In the beginning

It started with discussions about why so many marriages are struggling.  Through many discussions, prayers and advice from other couples, we decided to start this blog.  Feel free to share it with people and spread the word.  Ministering to married couples is starting to feel like a new vocation or being on a mission. 

" I simply want to invite you, during this year that is beginning, to do everything you can for the married and family spirituality that you get from Teams to reach couples around you,"  said Fr. Caffarel, spiritual adviser to the TEAMS of our Lady, in October 1950.  "May it strengthen their union that is perhaps breaking up. May it reanimate their love and reveal to them the riches of their sacrament of marriage. May it help them also to know the joy and strength that comes from fraternal friendship between couples.

Are you short of the necessary ardor? Are you not aware to what extent the ambient culture in which they live threatens the Christian life and union of so many couples?"

Marriages have been struggling for centuries.  What has always been there for us is Christ.  As a person or a couple we need to seek His mercy, His healing and His power.  It is our prayer that through one another we can find a way to hear His word.

The purpose of this blog is to offer inspiration, advice and a friendly space.  The contributors are men and women that are trying to live out their vocation to marriage.  Some of these people have been married for almost 50 years, others for under 10 years.  Their perspectives will be uniquely their own and all of our writing will be from the heart.  I am thankful for the commitment from these contributors and I hope we can add more writers in the future.

"Do not tell me that there is nothing to be done,"  continues Fr. Caffarel.  "If you really care for all these threatened couples that are short of love and grace, you will know how to invent what needs to be done and you will persevere in your efforts. Inventiveness, perseverance, such are the qualities of missionaries. How numerous are the missionaries who struggle, preach and persevere for years without result! Well, yes indeed, be the missionaries of this married spirituality that gives you life.''

Quotations come from: Fr. Henri Caffarel - Monthly Letter of Equipes Notre Dame; October 1950.