With JPs theology of the body came the disparagement of religious life by declaring that marriage was a sacrament while living the vowed life was not a sacrament. While it is true that monasticism is not a sacrament, it is nevertheless a Divine calling to live the angelic life of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the striving to subdue the passions by guarding the senses, and a continual battle to pray unceasingly and attentively. It is a divine call to martyrdom, to crucify oneself daily.
If we examine the family of St. Basil the Great, we will discover that his parents lived a righteous life and were themselves canonized as saints. Saints beget Saints.
Modernism and Jovianism have greatly devalued both the sanctity of marriage and monasticism.
If you have ever been to an Eastern Catholic wedding, there you will still see the ideal of marriage as martyrdom where both in Holy Orders and in Holy Matrimony (Crowning), the Dance of Isaiah is sung while the newly married couple and the newly ordained priest take their first steps three times (representing the Holy Trinity) around the altar in their new vocation.
These are the words sung during the Dance of Isaiah:
Rejoice O Isaiah, the Virgin is with Child,
And shall bear a son, Emmanuel,
Who is both God and Man, and Orient is His Name
Whom magnifying, we call the Virgin blessed.
O Holy Martyrs who fought the good fight.
And have received your crowns,
Entreat ye the Lord, that He will have mercy on our souls.
Glory to Thee, O Christ God,
The Apostles boast, The Martyrs Joy,
Whose preaching was the Consubstantial Trinity.