Love and Marriage: A Symposium

The Proposal

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A Symposium. (a public meeting about a topic in which people give presentations.)

Participants: George McDonald, staff of Plough magazine (plough.com), Brett McKay (artofmanliness.com), Alice von Hildebrand, Dr. John Miller, MD, Dr. Jerome Dominguez, M.D., Carol Robinson, Rachel Lu, G.K. Chesterton (friend of H.G. Wells and G.B. Shaw), and others. Alice von Hildebrand, professor emerita at Hunter College and widow of anti-Nazi philosopher, Dietrich von Hildebrand, is known for her outspokenness on topics, and for unabashedly witnessing to the joy of the gospel.


A Guide to the Restoration of Marriage, by Rachel Lu


Preparing for Matrimony, by Dr. J. Miller

Marriage isn't a Game of Russian Roulette -

What Is Marriage For? By N.T. Wright

Made For Love. What Makes Women Special, by Alice von Hildebrand

 

Sentimentality, Sex and Lust, by Carol Robinson

Love and Marriage. Excerpts by George McDonald


God Gave You Marriage, by Jerome Dominguez, M.D.

The Art of Manliness: Marriage

Making Your Marriage Great (Power Point Presentation) Press F5 to begin

Art of Manliness: Relationships, Family, Marriage (edited by Brett McKay)

Worldwide Marriage Encounter -
Worldwide Marriage Encounter: an Introduction
Worldwide Marriage Encounter: Brings families closer together. Tools of communication.

 

 

We Said I Do Forever -- short videos made by married couples
Marriage Encounter

Editor’s note: The image above is a detail from “The Marriage Proposal” painted by Frédéric Soulacroix (1858-1933).

 

Marriage Quotes • . . . . . .  G.K. Chesterton and the Return to Common Sense

     • What Is Marriage? by Dr. Peter Kreeft. 28 min.

Truth and the Sexual Revolution [talk by Dr. Peter Kreeft]. 28 min.

Powerpoint Presentations: Marriage Counseling Quest * Marriage Reconciliation --

The Road to Damascus * Amazing Conversions -

GILBERT Keith Chesterton, otherwise known as G. K. Chesterton, was a towering figure in the first half of the twentieth century. He was a journalist,  a theologian, a philosopher, a poet, a novelist, among many other things. What does he have to say about the need to return to common sense, to battle the moral ills of our day?  Standing at six foot four inches and weighing 300 pounds, Chesterton was a big man.Born in England in the late 19th century, Chesterton was a prolific writer, with hundreds of books or stories, and over 4,000 essays, all marked by his style of great wit and humor. But Chesterton didn't just write; he debated with the greatest intellectuals of his time, like George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells. He argued passionately against 20th century ills, like materialism, scientific determinism, moral relativism. He defended the common man and common sense. He defended the poor, the family, beauty, and Christianity. [Read More Here]

Wedding

 • The Church or the Bible?  • Difficult Bible VersesAgainst the Reformers *

* How Old Is Your Church? -

* History of Early Christianity -

* Catholic and Protestant -

How To Save Your Marriage. Communication Techniques. 15 min.

 Suppórt Groups (Depression, anxiety, divorce, loneliness, etc.) • Addiction Support Group -

Deliverance from Addictions and Demons, by Dr. Dominguez, M.D. * Greatest Book of All the Ages. An Introduction to the Bible.


If there be unadulterated joy in the world, it is in the contrite mind

Here is a commentary of the beatitude "Blessed are those who mourn," from the Biblical commentary of Cornelius a Lapide, SJ.

Blessed are they that mourn [Arabic, “blessed are the sad”], for they shall be comforted. Who “mourn,” not in flesh but in spirit. For the words, in spirit, from verse 3 are to be repeated in all these Beatitudes. Blessed are they that mourn, not for the loss of wealth, or parents, or friends, but of spiritual things. Grief here is taken as something holy. It is opposed to those who laugh and overflow with joy on account of mundane prosperity, those whom the world applauds as blessed. To them Christ threatens woe. Woe to you that now laugh, for you shall mourn and weep (Luke 6:25). He alludes to Isaias 65:13-14, Behold, my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded; behold, my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall howl for grief of spirit.

This grief, too, has its own degrees, like the rest of the Beatitudes. They are here called “blessed mourners”, who bear with patience the troubles and sorrows sent, or permitted to come upon them by God. So Nyssen (de Beatitud.) and S. Augustine (lib. 1 de serm. Domini in monte). But more blessed are they who mourn and weep on account of their own or others’ sins. Thus SS. Chrysostom, Ambrose, Hilary and Jerome. And most blessed are they who through grief at the perpetual struggle which they carry on with the flesh and concupiscence, and through desire of the celestial country, and especially through love of God and Christ, lament their exile in this earthly land. (See Nyssen, Jansen et al.) Thus Paul mourned, Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (Romans 7:24). And, having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ (Phil. 1:23). (See commentary at those verses.) In this grief S. Ephraim excelled, who mourns in all his writings, and inspires his readers with holy grief and compunction. S. Macarius, as his Life records, used to say to his brethren, “Let us weep, brothers, let our eyes produce tears before we go where our tears shall burn our flesh.” And they all wept. For tears wash us in this world but burn us after death.

For they shall be comforted. Often in this life, but always in the life to come. As Isaias says (35:10), Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. Truly does compunction itself wonderfully solace, feed, and refresh the mind of him who is pricked with compunction. And if there be unadulterated joy in the world, it is in the contrite mind. Taste, and thou shalt see, for as the heart that knoweth the bitterness of his own soul, in his joy the stranger shall not intermeddle, says the wise man in Proverbs 14:10. Alluding to this, S. Jerome describes the departure of S. Paula, exclaiming, “O blessed exchange! She wept to laugh always: she beheld pools of contrition that she might find the Lord her Fountain: she was clothed in sackcloth that now she might wear white robes, and say, ‘Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.’ She ate ashes as it were bread, and mingled her drink with weeping, saying, ‘My tears have been my meat day and night,’ that now she might feed for ever on the Bread of angels, and sing, O taste and see how sweet the Lord is.”

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National Marriage Encounter -
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Worldwide Marriage Encounter -- began in Spain 1952. spread to other countries.

 
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