The original covenant of love was initiated by God. God made that covenant with our spiritual ancestors and commits to that covenant with each one of us today.

In Jesus we have a God who knows our suffering, and this awareness brings consolation and compassion.

Family life, whether ancient or modern, rarely performs to the standards of its comforting advertising. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.

Two, indeed, had become one flesh, joined together by God, reunited in heaven.

Jesus put the Pharisees and his own disciples on notice that women and children rate full attention, dignity, and respect.

In any relationship you have to keep committing and recommitting as times and circumstances change and you come to know more about your partner and yourself.

We ask for blessing and forgiveness from the one for whom and through whom all things exist.

Oneness with God, who took on human flesh, and one another in marriage and in the Body of Christ—this is God’s plan for creation.

Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the repre-sentation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another.  —Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)