In discussions of teen sex, much is said about the dangers of pregnancy and disease but far less about the emotional hazards.
She was only 24 years old when she fell asleep in the Lord — a tragic swimming accident in late September.
"Friendship helps the young, too, to keep from error." - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator.
"But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes…" Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost
"One could find no other association more necessary nor more pleasant than that of men and women." - Musonius Rufus
Even as a woman shapes the child growing within her, the joys and trials of pregnancy are shaping her, sanctifying her, and teaching her how to depend on others during this season of peculiar service.
Humans are, hands down, the single most fascinating set of creatures on the planet. If you want to understand how humans work, just make a few, sit back, and watch them do their thing.
The Year of St. Joseph points us to Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, as the essential model for fathers.