Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
These are the last times, but we do not know when the end will come. Imagine the grief and the distress of knowing that your parents, spouse or children are in a burning house, and you cannot rescue them except at great cost to self. For family, one may make the effort, for non-family members, however, it may be easier not to worry about rescue. Putting aside heroism, we tend to worry more about those whom we love, such as family, than we do bout strangers.
This would be one of Paul’s points in this passage. A married person has more at stake in an emergency with the added concern of family than an unmarried person. Another point would be that, since we live in a passing world, we should have a different way of living from those who are worldly.
Because the world is on the edge of passing away, ordinary buying and selling makes little, if any, sense. This not the time for fancy weddings, gender-reveal parties, travelling sports teams, new cars, boats, and fancy vacations. This more the time when we should be concentrating more on the Lord and our purpose for living, than for expensive things.
It is okay to get married, to raise families, to have daily jobs, to remain unmarried. It is that we use, but without owning, things. It is that we use without being used or owned by what we use. It is that the work of the Lord endures forever, but our work is transitory and for never.
For these reasons, Paul would have virgins and other unmarried persons. As well as married persons, to remain as they are in preparation for the day of the Lord. This nothing about remaining a virgin being better than a call to be married.