Blessing Same-Sex Couples: A Summary & Clarification
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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With all the misunderstandings and confusion from the Church's Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, hear Fr. Chris Alar explain what it all means and what you need to do. He explains blessings, and then gives the official position of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, thank you everybody for joining us. I'm Father Chris Alar here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy. |
| 0:06.2 | We have a cold day here. It's just below freezing, and we had to end up changing our topic. |
| 0:13.0 | I apologize for the confusion. People were wondering, Father, are you here today? What's your topic going to be? |
| 0:19.4 | Yes, we were originally going to do martyrs |
| 0:22.3 | because we're coming up on a big week of martyrs, St. Stephen and the Holy Innocence and Thomas |
| 0:28.9 | Beckett. But in light of the situation that the church has been talking about recently |
| 0:34.7 | and the blessing of same-sex unions or should say same-sex |
| 0:39.5 | couples um rome just issued our general superior and general counsel an official statement of the |
| 0:47.3 | marian fathers which is so important because so many of you been asking father what is this |
| 0:53.3 | about and what am i to make of it and what are the Marion saying about it? Well, that's what we're going to do today. Now, you might have seen a couple of our videos and homilies and short clips the last week. All of that's still true, but I've been able to working late last night. Brother Mark and I were up all night. I think I have found |
| 1:12.0 | something that explains this whole thing, and I feel really confident what we're going to present |
| 1:17.9 | today. And so the whole point is what we're going to do is we're first going to define a blessing. |
| 1:23.8 | A lot of people don't even know what a blessing is. It sounds basic, but if we don't know that, we're lost. |
| 1:29.8 | We're going to summarize this document, Fudiccio supplicans, and then we're going to talk about the former prefect of the congregation of the doctrine of the faith and what he said, I think, summarizes it all. |
| 1:43.3 | Then we're going to read |
| 1:44.4 | you, Father General's official Marian statement. Wow. So some good stuff. Let's begin with the |
| 1:51.0 | prayer in the name of the Father, and to the Son, into the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, |
| 1:56.6 | we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us to open our minds and hearts, to discern your |
| 2:03.0 | will, to have the wisdom, to know the teaching of Holy Mother Church, and always to remain |
| 2:07.9 | faithful to the gospel. |
| 2:09.6 | We ask all this through Christ, our Lord. |
| 2:12.6 | Amen. |
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