The couple that prays together, stays together. Supernatural Love is what enables you to keep loving your spouse or your children or your best friend when at the moment you are hard pressed to find anything lovable about them It allows you to keep in mind that everyday annoyances that can drive you crazy – the unmade bed, the car … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Love and Responsibility
Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, director of the Institute for Marital Healing, comments on our confusion about the nature of love and addresses Pope John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility, the precursor to his theology of the body: Love and Responsibility from Anteroom Pictures on Vimeo. TOB Tuesdays
TOB Tuesday: Making Love
Brian Killian has an excellent article up at Catholic Exchange taking a look at the romanticized Hollywood “love” scenes and how we typically view the act of sexual intercourse today: Remember the older Hollywood love scenes? A man and woman are wrapped in each other’s arms in front of gently billowing curtains and moonlight as they tenderly and lovingly kiss … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Golden Sea
Drawing inspiration from the song 31 Flavors by Trevor Hall and his upcoming wedding anniversary, Theology of the Body speaker/teacher Bill Donaghy has a delicious reflection the true meaning and purpose of earthly marriage: “Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, … Read More
Early Alzheimer’s and the Value of a Vow
Some of you have probably already seen this at either Deacon Greg’s blog or Elizabeth Scalia’s: Watch CBS News Videos Online There’s so much going on in this story. So much that could be discussed. For example, the woman who said that she would not want her grandchildren to visit her when she can no longer recognize them. But the … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Trinity and the Heart of Marriage
This Sunday Catholics celebrated the feast of the holy Trinity, three Persons in one God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – existing in an eternal exchange of love. From all eternity the Father makes himself a gift to the Son and the Son receives this gift and makes Himself a gift back to the Father in return. This love … Read More
Santorum: Daughter w/ Trisomy 18 “Worth Every Tear”
Former PA Sen. Rick Santorum has a moving piece int he Philadelphia Enquirer honoring the second birthday of his daughter Bella: ‘Incompatible with life.” The doctor’s words kept echoing in my head as I held my sobbing wife, Karen, just four days after the birth of our eighth child, Isabella Maria. Bella was born with three No. 18 chromosomes, rather … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Called to Love
Just a short quote to (hopefully) inspire you on this TOB Tuesday, from Carl Anderson’s book Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body: The human person differs from the other animals because his very existence is a response to a call to love, a call that evokes wonder in his heart and sets him on a … Read More
Good Marriage Advice
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
Marriage Sustains Love
Last weekend I went out for drinks with several girlfriends of mine – a very rare occurrence in my life, these days! I am blessed to still be friends with several girls I have known since childhood and high school and it’s always nice to get together and see how everyone’s grown – one of the biggest transitions these days … Read More