text: One problem with this...
  Western Rite Catholicism only allows Pastoral Provision for already married priests of closest related faiths to the Church.
  
  The Eastern Rites allow for married priests.
  
  In both cases, the priests have been married *prior* to ordination and sometimes even before formal education in the seminary.
  
  Also, in both cases, married men can be ordained deacons. In all possibilities, once a deacon or priest's wife dies, they can no longer marry.
  
  Also in all possibilities, the marriage is the primary vocation. Then their ordination is next in line of importance. For a small example, if a priest's wife is ill, he needs to tend to her. 
  
  I would love to be married and then be called to be a priest in the Eastern Rite. I also would like to be married and enter the diaconate. 
  
  But I have to discern my calling.