Is romantic attraction and expression sexual in nature?

[Bookcat]

The Church blessed relationships between people who had no intentions to ever have sex with each other? I’m pretty sure that’s an impediment to [non-Josephite] marriage, actually!

They were a man and a woman. In marriage.

It is not an impediment at all for marriage- for there is the exchange of the right to marital relations -which is then forgone for the purpose say of a very contemplative life.

 

[One_point]

The Church blessed relationships between people who had no intentions to ever have sex with each other? I’m pretty sure that’s an impediment to [non-Josephite] marriage, actually!

right! And a Josephite marriage is not a marriage, my mistake!

 

[GaryTaylor]

The Church blessed relationships between people who had no intentions to ever have sex with each other? I’m pretty sure that’s an impediment to [non-Josephite] marriage, actually!

But you can’t prove your point. The Church has never condoned anything of the such and its clear by the early church fathers such as St Basil.

Its repetitive in your dialogue. A plausible point is advanced to preposterous rendering the entire conversation invalid, no different than with chaste and a higher standard.

This is clear denial which assigned a lower likelihood to the evidence, its relativism.

 

[Bookcat]

right! And a Josephite marriage is not a marriage, my mistake!

As your joke there indicates yes such is indeed a marriage- and there was need for the exchange of the right of the marital act -even though they would later forgo the right for the sake of an intensely contemplative life for example.