FW: Marriage Monthly: Celebrating Advent as a Family, Bl. Ceferino Gimenez Malla, Six Sacred Rules for Families, "Self-Wedding in a Box" Kit?

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DECEMBER 2013

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Featured Story:

Celebrating Advent As A Family

Come, Lord Jesus! The Advent season began on Sunday, December 1st. Wife and mother Maruska Healy shares suggestions for how to celebrate Advent in your home. These include the Jesse tree, nativity scene, special feast days, and more.

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Catholic 101/Married Saints:
Bl. Ceferino Gimenez Malla

December's Married Saint of the Month is Bl. Ceferino Gimenez Malla. A married layman from Spain, Ceferino and his wife Teresa had no children of their own but adopted Teresa's niece. Ceferino had a reputation for holiness and died defending a Catholic priest from soldiers.

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Book of the Month:

Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality for the Home

In their new book, Tim and Sue Muldoon write that spirituality can be found "right in the messy midst" of home life. They encourage families to see their lives as a pilgrimage together, and they suggest reading Scripture together as a family as a way to foster each other's faith.

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Featured Blog: "Happily Even After":

Giving Thanks and Consumerism

Nativity ornament With Christmas around the corner, Stacey reflects on the meaning of giving and of gratitude. She writes about an experience that prompted her to realize that the best gift of all is the gift of self.

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Marriage in the News:
"Self-Wedding in a Box" Kit?

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Is it possible to marry yourself? How about an inanimate object? Reflecting on recent trends, Emily Macke writes about the importance of another person to the communion of man and woman that is marriage.

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Marriage Tip of the Month

December 3:

"Children benefit from our 'presence' more than our 'presents'"(Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference). During this Advent ponder the tone that time with your spouse, children, and extended family will take during the upcoming Christmas season.

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