Saturday, June 22, 2013
Mary and Joseph
Recently my church said that Joseph, the husband of Mary, needs to be added in some prayers in our worship service. This might have something to do with the church's agenda that a man and a women make a marriage. OK. But in our same church law system, Mary and Joseph would not be canonically married. They never consumated their vows. Well, that's a conundrum.
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OK, I confess to being somewhat scriptural ly ignorant, but I do know that just because Mary was a virgin when Jesus was born does not mean she was a virgin her entire life. I understand "born of the Virgin Mary" but I always assumed it ment "at that point in time - not necessarily forever. The marriage could have been consummated after the birth - I don't think Mathew and Mark knew ALL about Mary.
ReplyDeleteIf Mary and Joseph were virgins their entire lives, maybe the church wants to pray for him as an reminder to clergy that virginity and celabecy are achievable .
I feel the church is too much concerned with sexual matters that are none of it's business. Just like a bunch of old men to venerate virginity and not other qualities. When there were issues of paternity - it might matter - but now we have DNA tests.
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