Mary was hurt when Jesus went His own way in the temple in Jerusalem.[/caption]
Father Joseph Illo, paster of Star of the Sea church in San Francisco, gave a 13-minute homily on Sunday, January 12.
Families, wrote John Paul II, are a necessary good. Indispensable good for society.
In 1960, there were 220 baptisms a year in this church. By 1975 they were down to less than 100. Today there are about 10. Many city parishes haven’t had a baptism in years.
In 1960 in this parish, there were 70 weddings a year. Today the average is 8 a year.
Baptize early. The Mitchell family came to me – they had planned their newborn born on January 1 to be baptized February 1. Mom talked to me after Mass; they’re moving it up to Saturday.
Get married early and often- well, only once. I want all of you men to be married unless you’re going to be priests. Do what it takes, convince the women.
It is easy not to marry. That’s what Peter says. Christ says not all can do this.
Many are choosing not to marry or through contraception not to receive the children that God gives them .
Mary was hurt when Jesus went His own way in the temple in Jerusalem. She did not understand but laid these things on her heart. Jesus submitted to His parents’ authority. None of the Holy Family insisted on his rights.
That all men who are not becoming a Priest should marry is NOT sound advice/
Not every man or woman SHOULD be married.
I know that many men don’t want to get married because they have seen that men whose wives divorce them are financially ruined for the rest of their lives. The woman gets half of the man’s assets and retirement benefits, often gets custody of the kids, and then is awarded child support or spousal support on top of it.
It’s not worth the financial risk to get married anymore.
I don’t advise that men get married. Save yourself the hassle and the heartache and the grief. Modern-day Western women, especially American women, will suck you dry like the vampires they are.
If you do get married, have a solid prenuptial agreement that says the woman gets nothing if she initiates the divorce.
You can’t have Fr. Illo’s idealism about marriage anymore because women don’t believe in that anymore. Marriage is not seen as for life. Marriage is a temporary thing, only as long as the woman is satisfied, and it can end abruptly at the woman’s whim, and she’ll make out like a bandit financially because the court system will favor her.
Not worth it. Stay single. Women aren’t worth the grief.
When AI synthetic robot girlfriends are invented, they will replace women very quickly. An AI robot girlfriend won’t divorce you.
This response is so over the top that we can dismiss it as merely a ridiculous attempt at humor.
Many women do not want to get married either because they have seen too many men cheat on good wives, sometimes multiple times, even when the wife is pregnant with the husband’s children. Many women cannot even trust their husbands with their friends because of his past behavior. Eventually the woman gets bitter and leaves him.
It seems you have been wounded somewhere along the line. I wish you peace.
If they ever make a robot girlfriend that is at least 90% convincing in conversation, interaction, appearance, touch, and sexual performance as a substitute for a real woman, that will be the end of men seeking marriage or even any romantic relationship with a biological woman. Why bother with a real woman then? Your robot girlfriend will never age. She’ll always be pleasing to you. She’ll be available whenever you want her, she’ll never “have a headache”, and she can be set not to nag you. If you ever get tired of her appearance, you can switch her out for a new/improved model.
I think that day is coming. Some alive today will probably live to see it.
So, everyone who is a consecrated Sister/Nun or a Brother is not living a valid vocation.
Would probably be a surprise to St. Francis of Assisi (not a Priest) and St. Therese of Avila.
Remember, Fr. Illo was speaking to a Catholic congregation, not to worldly people who reject Christ and are neither Catholic nor Christian. And oh, yes– Fr. Illo is correct– get busy, young man, and prepare for a responsible adult life as a mature Catholic man. Give up youth. Give up the Death Culture, if you fell into it. Either you plan for Marriage, and seek just the right potential wife— or you prepare for the Priesthood. Only a few have other unusual callings in life. What kind of mature qualities will you bring, as a good Catholic man, to Manhood, Marriage, and Fatherhood, in a future devout Catholic home and family? Go have a talk with your priest about all of this. You belong to Christ– not to the world that rejects Him. Your priest, like Fr. Illo, can guide you.
Most Catholic young men are called by God either to Marriage (for most of them) or else to the Priesthood. Before Vatican II, nearly every Catholic boy at some point in his life, considered the Priesthood. Priests were much admired, and had a powerful influence in the Church and in society. Only a very few yoing men, in any era, are called to a very unusual vocation, other than Marriage or the Priesthood. Gays are called to a life of chastity, and love and service to God and fellowman. A good Catholic man is a fine, mature Catholic or Christian gentleman, of good manners, good morals, and good behavior. It makes no difference whether he is rich or poor, a farmer, policeman, lawyer, doctor, journalist, soldier, football coach, businessnan, math teacher, civil engineer, plumber, classical musician, or whatever. He attends Mass and prays regularly, and says his Rosary often. He has a special love for Our Blessed Mother. He teaches the Catholic Faith to his children, and sets a good, Christ-like example for them. He is always caring, gentle and helpful with his mother, grandma, sisters, etc., and with his neighbors, and kind and helpful to those around him who are struggling, suffering from illness, disabled, aging, or struck with misfortune (like the CA wildfires), and he is kind and gentle with needy children and helpless animals. He is always ready and willing to lend a hand, wherever he goes. He lives a life of selfless love and service to God and his fellowman. He loves and respects his wife deeply, and shows his love for her daily, by being a good, loving husband, and a good, loving father to their children. His beloved wife and adored children are the most important thing in the whole world to him. He and his beloved wife make a warm, loving, wholesome, happy, responsible Catholic home and family, with the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph as their model.
Young people today much prefer to live together without marrying. Relationships are completely broken in our country. Partnering, instead of marrying, is the way relationships are conceived nowadays. The guy who said even marriage isn’t considered permanent anymore is right. Feminists caused this.
Agreed. But where are the strident feminists when it comes to being outraged by trans women in female sports? Nowhere to be found.
Partnerships? Heck, no. They are all corrupt, abnormal, irresponsible, selfish Death Culture freaks, rejecting Christ, living in Mortal Sin, in the Satanic Death Culture—– is the correct term. Use of sinful birth control to cover up their horrific, filthy sins, and use of criminal Planned Parenthood clinics to murder their children— God’s beloved, precious, helpless little children! All of these corrupt, sin-filled, crime-filled, “Me Generation” freaks, living in Mortal Sin, are an evil, ugly, diseased blight on the earth. They are all on the pathway to Hell– making a terrible, sin-filled, crime-filled, irresponsible, corrupt, uncivilized, unChristian “wasteland” out of a once-great and beautiful country, America. They all must kick Satan and his evil minions completely out of their lives! Go back to church, repent of their sins, change their lives, follow Christ! Make a great country for Him, serve Him, help Him to make the kingdom of God on earth– as we are all called to do. Christian Marriage and Family, of a mature Man and a mature Woman, with a lovely church wedding, and then, a lovely, warm, responsible, mature, wholesome, clean and virtuous, loving, Christ-centered home, full of God’s beauriful children, is the answer.
“Reply to partnerships” reply. I don’t doubt your passion or indeed the worthiness of your convictions but, my goodness and my God, you are over-the-top vindictive and condemnatory. Instead, pray for those you scorn so that they may change their hearts.
Pray for those whom you scorn? Of course. And oh, yes— they do need to be scorned and scolded! And much more– their evils need to be made strictly ILLEGAL by our lawnakers! Such people are your enemies– mot your “friends.” Very, very phony– “How not to win friends!” Just like St. John the Baptist scorned and scolded King Herod– and Christ regularly scorned and scolded the Pharisees for their evils! Did you not see the Planned Parenthood Abortion-centered, Democratic National Convention, which deemed corrupt, Feminist-Abortion Champion, Kamala Harris, as their corrupt presidential candidate? With 25 free murders of unborn children, at the PP mobile clinic, at the evil, corrupt convention? These people need much more than scorn and scolding! They all need to be locked up and punished in prison– – for Murder!
You badly need true friends, friends in Christ– and nothing else. True friends in Christ, are working hard to establish His kingdom in America– to truly “Make America Great Again.” America does not truly want shameful “shacking-up,” birth control, and Child Murder—Abortion. Neither does America truly want nearly half of all children born, to be born to unwed mothers, suffering in fatherless homes. Or illegitimate babies wrongfully adopted to homosexual “married” couples. Disgrace! And no, I am certainly NOT “over-the-top and condemnatory” regarding the horrific evils of sexual sins, a terrible blight, a horrible disease, in our once-great nation. You, too, must strongly condemn sexual sins, and work hard, for Christ. Work especially hard, to protect little children from Satanic evils and filth. Good Christians are not babyish, frightened, stupid little wimps, afraid to state the truth loud and clear, for all to hear. Many fine Catholic and Christian parents are working hard to destroy the Satanic evils of the radical liberal, leftist Democrat Party-entrenched “Culture of Death,” whose filthy, twisted, Satanic ideas are currently taught in American schools, and presented in filthy books, films, and other pornographic materials, in American children’s libraries— and championed evilly in the filthy media. No, good Americans want our great country to completely destroy the terrible blight, the disease of sexual sin– and return to Biblically-based standards of morality, as exemplified in the Ten Comnandments and teachings of Jesus Christ. Authentic Christians daily put on the Armor of Christ, and fight Satan and sin, and seek to establish Christ’s kingdom on earth. They go out and do lots and lots of hard work, for Christ. They desire to see to it, that their beloved children will be well-protected from the Evil One. You should join them all in this hard work.
Pornography is a horrible thing. It is Satanic. Online pornography has been destroying many American families, today. Pornographic computer sites have become easier for underage teens and children to gain access to. Many states– about 20 of them, so far– have passed age-verification laws for pornographic websites. And the evil, filthy porn companies have been fighting these age-verification laws in the courts. They claim so-called “First Amendment, freedom of speech” rights to their filthy, marriage, family, and child-destroying pornography. I say— lock the Satanic pornographers up, and throw away the key! And permanently destroy all forms of pornography, for ALL age groups– especially, on the Internet. Make stern laws against this Satanic evil, forever and ever, in America. Protect America’s marriages, families and innocent, underage kids. Pornography, which is extremely dehumanizing, defiling, degrading, filthy, and sinful, is said to be just like a form of highly-addictive drugs– like heroin– that destroys addicts’ lives. Today, the Supreme Court heard a case regarding filthy porn companies objecting to a recent Texas porn site age-verification law. Can you imagine that? Objecting, because they wish to destroy innocent underage teens and children! Satanic! Just like evil, illegal dope (heroin) dealers, they should, by law, have absolutely no rights to distribute or sell ther filth– especially, to underage kids. What a terrible thing, that stern anti-pornography laws are not already enacted! This should not have to be decided by the Supreme Court.