Tag: "Sacrament of Matrimony"

Free to Love: Marriage Vows
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Free to Love: Marriage Vows

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by on Mar 21, 2015 in Catechesis, Evangelization, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage
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Our marriage vows reflect the fidelity of God’s love for us. The obligations of the marriage covenant – fidelity, love open to new life, and lifelong sexual exclusivity – ask a lot of another as it assumes a lot about ourselves. Too often we make promises we don’t keep, overextend our commitments, or intend fidelity […]

Marriage, Holy Matrimony, and Hylemorphism
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Marriage, Holy Matrimony, and Hylemorphism

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by on Aug 16, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, Marriage, MyChurchParish.com
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In my previous article, I discussed marriage, Holy Matrimony, catechesis, and the call of Catholic couples to live their marriage as a sacrament and a sign of contradiction. A part of that witness is in taking up our own crosses daily by making the small and sometimes even the big sacrifices for our spouses (and our children […]

Are Catholic Marriages Disappearing?
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Are Catholic Marriages Disappearing?

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by on Feb 05, 2013 in Featured, Marriage
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I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. A city that, over the past few years, has been struck by several large earthquakes. As a result our city doesn’t have that many buildings left standing. Most of our churches are gone. Masses are celebrated in halls or parish centers.  Whole parishes themselves don’t exist and our city is […]

The Marriage Debate is More Than Just a Word Game
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The Marriage Debate is More Than Just a Word Game

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by on Jul 13, 2012 in Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
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President Obama’s announcement this May that he supports same-sex marriage underlines the urgent need for the Church to launch a massive new program to educate Catholics on the nature of sacramental marriage and on the vast difference between a marriage like that and civil marriage. The Church should also continue to participate in the debate […]

Do you Have a “Rite” to Marry?
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Do you Have a “Rite” to Marry?

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by on Sep 21, 2011 in Catechesis, Featured
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Does the Church deny couples the opportunity to marry? If your answer is yes, then we need to rethink our understanding of why the Word became flesh.  The Incarnation is the fountain of the grace of the sacraments and the Church would never deny anyone that grace. However, there is more than merely the desire […]

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Bl. Peter To Rot – Defender of Matrimony

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by on May 31, 2011 in Featured, Marriage
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One of the patron saints of World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia, was Blessed Peter To Rot, a native son of Papua New Guinea.  A second-generation Catholic during the evangelization of his Southern Pacific island in the early twentieth century, he was an exemplary husband, father and catechist.  In 1945 he suffered martyrdom at […]