lilium-orientalis:

There’s a pastor speaking on TV and he made a point about relationship that really stuck with me. He talked about how people in puppy love have a tendency to admire traits in their partner that becomes annoying/obnoxious when they’re married. It starts out as “He’s wonderful! He’s so laid back and relaxed!” But then turns to “he’s so lazy!!” After being married. It can start as “She’s awesome! She’s such a go-getter and she knows exactly what she wants!” But turns to “She’s so controlling and picky!” When married.

Basically, his point was people have a tendency to idealize their partner if God isn’t their #1. We start seeing them as “our perfect other half” which will lead to disappointment one way or another eventually.

flicker-serthes:

Prayers please. I find out on Wednesday whether or not the girls of my future troop have found a charter organization to adopt us all.

The girls are wonderful. They want to go camping. They love the idea of being able to metalwork, and throw tomahawks (gonna have a bunch of future Scoutcrafts directors). We just need the charter to give them the chance to do it.

by-grace-of-god:

hislittleflower-throughconcrete:

snakesaredelicious:

archer-bro:

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

libertypical:

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

walkingxwithxstrangers:

journeyofaconvert:

patron-saint-of-smart-asses:

They can start having sex as soon or as far away from their wedding night as they feel comfortable with.

However, you do have to consummate your marriage if you are Catholic. The Church also encourages the practice of natural family planning, so if you are trying to avoid pregnancy that might mean abstaining from relations until a later date from your wedding, until you are infertile or at certain periods in your marriage, but if you don’t consummate your marriage (as a Catholic) that can be grounds for an annulment from my understanding.

Ok but what about Mary and Joseph though? They never consummated their marriage. Why is that a bad thing? Seriously, someone tell me

Because Mary was a virgin dedicated to God’s service, who was then chosen to be His mother, and Joseph was to be her guardian. Furthermore, the Holy Family’s purpose was to raise up the Savior before He would start His ministry, not emulate marriage for other people to copy.  They had a valid marriage, but it was a special exception, considering they were raising God in the flesh Himself.

Here is an article that may interest you: https://rcspirituality.org/ask_a_priest/ask-a-priest-how-could-marys-marriage-to-joseph-be-considered-valid-when-it-was-not-consummated/

Except they did consummate their marriage, because they had children after Christ was born

I think Catholics are just making it up as they go

Thanks for showcasing your ignorance on the topic of our faith but it contributed nothing to the conversation. Have a nice day!

Thanks for not even responding to the counter argument besides an ad hominum.  I mean, Matthew 1:25 clearly says they did consummate.

If you need a response to libertypical, I and others have pointed out that the brothers and sisters mentioned Matthew 13:55-56 aren’t necessarily even siblings given how translations to vernacular keep real close to literal wording. By that I mean, in Genesis 13:8 and 14:12 Abraham and Lot refer to each other as brothers when they are uncle and nephew. And if you take into account the chronology of events, the siblings from Matthew couldn’t be blood related unless they somehow aged twice as fast as a normal human being.

And Matthew 1:25, there have, again, been multiple posts about how various “until”s in the Bible were used to draw emphasis to what came before the “until” and said nothing of what came after. Meaning they were drawing emphasis to the fact that Jesus was not the result of sex between the two. Other examples of such emphasis which would be very confusing if an inherent change was required of an “until”:

• 2 Samuel 6:23: And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to until the day of her death. Does this mean she had children after she died?
• 1
  Timothy 4:13: Until I come, attend to the public reading of scripture,
  to preaching, to teaching. Does this mean Timothy should stop teaching
  after Paul comes?
• 1 Corinthians 15:25: For He (Christ) must
  reign until He has put all his enemies under His feet. Does this mean
  Christ’s reign will end? Luke 1:33 says, “He will reign
  over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end.” Does this mean 1 Corinthians should be expunged as heretical for suggesting an end to Christ’s reign? Or does it just emphasis His requirement to reign?

In fact there was a full blown debate on this matter that pointed to the fact that the only people who think Matthew 1:25 suggests sex are English speakers, so do with this what you will.

One of my biggest problems with people who just snarkily comment about Catholic teachings they know nothing about is that they do absolutely no research on their own. They’ll send an ask about something that the first hit on a google search could tell them – 20 seconds tops. 

But no, send the ask to the Tumblr Catholic and demand that they write you a researched 5 paragraph essay. If they dismiss you – which Ginny correctly did – it must obviously mean that there is no answer, and have nothing to do with the fact we don’t want to waste our time educating someone who has shown they don’t respect our faith or want to learn, right? *drips with sarcasm.*

Talking about my faith is one of my favorite things to do, but It is mentally and emotionally draining to try to educate someone who does not want dialogue in the first place.

Yep. 
I get that people want to hear it from someone on a more personal level
but it’s not like Ginnie hasn’t spent loads of time already answering
questions multiple times. 

Sites like Tumblr have conditioned us to expect quick and easy answers, or to attack someone’s beliefs without any sense of decorum. I mean there are resources easily available online that help to explain the Catholic faith IF a person is honestly seeking.