An appeal to practice a "celibate lifestyle" starting from virginity, the most "unreasonable" Christian paradox. This was made to priests and nuns today by the Pope, who received in audience the Mothers and Fathers Superiors of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life. "To totally belong to the Lord recalled Benedict XVI , consecrated people embrace a celibate lifestyle". "Consecrated virginity he went on cannot be seen a belonging to the rationale of this world; it is the most ‘unreasonable’ Christian paradox, and not everyone can go as far as to understand or experience it". But celibacy is not just this, warned the Holy Father, who thinks that "living a celibate life also means renouncing the need to show off, practising a sober and unassuming lifestyle". A task, this one, that priests and nuns are called to accomplish "even in their choice of clothes, simple clothes that should be a sign of their poverty, lived" in communion with a poor Christ, "by delving into His mystery and endorsing His choice of humbleness, poverty and mildness" (to be continued).” “
