First,like I said many times, it is important for you to know that Mary remained a virgin because it is a historical truth received by the Chruch since the first days.
On that score, indeed among the many titles given Mary by the pious, there is "Spouse of the Holy Spirit". The title is of course quite scriptural because it is by the Holy Spirit that Christ was conceived by Mary.
Obviouly one cannot simply say "she was married to the Holy Ghost" and leave it at that. for one thingm, the Chruch never taught that her marriage to Joseph was somehow defective. But the idea of Mary having a unique relationship with God on so many levels helps understand why it was so logical for her to remain virgin. It is not merely a whim that she remained virgin: sex simply lost its meaning for her. We enjoy sex because through marital sex we learn something about God Who is the Creator (and sex creates) and Who is Love (and sex loves). But Mary learned about God directly and not through model substitution of sex. She probably was not interested, just liek an adult is not interested in playing with rattles and toy trucks.
Something similar happens with celibate priests and monastics. These are also forms of marriage, of sorts.
annalex wrote:
“Obviouly one cannot simply say “she was married to the Holy Ghost” and leave it at that. for one thingm, the Chruch never taught that her marriage to Joseph was somehow defective. But the idea of Mary having a unique relationship with God on so many levels helps understand why it was so logical for her to remain virgin. It is not merely a whim that she remained virgin: sex simply lost its meaning for her. We enjoy sex because through marital sex we learn something about God Who is the Creator (and sex creates) and Who is Love (and sex loves). But Mary learned about God directly and not through model substitution of sex. She probably was not interested, just liek an adult is not interested in playing with rattles and toy trucks.”
Weird. Just weird. No wonder Sigmund Freud came up with the theories he did in the fertile ground of Catholic Vienna.