Matriarchal longhouse in action
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Celibate simply means you're not married. Priests must also be continent, because otherwise he cannot celebrate the mass. It is actually more important that he be continent than celibate.
What do you mean by continent here?
That he doesn't shit his pants.
Joe Biden shuffles away.
Continence is to hold back from something that is licit, akin to fasting.
In the early church, many priests (including some apostles) were married, and thus not celibate. As married men, it was licit for them to have sex with their wives, and would have been considered chaste conduct. As priests, though, it was not permissible. They could not perform priestly duties while having recently been with their wives, because of the spiritual reality of those duties.
OK. Thanks.
It means self restraining. I don't know the difference between celibate and continent in this context