We neither preach nor practise celibacy but it is certain no matter how we may try, we will not all get married. To marry or not to marry is personal to every individual.

It would appear some people are practising celibacy but the stark truth is that they did not make hay while the sun shone in their youth. Some people who have spent their youth doing nothing about marriage, just suddenly wake up one day in their 50s and start thinking about marriage. To my mind this is unnatural and in the end such people become a liability to the Gospel.

1 Corinthians 7:7: “For I would that all men were even as I myself.But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.”

1 Corinthians 7:8: “I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide  even as I.”

1 Corinthians 7:9: “But if they cannot contain, let them marry : for it is better to marry than to burn.”

1 Corinthians 7:28: “But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.”

Matthew 19:10:“His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.”

Matthew 19:11: “But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.”

Matthew 19:12: “For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs,which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

But if people through no fault of anybody but theirs,did not get married, eventually the Church will bear the greatest part of their burden, especially when such people become old and feeble and cannot fend for themselves. This is bitter but it is the stark truth and already the Church has been shouldering such responsibility.