We offer prayer support and comfort to the brokenhearted who suffer the pains of infertility at any stage of life, difficult pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, the loss of a child and the adoption process.
There is no issue more critical for us to address than the truth about marriage in the Church and in society. Our world has presented us with an atmosphere in which the integrity of marriage has been under attack for decades.
In the midst of pressure from a secularized culture there comes a bright light of joyful hope from Theresa and Peter Martin: The Rule offers us the first English translation of Cardinal Wojtyla’s, Rule for a Joy-filled Marriage of Divine Love. Theresa & Peter Martin have brilliantly taken a concise, six-point “Rule for Married Couple Groups” written by St. John Paul II and expounded upon it, using St. John Paul II’s own words, to allow the reader to fully understand its meaning. The Rule gives you St. John Paul II’s key to deepening spouses’ conjugal spirituality and finding lasting Joy!
“Marriage is something greater than a contract, for it involves also a sacrifice. The woman sacrifices an irreparable gift, which was the gift of God and was the object of her mother’s anxious care: her fresh young beauty, frequently her health, and that faculty of loving which women have but once. The man, in his turn, sacrifices the liberty of his youth, those incomparable years which never return, the power of devoting himself to her whom he loves, which is vigorous only in his early years, and the ambition– inspired by love–to create a happy and glorious future. All this is possible but once in a man’s life–perhaps never. Therefore Christian marriage is a double oblation, offered in two chalices, one filled with virtue, purity, and innocence; the other with unblemished self-devotion, the immortal consecration of a man to her who is weaker than himself, who was unknown to him yesterday, and with whom today he is content to spend the remainder of his life. These two cups must be both filled to the brim in order that the union may be holy and that Heaven may bless it.”
Remember, within your marriagevocation, it takes 3 to be married, husband, wife, and Jesus. Please listen to Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s video on marriage below. His guidance is truly fulfillingforoursoul.
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