vow of virginity
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
chastity · profession of holiness · the guarding of virginity
in the texts
Letters
An ascetic commitment to lifelong virginity that a petition seeks to protect from military obligation.
and if we display it unchanging and unswerving from the prime of life onward, then, by the help of God, the guarding of virginity will be for us inviolable and secure.
Concerning virgins who have fallen — those who have professed to the Lord the life of holiness, and then, through yielding to the passions of the flesh, set at naught their own undertakings — our fathers, dealing simply and gently with the weaknesses of those who slip, laid down that they be received after a year, ranking them in likeness to those married twice.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Josaphat's promised commitment to sexual purity for Christ, which is the object of the temptation and debate with the girl.
For it is thee I long for, and to thee I bow down, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages.
For it is permitted to those who wish to share in marriage—but not to those who have once promised to keep their virginity for Christ.
and it sought to find some release from so great an evil, to present itself pure to Christ, and not to defile with the mire of the passions that holy robe with which the grace of holy baptism had clothed him.