“In normal marriages, unity in the flesh is the symbol of its consummation, and the ecstasy which accompanies a consummation is only a foretaste of the joy that comes to the soul when it attains union with God through grace.  But in the case of Mary and Joseph, there was no need of the symbol of the unity of flesh.  Why bother with the flickering candles of the flesh, when the Light of the World is their love?  Love usually makes husband and wife one; in the case of Mary and Joseph, it was not their combined loves but Jesus Who made them one.  No deeper love ever beat under the roof of the world since the beginning, nor will it ever beat, even unto the end.” Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The World’s First Love)