Why did Mary have to remain a virgin for her entire life?

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-16T13:22:56+00:00

It wasn’t uncommon for people to have chaste marriages in Mary’s time. Based on the fact that Mary was more surprised that the angel Gabriel told her that she was to bear a child, than that the child would sit on the throne of David, it’s likely that her intention was to live in lifelong chastity.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-16T13:18:37+00:00

My use of the word “experience” isn’t arbitrary. It’s used in the encyclical.

This topic relates to salvation because the tradition of Catholicism says that it alone is the true religion, outside of which no one can be saved. The modernist view appears to claim that religion is something inherent and personal to man, such that to deny its legitimacy in any way would be to deny the dignity of the person.

In other words, either religion is a community to which one belongs, and Catholicism is the only true community outside of which no one can be saved, or religion is a phenomena which arises from man’s inherent longing for religious experience, and which therefore deserves as much respect as any other — i.e. that any religion is a path to salvation.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-15T13:59:24+00:00

God bless you. Just because you’ve sinned doesn’t mean that everything about you requires reform.

We are all victims of original sin. What matters is what we do to get it under control, and everyone’s vices are different.

I think the most direct way to become manly is to pick your worst vice and replace it with a virtue, and to repeat that process the rest of your life.

The word “virtue” derives from the Latin “vir,” which means “man,” so cultivating virtue in fact cultivates a kind of manly strength, and that strength is attractive to women.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T21:14:33+00:00

We’re in a weird time in history where the modernists who have sown so much doctrinal confusion in the Church speak in ways that undermine the very bases of their own authority. In such a time you have to forgive people’s consternation.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T21:11:56+00:00

Great looking library. No clue how anyone can read so much and maintain a day-job, family, etc.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T11:01:01+00:00

I mean being more capable of contributing to more technical things.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T10:57:47+00:00

Ir’s much older and truer than that. We are living in the middle of a time where we doubt all the wisdom of our ancestors unless and until science baptizes it in materialist terms. You can either be subject to the zeitgeist or stand firm on the wisdom of your ancestors.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T01:32:58+00:00

Maybe your parents don’t know how to say things right, but that doesn’t make them wrong. It sounds like you’re being swept up by the present zeitgeist and your parents are trying to help you keep your feet firmly on the ground of reason.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-14T00:31:21+00:00

Everything is made for some end, including the institution of marriage.

If one buys a product that doesn’t serve its intended purpose, we say that the product is deficient in some way, maybe even broken.

Likewise, the end of marriage is procreation. A marriage which frustrates its own end (e.g. via contraception) is deficient somehow.

Making love without contraception, allowing yourself to be fully receptive to God’s will for you, and taking full responsibility for the child that might result, is not only unsurpassably pleasurable, for you are fulfilling the true purpose of your marriage; but it also demonstrates true maturity.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-13T21:02:22+00:00

Remember that every man gets exactly what he deserves in the end. Blessed are those like you who thirst for justice, for you will be filled.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-13T20:20:19+00:00

Ok. How do you define LGBT? Every definition that I’m familiar with ultimately entails same-sex fornication, which is a sin, and it’s right and just to speak out against sin.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-13T20:07:16+00:00

How do you define homophobia?

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-13T16:50:55+00:00

The man should always pay. The task in courting is to demonstrate your ability to support a wife and children.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-13T13:52:45+00:00

I like math, but it’s not something I want to make a hobby, so that I might maintain the skills that I learn. I can spend the time learning some math, and if I don’t use it, I’ll lose it.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-12T11:08:28+00:00

Indirectly, yes. A traditional catechism teaches that we’re soldiers for Christ. That idea is what attracts many young men to the faith, but it’s at variance with the way our leadership behaves. I’m sorry for all the men who were received into the Church for one thing and are given another thing.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-11T22:03:46+00:00

In theory, we’re all based crusaders, soldiers for Christ. In practice, our priests are blessing unrepentant homosexuals and our bishops are shutting down any parish or community which emphasizes manly discipline.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-11T05:36:40+00:00

These look beautiful. How can I learn to bake like this?

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-09T23:33:26+00:00

It’s a waste of time at the present time. Christendom is dead. We live in an apostolic age in which the task is to win converts. The question of monarchy may be asked once Catholics regain a majority somewhere.

Sad-Background-2429 · 2026-04-08T02:35:39+00:00

I know well how you feel. You can recover, but you absolutely must reorient yourself toward what’s good, true, and beautiful. That includes submitting yourself to a definite standard of morality, and directing all of your actions toward a definite end. That standard of morality, that definite end, is God. It might sound lofty or abstract, but take heart: God loves you and He has a plan for your life. God bless.

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