The Ninth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
How does one achieve "purity of heart"?
The purity of heart required for love is achieved in the first place through union with God in prayer. When God's grace touches us, this also produces a path to pure, undivided human love. A chaste person can love with a sincere and undivided heart.
When we turn to God with a sincere intention, he transforms our hearts. He gives us the strength to correspond to his will and to reject impure thoughts, fantasies, and desires. (YOUCAT question 463)
Dig Deeper: CCC section (2520) and other references here.
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