Had a great discussion tonight with Fr. Nick - a Romanian priest from Worcester (not Fr. Triantafillou...a different Fr Nick) - about Marriage and Celibacy.
I think one of the main things that I took away from it was, on the marriage side of the discussion, the need for unconditional love, selflessness, and self-sacrifice, which I already knew about.
Fr. Nick said something very thought provoking: "It isn't for nothing that sex is done naked."
What his point was, was that the more intimate you get with someone, the more you know everything about them, including the "right" words to say to hurt them. He saw an enmitous couple once that knew each other so well that they knew the perfect insults that would anger and hurt the other. Fr. Nick's point was that a married couple needs to take that intimate knowledge of each other and use it for good and the upbuilding of the other.
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