Fr. Z. reports that a SSM pressure group has lost its frivolous case against the bishops of MN. What horrible thing did the bishops do? Support the universally recognized notion that marriage consists of an unbreakable bond between one man and one woman!
Archbishop John Nienstedt has issued a prayer for marriage that every faithful Catholic should offer:
Heavenly Father,
Through the powerful intercession of the Holy Family, grant to this local Church the many graces we need to foster, strengthen, and support faith-filled, holy marriages and holy families.
May the vocation of married life, a true calling to share in your own divine and creative life, be recognized by all believers as a source of blessing and joy, and a revelation of your own divine goodness.
Grant to us all the gift of courage to proclaim and defend your plan for marriage, which is the union of one man and one woman in a lifelong, exclusive relationship of loving trust, compassion, and generosity, open to the conception of children.
We make our prayer through Jesus Christ, who is Lord forever and ever. Amen.
The prayer is downloadable in PDF format for easy printing and copying here.
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You know, one of the things I have hated about prayers post VatII is the way so many priests --especially when they extemporize or laypeople who do the same during the Prayer of the Faithful-- disguise a sermon or a tract as a prayer.
ReplyDeleteI have no beef with the Church's stand on marriage, but that last long paragraph is one of those. And not well disguised at all.