Worried about a 'Hard Saying' that "Heart of the Nation" Catholic Mass's sermon didn't address

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Sure, the epistle-reading's topic was 'a little different' from the gospel-reading's, but ... (See; in Catholic Masses (church-services), we listen to two or three Scripture-readings (1-or-2 from the Old Testament and/or the epistles, 1 from The Gospels) before a sermon & the Communion ritual.) Today's mass's gospel-reading was about 'Jesus taking authority over "quarantining,"' and so that's what the sermon was about. But one of the other readings was about 'the holy focus of singleness vs. the worldly focus of married-people.' And the preacher didn't address that. "The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband." (Young's Literal Translation of https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/7-34.htm 1 Corinthians 7:34) That "hard saying" may make it sound like St. Paul is suggesting 'marriage is a sinful proposition.' If I were writing a sermon for those readings, I would tie "Jesus' authority over sickness" to "humans' minds' authority over devotion.' I think earlier in 1 Corinthians 7, St. Paul says 'if you're married, that's good; you shouldn't hope to be single. but if you're single, that's good too.'