#12581 How Do You Make a Good Examination of Conscience? Marriage and Annulments - Fr. Paul Check
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How do you make a good examination of conscience?” This essential practice is explored alongside questions about the significance of Jesus’ second coming, the role of the Trinity in marriage counseling, and the implications of annulments for remarriage. Each topic sheds light on the complexities of faith and relationships within the Catholic tradition.
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Questions Covered:
- 07:50 – How do you make a good examination of conscience?
- 19:25 – What does it mean that Jesus will come again in glory? Was the first time at creation, the incarnation, or the Eucharist?
- 22:00 – How might one use the image of the Trinity when counseling couples for marriage?
- 24:33 – What happened to the gold, frankincense, and myrrh that the wise men gave to Mary and Joseph?
- 29:57 – If my husband divorced and I have an annulment, does he have to die before I can marry someone else?
- 36:00 – My wife and I are going through OCIA and our annulments are not complete. If the annulments are not finalized by Holy Week would we still be able to enter the Church provided that we intend to remain celibate until the annulments are resolved?
- 41:00 – Could a widow enter into a marriage that was just through the Catholic Church and not a civil, legal marriage? I’m getting mixed answers about whether or not this should be done.
- 43:26 – My son is getting married to a muslim woman. He was raised Catholic. Now he says he believes in God but not in Jesus’ divinity. She is Muslim but not very practicing. They told her father a lie, that my son converted to Islam, to appease him. How do I handle this upcoming wedding?
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| 1:30.8 | we'll be talking about Catholicism versus the Bible, all those passages in the Bible that |
| 1:38.1 | are separate brethren, that are atheist friends like to say contradict Catholic moral or theological teaching, |
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