Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Bishop Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit www.wordonfire....
Married 12 years and I fully endorse Bishop Barron's message. To the extent my wife and I place God first in our lives, our marriage is like experiencing Heaven on earth. In the times we fail to put God first, life can get very hard and we begin to turn on one another. A marriage without God is like an airplane that loses its wings.
@wolf175 Come on, man, that's so simple-minded and unfair. Some of the greatest commentators on baseball never actually played the game, and some of the best military historians and tacticians were never soldiers. Attend, please, to the arguments I'm making and judge whether they're true or false. That's all that matters. And I could introduce you to lots of married people who would much rather go to a priest for counselling, precisely because he's more objective.
I will add, thank you God for people like you who knows the word of God and who knows how to help others understand it. I am not even Catholic but you make sense and I am so glad to have found you. You have guided me in my search for the true loving God.
I'm a Catholic and am engaged to be married next year. Fr Barron, though your answer is a standard answer to "Why do you wish to be married in a Catholic Church?", your answer is very strong and true. I want to find the fullness in my eventual marriage, and this continues to help me direct myself to God rather than just the two of us. Great work Fr Barron. Hope your talks in World Youth Day will be recorded and reposted on TH-cam.
Thank God for this message. as a person who was molested as a child, I never liked the thought of marriage because I had problems accepting motherhood. As a christian, cohabiting was not an option. I bought my copy of Three To Get Married early this year. I read and prayed. I read and prayed. I read and prayed. God is faithful. I got a new mind on the subject of marriage. Marriage is not about me, it is about God's purposes. Oh, might I add that I am not catholic; however, I cannot begin to explain the impact of teachings such as yours, and Ven. Sheen's on my life. Thank you, and keep doing what you do.
Thank you! This is how to build a lasting relationship! Living it for the last 14 years and on into the future. Us Millennials as a group need to take note! 💪
Thank you, Bishop Barron, for your useful and interesting videos. It was actually by watching a video you posted about relationships that I joined a Catholic dating agency and met my beautiful wife! I hope and pray that your wonderful work may continue, and that many others may benefit. God bless.
I absolutely agree!!! Thanks!!! That’s the story of me and my husband. We met in the beautiful United States. We met our Transcendent third. And together, the three of us have raised 8 children, and 2 more that are waiting for us in Heaven. God bless you, bishop Pray for us 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Gosh I just feel blessed so much every time I listen to a new video by Fr. Barron. I am thankful to God so much for all the articles, videos, sermons the Holy Spirit has put in his pastoral work. Thank You Jesus, Thank you Father Barron. Bob, Jerusalem Palestine
Exactly what you are saying in this vedio is what I told a young couple just a week ago, I refered them to Jesus words, Met10:37, God's will between the two has to come first before our own wills, in saying we have to love Him more than the other partner He is not taking anything away, but in loving Him more He teaches us how to better love our partners more than we did the first time.
Beautiful for sure. If only I suppose had come to know this truth, say 50 years ago. But, alas, today is more beautiful because I can see how much more this truth means. The sky has become more clear. May his Grace and Peace be with you FRB/BRB!
I greatly appreciated this synthesis Father. It certainly resonates with my seventeen years experience of marriage. Greetings to all from New Zealand and the peace of Christ on us all.
God Bless Married in Church for 22 years this coming June. Jesus is Center of our Marriage. Amen. And we rare in love every day with HIM and with Each Other and make a difference. in the world.
Your are right Father, when I got married 12 yrs ago, I never thought of all these, although my spouse and I are very much imperfect, but we compromise and came back forcefully with God's help, in prayer and penance, then everything went back to "order" our marriage was convalidated (2010 Divine mercy Sunday)in Catholic church in obedience to the Priest in the confessional and it brought us so much peace in our life, through marriage in 4 because we consecrate our marriage to the Mother Mary.
So wonderful to hear this in a nutshell, even though we've read Fulton Sheen's book many years ago, it rings true again when our children are at a marriageable age. this is easy to share!
Bishop Barron this is GOOD NEWS! Thank you sooo much, now I can continue to pray for my future husband for him to fall in love with God, Mama Mary so we both can relate and understand in God and each other! Awesome!♥️😊✨✨
I think God should be involved in every marriage. Remember when Jesus went to a wedding at Cana with his mother, his apostles and his mother Mary said, "They have no more wine." And Jesus said to her, "Why does this concern you. My hour has not yet come." And eventually he did. He had 6 water jars filled up and he turned the water into wine. He saved the wedding ceremony. His mother Mary also said, "Do whatever he tells you." As for me, I have a girlfriend that I seriously love and she is determined to marry me. And if I do this right, I have to find her ring size and make sure it's not sterling silver because she's allergic. And plus I have tell my mom about and her parents too. So if anyone sees this comment, please only positive feed back.
So true! When my ex and I were praying together, were loving God together, I felt like we were so strong and our relationship could endure. But when I fell away, that's when everything crumbled.
A wonderful advice on marriage Father. This video would have been a great addition to our topic today which was about family and relationships. The transcendent third and God's role on that between the couples, that's kinda a new thing for me. Something worth remembering.
It is a covenant and not a contract. It's a higher standard. It is a commitment to love another more than one's self. Losing the ego will provide the ultimate freedom.
After dating and getting nowhere I finally asked God to help me find a good Christian man. I met my husband and didn't think he was the one but once I could see that he too was a believer I really fell for him. We are happily married and continue to believe in God.
Excellent video, Father! And it resonates very deeply with me. We attended a pre-Cana program that had Three to Get Married as it's theme and it was incredibly beneficial, accurate and life-changing.
You're right. They should. The translation even uses smoother words to describe this give and take relationship which sounds slightly abrupt in the english translation.The quote in the bible you originally mentioned is emphasizing that 1 member of a heterosexual relationship should never use dishonest means to withhold from his or her spouse. This is one of the few quotes from the bible I agree with.
continued- it has multiple manifestations. Those called to marriage find that answering this vocational call empowers them to do God's work more joyfully and abundantly. As Father Barron has reminded us continually, love is not an emotion or passion, but a response of the will, willing the good of the other as other. Homosexuals, as well as Heterosexuals, are call equally to the vocation of Married life, a life that glorifies God in togetherness.
you just agreed with fr. when you said "friends have shared interests." In christian marriage, this shared interest isnt a something, it is a someone(God).
I admit that I am single Practicing Catholic not in a relationship but have lots of friends and I am perfectly happy.. I think Fr. Barren is correct in saying Love alone will not hold a Marriage together I have seen to many try and fail because Love alone is not enough. common sense
Respond to this video... But all of this is much ado about nothing! If I'm making a valid point about marriage (and you agree that I am), then why does anyone care whether it's a celibate man who's making it?
Catholic Church gives more important to the marriage and relationship one of my Friend who was having relationships with a Protestant guy who proposed her..and their relationship continued he used talk to her about God and promises she thought dat he is very spiritual and kind later on after he got a better proposal from a rich girl he married to a Protestant girl...sad thing he told my Friend dat she is not faithful coz of dat she cannot please got and she couldn’t get married to him.. Is there anything like dis Bishop Barron can God promise and can’t do it???
I want to get married, but religious counseling is needed for both of us. We are both Catholic, but we see the church from two entirely different perspectives. All I can do is pray to our Lord that our beliefs come together for the greater good.
I am not devout Catholic, I just watched the video again, and re read my comment from 5 months ago, basically what i get from this is: "IF the ideology, WHATEVER that may be, is STRONG enough, AND the SAME, THEN it will last." As he basically summarizes at the end of video starting at 5:24. He bills it as it has to be centered around God, 'the third' has to be that, & I am saying that it is the principle, that can help make it easier, it does not specifically HAVE to be God.
@Trev S God provides us with all good things as He shepherds us through this fallen, broken, lost world. Sometimes He puts us through the fire to refine us. This world is the obstacle course we must all negotiate, walking by faith and not by sight. We don't curse God because of how much this world is suffering. We accept this suffering world for what it is because our final destination is so much brighter than this current darkness.
I think the idea of the "Transcendent Third" is the key to understanding the love of the Trinity as a perfect divine love, as opposed to a binitarian understanding of God.
Return to our 1st Love and ask God who He wants you to be one with anorher to share His fulness of love wirh to draw others into His family, the church!
@powderdd I can't imagine the goal of becoming truly one with the will of God leading to anything besides real, eternal happiness. As such, the two goals are synonymous.
friendships rooted in 'something' deeper than themselves are more meaningful, and longer lasting. I think you can probably (maybe not?!?) see the logic in my comment. it clearly doesnt only apply to marriage. christian friendship is rooted in 'someone (God)' as i said, you proved Fr. Barron's point. enough said really.
To get married in a Catholic church is to celebrate the incarnation of God's love in the Catholic Church.....presumably they have experienced God's love through Christ before marriage ...not through Aristotle.
When I realised I loved my wife and wanted to be with her for the rest of my life - that was the moment when I became "married". You could say the sun went down one evening and in the morning when I woke up I was married. "Marriage" in it's more usual definition to me is just a ceremony of public advertising. It is primarily a way of just telling the rest of the world what I already knew. It is also a good time for a party and for the women to buy new hats but the essence remains that it is an "after the Lord Majors Show" event - if you see what I mean. In no way did the ceremony of marriage change or add or create anything that I didn't already know.
FaithandReason101 In the English language, words do change meaning. We often re-define the meaning of words. Many new words are also added to the English language every year. Isn't it wonderful then how our language develops as do our thoughts and morals - unlike the Catholic Church...."Yeah, let it be known that the word "marriage" shall meaneth and only meaneth ... blah, blah, blah blah, blah").
Thank you somuch Father Barron. Your video's seem to touch upon all the topics in which I engage daily with many other social circles I'm involved in. On this topic particularly I'm wondering if you might give me a little better insight with my situation. I found your comment at the end stating to, 'find someone that is as in love with (God's) purpose as you are,' to be the BEST find indeed. I'm wondering if someone found that isn't in love with that purpose or moreso repelled by the...
@12aug96 Check Nichomachean Ethics, 1156b, starting about 7 lines in. Also 1157b, about 30 lines in. The virtuous friendships which he describes are the only ones that include this transcendent third, or "the good without qualification."
Advice on my vow to say no to every woman save one from a person who has taken a vow to say no to every woman save none? I'd say we share something in common about which a priest has keen insight. And as a leader of my family's "domestic church," I think a priest has words of advice to offer to me in that area, too.
@zztstenglish Do a Google search for "77 non-religious reasons" to find a link to the arguments you're looking for. They come from The Ruth Institute, which, if I might add, has a great podcast (called "Ruth Institute Podcast") that is very intelligible and covers every bit of territory on the same-sex marriage debate.
Except that, a divorce may allow both individuals to move on in their lives in a healthy, positive and productive way, instead of remaining in a miserable situation which is simply wrong, and is unhealthy, negative and unproductive. And the only grave sin would be to waste your life in a mutually miserable, and mutually wrong, situation, whereby neither individual may aspire to something good.
No, if you married the first then this is the mate God intended you to be with. What if you find fault in the second and you think the next is the one God wanted you to be with, and the next and the next etc. Bear in mind that one can get an anullment of your marriage this means that your 'marriage' is voided- in other words marriage in the catholic sense never took place. In this case you would be free to enter into your first marriage. For instance, if one was forced to marry one is free.
@ARShadduck Would you be okay with the Church openly recognizing marriages between 3 or more people? How about between adults and children? Or between family members? Each of these scenarios could also claim "The Church is discriminating against us even though we love each other". There is a reason marriage has been the way it's been (that is, between one man and one woman) for thousands of years - and it's not just because two (or more) people claim that they are "in love" with each other.
To the contrary; a man and a woman who marry are not establishing a marriage in principle, but a fully actual marriage, whether they can have, or do not intend to have, children.
yes, I can understand what you mean. To refine my question what I am asking is men are asked to 'serve' their wives (as Christ did the church) and women are meant to 'submit' to their husbands. I am asking why use different words, what is it about a womens submission that is different to a mans service? Shouldn't husbands and wives both submit and serve each other? Or am I missing something?
In regards to Dillons question above, if he consented to marry a women, with no deceit involved then he is bound to that women and divorce would be a grave sin.
I do love his talks they are very profound. I commented above as I though maybe my question wasn't specific enough. I know it is bad for men to dominate women etc. but what does submission mean when we compare it to service? (see my comment above if thatdoesn't make sense)
@wolf17500 That was helpful in making me realize why it was a stupid comparison. How about another one? The last time I checked psychologists do not have to be married to provide marriage counseling.
In the case of annulment there would be no marriage to begin with. An annulment means marriage never took place although one might have gone through courts it is not recognised by the church.
I agree with his theory on God involved in the marriage yes. God comes first. But most other religious denominations getting married in their church believe the same. Justice of Peace is just a cold sort of like a legal ceremony. God is not even mentioned.
Fr Barron, can you please explain why the CH is not clear on Marriage being between a man and a woman. You talk about" two friends", which could be same sex couples. Catholics are confused because priests don't speak-up on issues like marriage and abortion. My fellow RC say, "my priest doesn't say anything, and I don't see it in the Bible, so it must be OK". Please be direct, like Christ was direct with the merchants in the Temple.
Too often at the end of our lives in marriage, there is a shared common purpose of dedication to the children produced by that marriage. Suddenly when the children grow up and leave the nest. You are left looking at a stranger who no longer has any use for you. Many couples out of force of habit stay together and live the lie that their marriage has become simply because it is easier than confronting the reality of the fraud their relationship has become until there is no escaping the fact that the relationship has become vacuous and the divorce inevitably ensues. The church, however, makes getting an annulment very difficult and when the marriage has become untenable and breaks because it has become loveless and dysfunctional are made sinners if they find the love that no longer exists in the marriage with someone else. What is gained by the church forcing a marriage to continue when it is obvious the relationship is dead. In my own case after 25 years of marriage, My then wife decided to bring her chihuahua into our marital bed, I objected and she rolled over got in my face, and said tough shit it was then I decided to fade to black and filed for divorce the following week. If I found someone else subsequently that valued my company I would be considered living in sin by the church, unless the church decided to annul the marriage. what I am I missing in the church's insistence that the marriage continues to exist and I would be an adulterer if I had a relationship with someone else. I would prefer not to live alone but I also don't want to disappoint my god.
Married 12 years and I fully endorse Bishop Barron's message. To the extent my wife and I place God first in our lives, our marriage is like experiencing Heaven on earth. In the times we fail to put God first, life can get very hard and we begin to turn on one another. A marriage without God is like an airplane that loses its wings.
Well said!♥️
Awesome comment!
Thanks to both of you. I will pray for you.
@wolf175 Come on, man, that's so simple-minded and unfair. Some of the greatest commentators on baseball never actually played the game, and some of the best military historians and tacticians were never soldiers. Attend, please, to the arguments I'm making and judge whether they're true or false. That's all that matters. And I could introduce you to lots of married people who would much rather go to a priest for counselling, precisely because he's more objective.
I will add, thank you God for people like you who knows the word of God and who knows how to help others understand it. I am not even Catholic but you make sense and I am so glad to have found you. You have guided me in my search for the true loving God.
I'm a Catholic and am engaged to be married next year. Fr Barron, though your answer is a standard answer to "Why do you wish to be married in a Catholic Church?", your answer is very strong and true. I want to find the fullness in my eventual marriage, and this continues to help me direct myself to God rather than just the two of us. Great work Fr Barron. Hope your talks in World Youth Day will be recorded and reposted on TH-cam.
Thank God for this message. as a person who was molested as a child, I never liked the thought of marriage because I had problems accepting motherhood. As a christian, cohabiting was not an option. I bought my copy of Three To Get Married early this year. I read and prayed. I read and prayed. I read and prayed. God is faithful. I got a new mind on the subject of marriage. Marriage is not about me, it is about God's purposes. Oh, might I add that I am not catholic; however, I cannot begin to explain the impact of teachings such as yours, and Ven. Sheen's on my life. Thank you, and keep doing what you do.
Amen praise to be to God Almighty! I hope to get the wisdom as u on this matter.
Thank you! This is how to build a lasting relationship! Living it for the last 14 years and on into the future. Us Millennials as a group need to take note! 💪
I wish I had this knowledge before I got married.
It's in the Nichomachean Ethics, in the section on friendship.
This explanation of why a couple should want to marry in the Catholic Church is beautiful.
Thank you, Bishop Barron, for your useful and interesting videos. It was actually by watching a video you posted about relationships that I joined a Catholic dating agency and met my beautiful wife! I hope and pray that your wonderful work may continue, and that many others may benefit. God bless.
I absolutely agree!!! Thanks!!! That’s the story of me and my husband. We met in the beautiful United States. We met our Transcendent third. And together, the three of us have raised 8 children, and 2 more that are waiting for us in Heaven.
God bless you, bishop
Pray for us 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Gosh I just feel blessed so much every time I listen to a new video by Fr. Barron. I am thankful to God so much for all the articles, videos, sermons the Holy Spirit has put in his pastoral work. Thank You Jesus, Thank you Father Barron.
Bob, Jerusalem
Palestine
Exactly what you are saying in this vedio is what I told a young couple just a week ago, I refered them to Jesus words, Met10:37, God's will between the two has to come first before our own wills, in saying we have to love Him more than the other partner He is not taking anything away, but in loving Him more He teaches us how to better love our partners more than we did the first time.
Thank you, Fr. Barron. This interview gave me light and tear at the same time. Much truth in it. Thanks!
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -Socrates
This made me laugh....because its true.
Getting married in the Catholic Church in 10 days - thank you for this, Bishop Barron! That book by Fulton Sheen is on my to-read list.
Beautiful for sure. If only I suppose had come to know this truth, say 50 years ago. But, alas, today is more beautiful because I can see how much more this truth means. The sky has become more clear. May his Grace and Peace be with you FRB/BRB!
I greatly appreciated this synthesis Father. It certainly resonates with my seventeen years experience of marriage. Greetings to all from New Zealand and the peace of Christ on us all.
This is great! and thanks God it has subtitles in Spanish!! It will be very useful in our prayer groups. Thanks a million
God Bless Married in Church for 22 years this coming June. Jesus is Center of our Marriage. Amen. And we rare in love every day with HIM and with Each Other and make a difference. in the world.
Your are right Father, when I got married 12 yrs ago, I never thought of all these, although my spouse and I are very much imperfect, but we compromise and came back forcefully with God's help, in prayer and penance, then everything went back to "order" our marriage was convalidated (2010 Divine mercy Sunday)in Catholic church in obedience to the Priest in the confessional and it brought us so much peace in our life, through marriage in 4 because we consecrate our marriage to the Mother Mary.
Thank you so much, Bishop Barron! I'm so grateful.
W O W! Words of Wisdom!
Mich Elle thank u
Beautiful! I agree wholeheartedly. God Bless you!
Excellent - so true. Well done Fr Barron!
So wonderful to hear this in a nutshell, even though we've read Fulton Sheen's book many years ago, it rings true again when our children are at a marriageable age. this is easy to share!
Bishop Barron this is GOOD NEWS! Thank you sooo much, now I can continue to pray for my future husband for him to fall in love with God, Mama Mary so we both can relate and understand in God and each other! Awesome!♥️😊✨✨
THE PERFECT REASONS!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU FATHER BARRON!!!!!!!!!!GOD's blessing to you!
This was SO good. Thank you, Bishop Barron!
I think God should be involved in every marriage. Remember when Jesus went to a wedding at Cana with his mother, his apostles and his mother Mary said, "They have no more wine." And Jesus said to her, "Why does this concern you. My hour has not yet come." And eventually he did. He had 6 water jars filled up and he turned the water into wine. He saved the wedding ceremony. His mother Mary also said, "Do whatever he tells you." As for me, I have a girlfriend that I seriously love and she is determined to marry me. And if I do this right, I have to find her ring size and make sure it's not sterling silver because she's allergic. And plus I have tell my mom about and her parents too. So if anyone sees this comment, please only positive feed back.
I love only one. Three is one too many.
So true! When my ex and I were praying together, were loving God together, I felt like we were so strong and our relationship could endure. But when I fell away, that's when everything crumbled.
I love you, bishop Barron... May God bless you
A wonderful advice on marriage Father. This video would have been a great addition to our topic today which was about family and relationships. The transcendent third and God's role on that between the couples, that's kinda a new thing for me. Something worth remembering.
It is a covenant and not a contract. It's a higher standard. It is a commitment to love another more than one's self. Losing the ego will provide the ultimate freedom.
After dating and getting nowhere I finally asked God to help me find a good Christian man. I met my husband and didn't think he was the one but once I could see that he too was a believer I really fell for him. We are happily married and continue to believe in God.
This has been and always will be true. A life of the sacraments is a calling to a higher purpose of love.
Excellent video, Father! And it resonates very deeply with me. We attended a pre-Cana program that had Three to Get Married as it's theme and it was incredibly beneficial, accurate and life-changing.
Fr., I wish you would speak at my Church in Bergen. NY. Fr. Ken spoke of you in the Easter Homily. (St. Bridget's)
Thank you father! as always it has been an enlightened powerful message
I going take next few days focus back on prayer sessions yes my old and my mother who’s 82?caught covert ❤
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You're right. They should. The translation even uses smoother words to describe this give and take relationship which sounds slightly abrupt in the english translation.The quote in the bible you originally mentioned is emphasizing that 1 member of a heterosexual relationship should never use dishonest means to withhold from his or her spouse. This is one of the few quotes from the bible I agree with.
Bravo! on the Spanish subtitles. More people will have a chance to hear/see your commentaries.
You are such an awesome speaker Father. Thank you.
Thank you for the great advice, Father! I hope to practice this in my future relationship
continued- it has multiple manifestations. Those called to marriage find that answering this vocational call empowers them to do God's work more joyfully and abundantly. As Father Barron has reminded us continually, love is not an emotion or passion, but a response of the will, willing the good of the other as other. Homosexuals, as well as Heterosexuals, are call equally to the vocation of Married life, a life that glorifies God in togetherness.
thats the best advice i have ever heard! 😊👍you wont learn it in most love movies..love drama tv..
a like it, very true!!! thats why most people have failed marriage and relationship they always centered on emotions....👍😊
you just agreed with fr. when you said "friends have shared interests." In christian marriage, this shared interest isnt a something, it is a someone(God).
I admit that I am single Practicing Catholic not in a relationship but have lots of friends and I am perfectly happy..
I think Fr. Barren is correct in saying Love alone will not hold a Marriage together I have seen to many try and fail because Love alone is not enough. common sense
Personal experience isn't everything, but it helps. A lot.
Respond to this video... But all of this is much ado about nothing! If I'm making a valid point about marriage (and you agree that I am), then why does anyone care whether it's a celibate man who's making it?
Catholic Church gives more important to the marriage and relationship one of my Friend who was having relationships with a Protestant guy who proposed her..and their relationship continued he used talk to her about God and promises she thought dat he is very spiritual and kind later on after he got a better proposal from a rich girl he married to a Protestant girl...sad thing he told my Friend dat she is not faithful coz of dat she cannot please got and she couldn’t get married to him.. Is there anything like dis Bishop Barron can God promise and can’t do it???
I want to get married, but religious counseling is needed for both of us. We are both Catholic, but we see the church from two entirely different perspectives. All I can do is pray to our Lord that our beliefs come together for the greater good.
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I am not devout Catholic, I just watched the video again, and re read my comment from 5 months ago, basically what i get from this is: "IF the ideology, WHATEVER that may be, is STRONG enough, AND the SAME, THEN it will last." As he basically summarizes at the end of video starting at 5:24.
He bills it as it has to be centered around God, 'the third' has to be that, & I am saying that it is the principle, that can help make it easier, it does not specifically HAVE to be God.
Thank you for explaining "reason/s" for a Catholic marriage. wonderful video.
@Trev S
God provides us with all good things as He shepherds us through this fallen, broken, lost world. Sometimes He puts us through the fire to refine us. This world is the obstacle course we must all negotiate, walking by faith and not by sight. We don't curse God because of how much this world is suffering. We accept this suffering world for what it is because our final destination is so much brighter than this current darkness.
Love this!
The Aristotle reference doesn't work. He was talking about a third that comes into existence from the friendship.
Man, that is the best explanation ever thank you soo much!!
You are absolutely wonderful. Thank you so very much:)
I want this, Father Barron
I think the idea of the "Transcendent Third" is the key to understanding the love of the Trinity as a perfect divine love, as opposed to a binitarian understanding of God.
I belong to the syro malankara rite of the church..our liturgy explains the love relation between the church and god in the sacrament of marriage.
...looking for love in too many faces
The way I see, the Third is the eye witness, high priest, chancellors, guardian, peace maker, provider, life support of the relationship.
Return to our 1st Love and ask God who He wants you to be one with anorher to share His fulness of love wirh to draw others into His family, the church!
Well done Bishop 🙏🙏
Every Catholic parent should have their son/daughter watch this.
@powderdd I can't imagine the goal of becoming truly one with the will of God leading to anything besides real, eternal happiness. As such, the two goals are synonymous.
@wolf175 a priest takes the church as his bride, so he is married. Some priests even where a wedding ring.
friendships rooted in 'something' deeper than themselves are more meaningful, and longer lasting. I think you can probably (maybe not?!?) see the logic in my comment. it clearly doesnt only apply to marriage. christian friendship is rooted in 'someone (God)' as i said, you proved Fr. Barron's point. enough said really.
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To get married in a Catholic church is to celebrate the incarnation of God's love in the Catholic Church.....presumably they have experienced God's love through Christ before marriage ...not through Aristotle.
Aristotle's teaching is being used as a starting point to further understand the Catholic teaching
keep trucking
When I realised I loved my wife and wanted to be with her for the rest of my life - that was the moment when I became "married". You could say the sun went down one evening and in the morning when I woke up I was married. "Marriage" in it's more usual definition to me is just a ceremony of public advertising. It is primarily a way of just telling the rest of the world what I already knew. It is also a good time for a party and for the women to buy new hats but the essence remains that it is an "after the Lord Majors Show" event - if you see what I mean. In no way did the ceremony of marriage change or add or create anything that I didn't already know.
good thing words do have meaning, and we do not all make up our own definitions for words...oh wait...i think that is exactly what you are doing.
FaithandReason101 In the English language, words do change meaning. We often re-define the meaning of words. Many new words are also added to the English language every year. Isn't it wonderful then how our language develops as do our thoughts and morals - unlike the Catholic Church...."Yeah, let it be known that the word "marriage" shall meaneth and only meaneth ... blah, blah, blah blah, blah").
This is REALLY precious: A man, who was never married, talking about marriage.
Thank you somuch Father Barron. Your video's seem to touch upon all the topics in which I engage daily with many other social circles I'm involved in.
On this topic particularly I'm wondering if you might give me a little better insight with my situation. I found your comment at the end stating to, 'find someone that is as in love with (God's) purpose as you are,' to be the BEST find indeed. I'm wondering if someone found that isn't in love with that purpose or moreso repelled by the...
@12aug96 Check Nichomachean Ethics, 1156b, starting about 7 lines in. Also 1157b, about 30 lines in. The virtuous friendships which he describes are the only ones that include this transcendent third, or "the good without qualification."
Je baat!
Advice on my vow to say no to every woman save one from a person who has taken a vow to say no to every woman save none? I'd say we share something in common about which a priest has keen insight. And as a leader of my family's "domestic church," I think a priest has words of advice to offer to me in that area, too.
@zztstenglish Do a Google search for "77 non-religious reasons" to find a link to the arguments you're looking for. They come from The Ruth Institute, which, if I might add, has a great podcast (called "Ruth Institute Podcast") that is very intelligible and covers every bit of territory on the same-sex marriage debate.
Except that, a divorce may allow both individuals to move on in their lives in a healthy, positive and productive way, instead of remaining in a miserable situation which is simply wrong, and is unhealthy, negative and unproductive. And the only grave sin would be to waste your life in a mutually miserable, and mutually wrong, situation, whereby neither individual may aspire to something good.
Great video
247 - Jesus Speaks to Valeria of Matrimony, and Divorce
Books, Sophia ; Valtorta, Maria . The Poem of the Man-God (p. 632). Kindle Edition.
Unfortunately, our current culture encourages selfishness. Divorce is that kind of horrible selfishness.
No, if you married the first then this is the mate God intended you to be with. What if you find fault in the second and you think the next is the one God wanted you to be with, and the next and the next etc. Bear in mind that one can get an anullment of your marriage this means that your 'marriage' is voided- in other words marriage in the catholic sense never took place. In this case you would be free to enter into your first marriage. For instance, if one was forced to marry one is free.
@ARShadduck Would you be okay with the Church openly recognizing marriages between 3 or more people? How about between adults and children? Or between family members? Each of these scenarios could also claim "The Church is discriminating against us even though we love each other". There is a reason marriage has been the way it's been (that is, between one man and one woman) for thousands of years - and it's not just because two (or more) people claim that they are "in love" with each other.
To the contrary; a man and a woman who marry are not establishing a marriage in principle, but a fully actual marriage, whether they can have, or do not intend to have, children.
yes, I can understand what you mean. To refine my question what I am asking is men are asked to 'serve' their wives (as Christ did the church) and women are meant to 'submit' to their husbands. I am asking why use different words, what is it about a womens submission that is different to a mans service? Shouldn't husbands and wives both submit and serve each other? Or am I missing something?
Amen
In regards to Dillons question above, if he consented to marry a women, with no deceit involved then he is bound to that women and divorce would be a grave sin.
I do love his talks they are very profound. I commented above as I though maybe my question wasn't specific enough. I know it is bad for men to dominate women etc. but what does submission mean when we compare it to service? (see my comment above if thatdoesn't make sense)
@wolf17500 That was helpful in making me realize why it was a stupid comparison. How about another one? The last time I checked psychologists do not have to be married to provide marriage counseling.
In the case of annulment there would be no marriage to begin with. An annulment means marriage never took place although one might have gone through courts it is not recognised by the church.
Or going at Convent! 😇😇😇
I agree with his theory on God involved in the marriage yes. God comes first. But most other religious denominations getting married in their church believe the same. Justice of Peace is just a cold sort of like a legal ceremony. God is not even mentioned.
Fr Barron, can you please explain why the CH is not clear on Marriage being between a man and a woman. You talk about" two friends", which could be same sex couples. Catholics are confused because priests don't speak-up on issues like marriage and abortion. My fellow RC say, "my priest doesn't say anything, and I don't see it in the Bible, so it must be OK". Please be direct, like Christ was direct with the merchants in the Temple.
Too often at the end of our lives in marriage, there is a shared common purpose of dedication to the children produced by that marriage. Suddenly when the children grow up and leave the nest. You are left looking at a stranger who no longer has any use for you. Many couples out of force of habit stay together and live the lie that their marriage has become simply because it is easier than confronting the reality of the fraud their relationship has become until there is no escaping the fact that the relationship has become vacuous and the divorce inevitably ensues. The church, however, makes getting an annulment very difficult and when the marriage has become untenable and breaks because it has become loveless and dysfunctional are made sinners if they find the love that no longer exists in the marriage with someone else. What is gained by the church forcing a marriage to continue when it is obvious the relationship is dead. In my own case after 25 years of marriage, My then wife decided to bring her chihuahua into our marital bed, I objected and she rolled over got in my face, and said tough shit it was then I decided to fade to black and filed for divorce the following week. If I found someone else subsequently that valued my company I would be considered living in sin by the church, unless the church decided to annul the marriage. what I am I missing in the church's insistence that the marriage continues to exist and I would be an adulterer if I had a relationship with someone else. I would prefer not to live alone but I also don't want to disappoint my god.
@wolf175 He has been married to the Church since he was ordained.
If I had it to do over, I would seek a relationship with someone of my faith. Ugg, why am I realizing this now??
+redmaj11 Work on what you have now, not on what you could have had. If there is one thing that God knows, it is how to transform relationships.