Sentences with phrase «for marriage and family life»

In 2016, Pope Francis wrote Amoris Laetitia, On Love in the Family, which affirmed the importance of formation for marriage and family life taking place in local parishes:
In The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Dr. Gottman explains, «the truth is that «girlish» games offer far better preparation for marriage and family life because they focus on relationships.»
We've developed tip sheets on such vital issues as finding foreclosure assistance, how to survive job loss, and even the implications of financial problems for marriage and family life.
The most popular among them are: difficult working conditions, alcoholism and backward medicine and there are few men ready for marriage and family life.
Courses on preparation for marriage and family life in schools usually do not reach the heart - and - gut levels where relationships are made or broken unless they include small growth groups.
Yours faithfully, Edmund P Adamus Director for Marriage and Family Life Diocese of Westminster
In his foreword, the Rt Rev Peter Doyle, Chair of the Bishops» Committee for Marriage and Family Life, described the 4th edition as «a resource to assist all those in our communities whose marriages have failed, and those accompanying them; and restore to them, with the mercy of God, hope and confidence on the journey of faith in the light of the Gospel.»
Edmund Adamus has been the director for marriage and family life in Westminster diocese since March 2012 and was its director for pastoral affairs from 2003.
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But now, for those blessed to be free of family constraints or serious debts, a rising marriage age and longer career onramps can make the third decade of life seem — from the outside at least — like one big party.
After working hard to provide for your family, the reward of discovering your financial strength will be the peace of mind to enjoy your marriage, your family, and the rest of your lives together.
I understand your article Kerry and how family can be and should be a support in birth, in living and in death, however so many people on this earth do not get to experience that... so many times families are torn apart or kids are abandoned and marriages ruined by one thing or another, so we must realize who gave us life, what purpose he gave us life for!
And some of them would send their daughters for marriage between that age to elder men just to be able to support the rest of the family with the marriage money... Maybe you being in America living fully covered from A to Z know nothing about how poorer countries live and think all are as happy as you arAnd some of them would send their daughters for marriage between that age to elder men just to be able to support the rest of the family with the marriage money... Maybe you being in America living fully covered from A to Z know nothing about how poorer countries live and think all are as happy as you arand think all are as happy as you are?!
The document firmly rejects gay marriage, for instance, but also said Catholics leaders, «are trying to find a balance between the Church's teaching on the family and a respectful, non-judgmental attitude towards people living in such unions.»
I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.
As the decorative plaque that reads «Family is Forever» and the framed photos in their living room suggest, Julia and Rob, a couple for 12 years with hopes of marriage in the future, want desperately to make a home together....
Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.
Familiaris Consortio presents a wholly compassionate yet objectively truthful account of the Magisterium of the Church's teachings on marriage and the family and in its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life
Our common goals for this marriage were stable and happy family life and self - realization.
For example, families, clergy, psychologists and magazine columnists who formerly supported lifetime marriage now give counsel on how to get through a divorce and live one's life afterwards.
The chapter headed «Where psychiatry and Catholicism agree» is similarly enlightening, as the Church can find confirmation in secular science for her teachings on marriage and family life, and the negative impact of parental separation and divorce.
The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.
Given the close association of the sexes in modern working life, men or women need to observe delicate respect for the commitments of married colleagues; carelessness here could make them responsible for the collapse of a marriage and the destruction of a family.
And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liAnd the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liand style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liand true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liand family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liand new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional liand professional life.
The truth about marriage, for example — the lifelong union of one man and one woman, open to new life and the foundation of a family — is not something that will go away simply because the government of a nation, or institutions that it funds and promotes, want it to do so.
Hold off on giving 70 year old benefits based on Judeo Christian family model that does not exist in a godless union (i.e. the little women stays home for life and daddy is the head of the family and the bread winner) to both new forms of marriage.
For a «live» illustration of the use of T.A. in a growth counseling session, listen to cassette course 3A «Using Marriage Problems for Growth,» in Growth Counseling: Enriching Marriage and Family Life) Suffice it here to say that if both persons respond to the counselor's initial presentation of the P - A-C concepts, they should then be coached in using this tool to interrupt Parent - Child transactions and in learning to relate on an Adult - to - Adult basFor a «live» illustration of the use of T.A. in a growth counseling session, listen to cassette course 3A «Using Marriage Problems for Growth,» in Growth Counseling: Enriching Marriage and Family Life) Suffice it here to say that if both persons respond to the counselor's initial presentation of the P - A-C concepts, they should then be coached in using this tool to interrupt Parent - Child transactions and in learning to relate on an Adult - to - Adult basfor Growth,» in Growth Counseling: Enriching Marriage and Family Life) Suffice it here to say that if both persons respond to the counselor's initial presentation of the P - A-C concepts, they should then be coached in using this tool to interrupt Parent - Child transactions and in learning to relate on an Adult - to - Adult basis.
A Catholic school must teach the Catholic faith — including the Church's teachings on marriage and family life, in ways that are appropriate for the children's ages and needs.
Professor Tracey Rowland, Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia, discusses the centrality of Christ in the «new anthropology» that is animating an international revival in Catholic familyFamily in Melbourne, Australia, discusses the centrality of Christ in the «new anthropology» that is animating an international revival in Catholic familyfamily life.
Respecting the sanctity of human life at every stage of development and decline, securing the integrity of marriage and family life, protecting the disabled and vulnerable, caring for the marginalized and imprisoned» these are among the mandates that are bringing, and must increasingly bring, Evangelicals and Catholics together.
Dr. James J. Buckley Loyola College of Maryland Dr. Peter Casarella Catholic University of America Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Fordham University Father Thomas Guarino Seton Hall University Father Francis Martin John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Father Richard John Neuhaus Institute on Religion and Public Life Edward T. Oakes, S.J. Mundelein Seminary Mr. George Weigel Ethics and Public Policy Center Dr. Robert Louis Wilken University of Virginia
We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.
For most people marriage and family is the most important project in their lives.
And in our society, and for our contemporaries, Catholic marriage and family life lived in its fullness is the most eloquent proclamation of «the word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us&raquAnd in our society, and for our contemporaries, Catholic marriage and family life lived in its fullness is the most eloquent proclamation of «the word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us&raquand for our contemporaries, Catholic marriage and family life lived in its fullness is the most eloquent proclamation of «the word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us&raquand family life lived in its fullness is the most eloquent proclamation of «the word of truth that the Lord Jesus has left us».
The minister and key lay persons — perhaps the marriage enrichment or family life committee — should develop a growth - oriented preparation - for - marriage program including a clear statement of what is expected of couples.
I would work to avoid trivializing the wind and the fire in that upper room by bringing these primal elements through my hearers» lives as the upheavals in marriage, family, and careers that jar us into new possibilities for wholeness.
If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.
6 in Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling; «Enriching Marriage and Family Life,» in Growth Counseling: New Tools for Clergy and Laity, Part 1; Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment; Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples; and «Alcoholics Anonymous — Our Greatest Resource,» chap.
Rogers, for example, says: «Marriage and the nuclear family constitute a failing... way of life....
I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.
From an article by David L Schindler, Dean of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Washington, DC on Life, entitled Family and Development: The Anthropological Unity of Caritas in Veritate, in the Bollettino di Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa V (2009) 93 - 97.
However, if the argument is that gays shouldn't have to live up to a hetero definition of marriage which implies marriage as a foundation for family, and that gays marriage is a redefinition of marriage to be any thing we want it to mean, then the question becomes; why does the government involve itself in the ritual of marriage?
If the purpose of gay marriage is in the spirit of validating family life for gays, and that includes the openness to raising children and lifelong commitment, then in my view, I don't see how this compromises the inst - itution of marriage and in fact is probably a positive thing.
If Christ's teaching about marriage and family is not the medicine for overcoming the hardness of the human heart about which he speaks in Matthew 19:8, and if he hadn't been able to restore health to something as basic to human life as marriage, family and sexuality, then he wouldn't be the one the human race was looking for.
For example, to love another person in the commitment of marriage is to deal with all that person's relationships, ancestry, family, vocation and life history, «for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health&raquFor example, to love another person in the commitment of marriage is to deal with all that person's relationships, ancestry, family, vocation and life history, «for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health&raqufor richer for poorer, in sickness and in health&raqufor poorer, in sickness and in health».
For a description of one approach to group marriage counseling see Genevieve Burton, «Group Counseling with Alcoholics and Their Nonalcoholic Wives,» Marriage and Family Living, XXIV (Februarymarriage counseling see Genevieve Burton, «Group Counseling with Alcoholics and Their Nonalcoholic Wives,» Marriage and Family Living, XXIV (FebruaryMarriage and Family Living, XXIV (February, 1962).
But most people, admit it or not, would like to think of marriage in much more human terms — as the voluntary union for life of a man and a woman who intend to create a family together.
Central Christian moral teachings, especially those on love, marriage, and family life, are under constant attack and recent court cases in Britain have established that it is increasingly difficult for Christians to live and work according to their consciences.
For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.
Without marriage there would be no Church, no people for Jesus to share his divine life with just as without Jesus marriage, family and our very sexuality in all its dimensions would make no sense.
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