Marriage and family are the foundation of a strong, healthy society. Where marriages break up and families collapse, communities suffer the effects of instability through maladies such as crime, poverty, drug use and malaise.
Read moreDon’t Treat Your Wife as an “Equal” →
Most marriages today are simply partnerships of convenience, instead of covenants in service. We focus on treating each other as equals instead of treating each other as Christ. Consequently, marriages are much less fruitful, less exciting and less fulfilling. And with everyone else around us treating their spouses as only equals, it’s easy to forget the profound nature of what we’ve been called to and the magnitude of the promises we’ve made in Marriage.
Read moreThree Thoughts That Have Changed My Life →
Well, here are the three things that continually fill me with wonder and awe and are daily becoming the tripod on which I stand to view God, Life and Everything in Between…
1. The body is holy.
2. Marriage is an appetizer.
3. God is a Lover.
Marriage Building - Pray, Talk, Do →
In her book, Rebuilding a Marriage Better then New, Cindy Beall notes there are three things husbands and wives need to do together to build a healthy marriage: pray, talk, and do.
Read moreFour Ways for Catholic Fathers to Give Heroic Witness to Their Children →
As I look at my children every night before going to bed, I wonder what their futures will be: what type of vocation they’ll have, what kind of relationship they’ll have with each other. I wonder what kind of relationship they’ll have with God. And then, as I slowly leave the room and quietly close the door, I realize that the answers to those questions are contingent upon me, their father.
As a Catholic father, I have even greater demands on me, and these expectations are something I must fulfill, particularly because I vowed to follow through at each of my children’s baptisms. Now I’m far from being the father of the year (I pray that our Lord will allow me to raise my children well everyday), but with Father’s Day coming up, I’ve been thinking about how fathers, and Catholic fathers in particular, need to be bold. What does it mean to be a good Catholic father in this day and age?
I only have about four years’ experience of being a father, so this may not be much that I’ve picked up, but here are four ways we as fathers can really live out our vocation in a heroic way. Because that’s what we’re called to do: to give a heroic witness to our children.
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