Hello brothers and sisters in Christ,
This Thursday at Emmaus we will have Mike Day speaking with us about the sacrament of marriage. Mike is the Director of Marriage and Family Life at the Diocesan Center for Family Life,
http://www.dcfl.org/index.asp. How does the Church define marriage? What is it's purpose? What is the difference between natural marriage and sacramental marriage? How is marriage (and family) important to society? Come and learn the answers to these questions as well as others this Thursday! We will be in the Parish Family Center, Room 2A (the music room) at 7pm. You are welcome to join us for the Rosary at 6:30pm if you can. See you then!
In JMJ,
The Emmaus Core Team
Gen. 2:22-24 - "...and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1603 - "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws... God himself is the author of marriage." The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life."
