SUMMARY

1. Temperance means self-control – being the master and not the slave of our body and its wants.

2. Soberness in the Catechism means steady conduct, for example, behaving in an orderly way in the street.

3. Chastity means purity in thought, word and deed.  Our Lady is the perfect human pattern of purity.

Reference

Church of England (1662) The Book of Common Prayer.  A Catechism.  Available from: http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/bcp/texts/catechism.html  (Accessed 20 August 2010) (Internet).