Your Family Matters

Women are called to change the world and to stand up for human life. May is a wonderful month to reflect on the gift of women. A woman is able to become a mother because she literally has “room for another” within her body. On a spiritual level, all women are called to the vocation of motherhood in the sense of nurturing humanity by making “room for another” in her heart.

Suppose you’re a young woman or man somewhere between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, and you want to ask me what actions you can take now to set yourself up for a happy marriage How do you know if someone is good “marriage material”?  Are there dating behaviors that correlate with a better future marriage?  If I invited you out for coffee, sat down with you for an hour, and shared my best advice with you, here’s what I’d tell you.