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One might suspect a distrust towards marriage in the words of a recent statement in a publisher's blurb advertising a book upon saints who were I married. The blurb declares it the purpose of the book to show that ‘marriage is compatible with sanctity'. The force of the ‘compatible’ needs exact appreciation, and may be more easily gauged if one reads it as ‘a sacrament instituted by God (e.g., marriage, ordination, etc.) is compatible with sanctity'.
Yet the misconception lurking in the sentence does not so much arise from a false view of marriage as from a false view of sanctity; clearly it is referring to canonised sanctity and not to being a saint; one hopes that there are more saints than the canonised. And, indeed, the many attempts which have been made in the last few years to rescue the married from the limbo of half-hearted Christianity nearly all labour under the same misconception. In the many Continental reviews which have dealt with the subject one hears an appeal for the canonisation of more married saints.
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- Copyright © 1950 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers
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1 The essential conditions for developing a lay spirituality are to be found in Christliche Weltverantworlung, by Eobert Scherer (Herder Verlag).
2 La Belle Acarie, by Pere Bruno, O.D.C. (Desclee de Brouwer.)
3 On account of this, the gravest threat to religion at the present moment in Britain is the absence of the conditions necessary for family life, i.e., insufficient houses. The virtue of religion is part of justice; probably the provision of houses at the moment is the first call upon our justice and religion.
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