Marriage

  • Ten Ways to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage

    My hubby and I will be married 25 years in December. While we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about divorce-proofing a marriage, we do have some experience with growing a marriage to its 25th year. Hope… Continue reading

  • Fiat and The Family

    An entry for Filipinos for Life’s December Blogging Event, What Child is This? Bearing Children as the World’s Salvation Christmas season is the perfect time to discuss the bearing of children. That today is the Feast of the Holy Family… Continue reading

  • Where Have All The Men Gone? The Quest for Authentic Fatherhood

    Have you ever thought about the word “father”? It is so commonplace, and yet has such profound import as to signify the initiation of a man into parenthood: “He FATHERED a child.” We don’t say, “She mothered a child” until… Continue reading

  • Homosexuality and Real Solutions

    In Part 1, I talked about the band-aid solutions offered by popular culture being inadequate to address the prevention of same-sex attraction/homosexuality itself. Speaking to those causes listed by the Catholic Medical Association, I’d like to make the following suggestions,… Continue reading

  • Homosexuality and Band-Aid Solutions

    Homosexuality is a deep, deep wound in the Body of Christ. It’s not something that can be fixed with band-aid solutions. We need to get to the root of this wound, because that’s the only way we can effectively deal… Continue reading

  • Living Authentic Lives: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    He makes the weak of this world mighty only to the extent that they cooperate with a determined and resolute repentance. Might comes from cooperation with God’s divine will. I’ve found this to be true in confronting venial sin in… Continue reading

  • Love Means Forgiveness: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    we do not react to evil with more evil. Need to remember this, especially in those moments when I’m fatigued, and that’s the moment when a child chooses to throw a tantrum, or talk back, or just plain be obnoxious.… Continue reading

  • Called to Love: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    These heroes of human goodness simply do not inflict wounds on others — and very often, indeed day in and day out, they heal the deepest of human sufferings. If there’s any one goal I hadn’t set before that I… Continue reading

  • Unity of Mind: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    …. together drink from the same fountains of unity. … unity is always caused. It never happens by random chance. … a divided community — in marriage, parish, religious community — is worldly and immature. Therefore, unity, oneness of mind,… Continue reading

  • Humility and a Shared Vision: Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer

    Continuing to read Fr. Thomas Dubay’s Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer. Pages The second main root of conflict is seldom even noticed in our day. It is called illuminism. – emphasis mine I like to call this form of the aberration… Continue reading