Posts Tagged ‘spirituality’
What you do in your family to create a community of love, to help each other to grow
From Follow the Way of Love: What you do in your family to create a community of love, to help each other to grow, and to serve those in need is critical…for the strength of society and our Church.
If God so loved us, we must also love one another
From Follow the Way of Love: Beloved, if God so loved us, we must also love one another (1 Jn 4:11).
The story of family life is a story about love
From Follow the Way of Love: The story of family life is a story about love–shared, nurtured, and sometimes rejected or lost.
God is revealed uniquely and personally
From Follow the Way of Love: In every family God is revealed uniquely and personally, for God is love.
Follow the way of love, even as Christ loved you
From Follow the Way of Love: The basic vocation of every person, whether married or living a celibate life, is the same: follow the way of love, even as Christ loved you (cf.Eph 5:2).
Follow the way of love
From Follow the Way of Love: The Lord issues the call [to follow the way of love] to your family and to every family regardless of its condition or circumstances.
Love brought you to life as a family
From Follow the Way of Love: Love brought you to life as a family. Love sustains you in good and bad times.
Prayers and Blessings
Prayer is the glue that holds a marriage and a family together. Prayer comes in many forms, including: recited prayers, such as the Hail Mary; spontaneous prayer, as a husband and wife might say before bedtime; praying with Scripture; and that perfect prayer–the Mass. The book, Catholic Household Blessings and Prayers, is an excellent resource [...]
Marital Spirituality
“Spirituality” is a way to live out one’s religious beliefs. A spirituality of marriage, therefore, is a way to help husbands and wives live out the vocation of marriage in light of faith. Catholic marriage has a distinctive spirituality that is sacramental, communitarian, and missionary. Marriage is sacramental because it is a sign of Christ’s [...]
Faith and Spirituality
Many people think of spirituality as something connected to organized religion. Certainly that is one path to spirituality. Some people also consider being spiritual as the opposite of being physical. If it has to do with the body it doesn’t have to do with spirituality. Actually, spirituality touches the lives of those who go to [...]
Family is an “intimate community of life and love”
From Follow the Ways of Love: When the Church teaches that the family is an “intimate community of life and love” it …offers you a vision toward which to grow.
Spirituality and Faith
Many people think of spirituality as something connected to organized religion. Certainly that is one path to spirituality. Some people also consider being spiritual as the opposite of being physical. If it has to do with the body it doesn’t have to do with spirituality. Actually, spirituality touches the lives of those who go to [...]
Faith and Spirituality
When couples are on the verge of a major life transition such as marriage, they begin to think about life, love, values…and the future. To a great extent this is what spirituality is about – our human search for happiness and the meaning of life. Is life just about the here and now? Do morals [...]
A family is our first community and the most basic way in which the Lord gathers us
From Follow the Way of Love: A family is our first community and the most basic way in which the Lord gathers us, forms us, and acts in the world. [It is] a domestic church or church of the home.
The whole Church is obliged to a deep reflection
From On the Family: The whole Church is obliged to a deep reflection and commitment, so that the new culture now emerging may be evangelized in depth.
All who seek to find meaning
From Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan: All who seek to find meaning in their marriage will do so when they accept the … meaning of marriage according to God‘s plan.
Marriage and the family
From On the Family: Marriage and the family constitute one of the most precious of human values.
The Christian family is the first community
From On the Family: The Christian family is the first community called to announce the Gospel to the human person.
God’s plan for marriage and the family
From On the Family: God’s plan for marriage and the family touches men and women in the concreteness of their daily existence.
It is to the families of our times
From On the Family: It is to the families of our times that the Church must bring the unchangeable and ever new Gospel of Jesus Christ
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth
From On the Family: Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.
The situation in which the family finds itself presents positive aspects
From On the Family: The situation in which the family finds itself presents positive aspects [which] are a sign of the salvation of Christ operating in the world.
The situation in which the family finds itself presents negative aspects
From On the Family: The situation in which the family finds itself presents negative aspects: a sign of the refusal [of] the love of God.
The great task that has to be faced today
From On the Family: The great task that has to be faced today…is that of recapturing the ultimate meaning of life and its fundamental values.
