A Living Sacrament: A Home Book

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A Living Sacrament A Home Book

• Brings wisdom and prayer traditions of the Church
  to the couples new life together.

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A Living Sacrament A Home Book

• Unique feature that establishes the
  domestic Church, Living Sacrament
• brings wisdom prayer traditions of the
  Church to the couples new life together.

• provides a planning guide for the celebration of
  marriage, a tool for the liturgical preparation.
• continues to edify marriage aids the couple as
  primary educators of their children.

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Four Parts

• Sacrament
• Prayer
• Families Become What you Are
• The Wedding Liturgy

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Sacrament

• Matrimony
• Eucharist
• Penance

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Prayer

• Synthesis of Types of Prayer
• Practical recommendations
• Treasury of Prayers

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Families Become What You Are

• Family Life Education
• Evangelization
• Sharing the Mission of the Church

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The Wedding Liturgy

• Liturgical considerations
• Liturgy of the Word
• Customs

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Peter F. Ryan, S.J. Associate Professor of Moral
Theology, Mount St. Mary's Seminary ,Emmitsburg,
MD

• The authors realize that most couples in our
  culture who are preparing for marriage need to be
  re-evangelized, so they carefully place marriage
  in the context of God's overall plan of
  salvation.  
• Living Sacrament, for example, which I used in
  class, is designed to elicit a response of faith
  from couples and a desire to help each other and
  their children find eternal happiness.  
• In this volume as in the others, psychological
  insights complement the presentation of Church
  teaching in a very appealing presentation.

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A Living Sacrament A Home Book

• "I wish that this book will bring abundant fruits
  for people in their married and family life."
• Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo,
• President, Pontifical Council for the Family