I wish

[cherubim]

Sometimes I wish I could marry a saintly person,but I know it’s impossible because this person would give himself totally in GOD only.My parish priest is a good-looking person Oneday I saw him helping his mom walking and I thought what a blessed mom she was having a good-natured son and besides that he is dedicated his life totally to God.The way he serves mass is so solemn too.How I ‘love’ him

Laudate Dominum

 

[Ravyn_Guiliani]

why would it be impossible for you to marry a saintly person again? I think you have a misconception about ‘saintly’. I certainly am trying to live a saintly life and I am married.

Many of the Saints we read about were married. Marriage is just as much a Holy Vocation as the Priesthood or the Religious Life. You are called to Marriage or Priesthood/Religious.

You need to understand each calling and then discern yours.

And incidentally every person alive SHOULD put God before any man/woman/child–no matter if they are Married or not.

 

[cherubim]

why would it be impossible for you to marry a saintly person again? I think you have a misconception about ‘saintly’. I certainly am trying to live a saintly life and I am married.

Many of the Saints we read about were married. Marriage is just as much a Holy Vocation as the Priesthood or the Religious Life. You are called to Marriage or Priesthood/Religious.

You need to understand each calling and then discern yours.

And incidentally every person alive SHOULD put God before any man/woman/child–no matter if they are Married or not.

You’re right I remember St.Monika who had prayed for years for her son’s conversion and this son was one of the greatest saints in church history,St.Augustine.While St.Monika was married to a pagan.And St.Rita of Cascia who was married to a pagan tok,these stories only told one saintly family member,but I read that parents of St.Therese of Liseux have lived a holy life too,as the parents of our holiest mother,Mary.
I got your point thou And what impossible is that I can’t marry a catholic priest kidding

God bless

 

[puzzleannie]

Sometimes I wish I could marry a saintly person,but I know it’s impossible because this person would give himself totally in GOD only.

Laudate Dominum

so in your estimation it is impossible for a lay person, or someone not ordained or not in consecrated relgious life to be a saintly person? that is not the view of the Church, since many lay people have been canonized. We are all called to holiness, and all expected to become saints, and to live our lives as if we believed it is possible.

 

[cherubim]

so in your estimation it is impossible for a lay person, or someone not ordained or not in consecrated relgious life to be a saintly person? that is not the view of the Church, since many lay people have been canonized. We are all called to holiness, and all expected to become saints, and to live our lives as if we believed it is possible.

I got your point puzzleannie

Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut!

God bless

 

[Alane]

One man, St. Thomas More, gives me a lot of hope that it’s definitely possible to marry a saint. St. Thomas More was brimming full with love - God’s love. He was a dedicated, funny, clever, intelligent, humble husband. He loved jokes, loved people, loved his children, loved his wife. He loved to read, loved to write, loved to learn, loved to teach, and loved God very completely. He expressed a love for a strict, monastic lifestyle - he wittingly and happily chose the married life, though he told his daughter, Margaret, that if he had no wife or children, he would have gladly put himself in a “straiter” cell than the one he was confined to in the Tower before his death.
Personally, I ask him to pray for my future husband. Any man Thomas More would approve of and pray for I would happily marry at once.

 

[KephasAugustine]

At the risk of sounding redundant…of COURSE you can be a saintly lay person, married with kids and a secular job. Since when have all the canonized Saints been clergy/unmarried??

Personally, I hope to someday be a godly and saintly husband and father, as I’ve already discerned that religious life is not my vocation (though of course, I’m still open to another call ).

 

[LilyM]

Many of the Saints we read about were married. Marriage is just as much a Holy Vocation as the Priesthood or the Religious Life. **You are called to Marriage or Priesthood/Religious. **
You need to understand each calling and then discern yours.

MY calling appears to be to the single life - NOT married, NOT a nun (obviously being female I can’t be a priest or brother). This too is a vocation - and one every bit as holy as marriage, holy orders or the vowed religious life.

St Catherine of Siena is a prime example - unmarried, lay Dominican but never a nun. Doctor of the Church to boot :getholy:

 

[Biblioassistant]

Frederick Ozanam (founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society) was married and a deeply holy man. So was Pierre Toussaint.
St. Philip Howard had an arranged marriage and was not faithful, but when he came back to the Church he changed his ways and was faithful to his wife. Marriage and holiness are very compatible and I wish we had more married saints.

BTW, I love St. Thomas More - I think he must have been so much fun to talk to.