While on earth, our relationships may not be perfect and are not representative of what they will be like in heaven. But in heaven they will be perfected and come to truly reflect the love of God in all its glory.
Tag: marriage
Between Fear and Illusions, Only One Hope
A lack of understanding of heaven and God’s true nature led to the construing of a twisted idea of resurrection, one where there was a continuance of the base pleasures of this world. But the true resurrection is an entirely different reality in which one can hope to be completely detached from the things of the world and sublimely integrated with God.
Communion with the Lord: The only sublime end to every means
Everything we encounter here on earth must serve as a conduit to God, to union with his eternal love. Even our earthly marriage must serve as a reflection and preparation of this ultimate communion with God.
USJ to discuss new approach to couple’s therapy
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Education of the University of São José (USJ) will promote, on April 23rd, a public lecture on a new model of couple therapy, Congruence Couple Therapy. The talk will explore how congruence – the compatibility between husband and wife – can help treat and solve problems such as alcoholism, gambling addiction or mental health issues.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (160): What are the basic requirements to make a marriage work?
Marriage is a covenant for the sake of the husband and wife and their children (cf CCCC 338). Hence, it should have certain characteristics that guarantee the good of spouses and their offspring. These are: (1) unity; (2) indissolubility; (3) fidelity; and (4) openness to fertility and life (cf CCCC 495).
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (158) What elements are needed for a marriage to be valid?
The proximate matter is the mutual giving of the spouses to one another through matrimonial consent. What is matrimonial consent?
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (157) Who invented marriage?
It was neither society nor the Church that invented marriage. It was God who planned it, from the moment he created our first parents.