Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Just like Mary and Joseph!

Christian couple maintains abstinence through first two years of marriage

Man, I really admire those people. What discipline it must require!
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5 comments:

Tom R said...

LarkNews is a parody, of course (a Christian version of The Onion or The Daily Mash) but there do exist real-life people like this couple.
One or another Catholic saint was born to 19th-century Italian parents who tried to maintain what was called a "white marriage", ie living together like brother and sister. Eventually the parish priest told them that [soiling themselves by indulging their filthy animal lusts] consummating the nuptial union inscribed in their bodily embodiments was not only tolerable but in some circumstances actually required. They duly submitted and another saint (in the Catholic sense, not the New Testament sense) was born.

Admittedly this was some decades before Pope John Paul II wrote his Theology of the Body and explained that the Timeless Tradition is and had always been not "sex, even marital sex, is disgusting so therefore contraception is illicit" but, more properly understood "marital sex is holy and sanctifying so therefore contraception is illicit."

At one or another Catholic blog some years ago, one NFP-Onlyite lady was attacking artificial contraception on the basis that if your future husband should restrain his appetites before he marries you, why should that stop after you get married? Because, yeah, as long as couples with children have condoms or the pill available, it's sex on demand 24/7... And because, yeah, you may have made public vows of lifelong commitment, have joined into one flesh, have entered an indissoluble sacrament, etc, but apart from those minor details, you're still in the same position in the eyes of God as a couple of necking teenagers in the back of a car, and subject to the same restrictions - viz, keep pants zipped until you're married or until the women's cycle has rendered her temporarily infertile, whichever is the later.

5:59 PM, April 17, 2013
AMR said...

Not seeing the Biblical support for this, esp. given "be fruitful and multiply".

11:32 PM, April 17, 2013
James Swan said...

LarkNews is a parody, of course (a Christian version of The Onion or The Daily Mash) but there do exist real-life people like this couple.

I'm not familiar with this site, but I was raised on the Wittenberg Door magazine. That's all we had back then...

11:55 PM, April 17, 2013
Rhology said...

there do exist real-life people like this couple.

Correct. Like for instance, anyone who holds to the ridiculous doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary.

9:15 AM, April 18, 2013
John Bugay said...

Rho, LOL

8:58 AM, April 22, 2013

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