1. Theology of the Body for Teens
Seventh Grade Curriculum 5.2
Sex, Love, and Chastity

2. Bellwork Think: Write:
Modesty is keeping your attitudes, actions, speech, dress and other behaviors controlled so that they reflect your own dignity.
Who is a good role model for you when it comes to modesty?
Write:
Please write a description of the modesty this person shows in how he/she acts, talks and/or dresses.

3. Opening Prayer Unceasingly, I receive myself from your hands.
This is my truth and my joy.
Unceasingly, your eye rests upon me,
And I live by your gaze,
O my Creator and my Salvation.
Teach me,
In the silence of your presence,
To understand the mystery that I am.
And the fact that I am
Through you
And before you
And for you.
Amen.
(YouCat Youth Prayer Book)

4. Read Read “Does this Leaf” page 57.
Read Paragraphs 1-4 and jot down the answer to:
What was the effect or result of sin in Adam and Eve’s relationship?
Before: no shame, no using, no barriers.
After: barriers, distortion, manipulation and use.

5. Why save sex for marriage?
Read paragraphs 4-8 on page 58 (Start with “”Sex is like fire…”
Jot down a new idea you hadn’t heard before.
Discuss:
What does it mean “to lie” with the language of your body?
“Where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you.” Ruth 1:16-17

6. What is chastity? Read paragraphs 1-2 of p. 59.
Define “chastity.”
What should the way we express ourselves through our body reveal?
Read paragraphs 3-4 of p. 59.
How do we maintain chastity with exterior choices and interior choices?
Read paragraph 3-4 of page 60.
What does modesty have to do with chastity?

7. Language of the Body
-We need three volunteers for each of the following demonstrations:
How is the language of the body expressed within different relationships?
Between male friends
Between female friends
Between parents and children
The invisible gift of love between a husband and wife is expressed in the visible gift of their bodies.
-Read Paragraph 3 on page 55.

8. Marriage Is a Total Gift of Self
“The total gift of the body – sex – expresses the truth of the relationship only when shared by two people who have made total gifts of themselves in marriage.”