Is it moral for a Catholic man to attend a public pool?

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='993513' date='May 31 2006, 10:45 AM']
You really should ahve seen HSDad carrying the pool home. It wouldn't fit in our car. So he carried it home in the wind. He looked like Mr. Turtle.
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How far did he have to carry it?

[Semperviva]

In the book "Harlots of the Desert", it relays the story of two saints (I forget their names now as they were very eastern and long, lol). One was a women who (before her conversion lol), rode past a group of bishops without any clothes (I think this is Saint Pelagia?). All the bishops looked down. But one bishop who was a also a monk did not look away. He thought to himself how beautiful she was. While all the bishops were walking home after the event he said to them, "My brothers, did you not see how beautiful she was?" The point was he was able to look at her rightly, and through grace had regained the vision of the Garden of Eden. Now, of course we sholdent go looking for those situations, but sometimes "the women on the donkey" rides past. It is of course not inherently wrong to go to the beach, but if one knows ones own weaknesses- be honest with yourself and act accordingly.

Edited May 31, 2006 by Semperviva

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' post='993522' date='May 31 2006, 09:58 AM']

How far did he have to carry it?
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Umm... about a mile or so. They were on clearance for like $2. So, when we got home, I said, "Oh honey, for that price we should have gotten two." Needless to say, he didn't go back for a second one.

[jezic]

i think that i would go to a pool to swim and i don't really care what anyone else looks like. I don't pay attention to them. I like swimming, not looking at people.