitudes, actions, speech, dress and other behaviors controlled so that they reflect your own dignity. • Who is a good role model for you when it comes to modesty? • Write: • Please write a description of the modesty this person shows in how he/she acts, talks and/or dresses.

  3. Opening Prayer Unceasingly, I receive myself from your hands. This is my truth and my joy. Unceasingly, your eye rests upon me, And I live by your gaze, O my Creator and my Salvation. Teach me, In the silence of your presence, To understand the mystery that I am. And the fact that I am Through you And before you And for you. Amen. (YouCat Youth Prayer Book)

  4. Read • Read “Does this Leaf” page 57. • Read Paragraphs 1-4 and jot down the answer to: What was the effect or result of sin in Adam and Eve’s relationship? • Before: no shame, no using, no barriers. • After: barriers, distortion, manipulation and use.

  5. Why save sex for marriage? • Read paragraphs 4-8 on page 58 (Start with “”Sex is like fire…” • Jot down a new idea you hadn’t heard before. • Discuss: • What does it mean “to lie” with the language of your body? “Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you.” Ruth 1:16-17

  6. What is chastity? • Read paragraphs 1-2 of p. 59. • Define “chastity.” • What should the way we express ourselves through our body reveal? • Read paragraphs 3-4 of p. 59. • How do we maintain chastity with exterior choices and interior choices? • Read paragraph 3-4 of page 60. • What does modesty have to do with chastity?

  7. Language of the Body -We need three volunteers for each of the following demonstrations: • How is the language of the body expressed within different relationships? • Between male friends • Between female friends • Between parents and children • The invisible gift of love between a husband and wife is expressed in the visible gift of their bodies. • -Read Paragraph 3 on page 55.

  8. Marriage Is a Total Gift of Self • “The total gift of the body – sex – expresses the truth of the relationship only when shared by two people who have made total gifts of themselves in marriage.”

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