Some good advice you can add to Monday’s post on marriage: Husband and wife will be happy together if they learn to overcome selfishness and love of comfort, if they avoid seeking personal compensations for every sacrifice they make, and if they know how to give without expecting anything in return. To achieve all this, it will greatly help them … Read More
TOB Tuesday (on Wed.): Crisis of Fatherhood
For God, we are children. We have a name. He loves us and wants to be near us. On my retreat two weekends ago, the priest told us: Whoever does not know that she/she is a child of God does not know THE MOST IMPORTANT THING about him/herself! Sadly, for so many of our young people today, God is a … Read More
“Every Life is Valuable, or No Life is Valuable”
Jenny Senour Uebbing hits a home run with this post on the Duggars, MTV, teenage pregnancy and the value of every human life! It’s too good to give a teaser, just go read the whole thing. Jenny blogs at A Great Deception and can be read at Catholic Exchange’s Theology of the Body Channel. P.S. CONGRATULATIONS, Jenny on the new … Read More
‘God Said Multiply, and Did She Ever’
“If you leave a child or grandchild, you live forever.” Requiescat in pace, Yitta Schwartz. From the New York Times: WHEN Yitta Schwartz died last month at 93, she left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren and so many great- and great-great-grandchildren that, by her family’s count, she could claim perhaps 2,000 living descendants. Mrs. Schwartz was a member … Read More
Changing the World is Easier Than You Think
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa (h/t Jen’s Links)
More Pro-Family Super Bowl Ads
Aaak! Jill Stanek beat me to this!! Focus on the Family’s wasn’t the only “pro-family” ad to air during the Super Bowl. Dove’s ad for their line of men’s soap was a celebration of masculinity and fatherhood. It also accurately depicts the biological beginning of human life. I missed this ad when it aired, but the more I watch it, … Read More
Bill Cosby on Having Children
The Art of Manliness has quite a few motivational posters for Black History Month. One of my favorites: This, of course, reminds me of Cosby in possibly one of the greatest stand-up acts of all time. We all know that children are a blessing, but, let’s face it, often it doesn’t feel that way during the actual birthing process: You … Read More
Marriage and Manhood
EXCELLENT! Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington talks about marriage – speaking specifically to men – on the Feast of the Holy Family (this is just an excerpt from his homily): See Msgr’s post Marriage and Manhood at the Washington Archdiocese’s blog.
TOB Tuesday: Sex and Natural Law
JP II comments on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae and the nature of the marital act: “The Church…teaches that each and every marriage act must remain through itself open to the transmission of life. That teaching, often set forth by the magisterium, is founded upon the inseparable connection, willed by god and unable to be broken by man on … Read More
Congratulations to the Duggars!
From Fox News: Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar – the energetic parents of 18 children on the TLC show “18 Kids and Counting” — announced they are expecting baby number 19, People Magazine reported. “We are so thrilled,” Michelle Duggar, 42, told the magazine. “We just couldn’t believe it is happening.” Incidentally, the Duggars oldest child, Joshua, 21, and his … Read More