“Tradition isn’t worshipping the ashes, it’s guarding the flames.” One of my favorite questions to ask college students, back in the day when I was a college-campus-Catholic-missionary, was, “Where did you learn how to date?” The answer, for the first few years of my missionary career, was the 90s Disney show, Boy Meets World. Not a great answer, but not nothing, …
No one, on their wedding day, says that their goal is to wreck their marriage, to utterly sabotage it and undercut it at every turn. No one plans to undermine the very meaning of the sacrament of matrimony. And yet, I daresay many of us unintentionally set ourselves up for failure because we don’t understand the very meaning and purpose of …
There’s a line in Ephesians 5 that used to trip me up: “He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the Church, because we are members of his body” (28b-30). Echoes of my days studying the humanities at a secular …
There are three basic things that men and women need to believe before dating even becomes sensible. Without these three things, there’s no real way to get from wherever you are to the sacrament of matrimony (which is the end goal of dating). The first thing to be believed is that life is worth living. I don’t mean this in …
It’s my hope that this article serves as a little marital pick-me-up and check-in for you! I’ve been diving into the work of Dietrich von Hildebrand, and I’d love to share three attributes of spousal love that he goes over in his wonderful little work, Man and Woman, as well as some things you could do to help rekindle where maybe …
