Moses Gattes posted: my question is why are priests not allowed to marry? WE REPLY: Simply broken down, the ministerial Priesthood as it is now shows forth the seriousness of the Call of Christ to repentance and salvation. If priests were allowed to marry, it would look ordinary and their families will definitely affect their ministry. Imagine how it would be when you are not sure why a priest is asking for financial aid, you wonder if its for family luxury or something. Imagine how it would have been with those heroic priests who answer sick calls in the middle of the night, how possible would it have been if they were wrapped by a womans embrace? Imagine how it would have been transferring a Priest from parish to parish with his whole family. A priest has NO LAND, NO PROPERTY. He is a wayfarer, an itinerant preacher, this would have been rendered impossible by Marriage and family. Besides, neither his ministry as priest or as husband/father would florish seeing that one requires readiness to move, the other requires being in one place for a long time. The kids cannot keep registering in new schools every time you know. Then, imagine that because of the marriage in priesthood, he gets to stay very long in a parish, imagine how this would affect his ministry. People without knowing it get tired of a priest (especially when he is viewed as being at the same level with them in terms of holiness and worries). Those transfers make an old priest new and appreciated in a new place. They are called to .. Abandon Father, Mother, Homeland, wife, children, for the sake of Christ/the Kingdom of God Matthew 19:29. Again For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others--and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it. Matthew 19:12. Priests go to the priesthood knowing they wont be allowed marriage, and this is not bad. It would have been evil, if someone were told hell marry and later forced not to. Finally, they are called to be like Christ; Alter Christus, and to act in persona Christi Capitis, in the Person of Christ the Head. So common sense justice demands that they emulate the footsteps of their master, even as the Apostles and the early Christian clergymen emulated him. I dont know if i have made any sense. This reply is given from a commonsense perspective anyway. God bless you.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0000
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