A student came to my house the other day with a tube dress that was low at the top and short at the bottom, coupled with those killer heels that she was wearing, it was inevitable that anyone male OR female will look.
Question is what do you think people are THINKING with their eyes?


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I read a few days ago, that the words 'testimony' and 'testify' have the same origin as the word 'testicle'. A man's testicles are witnesses to the man's virility, his power to procreate, and whose testicles would make better witnesses than Abraham's from whom the seed of Isaac (and Ishmael) came at such an advanced age?If a man's testicles bear witness to his power to procreate, and Abraham's steward swore an oath on his master's testicles, then what does it mean for us today, when we use a variety of means to render the sexual act sterile? Does this mean that we are lying?Actually, yes. The human body has a language, you know that, don't you? You have heard that 70 percent of what we communicate is non-verbal. When we listen to another person saying something yet his body language is saying a different thing, which are we more likely to believe - his words or his body language? We believe his body language because that is what he really means. Put it another way, when a person smiles, what is he saying with his body? Whether you live in Singapore or in America, in Iceland or in the Amazon jungle, when you see another person smile, you know that he is feeling happy. Likewise when you see a person looking miserable with tears flowing from her eyes and she says, "I'm okay, I'm not sad", are you likely tobelieve her words or her body language?Recently we have heard a lot of comments by Catholics on whether it is okay to come to church wearing less than modest clothing. Some argue for it, some argue against it. Some say it is disrespectful, others say that what matters is our heart, not what we wear. But here we are forgetting that the body speaks a language. To wear clothes that are disrespectful towards our body and towards fellow worshippers while saying that our hearts are respectful, is to deny that our body speaks a language. We are, in a sense, our bodies. If I were to use my hand to slap you, I cannot say, "It is not I who slapped you, but my hand did." Similarly, if Iwere to dress immodestly, I cannot say, "What I wear doesn't matter because it is notme." We are not disembodied spirits. We are our bodies, and if our bodies not dressed modestly and respectfully towards other worshippers, we cannot honestly say that we are in the right disposition to worship God as a community.What we wear carries a message, a message that is more truthful than what we say. What we do and how we say things also carry more weight than what we actually say. Going back to rendering sexual acts sterile, when we enter a conjugal act with another person, we are saying with our bodies that we give ourselves to the other person in a free, total, faithful and fruitful way. But when we do something to render that act sterile, we are, in fact, lying with our bodies. But we are not here to point fingers at people and shake our heads. Jesus did not come to do that. Rather, he came to be with these people; he came to be with us - sinners. Neither did he try to change us. Rather, he came to accept us as we are and to help us realise the beauty of God already present within each of us. In other words, he came to love us. Only when we accept Jesus' love for each of us as we are can we come to realise that there is a profound beauty within each of us - a beauty that needsto be protected from the harmful effects of sin. A beauty that needs to be kept for those with whom we want to share it with. It is when we do not realise the beauty that each of us has within us that we tend to desecrate it.St. Maria Goretti, who we remember today, was one such person who so greatly protected her own beauty from the lustful looks and intentions of her neighbour Alessandro Serenelli. When assaulted by him, she cried out that she would rather choose death than let her virgin body be defiled by him. Her chastity was preserved and she died a martyr's death. Through her prayers, she converted Serenelli who was unrepentent until receiving a vision of her offering him 14 lilies for the 14 times she was stabbed. Brothers and sisters, each of us has within us a profound beauty created by God, one that Jesus is slowly but surely helping us to see. By accepting his love for us as we are, we will slowly be able to see ourselves as the sinners weare. And the most beautiful part is, Jesus is here to reconcile us to himself byremoving our sins.