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Married Love Can Be Beautiful

• A Recipe for Happiness in Marriage

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• Marriage honourable in all, and the bed
  undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God
  will judge.
• (Hebrews 13,4).

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1. Priorities

• What is the most important value
• in your life?
• Family
• Work
• Hobby
• Making Money
• Career
• Continuing Education
• Volunteer work
• Being active in your parish
• Business travel

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• All these things are important , but
• Because of God and because of the faith, MARRIAGE
  becomes the most important value from the wedding
  day through the rest of your life !!!

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• Our marriage is a work of art.
• Creation of a work of art from our marriage is
  our greatest task.
• Our marriage is the greatest pursuit of our
  lives
• The most important goal of our lives is the
  holiness of our marriage.
• Our marriage is our greatest investment.
• Happy marriage- What we want most.
• The road to happiness in marriage is always
  under construction.

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2. People Priorities

• Who is the most important person in your life?
• Your child (children)
• Your parents
• Your siblings
• Your friends at work
• Your parish priest
• Your friends from prayer group

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• All these people are important, but
• Because of God and because of the Faith, YOUR
  SPOUSE becomes the most important person from the
  wedding day through the rest of your life !!!

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3. Nurturing Married Love

• Love and infatuation are two separate things
• Infatuation does not depend on us. Love only
  depends on us.
• Infatuation is takings. Love is giving.
• Infatuation is without God. Love is only with God.

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3. Nurturing Married Love

• Love and infatuation are two separate things
• Infatuation does not depend on us. Love only
  depends on us.
• Infatuation is takings. Love is giving.
• Infatuation is without God. Love is only with God.

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3. Nourishment of Married Love

• Words
• Assurances of love
• Compliments
• Talking about your feelings
• Kindness
• Politeness
• My life without you would
• be meaningless.

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• B. Actions
• Patience, kindness, gentleness
• Hugs
• Listening with empathy
• Helpfulness
• Help in work
• Working together
• Time
• Long Walks
• Watching TV together
• Presents
• Going out to the movies,
• dancing or dinner

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• C. Marriage Rituals
• ( repeated, important to both spouses)
• Tender goodbyes
• Loving welcomes
• Talk and coffee
• Texting each other every day
• Shopping together
• Praying together
• Going to mass together

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4. Holiness of the marriage bed(operating
instructions)

• Owning a bed. Its the most important piece of
  furniture in marriage.
• Sleeping together
• Going to bed at the same time
• Couples prayer
• Chemical and pollutant free.

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5. Spiritual Foundation
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• Who answering, said to them Have ye not read,
  that he who made man from the beginning, Made
  them male and female? And he said
• For this cause shall a man leave father and
  mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they
  two shall be in one flesh.
• Therefore now they are not two, but one
  flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,
  let no man put asunder. (Mt 19, 4-6).

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• Couples Relationship with God
• Praying together just you and your spouse
• Assisting at mass together
• Wearing your wedding band
• Celebrating each wedding anniversary renewal of
  marriage vows.
• Unceasing prayer for the spouse
• Taking retreats together

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• Stability of Marriages Living the Faith
• American sociologist Mercedes Arzu Wilson
  researched various unions and their permanence .
• Civil union- one in two couples devorces -50,
• After a church wedding, without religious
  practices one in three couples - 33,
• After a church wedding, with weekly Sunday mass
  attened together. one in fifty- 2,
• After a church wedding, with weekly Sunday mass
  attened together and daily couples prayer one
  in 1429 couples, only 0,07..
• (Das Gebet, Schlüssel der Heiligkeit w DER FELS
  (Katholisches Wort in der Zeit) 11/2002, s.325,
  Rycerz Niepokalanej, no 556, September 2002, pg.
  289, Published in SPRAWACH RODZINY, no
  63-64/2003, pg. 164 )

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