Tag: Marriage
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The Family at the Foot of the Cross
Lent is a season of reflecting upon the suffering and death of the Lord and go with him to the foot of the cross.  Many of the faithful offer up a token sacrifice for 40 days to better learn how to love.  These sacrifices have meaning, these little daily sufferings in a small way, prepare our…
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Courtship is not the Answer
I absolutely love the courtship approach to dating for my children, but it isn’t enough. Courtship is the idea that young people should only enter into an exclusive relationship when they are ready to get married. I have discussed in a previous blog post exactly what Dating with Purpose looks like, so go check it…
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Wow, that is a long time!
This past New Year’s Eve, my wife and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We decided to make it a big deal and so we let our adult children throw us a party to celebrate the joyous event. They rented a nice hall, brought in our favorite live band, had the event catered, bought a…
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Joyfully Visiting the Sick
Our Time on This Earth is Short There can be joy in the dying process. I remember my reaction when my father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. It was significantly different from the other times I had experienced the loss of a loved one. In the past, I felt somewhat devastated and every fiber…
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Love Will Win The Culture War
… One Family at a Time I believe that the cultural battles today are a direct result of a lack of joy-filled families. The scourge of abortion, declining birth rates, increasing divorce rates, and a pervasive hedonistic lifestyle can all be traced to a breakdown of the family. According to Blessed John Paul II in Familiaris…
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How to Be a Father after God’s own Heart
The world needs strong, faith-filled fathers who are seeking to love as God loves.
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Are you Afraid of Dying?
Family Funerals Funerals, everybody loves attending them, right? If you are like me, you don’t look forward to attending a funeral. Depending on who died, it may be a very somber event. In my forty five years on this earth I have attended funerals for the young, old and everyone in between. Funerals are a…
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Reflecting the Love of God
A Godly marriage should be a reflection of the love that we see between God the Father and God the Son. Their love is given freely and completely without anything held back. This love is faithful and continuously fruitful as manifested in the person of God the Holy Spirit. How can we reveal this type…
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Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child
Our society has become a society of children, there is ample evidence to back up my claim. Think about how a child acts, they have a short attention span, they easily change their mind, they see something in the checkout line at the grocery store and  they want to buy it. If a child doesn’t get…
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The Mission of the Marriage
The Mission of the Family is to Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love and this second talk of the 2014 Central Texas Retreat for Families.  Greg and Julie Alexander, of the Alexander House, discuss the necessity of a strong marriage as the foundation for raising a holy family. https://yourholyfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/aa7eb-2-mission-of-the-marriage.mp3 Intro Music courtesy of K4J – Family by…