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#11822 Are You Ready for Marriage? - Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 12:55 – My 3 adult children are nowhere close to marriage. What can I as a parent do to help them? 20:10 – If a potential spouse wants to use artificial contraception, how should one proceed? 38:44 – How does one navigate local traditions and the traditions of the Church leading up to marriage. In my culture the parents blessing is important, and my parents do not believe I’m ready yet? 49:20 – I think it’s more complicated for kids now especially due to dating post pandemic. 53:19 – I disagree with your comment on older individuals’ difficulty entering a vocation due to being set in their ways. …

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Learn more at real estate for life.org. Welcome back to Cathay Gansz is live. I am Cykelet, your host. And this hour,

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Deacon Harold Burke Sivers, our guests, and we're going to talk about are you

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ready for marriage? And I don't the marriage has become so fraught for so many

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people and there's a lot that goes into the conversation in the Catholic world of course because we know that there are far, far more annulled marriages than we would like.

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Not to say that in any way to be mean to anybody, just to say it in the terms of we would like, of

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course, lasting marriages.

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And that seems, of course, it's much more difficult than it has been.

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And so this hour, are you ready for marriage marriage and if the answer is no I'm sure

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that we will get lots of help from Deacon Harleburg Civers on how to be ready for marriage.

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You're very welcome to call 8883-18784. You want to talk about raising

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kids who are ready for marriage? You want to ask your own questions about what it would take

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to be ready for marriage, what the church has to say about that.

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8883-187-884, and also if you're a mama or a papa and you want to ask about the adult

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kids and how you can help them have confidence that they can do it for one thing.

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888 318 88838383.

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Truth.

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Before we get to Deacon Herald, I did want to have a nice little conversation with

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Edgar Lujano who is killing it developing Spanish content and I just wanted to say congratulations on that and let

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you pitch it again because it's growing like crazy.

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Yeah, one of the biggest compliments I had was they're calling me the Spanish speaking

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