The Mass and your marriage
Listening as one to God’s word
Marriage Matters
How the Mass can strengthen your marriage
Our deeper union with Christ strengthens the love within us and makes us more capable of loving and supporting each other.
A Bride and Groom – The Bride and The Groom
A couple exchanging vows at their wedding Mass do not so much receive a sacrament as they become a sacrament.
Communicating God’s love through your marriage
We need marriage. So does our Church and our world.
Living marriage as a sacrament
When a couple consciously and daily lives their marriage as a sacrament, they open themselves up to a happiness both natural and supernatural.
Our daughter and her husband are having a family crisis
Your tension is not about whether, but how much, help to give or, as you put it, it’s between “no matter what the cost” and “everything we reasonably can.”
He says: With the kids gone, it’s time to leave this big house and move into something smaller
The living space needs and preferences of a couple will naturally evolve over the course of their marriage and family life.
She says: I want to keep some of my mom’s special things
When you vowed at your wedding to remain faithful to one another “in sickness and in health,” the sickness part included that aching “soul sickness” of grief.
They say: We love each other and want to get married but we are almost 10 years apart in age
Let’s look first at your age difference and then at the pushback you’re getting from your family and friends.
She says: Sports and other activities are good for kids
Finding the right balance for children between family life and outside activities can be challenging.
He says: I am being offered a promotion at work
She says: I don’t want him to be gone all the time.
Trusting God and each other in adversity
When life doesn’t go according to plan, how can married couples be strong together in the face of adversity?
He says: Too much screen time since COVID!
She says: We are so busy working from home it’s the only way to get anything done.
She says: I think it’s cute our granddaughter tells me ‘secrets.’
He says: We should tell our daughter.
She says: We should speak to our daughter about the man she is thinking of marrying
Whether you should speak with your daughter depends upon her openness to listening.
He says: Our daughter and her husband need help watching their new baby
She says: I’d love to help but it’s too much
Our adult daughter stopped attending Mass
The deeper level of her underlying relationship with God is where you should focus your efforts, not at the mere surface level.
No babies or toddlers at the wedding?!
Couple says: We want our wedding to be disruption-free so we can focus on the grace of the sacrament.
“We both want to get back to the basics of loving communication”
Nurturing loving communication skills is important to any marriage, even if it’s doing OK.
He says: I feel like our marriage is falling apart.
By exchanging marital vows, a couple creates an unbreakable, lifelong bond.
He Says: I Don’t Want to Spend All My Free Time With This Couple
She says: It’s not like we have a ton of other friends.
He Says: We Love Each Other but Are So Different
The notion that “opposites attract” is a paradox.
He and She Say: We’re Dreading Going Home to Either of Our Families for the Holidays
Rejoice that you feel this discomfort; it’s a sign your marriage is healthy.
He Says: Now That We Can Gather Again as an Extended Family, I Want to Invite the Big Group for Thanksgiving.
This holiday season is a great opportunity to establish a new normal for your holiday traditions.
Compromising, Accommodating, Understanding, Appreciating
During the years of my work with couples, I met many that were complaining about growing distant.