Every engaged couple can benefit by reading this book. In fact it would make excellent reading for seminary or college classes on marriage and family life. Give this book to the engaged couples in your parish and talk to them about what it says.
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One of the best books on marriage,
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This review is from: Marriage Is for Keeps: Foundations for Christian Marriage (Paperback)
If you are getting married, Catholic or not, you need to read Marriage is For Keeps. Each chapter lays out a different topic about how to focus your marriage on the THREE of you - husband, wife and GOD in the center. Each section contains thought provoking questions for you and your mate and lets you ponder how you are going to grow as a person in your marriage. There are tough spots in this book! But marriage is tough too and that's what you are really planning for - a marriage, not a wedding. A must read, whether you are about to be married or already married and wanting to find that something missing. Especially interesting and tough is the chapter on the roles in the marriage. Kippley presents the notion of wives deferring to their husbands very thoughtfully, but also notes that it is counter cultural in the US of A. He remarks that men need to be worthy of the spiritual leadership of their family if they are truly going to lead. Hmm... lots of good stuff to ponder. Enjoy! It put my 10 year old marriage back on His track.
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Nice book for Catholic couples,
By Celestine Nicholas (Mississauga, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marriage Is for Keeps: Foundations for Christian Marriage (Paperback)
I bought this book when preparing for my wedding sometime in July 2006. It does not tell you what most modern couples would like to hear, but the truth, and nothing but the truth. It takes a great courage to write this kind of book. John Kippley did a wonderful job of reminding us of what Jesus, and subsequently the Roman catholic church teaches about marriage. It does not matter if you agree with him or not, the truth must be told.
In addition to the moral guidance on what to do to keep your marriage away from divorce - the most hideous nightmare of today's marriages, you also have the rite of marriage and readings included in the book.
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John Kippley and his wife Sheila performed a remarkable service for the Church in the founding of the Couple to Couple League (ccli.org) in Cincinnati, OH back in 1971. They spent the next 33 years helping hundreds of thousands of people across the world live their faith and deepen their marital relationships. Such was their teaching that, in time, incorporated Pope John Paul II's new theological perspective, called the Theology of the Body, which provides a distinctive unsullied approach to understanding our human bodies as a reflection of our dignity as persons made in the image and likeness of God. It also furnishes a structure for assessing why certain conduct violates that dignity, while others are indisputable gifts of self and love.With faith and family as the focus of their lives, they "went out into the deep" navigating many unchartered waters that were intersecting with Christian Marriage, Christian Discipleship, the Nature of Christian Marriage, the Essence of Marital Love, Human Sexuality, Communication, Catholic teaching, morality, artificial birth control, and much more. One of the resultant legacies that must be credited to them was the dawn and developmental work in the Natural Family Planning movement and in Ecological Breastfeeding. It's here in a nutshell! This book represents a small summary of their work, spanning across the many years and these many topics, making this an excellent resource for couples preparing for marriage. It can and many should supplement any Marriage Preparation Program or can act as the bare minimum acceptable for such preparation. Without undue burdening, the first nine chapters can be read and studied privately by couples, three chapters at a time, and later discussed with a local parish priest or preparation team. In doing so, it definitely provides a Catholic understanding of Christian Marriage and what couples are asking of the Church in approaching it to be married. The book also contains appendices that contain the Rite or Marriage in such a way that the Readings, Prayers, and other options pertaining to marriage can be reviewed and chosen appropriately for Marriage within Mass (Nuptial), outside of Mass (Ceremony), and of differing faiths. Forms are supplied for these selections, which once filled, can be submitted to the celebrant as a final part of the preparation. A small investment with possibilities of big payoffs!
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