I congratulate my dear brother Ben, who was married today to lovely Jenna. I wish them every happiness. But the occasion moves me to recount some reasons why I love my celibate life…
1. Considerably more time for reading.
2. I can sing as loud as I want in the car, and no one minds.
3. Every time a baby has vomited sputum on my shoulder, or gone to the bathroom in my arms, I have gotten huge credit for being a stand-up guy. Absolutely every time.
4. No chance that any child of mine will ever go to Duke or UConn, or grow up and marry a Cowboys fan.
5. Whenever I go to a meeting in the principal’s office, it’s the principal who’s in trouble.
6. Considerably more time for reading.
7. The people who get disappointed in me because I’m a goofball rarely have an opportunity to let me know.
8. Whenever someone in the house yells at the dishes in the sink, I am never in the dark as to what happened to cause this.
9. No father-in-law gives me weird looks while I read a Jane Austen novel during commercial breaks in Thanksgiving football.
10. Sure, I have a hundred times more people who expect me to read their minds on a daily basis. But I don’t have to share a bathroom with any of them.
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Happy Thanksgiving! May the good Lord bless us all, in our particular states of life.
Father Mark White Blog 
Heartfelt congratulations to Ben and Jenna! May God bless their life together with great abundance!
11. You can say Mass on Thanksgiving; sharing the joy of praising the Lord with us who have so much to be thankful for.
Father Mark,
12. You get to hold forth in a blog; and no one never ever dares say no to your views.
Happy, happy Thanksgiving!
In God we trust.
LIH,
joe
#5 made me laugh.
12. Considerably more time for reading.
happy to discover this page…Hi Mark.