The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) Day 224: The Grace of the Sacrament of Marriage (2025)
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Aug 12, 2025 The podcast explores the profound grace of the Sacrament of Marriage, emphasizing supernatural love between spouses. Fr. Mike discusses the essential characteristics of the marriage bond and the unique roles each partner plays. Listeners learn about the importance of mutual submission and how conjugal love requires faithfulness and an openness to fertility. Key themes include nurturing support within the family and embodying Christian values through unity and fidelity.
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Pray For Marriages
- Pray for married couples daily, asking God to clear distractions that cool love.
- Ask God to strengthen struggling marriages with patience, mercy, perseverance, and hope.
Marriage Bond Is Perpetual And Exclusive
- A valid Christian marriage creates a bond that is by nature perpetual and exclusive.
- Once consummated between baptized persons, this covenant becomes irrevocable and rests on God's fidelity.
Christ Dwells In Married Couples
- Christ dwells with Christian spouses and supplies supernatural strength for daily discipleship in marriage.
- He enables couples to rise after failure, forgive, bear burdens, and love tenderly and fruitfully.
