Transparency as the Foundation of a Strong Marriage
"There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known." How would you behave if you knew that everything you did will eventually be exposed? The money you secretly withdrew from savings to gamble. The time you vented to a colleague about all the things you don't like about your spouse. The credit card your spouse doesn't know about. The hidden cache of pornography. The group chat where you and your siblings made jokes about your partners. I
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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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