Celibacy is not a gift! You apparently don’t know ANYTHING about celibacy!
Celibacy is not given TO YOU, you rather give it TO GOD, out of LOVE, total LOVE for Him.....JUST like you give your sexuality to your WIFE until you die. Priests MARRY the Church. Nuns MARRY Jesus Christ.
It’s hard - why would God want something easy from you like a knitted sweater? He wants the best from you! If you can’t give it, you must not love Him enough. You are to give that to him, in Chastity as well, until marriage, and then be chaste in marriage and in priesthood alike forever.
An unmarried father will hit on his daughter’s older girlfriends - so marriage keeps that from happening, hence the married father can better raise/counsel his daughter as he’s not trying to use her to get close to the girlfriends. Priestly celibacy does the same. But we are given free will by God, so He wont stop us from offending Him of we choose to reject Him.
Ask any priest worth a quarter of his ordination - chastity and celibacy is not the hardest part of the Cross he carries for Christ, it’s not the big deal that unmarried folks think it is, that short-term married folks think it is, that little faith people think it is.
It is not good for man to be alone. A man should leave his parents and cleave to his wife. Genesis.
>> He wants the best from you! If you can’t give it, you must not love Him enough. You are to give that to him, in Chastity as well, until marriage, and then be chaste in marriage and in priesthood alike forever.
Celibacy is but one option. Marriage is the other. It is clear from Paul’s writings that celibacy is a great option for a few, and marriage is the only option for many more whose sexual urges will not allow them lifelong celibacy.
>> it’s not the big deal that unmarried folks think it is, that short-term married folks think it is, that little faith people think it is.
Paul himself said that celibacy is not for everyone.
SnakeDoc
Nicely said!