[RnMomof7]

Are you implying that Mary and Joseph were Essenes and therefore forsaked sexual relations? Only problem with that is that scripture never speaks of that sect , also an issue is that Mary and joseph took Jesus to the temple and the Essenes opposed the temple priesthood.. So that holds not a drop of water ..sorry

Do you think the flesh is dirty?

[Judith Anne]

No. I was answering the statement that there were no monastic orders at the time of Christ.

Do I think the flesh is DIRTY?????

No! I think it’s beautiful. I ALSO think it’s private, and exclusive. That may be a foreign concept to you. By exclusive, I mean that since God impregnated Mary, then while Mary was alive, no human could come after Him. But apparently the Calvinists think she was just “simple Jewish girl” who was at the sexual service of God, man, whoever.

You don’t get the “consecrated” meaning, do you?