Till Death Do Us Part?

Q - Why does marriage end once a spouse dies? Why is it not forever?

A - Thanks for the great question! We first have to explain what the Catholic Church teaches about the Sacrament of Matrimony, which we will call marriage.

Ephesians 5: 31-32 says:

"For this reason a man shall leave (his) father and (his) mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.

Human marriage is a reflection of the heavenly marriage between Christ and the Church. We can deduce from this that what we have on earth is nothing compared to what we will experience in heaven.

Also, the twofold purpose of marriage is the unity of the spouses and procreation = babies and bonding. Once in heaven these two are no longer needed, because the spouses will be perfectly bound together in Christ and there will be no more procreation. Thus, what marriage points toward - heaven - is found after death and therefore there is no need for marriage to continue forever.

There is also a difference in what happens in Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders. These three Sacraments give an indelible mark or character to the soul. They can only be received once. All the other Sacraments - Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, and Matrimony - do not give this mark and thus they can be received again. NOTE: in the case of matrimony it can only be received again by one spouse when the other has died and the bond of marriage has been broken by death.

It is better, therefore, to speak of the lifelong bond of marriage, rather than saying it is forever. As Jesus says, there will be no marriage in heaven between human spouses.

"On that day Sadducees approached him, saying that there is no resurrection They put this question to him, saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies without children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up descendants for his brother.' Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died and, having no descendants, left his wife to his brother. The same happened with the second and the third, through all seven. Finally the woman died. Now at the resurrection, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had been married to her." Jesus said to them in reply, "You are misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven." - Matt 22: 23-30

I hope this helps.

"Tell me, teacher." by Sarah Hayes

Today's gospel has so many beautiful lessons for us.  Lessons about forgiveness, humility, judgment, gratitude, and grace.  Yet as the gospel was read in mass, something new jumped out at me.  It was this little exchange between Jesus and Simon:

Jesus:               "Simon, I have something to say to you."

Simon:             "Tell me, teacher."

"Simon, I have something to say to you."  I can't help but wonder what Simon's interior dialogue was after that statement.  Often when someone says to me, "Sarah, I need to talk to you" my stomach flips a bit and my mind races as I think to myself, "Uh oh, what's wrong? What did I do? What is coming next?" 

Tonight I heard these words differently though.  "Simon, I have something to say to you."  As if Jesus was saying "Simon, this is important, please hear me." Or, "Simon, I love you, please let these words sink in and change you."  Or, "Simon, you're ready to learn this important lesson, so listen closely." 

As I sat in mass (and in the hours that followed) I couldn't help but wonder how many times God has said to me, "Sarah, I have something to say to you" . . . and I  have missed it. 

The times he has wanted to teach me some specific lesson (like Simon) but I was preoccupied with some other specific thing I was seeking an answer to.  The times he has wanted to simply say to me, "Sarah, I love you" but my mind was clouded with negativity and his voice drowned out by the words of shame, fear, and self-disappointment.  The times he has wanted to say to me, "Sarah, everything will be okay" but I was too busy to pray because . . . I was trying to make everything okay on my own. 

The times he has wanted to say to me something entirely new - about himself, about the way he created me, about my future, about our future (God and I) - and I've been looking back on old things.  The times he has wanted to point out to me something beautiful and I looked too long at the broken or the ugly.

"I have something to say to you."  He says this to each of us in prayer.  Yet so often we go to him, "Lord, I have something to say to you."  We go with a list of requests or desperate pleas.  We go to unload our weary restless minds, to get out what we have to say.  Of course neither of those are bad.  God wants to hear what we have to say and he can certainly handle whatever we unload.  But lets not miss the opportunity to hear what he desires to tell us. 

Simon didn't miss the opportunity.  "Tell me, teacher."  Sure, Simon jumped the gun and judged the woman who washed and kissed Jesus' feet.  But I can't help but see sincerity in his response, "Tell me, teacher."  He refers to Jesus as "teacher", aware Jesus has something to teach.  Perhaps also aware he himself has something to learn. 

In those words of Simon, I catch no hint of sarcasm or eye-rolling (as I might have, if they were my exasperated response, "Tell me, teacher.  What do you have to say?!").  I hear sincerity, openness, a willingness to listen, a genuine desire to learn from the teacher. 

I think in the upcoming days of this ordinary time, I will approach my prayer in an out of the ordinary way.  I'll first take time to hear the Lord say, "Sarah, I have something to say to you."  And I'll answer, "Tell me, teacher."

Happy Father's Day

10 Things Catholics DON'T Say

A while back, there was an internet trend of videos that had "stuff ____ say". Some were good, some were OK, some were really funny.

In the spirit of fun, I offer this list.

10 Things Catholics DON'T Say

1. Pope Francis sure seems to have the same style as all the other Popes, doesn't he?
2. We sure could use more jokes in the homilies around here!
3. I wonder how I could be added to the finance council?
4. As a visitor to this parish, I was hoping they would ask me to raise my hand!
5. About time! We haven't heard anything on stewardship in ages!!!
6. Don't you believe 2 Kings 2:23-24 has the answer to every question in life?
7. More meetings please!
8. So, we started out the youth night we a little Metallica to set the mood.
9. I have some gossip I would like to share with you.
10. I understand everything JPII ever wrote!

Got one? Leave a comment.

Pope Francis - Be Careful What You Say About Others

Something most of us need to work on.

What Love Looks Like

I, ___, take you, ___, to be my wife.
I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health.
I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.

I, ___, take you, ___, to be my husband.
I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health.
I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.

10 Things To Know About Marian Apparitions

10 Things To Know About Marian Apparitions

10 - A Marian apparition = when Mary is reportedly appearing to a person (or several people) in order to give a supernatural message from God. Generally, the apparitions are given names based on the location of the appearances (e.g. Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal)

9 - None are required to believe in Marian apparitions. They are considered "private revelations", even if approved by the Church as authentic. We are only bound to believe in public revelation that came from Jesus Christ and has been passed down to us through Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition - preserved by the Magisterium of the Church.

8 - Catholics are still free to believe in Marian apparitions, even though not required to. The Church may decide that an apparition is worthy of belief, but whether an individual truly does so or not, is left up to the individual.

7 - An authentic Marian apparition will never add or detract anything from the deposit of faith. Part of how an apparition is judged to be authentic or not is dependent on the content of the reported teaching - does it maintain orthodoxy with the teaching handed down from the Apostles?

6 - Generally speaking it takes many years for the Church to make a decision on an authentic apparition. Many non-authentic apparitions are easier to spot, but the Church sees no rush to approve any apparition. The process normally starts at the Diocesan level and may never even make it to the Vatican.

5 - Millions of pilgrims visit apparition sites annually. The most visited site is Guadalupe, which receives over 10 million visits a year. Lourdes and Fatima are the next most-visited.

4 - Stoking the fires of devotion to a non-approved apparition might not be a prudent thing to do. I know many good Catholics who have a devotion to non-approved apparitions. There is a good chance they might not be approved. If that happens, there is no good outcome for the devotees - either they believe the Church's decision is wrong or their faith in the apparition isn't valid.

3 - The purposes of apparitions is to enliven faith, for the purpose of conversion, and to give a needed message to God's people. Mary is the great facilitator for the one mediator (her son).

2 - False reports of apparitions can be for a number of reasons. They might be because of hoaxes, a mentally-ill person, or someone might fool themselves into believing they are truly seeing/hearing something they are not.

1 - Devotion to Marian apparitions may help strengthen your faith. Millions of people have come to a deeper love of Christ through devotion to his Blessed Mother's appearances around the world. They are great signs of God's loving care for his people and can emphasize a point of faith the world needs to hear at this time.


MARY PRAY FOR US!

LINKS OF INTEREST:
**Why do Catholics Pray To Saints?
**Can The Saints Hear Us?
**What is The Immaculate Conception?

Staying Catholic at a Non-Catholic University

The National Catholic Register interviewed several of us at St. Mary's for this article:

In his address to youth at World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002, Pope John Paul the Great said, "Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are."

Young Catholics at universities throughout the country extend this light by answering questions concerning the Catholic faith in Protestant and secular environments. Students from Baylor, Duke, Texas A&M and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) explained to the Register how they keep the faith in college.

At Duke University, just-graduated senior Amy Wigger said that faith was her priority, especially attending Sunday Mass. She tried to attend one daily Mass per week, maintained a daily prayer life and used resources the Duke Catholic Center had to offer.

"Making friends in the Catholic Center has proven an invaluable resource for my faith," said Wigger. "Having friends with whom to discuss my faith allowed me to grow in faith and holiness, in ways that have been both unexpected and beautiful."

Wigger added that peers regularly challenged her faith, but she considered these encounters as growing opportunities.

"Instead of looking at this as a bad thing, I try to welcome such challenges as opportunities to engage with my faith in a constructive manner," said Wigger. "It forces me to take my faith seriously and spend time learning how to defend it."

Marcel LeJeune, assistant director of campus ministry at Texas A&M, said the greatest test of faith he sees is the culture’s attack on young people.

"Our youth are taught relativism and utilitarianism on a broad scale," said LeJeune. "Too many Catholic leaders and parents let the culture have the upper hand. We need a renewal of evangelization and formation of disciples in our families and parishes."

St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M in College Station is home to one of the largest campus ministries in the country. Several students from St. Mary’s explained how they remain strong in faith at a public university.
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The Dos and Don’ts of Reading the Bible

We live in a world of dos and don’ts. We use them every day: Do brush your teeth. Don’t drive too fast. They seem to impact our lives from minute to minute. Our consciences, our faith, and our knowledge of the world help us manage all the dos and don’ts we encounter. This goes for our relationship with God as well. When reading and applying the Bible to our daily lives, a few simple dos and don’ts will help us bring the Bible more clearly into our daily lives.

DO: Read the Bible frequently, daily if possible.
DON'T: Let your Bible go unread today.
–This one is simple in principle and difficult in practice for many of us. An analogy may help. The Bible is commonly referred to as a love letter from God to his people, the church. But, what good is a love letter when it is rarely opened, read with anticipation, and absorbed into one’s heart and mind? We, as members of the church, as God’s beloved, should relish the opportunity to read God’s love letter one more time.

DO: Focus on the big-picture of the Bible.
DON'T: Get caught up in too many details.
–There is no doubt that some details are important. But, they can become distractions when we fail to see the bigger story of God coming to us.

DO: Read the Bible expecting to encounter God.
DON'T: Read the Bible to prove someone wrong.
–Reading the Bible is an opportunity to commune with God, who made us. It is a chance to find out about who we are made to be and to learn about the one who made us. It is not supposed to be a book of arguments that can be used against someone with whom we disagree. I know from first-hand experience the turmoil that can occur when we use the Bible as a weapon in an argument.

DO: Read the Bible slowly and prayerfully.
DON'T: Read the Bible for dos and don’ts.
–The Bible is not just a book of what we are to do and not do. It is a book about a relationship that God forms with each of us and His pursuit and forgiveness of us. So do read the Bible slowly and prayerfully seek to understand God’s word and live it in your everyday life.

DO: Stop reading when you are struck by a word or phrase.
DON'T: Chug right through until you reach the end.
–The first to reach the end of the next chapter doesn’t get a gold medal. If something affects you when reading Scripture, then stop and reflect on why it moved you.

DO: Use good solid Bible commentaries.
DON'T: Neglect reading the text of the Bible in favor of them.
–The point of using commentaries is to supplement one’s reading of the Bible, not to take the place of it.

DO: Get a good Bible.
DON'T: Get caught up in which translation is best.
–One of the more common questions Catholics ask is “which translation is best?” For most people, the best translation of the Bible is the one you read. However, there are different translations to explore, if that is your choice, with a range of choices. If you want a specific recommendation, I would recommend the RSV-Catholic Edition, and even more specific - the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible (although only the New Testament is complete so far)

DO: Make changes in your life when challenged by Scripture.
DON'T: Put the changes off for another time.
–Christ is the Great Doctor. Christ’s grace is the medicine He offers us. One avenue of receiving that grace is through reading and applying Scripture to our lives. If we fail to apply it, then it is as if we went to the doctor and were diagnosed with a disease (realized our need for God’s grace); were given a prescription and bought it (read the Bible); but then never took the medicine that could make us healthy again (failed to apply the Bible to our lives).

The Bible is a great gift from God to His people. May all of us take the time to unwrap the gift and share it with others by living it out.

--This article has also been published on Catholic Exchange--

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Tolerance Is NOT A Virtue!

"We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty - these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself. In fact, tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil. Likewise, democratic pluralism does not mean that Catholics should be quiet in public about serious moral issues because of some misguided sense of good manners. A healthy democracy requires vigorous moral debate to survive. Real pluralism demands that people of strong beliefs will advance their convictions in the public square — peacefully, legally and respectfully, but energetically and without embarrassment. Anything less is bad citizenship and a form of theft from the public conversation.”
-Archbishop Charles Chaput

Fr. Barron on the limits of tolerance:


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10 Reasons Why Pro-Lifers Will Eventually Win

Reason #1 - We have truth on our side. The pro-abortion crowd continues to come up with different arguments. Depending on who you talk to you might hear that babies are clumps of cells or even humans without rights of more developed persons. They are all over the place, because they don't have the objective truth about the human person and life.

Reason #2 - Death isn't attractive and doesn't sell. Who wants to be on the side of those that advocate for killing?

Reason #3 - Technology. Every time a new technology allows us to see babies more clearly or help them survive, we win. It seems every year the age of viability outside the mother's womb is getting earlier and earlier.

Reason #4 - We are out-babying the other side.
They think babies are a burden.
We see them as gifts from God.
Our numbers go up while their numbers go down.

Reason #5 - Women who have had abortions are speaking up and saying abortion wounds women.

Reason #6 - Women are starting to see through the lies sold to them by the pro-abortion crowd. Words have meaning. When those words carry lies, they cannot bring goodness or peace.

Reason #7 - Of the people who really care, the polls show an ever-growing pro-life sentiment in our culture.

Reason #8 - Former pro-abortion providers and workers, such as my friend, Abby Johnson, are now switching sides and speaking up.

Reason #9 - God is pro-life.
He created us after all. Christ was pro-life. Mary was pro-life. The Saints are pro-life.
So are you (most likely)!

Reason #10 - Positive loving passionate enthusiasm for the cause, as demonstrated below.

10 Reasons Free Contraception Is A Terrible Idea

10 Reasons Free Contraception Is A Terrible Idea

10 - The pill may cause chemical abortions by changing the lining of the uterus in a woman so that should a newly created child should be created by fertilization of a women's egg, the baby cannot implant into the uterus and is flushed out of the woman and killed. 

9 - It causes a multitude of side-effects. They include:

• Increased risk of cancer 
• Decreased libido 
• Weight gain 
• Blood Clots 
• Mood changes 
• Depression 
• Headaches 
• etc

8 - If you are responsible enough to have sex, you should be responsible enough for a baby. But, contraception tells us that sex and babies are two separate things. Thus, we have "accidental pregnancies" when someone uses contraception. No pregnancy is an "accident" because everything happened just as nature intended.

7 - Parents would be bypassed in order to get contraception to children. Another case of the government usurping the role of parents.

6 - The Bible says that fertility is a blessing. Contraception says fertility is a curse or a disease that we need to "fix" with a pill, shot, or implant. The first command given to both Adam and Eve is to "be fertile and multiply."

5 - Contraception does not help families or marriages. In fact, the divorce rate and the use of contraception mirror one another. But, when a couple uses Natural Family Planning the divorce rate is tiny and marriages are rated much better.

4 - Contraception makes a woman into an object. When a woman's fertility is seen as a bad thing, then the whole person is not respected. The woman is thought of as an object to be used for mere pleasure. Pope Paul VI predicted this outcome in his encyclical Humanae Vitae.

3 - Contraception fails and lulls people into a false sense of security. The only 100% proven way of not getting pregnant is abstinence. We see that the only proven way to reduce AIDS in Africa was a program in Uganda that focused on abstinence and faithfulness. Condoms and contraception have always failed.

2 - Natural Family Planning (NFP) is ALWAYS a better option. Check this out if you doubt it. Remember also that contraception became mainstreamed in our country after a marketing campaign by Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She wanted to rid the world of the "undesirables" by contracepting them out of existence. Many of her ideas on eugenics were used by the Nazis. Her history is scary. She is the mother of contraception (pardon the pun).

1 - To create life with God is the most powerful thing two people can do together. Sexuality is not just about pleasure. It is about real love, the bonding of the spouses, and the openness to life. Sexuality is so much more than our modern idea of it. Contraception perverts sex and leads to the "contraceptive mentality" that sex / love / babies are all separate (though sometimes related) things. We must fight this mentality and free contraception for all.

The Myth That Women Are To Blame For a Man's Lust

I read on another blog a metaphor for how men struggle with lust - due to women who dress immodestly. I think there is some merit to it. It goes something like this...

Women who are concerned with good health and exercise have to really struggle not to eat the chocolate (or other tempting food they like) which is sitting out on the counter. It takes all the will power a woman has to say no, stick to healthy habits, and put the chocolate aside. Now, imagine if someone followed you around every day, with chocolate, and offered it to you. Over time, your will power might break down, unless you were constantly vigilant. This is what it is like for a man struggling with lust due to women who dress immodestly.

While there is some merit to the analogy, I want to point out that if someone is following you around and tempting you there is always the St. Paul option (see Acts 16:18).

Second, It is a choice to say "yes" to the chocolate and allow the temptation to fester. The desire for chocolate is not the problem. It is what you do with that desire that is the problem.

Finally, women aren't generally following men around and tempting them. Rather, the man's eyes are wandering and the man needs to have more custody of them.

I have heard many excuses for the men who can't control their lust:

• "If she didn't dress that way, then she wouldn't be seen as an object."
• "Men can't control themselves when women dress so provocatively" 
• "Just boys being boys"
• Etc

This mentality is a lie. It is an "out" that we men sometimes wish we had so we didn't have to control ourselves. Yet, the fact is - LUST IS A CHOICE!

In order to be clear, let us define lust. Some think it is any sexual thought about someone else. It is not. Rather, lust is the entertainment of sexual desires for a selfish satisfaction.  Here is how JPII put it:

"Reducing the riches of the perennial call to communion of persons...to mere satisfaction of the sexual 'need' of the body."

In other words, lust is using another person sexually (whether they know it or not).
The Catechism says:

"2351 Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes."

So, lust isn't just a thought that pops into your brain without you choosing it. Rather, you take that thought, entertain it, and use it as your own. This makes the thought an act of your will - you choose it. If you don't take ownership of it, then you can't be forgiven nor can you start to work on real chastity.

So, regardless of a woman's ignorance, imprudence, lack of modesty, and bad choices - it is NEVER A WOMAN'S FAULT YOU CHOSE TO LUST AFTER HER!

Let me say it again - despite a woman's reckless behavior, lack of concern for your chastity, failure to show charity to her brother - the man who lusts is the one who is to blame for the lust.

This is not to say that women should wear immodest clothes (see this post for the argument against immodesty). In fact, immodesty can be sinful, just as lust is.

Rather, it is an argument that shifting the blame of a man's lust to women who dress in a certain manner is a lie. The truth is if we love our sisters, we men will step up and take responsibility for our choices and our need to work on self-control.

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Cheers

I wish more celebrities would use their influence in such a positive manner as Patrick Stewart does in this video:

Internet + Bathing Suits = Bad Idea

NOTE: This post was originally posted in the summer of 2011. It has received over 12,000 individual hits after being posted on several non-Catholic websites.

Something I never really wanted to post about, but feel I have to, because I don't think that young women quite understand the problem.

Yesterday when I logged onto Facebook, I had several pictures of college women in bathing suits, who are friends on Facebook, come up on my feed. In response, I posted the following on Facebook as my status:

A note to young women on Facebook, from a guy who works with young men struggling with pornography...you might look good in your bathing suit, but if you were able to see yourself through 20 year-old male eyes, which are struggling to see you as a human and not an object, you would never post that pic. Just a thought.

But, that isn't enough to describe what is going on. So, here is the science behind it all:

Researchers used brain scans to show that when straight men looked at pictures of women in bikinis, areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated.

Scans of some of the men found that a part of the brain associated with empathy for other people's emotions and wishes shut down after looking at the pictures.

Susan Fiske, a psychologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, said the changes in brain activity suggest sexy images can shift the way men perceive women, turning them from people to interact with, to objects to act upon.

I believe that most young women who post pics of themselves in bathing suits aren't looking to be objectified, but it is happening to them nonetheless. I hope this shows once again why modesty is a necessary virtue in our society today and it is an act of charity to your brothers-in-Christ to avoid immodest behavior, including posting pictures of yourself that are not modest.

Something else to think about. Once it is on the internet for a short time, it will most likely have a permanent copy in many other places that you cannot get rid of. In other words, you are leaving a permanent digital mark of yourself out there for the world to see.

A note for men - you are not off the hook for lusting after women because a woman dresses immodestly. There is no excuse for using a woman, regardless of how she might present herself. Your lust is your problem, not her problem. Her problem is immodesty.

I should add a note for the women - you would never have put on the bikini in the first place if you ever had 30 seconds behind those 20 year-old male eyes I describe above.

UPDATE: I forgot to post the history behind the bikini - I summarize it like this:
The modern bikini came from a Frenchman running a lingerie boutique. When he introduced it, he couldn't find a model to wear it so he hired a stripper. It was a hit with the guys and caught on.

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Don't Try To Fix Me

I am a fixer, so I really appreciate the message in this thought-provoking video.

Sneezing Caused By The Devil?

-"Achoo"
-"God Bless you"

Ever wonder why we pray for God's blessing after someone sneezes? One possible origin is that it comes from an ancient belief that a person's breath was the same as their soul. When God made Adam, He breathed life into him. Thus, a myth grew up around this belief that a sneeze was thought to rapidly send the life of a person out of them. When this life leaves, a vacuum is left which could be filled by evil spirits.

Another possible origin comes from the reign of Pope St. Gregory the Great. During his time, there was bubonic plague in the area. Thus, Gregory instituted the phrase "God bless you" as a way to ask for divine protection if one were to become sick or die.

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Then there is Yawning. Why do you cover your mouth when you yawn?

Some modern moms say it is because it is rude to yawn in front of others. While our culture may reflect this as the modern reason, it has a much more ancient origin.

Some French and English taught that yawning was an opportunity for the devil to enter your soul, thus you covered your mouth to bar his entrance. In Ireland, they would make the sign of the cross over their mouths while yawning. Still today, some Muslims believe this can happen when one yawns.

Now you know.

The Time To Live is Now!

"I want to be remembered as the kid who went down fighting and didn't really lose." -Zach Sobiech

What a story. It is long, but worth it.


Yesterday, on May 20, 2013 Zach died.
May he rest in peace.

Here is his song "Clouds":


Here is the celebrity video put together for Zach: