Tag: Matrimony
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16 Marriage Tips from Seasoned Veterans
Note: A reblog from the original article by Blessed in the Midwest. Featured photo from the same article.
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Our 10th Wedding Anniversary
This month, my wife and I celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary. First, we thank God for blessing our family with much needed graces to sustain, protect, and guide our growing family. Thanks to Him, our journey during the last ten years has not been so hard. There were more favorable events and fewer bad experiences.…
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A Powerful Solution for Catholic Married Couples Battling Lust and Other Sins
In the Sacred Scriptures, Saint Paul urged unmarried and widowed Christians to marry if they cannot exercise self-control. I say this by way of concession, not of command. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To…
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Suggested Formula When Blessing ‘Irregular Unions’
Fr. Charles Murr shared ananecdote that is worth sharing. His friend Cardinal Édouard Gagnon was hypocritically asked for a blessing by a nun who was so wicked. The good cardinal asked the woman to kneel down, and he gave her a blessing in the form of a warning to remind her of the gravity of…
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Byzantine Priest on LGBTQ: A Lifestyle That Normalizes Disorder is Wrong and Hurtful
Many people want the Church’s teaching to change because we make the church more accepting. People want to be accepted and many people, especially in the realm of the LGBT, feel that the Church does not accept them. Church rejects them. Or the question is, what is it that people want the Church to accept?…
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8 Must-Knows About the Sacrament of Matrimony
Marriage in the Catholic Church is a sacrament. It’s most appropriate name is “The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony”. There are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation (or Chrismation), the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. Sacraments give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian’s life of faith (CCC 1210). Christ…
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How to Achieve or Postpone Pregnancy Naturally
“Be fruitful and multiply!” You may have heard or read this famous biblical passage before. These were God’s words to Adam and Eve during the creation in Genesis 1 and again to Noah in Genesis 9 after the flood. There are also many other verses in the Holy Scriptures that manifest man’s role as God’s…