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Building Marriages, family life at Curepe Parish
Sign up for a Retrouvaille weekend By Lara Pickford-Gordon The issues facing married couples today may be the same as in the past but social media “has brought about other avenues that may encourage infidelity”, said Mary Jardine, of Retrouvaille Trinidad and Tobago. “Sexting, pornography, less couple time, ‘married singles’ lifestyle, lack of affirmation and/or appreciation by spouses for each other…
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMA-TT).
At our “Is Love Forever?” seminars we discuss the virtue of chastity and relationships. Part of the seminar is dedicated to the meaning and purpose of marriage. Once, when I arrived at the Power-Point slide on the complementarity between males and females, one young man blurted out that Pope Francis supports “gay marriage”! I quickly corrected him, stating that what the Pope actually said was that he cannot judge our homosexual brothers and sisters, so we as Catholics should not judge them either.
Parishes across the archdiocese celebrated the feast of Sts Joachim and Anne over the weekend of July 26-27. Here are snapshot reports received from some parishes.
1,123 years of marriage
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SANTA CRUZ
Twenty-seven couples of the Holy Cross RC Church parish, Santa Cruz, who have been married for more than 25 years, each received an apostolic blessing as they renewed their marital vows on the feast of Sts Anne and Joachim.
PROMOTING HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER MARRIAGES
FISCAL-NICS in collaboration with other Faith Based Organizations – FBOs (Archdiocesan Family Life Commission (AFLC) – Roman Catholic, FLC – Anglican, Presbyterian, Orisha Shrine, Flaming Word Ministries, Muslim and Hindu Communities and the Seventh Day Adventist) are working together to build awareness of Marital Issues.