The Spanish priest Juan Manuel Góngora, who has a virtual “parish” of more than 85,000 followers in the social network X, shared Recently a series of keys on the purity of the Virgin Mary and what teaches the world today.
For the priest of the Diocese of Almeria, the purity of the Mother of God “reminds us of the value of purity as freedom and total delivery”, and is a kind of “counterrevolution, before a society where sex is commercialized and reduced to ephemeral pleasure.”
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1. “It’s not repression”
Fr. Góngora stressed that “Mary’s purity is not repression, but fullness. Conceived without original sin (Immaculate Conception), she represents the integrity of the human being before God.”
“In a society that hypersexualizes everything, its example invites us to see the body as a temple, not as an object of consumption,” he said.
2. “A” radical to God “
The Spanish priest also recalled that the “perpetual virginity (before, during and after childbirth)” of Santa María “is not a ‘no’ to love, but a radical ‘yes’ to God.”
“Faced with the culture of ‘Everything is worth’ in relations, Maria teaches us that true intimacy arises from spiritual delivery, not just physical,” he said.
3. “Full fertility comes from the soul”
“In an era of media panxualism, Marian purity challenges the fallacious myth that happiness depends solely on sex,” says the p gongora.
“She, Mother of God, shows that full fertility comes from the soul: giving life through faith and knowledge of Christ who overcome sin.”
4. The Virgin Mary “helps us to combat objectification”
Fr. Góngora also highlights that “Maria helps us fight objectification. While society reduces people to desirable bodies, their humility and modesty remind us that real beauty is interior.”
“Are ‘arefiat‘(Do you do in me) is an act of pure freedom, free of external manipulations, ”he said.
5. “Chastity model”
The Spanish priest then stands out that “living in a world of apps Of dehumanizing social quotations and pressures, the Virgin Mary is a model of chastity. ”
“Its purity does not isolate but unites: in marriage, priestly order or consecrated life, invites links based on mutual respect; not immediate gratification,” he adds.
6. “Purifies us with cultural impurities”
As the last key, Fr. Góngora said that “facing hypersexualization that affects mind and spirit, Mary offers healing.”
“Praying and meditating on his Immaculate Heart purifies us of cultural impurities; promoting an integrated, responsible and open sexuality to life in abundance, as the gift of God who is.”
At the end of his Reflection in xthe priest of the Diocese of Almería stressed that “the purity of the Virgin Mary is not a distant ideal, but a current call that restores us.”
“In this society saturated with stimuli, let’s follow her to rediscover the fullness of love we are called from our baptism,” he encouraged.
David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.