By contrast, your sexuality is the means of your loving union with your wife, which is a sign of the union of Christ and the Church (a mystgerium tremendum, cf Ephesians.)
Sorry Joseph; but you've been excluded from this UNION with YOUR wife.
By design; too; it appears!
36 posted on 05/03/2017 12:57:39 PM PDT by Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
Considering Mary's relationship with the Holy Spirit who impregnated her, resulting in the Incarnation of the Son of God, in a plan formed before the foundation of the world, I don't think God was wrong in preserving her virginity as a token of her unique honor.
This is not a generally applicable pattern for human marriage. It's a one-off thing.
37 posted on 05/03/2017 1:36:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
(O Mary, He whom the whole Universe cannot contain, enclosed Himself in your womb and was made man.)