Translation: Prayer of Saint Alfonso de Liguori for Spouses and Parents



My Savior Jesus, who has united us indissolubly through a great Sacrament,

🤵‍♂️👰 Maintain among us the spirit of union and harmony to love each other as you love your Church;

🤵‍♂️👰 Give us the spirit of patience and gentleness, to bear our faults peacefully;

🤵‍♂️👰 Arm us with the spirit of prudence and holiness, so that we always remain within the limits of our duties, and that we do nothing that offends your eyes, nothing that is opposed to the deep respect due to your Sacrament.

🤵‍♂️👰 Send us the spirit of wise solicitude and foresight, to support, according to the rules of justice and charity, the needs of our family.

🤵‍♂️👰 Preserve us from the spirit of the world and the love of our vanities, so that we seek only to please you, you, our God, our love, the true bond of our hearts.

🤵 ♂👰 Above all, inspire us with this true spirit of faith that makes our home a school of piety and a sanctuary of all Virtues.

🤵‍♂️👰 Far from us, oh my God, far from us the misfortune of being, by our tolerance or our unedifying life, a cause of ruin for our children.

🤵‍♂️👰 Far from our home, far, far from her anything that would be a stone of scandal, an occasion of sin.

👶 O Mary, I commend my poor children to your maternal heart: be their mother, train their hearts in virtue. Tender Mother, may they be pious, charitable, always Christians; may their life, full of good works, be crowned with a holy death. May we, O Mary, find ourselves all together in heaven, to contemplate your glory, to celebrate your benefits and your love and to bless you eternally with your dear Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.

So be it.

For those who are married and have children, did you come from a broken home? If you have children, how do you wish to make the best of their childhood?

"There is only one form of freedom which they tolerate; and that is the sort of sexual freedom which is covered by the legal fiction of divorce... They are trying to break the vow of the knight as they broke the vow of the monk. They recognise the vow as the vital antithesis to servile status, the alternative and therefore the antagonist. Marriage makes a small state within the state, which resists all such regimentation. That bond breaks all other bonds; that law is found stronger than all later and lesser laws. They desire the democracy to be sexually fluid, because the making of small nuclei is like the making of small nations. Like small nations, they are a nuisance to the mind of imperial scope. In short, what they fear, in the most literal sense, is home rule."

~G.K. Chesterton

Fathers of Telegram, what is one piece of advice you can give to men who are eventually going to be raising sons and daughters? On the contrary, what is one thing you would caution against?

I have been waiting to ask this for some time. Honest answers please ! ! !
For those in a relationship currently, did you ever end up marrying your "Highschool Sweetheart?" If not, when did you meet your beloved and when did you decide that was the person you wanted to spend the rest of your days with?

This made me smile! So Wholesome and innocent 🤍❄️

"The traditions of humanity support humanity and the central one is this tradition of Marriage. And the essential of it is that a free man and a free woman choose to found on earth the only voluntary state; the only state which creates and which loves its citizens. So long as these real responsible beings stand together, they can survive all the vast changes, deadlocks, and disappointments which make up mere political history."

~G.K. Chesterton

That's right. Our Roman Catholic assault is just beginning. Your "right to divorce" is next after your decrepit "right to abortion." You do not have such rights.

For those of you raising your children, do you wish to raise them in the culture of the mother or the father? For those who are single, would you ever date anyone who doesn't originate from your country, or would you permit it as long as they are Caucasian/European? What is your view when it comes to mixed relationships? (For example, Russian with German, not race mixing.) Should those from the same country marry from their country of origin strictly?