
Four Steps to Prepare a Young Man for Marriage
COMMENTARY: Marriage, especially in the Catholic sense, is an institution created by God. Therefore, it takes three to get married.
COMMENTARY: Marriage, especially in the Catholic sense, is an institution created by God. Therefore, it takes three to get married.
COMMENTARY: Catholics, even when religiously illiterate and seeking a church wedding just to please the parents, nevertheless viscerally think of marriage as a ‘sacrament.’
To mark St. Valentine’s Day, Catholic thought leaders and writers discuss the sacrament and what they have learned sharing in this sacred union between husband and wife.
“Kindness is my only guiding star. In its light, I sail a straight route, and I have my motto written on my sail: ‘To live in love.’” —St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Unless we correct these grave errors about marriage, there aren’t going to be as many Christian families to celebrate “National Marriage Week” in the coming years.
This year’s theme, “Stories from the Domestic Church,” was chosen to reflect how “spouses are consecrated and by means of a special grace build up the Body of Christ and form a domestic Church,” said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco.
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