529. How does one reach purity of heart?
In the battle against disordered desires the baptized person is able, by the grace of God, to achieve purity of heart through the virtue and gift of chastity, through purity of intention, purity of vision (both exterior and interior), discipline of the imagination and of feelings and by prayer.
Further reading: CCC 2520
530. What are the other requirements for purity?
Purity requires modesty which, while protecting the intimate center of the person, expresses the sensitivity of chastity. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their communion. Purity frees one from widespread eroticism and avoids those things which foster morbid curiosity. Purity also requires a purification of the social climate by means of a constant struggle against moral permissiveness which is founded on an erroneous conception of human freedom.
Further reading: CCC 2521-2527, 2533
531. What is required and what is forbidden by the tenth commandment?
This commandment, which completes the preceding commandment, requires an interior attitude of respect for the property of others and forbids greed, unbridled covetousness for the goods of others, and envy which is the sadness one experiences at the sight of another's goods and the immoderate desire to acquire them for oneself.
Further reading: CCC 2534-2540, 2551-2554
532. What does Jesus call for in poverty of spirit?
Jesus calls his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone. Detachment from riches - in the spirit of evangelical poverty - and self-abandonment to divine providence free us from anxiety about the future and prepare us for the blessedness of the "poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3).
Further reading: CCC 2544-2547, 2556
533. What is the greatest human desire?
The greatest desire of the human person is to see God. "I want to see God" is the cry of our whole being. We realize our true and full happiness in the vision and beatitude of the One who created us out of love and draws us to himself with infinite love.
"Whoever sees God has obtained all the goods of which he can conceive."
(Saint Gregory of Nyssa)
Further reading: CCC 2548-2550, 2557
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