MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Recommended Resources
Podcasts
Wired to Love
What does real love look like? How do we live authentic love in our lives? Whether you are single, dating, married, or consecrated – loving well is the most important mission in our lives. Fr. Martin Connor, LC, is taking the podcast on the road to homes, colleges, parishes, and more.
Building Holy Families
Many families are in search for the “perfect” solution to building a happy and holy home. This podcast hopes to provide the tools to go on that journey of discovery. The solution can only be found by each family themselves. Fr. Jaime Lorenzo, LC, just hopes to guide you and accompany you along the journey. You’ll hear from him and many other guest speakers. It’s going to be a beautiful ride!
At Home Retreat Guide
Three Hearts: A Retreat Guide on the Sacrament of Marriage
This Retreat Guide can be watched, listened to, or read, at your convenience. It will help you strengthen your marriage and families as it opens your heart to receive new graces from God.
In the first meditation, we use the liturgical texts from the marriage ceremony to reflect deeply on God’s vision for marriage as an image of the Trinity.
In the second meditation, we reflect on same texts in light of every married couple’s threefold mission.
In the conference, we get practical in looking at attitudes and actions that can help married couples meet one of their biggest challenges – effective communication.
By creating the human family in his own image, God created every one of us with a vocation to love. So, if you are not yet married, this Retreat Guide is still for you too. It will help you keep an eye on the future, to prepare yourself to be the kind of spouse you really want to be. For those following a celibate vocation in some form of consecrated life, you too can benefit from this Retreat Guide in relation to your consecrated community, and the Church institution that you minister to.
Books
Reclaiming Love:
Connecting the Head and the Heart
by Fr. Martin Connor, LC
Reclaiming Love: Connecting the Head and the Heart is a book that presents a convincing pathway to educate ourselves in love as a total gift of self. Our very happiness depends on this love. Let’s dive deep and not be superficial – Love is way too important! Reclaiming Love offers you an excellent pathway to gather friends and talk “substance” about life!
The Dating Booklet
by Fr. Martin Connor, LC
The Dating Booklet is a modern dating manual for young adults seeking life-giving relationships based on the Gospel. See what wisdom young men and women are sharing from their dating experiences thus far.
Lessons from the Workshop of St. Joseph
by Fr. Daniel Brandenburg, LC
We can learn from St. Joseph’s life in 14 episodes drawn from Scripture in a manner that parallels the traditional devotion of the Stations of the Cross – the “Way of St. Joseph.” Lessons from the Workshop of St. Joseph identifies the fears Joseph faced during those stations, exploring a perspective no author or saint has ever systematically addressed.
Digital Documents
Download these digital documents to enjoy with a good cup of coffee. They are sure to enrich you in your vocation to love!
