that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods.”11 One cannot reach the fullness of chastity simply by sheer determination. One must rely on God’s action as found in the first surge of the spiritual life. The struggle with the appetites is so basic that the early action of God already prepares us for the task of intergration of the appetites. Fear of the Lord leads us to understand that God has created and ordered the human person in a profound and beautiful
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