I had a similar sense of shame and the body. I was just visiting home and saw my CCD homework about sainthood. Then I ran into my old CCD teacher! She looked exactly the same. I did a meditation this week about motherhood and how Catholicism really impacted my worthiness. All I was ever exposed to was sex for procreation and chastity. Mothers in our church seemed higher than God. When you get married in the Catholic Church part of your vows are to promise to bear children. I don’t think I realized how this sunk into my subconscious.
Wow. I did not realize that about the Catholic marriage vows. How does that even work?!? What if the couple getting married is past their childbearing years?
Then they are not supposed to have a Catholic marriage. The point of having a Catholic marriage is to “bear children” and raise them Catholic. The specific wording is “are you prepared to accept children lovingly from
God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church”. You have to say “yes” obviously. Isn’t that nuts!
I had a similar sense of shame and the body. I was just visiting home and saw my CCD homework about sainthood. Then I ran into my old CCD teacher! She looked exactly the same. I did a meditation this week about motherhood and how Catholicism really impacted my worthiness. All I was ever exposed to was sex for procreation and chastity. Mothers in our church seemed higher than God. When you get married in the Catholic Church part of your vows are to promise to bear children. I don’t think I realized how this sunk into my subconscious.
Wow. I did not realize that about the Catholic marriage vows. How does that even work?!? What if the couple getting married is past their childbearing years?
Then they are not supposed to have a Catholic marriage. The point of having a Catholic marriage is to “bear children” and raise them Catholic. The specific wording is “are you prepared to accept children lovingly from
God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church”. You have to say “yes” obviously. Isn’t that nuts!