by Michelle C. Martin | Oct 22, 2024 | Church, Family Life, Marriage, Marriage Prep, Prayer, Questions, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
“Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God’s plan” Pope St. John Paul II. The other day, a friend and I were reminiscing about our engagements before marriage. I dated my husband for nearly three years and then was engaged for...
by Michelle C. Martin | Nov 29, 2023 | Church, Prayer, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
A Thief at Night… “For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night” ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:2. St. Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians was a dark warning. He compared death and judgment to a thief stealing in the dead of...
by Elizabeth Sala | Sep 6, 2022 | Marriage, Marriage Prep, Society, Spirituality, Teachings
I needed a wake-up call on what it means to “love your neighbor.” My husband and I live in an apartment, our very first. We’ve only been here two months, but already I would say that we have lived through the gamut of classic apartment...
by Tara Brooke | Oct 13, 2020 | Family Life, Marriage, Society
In my years as a Director of Family Ministry, along with my years as the Director of the Brooke Family I have come to know that one of the greatest problems that enters marriage and family life is what I would call “unmet, or unrealistic” expectations. I served as...
by Edmund Adamus | Nov 28, 2016 | Church, Family Life, Parenting, Spirituality
The beautiful penitential season of Advent is once more upon us. Advent is a two part symphony as it were, with the first two weeks focusing our attention on the Second Coming of Christ at the end of time. But how often that focus gets pushed aside by all the rush to...