Fr. Baker gave an awesome homily yesterday about purity and about what it means to be natural and pure.

He said that he went to visit a couple in the hospital after their 9th child was born.

The woman, he said, rolled over and her hospital gown revealed part of her stomach, which was covered in stretch marks.

The really interesting thing he said was that the world would have viewed that woman's stretch mark-covered stomach as ugly, but that if he were her husband, that sight would have made him fall in love with her all over again.

Because it showed that she's lived, with all the pains and joys of life, she'd truly lived and loved, purely.

Blessed Mother Teresa and Blessed John Paul II both looked old and wrinkly at the end of their lives, but they were truly beautiful, because they'd lived purely, and their wrinkles and illnesses were only further proof of having truly lived.

I'm praying for you to grow old and wrinkly!

:)