Our Archbishop, His Eminence,Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, is inviting all couples celebrating 50 years of marriage to a Golden Jubilee Wedding Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on June 1st at 2:30 PM. Please scroll down to the invitation below. If you’d like to attend, please contact the Parish Office (914-232-3356) by the end of the day on Monday, May 12th.
It’s commendable in this day and age to preserve a marriage! All of the additional communication devices at our fingertips can make it easier to get in touch and send a message of appreciation to your spouse. But what about a day when you feel out of sync? It’s all too easy for that same device to allow in an outsider with a sympathetic ear, and for the gate of temptation to crack open. If not held in check, the heart’s gate can swing wide open once unlatched, with a word of appreciation, or a laugh, from someone else’s phone. It may even begin in innocence and with genuine concern.
Guard your heart and your family. Couples, don’t be afraid to look for godly help and input from books on marriage, or counselors and clergy, or pro-marriage articles. Below is a link to a Catholic blog with helpful advice for couples, from other ordinary people “who’ve been there.” Here’s a relevant post on keeping resentment in check – no one is immune to resentment in long term relationships. But we can find healthy ways to deal with it and to try to pull the roots of it out of our family garden. We pray that all of our younger couples’ marriages will go the distance, to their 50th wedding anniversary and beyond!
Recipe for a Happy Marriage by St. Mary’s own special couple, the Rosses, made into video by Parish administrator, E.S.
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