Yesterday at Mass the Pope said:
The desire to be a father is ingrained in all men...
"When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man.
Something is wrong. All of us, to exist, to become complete, in order to be
mature, we need to feel the joy of fatherhood: even those of us who are
celibate. " - Vatican Radio
Oh come on. I never, ever desired to be a father.
Looks as if I don't fit in - anyplace.
Even now, with the 'new normal' of gay marriage - which I reject - I cannot be normal.
Keep yourself as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth, and as one to whom the affairs of this world do nothing to appertain. Keep your heart free, and lifted up to God, because you have here no abiding city. Send thither your daily prayers and sighs together with your tears, that after death your spirit may be found worthy with much happiness to pass to the Lord. - Imitation of Christ
[I hope that still accords with Catholic teaching.]
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
O Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke thy most powerful name, which is the safeguard of the living and the salvation of the dying. O Purest Mary, O Sweetest Mary, let thy name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, O Blessed Lady, to help me whenever I call on thee, for, in all my needs, in all my temptations I shall never cease to call on thee, ever repeating thy sacred name, Mary, Mary.
