I certainly would not want to minimize that sacrifice. I sometimes find that prayer can evoke sexual feelings of desire in me.
Receiving the Eucharist can be an erotic experience too. It would be interesting to read something, when and if developped, about a contemporary theology of desire. She echoes your point about how celibate and married people deal with desire not being all that different.
I wonder if all the women of this world become nuns and no sex. So rest assured, the world is not going to end because of too many nuns and not enough procreation. I hope I do not offend by suggesting that there are many men and women who are neither married, monastic, nor priestly but live a fulfilled single life. Thankyou so much for your wise comments. I want to acknowledge this desire positively and integrate it as part of the whole of me and part of my spiritual journey, not repress or deny it.
Dear Sr. Julie, I just came across with your blog a few days ago and i find it very informative. It has answered a lot of my questions about how to deal with those feelings as i am a nun myself and I am experiencing midlife crisis… Thank you and God bless. Nuns are human just like other people. They choose to be celibate not because they dislike men or sex, but to widen their love for many for the sake for God who is Love.
Together we can continue to help others find joy and meaning in life! I am perpetually committed to the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, God, and the church as people of God. Priests and deacons receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. They are ordained. Religious brothers and sisters are not. We are part of the laity. Still there are a myriad of other ways in which this myth raises its head. When my community made the decision to close the single-gender high school that we had sponsored for years for financial reasons, many people were shocked to learn that the archdiocese did not monetarily assist the school, or the community for that matter.
Your prayers count for more. I have known some very holy nuns. I have also been lucky enough to know some very holy grandpas, married couples, adolescents, and single moms. But in the New Testament, marriage was seen as a holy option for those who would otherwise have trouble controlling their sexual urges.
But by the Middle Ages, many priests treated their calling as a "family business," giving preference to their sons for plum positions and trying to edge out the competition to protect their legacy.
Because of this practice, the Church formally banned the practice of priests marrying about 1, years ago, Shea said. From a spiritual perspective, priests are called to act as another Christ, which includes his celibate lifestyle. There are still a few married Catholic priests: Episcopal and Lutheran priests who were married and then converted to Roman Catholicism can be ordained, and men in the Eastern Rites, such as the Ukrainian Church, can marry before becoming ordained.
Richard Sipe, a sociologist and former Benedictine monk who has been married for 43 years. That could make it hard for priests to offer wise and mature counsel on those issues to their parishioners, he said. Other research has suggested that more men would be interested in priesthood if celibacy became optional.
There were women who followed the Lord and ministered to his needs whilst He and his disciples were on the road — Luke From as early as the 3rd century there began to be community houses where women of like mindedness joined together and lived in community to devote their lives to God, and to his service, be that in prayer and meditation, or works within the community of teaching, nursing, and ministry to the poor.
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