“You are my spouse forever; your chastity should be greater than that of the angels, for I call no angel to such intimacy as I do you…A pure soul has inconceivable power before God.” ~ Our Lord Jesus Christ to St. Faustina
According to St. Thomas Aquinas: “The angels in their own nature stand midway between God and men.” Lacking material bodies, angels are pure spirit. Man, because of our bodies, is tied to the material world and oftentimes ruled by corporal desires. Yet, as St John Chrysostom writes: “Those who love chastity, whose consciences are completely clear, keep their hearts pure. No other virtue is so necessary in order to see God.” Therefore, I believe that we who bear the Cross of same-sex attraction, are called to a special state of suffering and to a very intimate form of chastity; as St. John of the Cross described: “not many people undergo so strong a purgation, only those whom God wishes to elevate to the highest degree of union. For he prepares individuals by a purification more or less severe in accordance with the degree to which he wishes to raise them, and also according to their impurity and imperfections.” And, since many homosexuals have oftentimes lived lives of extreme perversity, and at the moment of their conversion – extreme remorse, the Lord Jesus Christ will allow our suffering to be great, but also the sweetest; as, we shall be so favored to rest our weary heads upon the chest (containing the beating heart) of Our Savior.