Making Your Marriage A Mission
"Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give." We have written a lot in this blog about marriage as a vocation, that is marriage as a spiritual discipline lived out in the daily give-and-take between spouses and before God. We offer many posts exploring research on these topics, and providing tools for building stronger relationships in our vocations. We have spent less time writing about an equally vital aspect of sacramental marriage: it is a mission. We a
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To Remain: Building A Marriage of Communion
A couple of weeks ago, we celebrated the wedding of a young couple we had mentored. In his homily the priest referred to the growth of mutual intimacy between the couple: "The two become one flesh." The following Sunday was Trinity Sunday, and our parish priest, drawing on the Catechism, made the analogy of the Christian family as “a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit” (CCC 2205). It was with this in mind that
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The Power of Belief in Your Marriage
Mark learned early that honesty could be dangerous. Growing up in a home where his father's anger was unpredictable, he became skilled at telling people what they wanted to hear. White lies. Half-truths. Omissions. Outright lies. It was a survival strategy, and for years it worked. He brought it into our marriage. When Dawna asked whether she looked nice, whether he remembered a phone call, whether he had finished the leftovers, Mark gave her the answer most likely to keep th
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