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"The family that prays together stays together." - Venerable Patrick Peyton
Marriage | family life | family prayer
Spring is my favorite season of the year. After a long, cold winter, I appreciate every warm ray of sunshine so much more! I love watching buds appear on the trees, wearing floral dresses, and celebrating Jesus’ Resurrection at Easter. I’m also a big fan of spring cleaning. Junk has accumulated in certain places in my home throughout the last few months: a particular drawer in the kitchen, the bottom of my closet, and a messy shelf in the garage. The arrival of spring has triggered a desire to finally address those areas and get rid of the junk! As I started listing physical items in my home that I need to donate or trash, I realized I might be able to do some “spring cleaning” in my marriage, too. If you’d like to join me, here are a few things I came up with!
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Marriage | family life | love
It’s one thing to marry, it’s another to keep the love alive over decades. Longtime-married couples have much to teach other couples, married or not, but perhaps even more to teach people starting on their marriage journey. Family Theater Productions, which brought you Catholic Central, PRAY: THE STORY OF PATRICK PEYTON and The Dating Project debuts a new YouTube series that visits with long-term spouses offering advice and encouragement on keeping their vows truly “until death do us part.”
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Marriage | Valentine | catholic family
You and your spouse are cordially invited to a faith-filled Valentine night out on Saturday, February 10. Come celebrate the blessings of married life in the Lord! Set aside time together as a couple to experience a joyful and memorable evening.
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Healing the family | Marriage | catholic family
Marriage is a covenant that is particularly vulnerable to the cunning ways of the evil one. He can sneak in when you least expect it, slowly eating away at the union that threatens his plans the most. My husband and I have been focusing on our marriage more lately. Our children are getting older and we realized the daily grind of life over the last 20 years has caused some of the habits of our early years as a couple to go by the wayside. However, it is these very habits that ward off the unseen force
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Marriage | family life | sacrament of marriage
Certain things in life are easy. Finishing off that pint of ice cream. Scrolling through your Facebook feed. Giving the kids screen time so they’ll stop asking you five million questions. Clearly, these are choices along the path of least resistance. Most days, they take zero effort or thought. And then there’s your marriage: the foundation of the vocation chosen by God. There’s no easy button for prioritizing the covenant you entered before God and your loved ones.
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Join me for a great reflection about the strength of a special patron, a woman married seven times, and a simple prayer to God.
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