Venerable Joseph Frassinetti states: “It is not necessary to practise the evangelical counsels in order to attain Christian perfection. . . . The angel of the schools, St. Thomas [Aquinas], only recognised as necessary for perfect sanctity the fulfilment of the Ten Commandments.”
Father Frassinetti explains: “The evangelical counsels are three—Poverty, Obedience, and perfect Chastity. Now if it were true that the practice of these is necessary for the attainment of Christian perfection, it would be as much as to say that friars and nuns only could venture to aspire thereto. Married people would be excluded from it—all who do not live on alms, and do not renounce all that they possess, and all who do not give up absolutely their own will to the will of another.
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